[Morbid? Maybe. But this is what I’d like to listen to if I had to sit there for it…which I kinda do, I suppose. Some of these have hidden messages, some have meaningful titles–some is just pure emotion set to music that I find moving. Enjoy. Or, you know, don’t–totally up to you.]
1) More Time –
Needtobreathe
2) Gravity – John Mayer
3) Running To Stand Still – U2
4) All That You Have Is Your Soul – Tracy Chapman
5) Hymn – Vangelis
6) And the Healing Has Begun – Van Morrison
7) Hallelujah – Rufus Wainwright
8) Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings – Gavin Bryars
9) Empty Chairs – Don McLean
10) The Heart of the Matter – Don Henley
11) Lost Cause – Beck
12) Tonight Is the Night I Fell Asleep At the Wheel – Barenaked Ladies
13) Sunshine On Leith – The Proclaimers
14) Suo Gan – John Williams conducting (‘Empire of the Sun’ Soundtrack)
14a) Wake Up – Arcade Fire
15) The Maker – Daniel Lanois
16) A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
17) Johnny’s Tune, For the Avalon – Paddy Keenan
18) Washing of the Water – Peter Gabriel
19) Long As I Can See the Light – Ted Hawkins
20) Be Still – Los Lobos
21) Chance – Big Country
22) The Parting Glass – Sinead O’Connor
23) Minstrel Boy (Film Version) – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (‘Black
Hawk Down’ Soundtrack)
24) Caminando Por La Calle – The Gipsy Kings
25) Got To Begin Again – Billy Joel
26) Trying To Get Through – The Hothouse Flowers
27) Until the Night – Billy Joel
28) Lights and Virtues – Jackson Browne
29) God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi – (‘Thin Red Line’ Soundtrack)
30) Break Your Heart – Barenaked Ladies
31) You Can’t Be Too Strong – Graham Parker & The Rumour
32) Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prelude BWV1007 – Johann Sebastian Bach
33) Take Me With You – Michael Kamen w/ Liz Fraser (‘The Winter Guest’
Soundtrack)
34) Innocent When You Dream (Barroom) – Tom Waits
35) Baba O’Reilly – The Who
36) Sky Giant – Transglobal Underground
37) All That Hammering – John Gorka
38) String Quintet in C Major, Op. 30, No. 6 – (‘Master and Commander: Far Side
of the World’ Soundtrack)
39) My Laglan Love – Van Morrison & The Chieftains
40) I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty
41) Haste You Back – Calum Kennedy
42) Dreams – The Cranberries
43) Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
44) Supposed To Be – Jack Johnson
45) Someday – Los Lobos
46) Road To Nowhere – Talking Heads
47) Conferring With the Moon – William Ackerman
48) Donnie MacGregor/The Clumsy Lover – Battlefield Band
49) Adagio For Strings – Samuel Barber
50) Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World – Izzy
51) Mercy Street – Peter Gabriel
52) Nothing Ever Happens – Del Amitri
53) Land of the Living – Don Henley
54) Nothing Lasts – Matthew Sweet
55) Requiem/Kyrie – W.A. Mozart
56) The Private Psychedelic Reel – The Chemical Brothers
57) Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (like this version even better than the other
one!)