Mozart - Lacrimosa
9/10
It's the requiem, and it's in D minor, so you would have to be a pretty shitty composer to fuck that up. I'm not even that big of a Mozart fan, but this deserves its iconic status.
Andi Almqvist - Death
8/10
A nice melancholic melody to it.
Christian Death - Cavity - First Communion
8.5/10
The price of red death is the price of your love. I considered submitting this, but ultimately decided on something else.
Nick Cave - O'Malley's Bar
6.5/10
I'm interesting in exploring Nick Cave further, having wet my teeth on the Birthday Party already. However, I felt that that song just rambled on and on and on, and I would have liked it more at half that length.
Alice In Chains - Rain When I Die
6/10
As much as I like AiC, this is a metal song, as I've pointed out, so I must dock a few points.
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
4.5/10
Connor Clapton Committed Suicide Because His Father Sucks. Seriously, though, this is pretty sappy, although that chromatically descent in the chorus is a little bit good. And it invokes nostalgia for when I was in middle school orchestra and we played this song at one point.
Comus - Drip Drip
6/10
Some weird, wild stuff. Not quite my cup of tea, though.
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
8/10
Sure, it's overplayed, but I hardly ever play the radio in my car, so I haven't grown sick of it like some others might.
Man's Gin - The Death of Jimmy Sturgis
8/10
It's been likened to a shitty AiC, but I would make a more favorable comparison of that sort. It's got a nice alt folkish thing going on.
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue
8/10
Good post-punk with some proto-black metal leanings.
Carissa's Wierd - Ignorant Piece of Shit
6.5/10
Not bad.
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
9/10
I'm not a Rolling Stones fan, but I'm a fan of this song. It really
Rev. Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy
8/10
I'm not much into blues, but this more somber, minor-key strain of blues that I can dig, as opposed to formulaic 12-bar blues.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Wenn dein Mütterlein
8/10
Harrowing and melancholy, a welcome
Blue Öyster Cult - Then Came the Last Days of May
7.5/10
Pretty good.
Gravenhurst - Animals
7.5/10
Ditto.
Tenhi - Tuulenkaato
8/10
Soothing and beautiful.