Songs About Death and Other Musings On Mortality

Todays show is inspired by the passing of my grandmother the day after my girlfriend's grandmother passed away.  There have obviously been a number of high profile deaths this week including Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Sky Saxon.  There were a number of songs that ran through my head all week, particularly Leadbelly's Little Children's Blues, so I thought that I would put together a show based on encounters with death and struggles with mortality.  Each band brings a different perspective to the subject, some mourning another, some initiating their own passage, some taking stock of life and some questioning what's next.  

Okay, here's the set, starting with New Adds:

Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise *

Bachelor of Arts - Beethoven, Freedom & A Hard Place *

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power - Fever *

Metro - A Penz *

Health - Die Slow *

Mochipet - It Ain't Trickin' If You Got It *

Don Simon, Klimperei + Telefunken - Trumpet To Eustacchius *

Corvina - A Tuz *

DinoWalrus - Electric Car, Gas Guitar *

39 Clocks - You Can't Count The Bombs (It's Zero) * 

Theo Angell - A Crime From The Vine * 

Wand - Arriving *

Theo Angell - The Shadow Ring * 

Sam And The Plants - Board Snore *

Our Brother The Native - Someday *

Songs About Death and Other Musings On Mortality

The Seeds - Can't Seem To Make You Mine (Sky Saxon RIP) 

Pendrecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima 

Yoko Ono – Mrs. Lennon 

Eels –
Going to Your Funeral Part 1 

Abe
Vigoda – The Reaper 

Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig 

Glenn
Branca – The Ascension 

Jens Lekman –
Jens Lekman’s Farewell Song To Rocky Dennis 

M.
Ward - Dead Man 

Son House - Death Letter Blues 

Nirvana – Lake
of Fire 

Elliot
smith - A Fond Farewell 

Modest
Mouse - Lives 

Band
of Horses - Funeral 

Pixies
- Monkey Gone To Heaven

Psychic TV –
Papal Breakdance 

 “I love you as I fall apart / I love you
and your sacred heart.”

Talking
Heads - Heaven 

Randy
Newman - Old Man  

Lead Belly – Little Children’s
Blues 

Ralph
Stanley/Keith Whitley - Oh Death 

David Bowie
- Five Years 

New
Order - Procession 

LCD
Soundsystem - Someone Great 

Loretta
Lynn - Little Red Shoes 

Lou Reed – The Bed 

Walter
Wegmuller – Der Tod 

Neil Young - Tonight's The Night  

Spiritualized
– Death Take Your Fiddle 

Iggy
pop – Tonight 

Neutral
Milk Hotel – Ghost 

Shangri Las –
Leader of The Pack 

One
Way Streets – We All Love Peanut Butter 

Jay
Reatard – An Ugly Death 

Beat
Konducta (Madlib) – In Jah’s Hands (Dilla’s Lament) 

Leonard
Cohen - Death of a Ladies Man