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"Asleep" include in AV Club's 36 Songs To Soundtrack Your Suicide

posted by davidt on Monday August 31 2009, @09:00AM

twitter.com/torrmoz sends the link / excerpt:

Don’t try to wake me in the morning: 36 (mostly excellent) songs to soundtrack your suicide - AV Club

1. The Smiths, “Asleep”
There’s no song better suited for the sensitive depresso to shuffle off this mortal coil to than The Smiths’ classic “Asleep,” which paints the act of dying as necessary and almost pleasant. “Deep in the cell of my heart, I really want to go,” Morrissey sings—and he later wondered why they called him the Pope Of Mope. In the context of his other lyrics, it could be taken as dramatic hyperbole, but still, “Asleep” uses warm, melancholy piano to make death seem like a reasonable option. After all, “There is another world / there is a better world / Well, there must be.” Ironically, like many of the songs on this list, it’s actually so heartbreakingly good and cathartic that it might make you want to stick around a little longer.

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I don't know (Score:1, Insightful)

I don't like these A.V. Club lists. I read them, too, and they're fun, but they always seem to cheapen what they write about. Like, the A.V. Club people may feel deeply about music and film and so forth, but they always seem obligated to be entertainers first, and so they can't just write about their feelings about "Asleep"; they have to be clever about it, and put it in the context of a lot of other songs about suicide.

Anonymous -- Monday August 31 2009, @02:38PM (#338382)

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Re:I don't know by No twee nickname (Score:1) Thursday September 10 2009, @04:24PM

Beautiful song. (Score:2, Insightful)

I agree with the last sentence. It's just so beautiful it inspires you to live.

Osakaglen -- Monday August 31 2009, @08:51PM (#338394)
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"If you ever need self-validation, just meet me in the alley by the railway station..."

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I beg to differ (Score:1)

well I wonder & I'm the end of the family line
would suit also

I'm ok with them choosing asleep, just differences,because it would be very boring if everyone would like the same songs, etc.

Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Tuesday September 01 2009, @06:43AM (#338405)
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and the hills are alive with celibate cries

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suicide or life?? (Score:1, Insightful)

I always thought "Asleep" was a suicide dirge, but I have grown to love it's subtle beauty. Morrissey has written many songs about death, or his own mortality. "I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now" and "Paint A Vulgar Picture" remain my favourites.

Anonymous -- Tuesday September 01 2009, @08:59AM (#338410)

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Re:suicide or life?? by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday September 02 2009, @05:15AM

Until you've been there...you will never know... (Score:1, Insightful)

...what song inspires you to take your life. Believe me, you'd be surprised. It's OK to want to do it and think about it, but .... just think...an IPod full of Smiths and Morrissey songs is worth living for. Signed...a guy that almost was gone.

Anonymous -- Wednesday September 02 2009, @01:23PM (#338443)

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Re:Until you've been there...you will never know.. by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday September 03 2009, @02:47AM
- Re:Until you've been there...you will never know.. by fuckfase (Score:1) Friday September 04 2009, @02:20PM

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Anonymous -- Friday November 20 2009, @12:00PM (#345008)

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