I've posted previously about my last wishes - including details of my wake. I've been working on a playlist for the wake for years now. The songs have both a strong correlation to my life and my thoughts on life. A few times a year, I find myself adding a song or two and deleting a song or two. Behind the cut is the current list (in a vague order from uptempo to downtempo).


Prince – “Let’s Go Crazy”

Violent Femmes – “Blister in the Sun”

Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven"

The Lemonheads - "Bit Part"

Howard Jones – “Life in One Day”

XTC - “Grass”

Bjork - “Hyperballad”

Barenaked Ladies – “Unfinished”

Ben Folds Five - “Underground”

Pixies “Wave of Mutilation (uptempo version)”

Joe Jackson - “Steppin' Out”

XTC - “The Wheel and the Maypole”

The Grays – “Very Best Years”


Double Trouble & Susan Tedeschi – “In the Garden”

Beatles – “In My Life”

Beach Boys – “God Only Knows”

“How Great Thou Art”
(this version by Yolanda Adams)

Violent Femmes – “Good Feeling”

Crowded House – “All I Ask”

Jamiroquai - "Spend a Lifetime"
(Please forgive the visuals.)

Jeff Buckley – “Last Goodbye”