Best albums about death and mortality?

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jnfbn wrote:

Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked at Me is worth mentioning, an album with an opening track goes like ''death is real, someone's there and they're not'' and another track opens ''our daughter is one and a half, you've been dead eleven days'... the most personal and geniune album I've heard for a long time.


Indeed...

This is actually the most powerful work of art about death I've ever experienced. Holy Shit is it real and raw. The whole album. And it's not like, dude, I'm gonna do this like artistic thing about death and it'll be like all dark and spooky and stuff... NO. If you've ever experienced death, this is exactly how you felt... for months and years to follow.


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R.E.M. wrote this song for Kurt Cobain shortly after he died and perform it on one of his guitars.


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oh ... sorry for the song tangent...
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sethmadsen wrote:
oh ... sorry for the song tangent...


No they were good. (Except the last one didn't work)

I'd not seen that REM video before. I like that song more now.
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Yann wrote:
I like very much this song from the dandy of britpop Luke Haines:


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That is cool. Very specific and relatable lyrics.

Luke Haines is great.
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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:
Sorry to vomit all of this music at you, but this really got me thinking.


Murder Ballads by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

plus I want this to be played at my time of dying.


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Whiskey For The Holy Ghost by Mark Lanegan


An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by The Caretaker


The Empty Hollow Unfolds by Raison D'รชtre

The previous two albums, which lack lyrics, evoke the feeling I think of when I think about mortality. I think a lot of ambient type music can evoke that reaction. The titles of the albums and songs also help create that picture.


Ghost Ballads by Dean Gitter

Here are some classical selections for you as well.

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and of course


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These look interesting. Thanks! With Nick Cave I think you get both the gothic fascination side and the more spiritual poignant side of this topic. I think "into my arms" is probably my favourite song of his. The opening lines are so perfect.
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3 more songs about death that I like:

A cover of a traditional american song by Prefab Sprout:

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A very depressing yet beautiful little album closer by Microdisney:

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A 70's prog-pop song

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I thought of some tracks by M Ward related to this subject as well. I find these actually pretty uplifting.

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This one is a Daniel Johnston cover:

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And this one from Devendra Banhart brings in a totally different perspective and is also sort of uplifting. Great song:

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sethmadsen wrote:

This is actually the most powerful work of art about death I've ever experienced. Holy Shit is it real and raw. The whole album. And it's not like, dude, I'm gonna do this like artistic thing about death and it'll be like all dark and spooky and stuff... NO. If you've ever experienced death, this is exactly how you felt... for months and years to follow.


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Exactly, he states in the opening track as death is not a thing to sing about or make into art in a manner I'd like to call Magrittesque, because it reflects the artificiality of the song and also realness of death in a reversed way (Rene Magritte loves to show the realness of the "artpiece" and the artificiality of imagery like in The Treachry of Images or commonly known as This Is Not a Pipe)

And in the matter of Swims, I just lose it in "we are always so close to not existing at all"


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As for this one which I think has a more agressive approach, Nick heartbreakingly calls out right across the sea but "the echo comes back empty..."

Sorry Im going by lyrics all the time but I think in this kind of records, lyrics are vital to the issue

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