Everyone's last tune

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

"It's heavy, but it's honest, and I want honesty."

Re: Stacks

Bon Iver

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"We've claimed this as 'our song' and no one can take it from us."

Holocene

Bon Iver

"Some songs you just know belong to you."

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

"This song gets it. Gets me."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

"It's the soundtrack to every version of me."

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

"It's the one song I'd trust to say goodbye for me."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"I want whoever's in that room to know I loved deeply."

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman

Holocene

Bon Iver

"It reminds me of car journeys with my family, windows down."

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

"I want people to leave smiling, not crying."

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

Let Her Go

Passenger

"I want people to know I went out exactly as myself."

Lua

Bright Eyes

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel