My Top-10 "Exit-Songs" PlayList
The subject came up... If you could choose the last 10 Pop/Rock/Soul songs that you would ever hear (when that fateful moment arrives), what would your Top-10 "Exit-Songs" Playlist be?
Originally, my list was just going to consist of my Top-10 sentimental favorite songs. Songs that I would want to listen to one final time, before shoving off from this mortal coil. The songs -- including guilty pleasures -- that secretly make me happiest. Such a list would surely be heavy in songs I loved as a child. Probably something by the Beatles and Supremes, songs that were popular on WABC-AM back then and probably -- shamefully -- the Archies "Sugar, Sugar."
Well, after I got to thinking about the list, the songs started drifting towards a "goodbye theme" of sorts. I guess that was inevitable.
So what is YOUR Top-10 "Exit-Songs" Playlist (use your own criteria)?
Here is my list as it stands now (subject to change, ad infinitum)...
My Current List (v.2):
* Badlands (Bruce Springsteen)
* Watching The Detectives (Elvis Costello)
* Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
* And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles)
* Life's Been Good (Joe Walsh)
* I'll Take You There (The Staple Singers)
* Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)
* Let It Be (Beatles)
* What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
* Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
Under Consideration:
* In My Life (Beatles)
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2) -- Thanks Liz
* Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads) -- Thanks Liz
* The End (The Doors) -- Thanks Larry
* Glory Days (Springsteen)
* Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones)
* You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)
* Into the Mystic (Van Morrison) -- Thanks Nansi
* Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) -- Thanks Nansi
* Dust in the Wind (Kansas) -- Thanks Dino
PHOTOGRAPHERS NOTE: This image was put together in Photoshop as a composite (or collage) of three images plus the musical notes. The face on the dead guy, of course, belongs to me and I wasn't really dead for it. The main image in the background is the painting "Lord Byron on His Deathbed," (c.1826) by Joseph-Denis Odevaere. The record player was an Internet capture of an old Edison Cylinder Phonograph.
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