Songs to Die For.

I was at a funeral the other day and the music they were playing sucked; I know you're not supposed to care about the music at a funeral but the guest of honor loved music so it seemed fucked up to play muzak. So I'm making a list of songs I want on my funeral set list. So here's number one with a bullet.

Iggy and the Stooges- "Death Trip"

This song is a straight out guitar rocker, which would seem odd at a funeral where all the music is orchestral arrangments and harmonies. The riff is a monster and it goes on for six fuckin minutes with no end. The thing that first caught my eye was in the liner notes to Raw Power, Iggy said the band knew what was about to happen to them (they broke up virtually unknown and all of them had massive drug problems and they still pretty much hate each other to this day) and he told them to play like it. It was to be the last track on their last album. It sounds like a band on the brink (of insanity, breaking up, of self-destruction, of getting dropped from their label). Iggy sounds like he's out of his mind, which to be honest he was and he hit the mental institution after this album. But the best part of it all (and probably of the entire Stooges cataloge to me, which is saying a lot if you know me) is the last ten seconds or so. That riff plays one last time and Iggy just screams. What a way to end a song, what way to end an album, way a way to end a band, what a way to start a funeral.