Everyone's last tune

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana

"Because life is long and complicated and this song gets it."

Exit Music (For a Film)

Radiohead

"It says what I never could."

Take On Me

a-ha

Rolling in the Deep

Adele

"I played this on repeat after I lost someone I loved."

Bitter Sweet Symphony

The Verve

"There's something about this song I've never been able to put into words."

Heroes

David Bowie

"This song never fails to lift my mood, no matter what."

Such Great Heights

The Postal Service

"This was the record that was always playing at family gatherings."

Someone Like You

Adele

"This song is, weirdly, the most 'me' thing I own."

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

Exit Music (For a Film)

Radiohead

"I want people to know I left on my own terms."

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

"This is the one song I'd never get tired of."

Let Her Go

Passenger

"There's something about this song I've never been able to put into words."

One

U2

"Because it's honest. No pretending. Just the truth."

Blackbird

The Beatles

"It's imperfect and messy and that's the point."

Superstition

Stevie Wonder

"This song makes me want to sing along, badly, and not care."

Hotel California

Eagles

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

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman

"Simple. Beautiful. True."

Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd

This Is the Day

The The

"This song makes me believe things generally work out."

Kiss

Prince

"It's the song I'd choose if I could only ever choose one."