Songs to die to
My sister Angie sent an e-mail to our family the other day, saying that she wouldn’t want to die to the song “Brown Girl in the Ring” by
She then linked to this story about a pair of mountain-climbers, one of whom “. . . was so dehydrated and his leg was causing him such pain that he began hallucinating, eventually unable to get a song by Boney M., “Brown Girl in the Ring,” out of his head (his terror at that moment, he recalls, was that he was going to die to that song).” (Go read the article, it’s very interesting.)
I replied that “Rivers of Babylon” was a better Boney M. song to die to, and my brother Michael countered with their song “Rasputin.” (Oh, those Russians!)
Naturally, since Boney M. is not the only musical artist in the world (and most of you are probably saying, “Who in tarnation is Boney M.?”), there must be songs by other artists that would be good (or bad) to die to.
For example, the mix of “Tubular Bells/Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls” by Book of Love on the
So, any other nominations for good (or bad) songs to die to?
I’ve sung that song for at least twenty minutes…
I’m not sure about the actual song to not die to but my husband and I have come up with some doozies for funerals.
http://midwestbloggin.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_midwestbloggin_archive.html#106821760810272298
It would be the worst to die to some obnoxious song like “Come on Ilene” or “I like big butts”, or maybe “Blister in the Sun” by violent femmes.
In both the best and worst categories for obvious reasons, I would have to cast my vote for:
“…This is the song that never ends!
It just goes on and on my friends.
Somebody
Started Singing it not knowing what it was.
And they’ll continue singing it forever
Just because.
This is the song that never ends…”