I wasn’t going to write about suicide I really wasn’t. But it’s one one of those things where if you haven’t seriously considered it you probably shouldn’t be a rock critic. Have you never thought of offing yourself? I mean, really cmon..
I wake up in the morning, wish I was elvis, and move on. I mean at least in theory. The last time I as thisclose to killing myself I decided to wait till the next Elvis Costello album. The album that came next? Get Happy!! One of my fave albums of all time, what woulda I done if it was Spike…
Death follows us emotional mess’s: we can’t keep out of the way… I don’t know howd id off myself… painless pills I guess but I can imagine how I’d be lying in my bed, white, shrilled, so small, such a piece of meat. Like Scrooge. My niece Louba would call, some folks I know now at work would mention me, but idda been gone. Just a lump of rotting flesh.
So what would be playing? Obvious like Joy division, conceptual like Minutemen? Here we go, songs to kill yourself by.
On The Road To Find Out – Cat Stevens
Atrocity Exhibition – Joy Division
Wall Of Death – Richard Thompson
Already Gone – The Eagles
Invisible Man – Elvis Costello
You Won’t See Me – The Beatles
Tracks OF My Tears – Smokey Robinson
Come On – Chuck Berry
I Wish I was Dead – Ian Carted
Robocop – Kanye West
But the really real last song I want to hear??? Louis Armstrong’s ” St. Louise Blues”.
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