If You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Dead

So having turned 30 just a couple of weeks ago, my thoughts have naturally turned to aging and maturity in a slightly morbid yet calmly resigned way. I wasn’t really bothered about being 30 in particular, reckon I’ve felt older than that for some time now, but it’s one of those pre ordained landmarks at which you’re meant to think about these things so in the name of good old fashioned traditional orthodoxy, think about it I did. And I started looking out tunes that revolved around the theme of getting older and sticking them on. Another word for this sort of contemplation is ‘wallowing in it’. You can’t have a right good wallow without digging through your tunes (at least if you’re me) - So here is a compilation of tunes about getting old, being old and eventually snuffing it. It’s a wee bit depressing perhaps and worryingly close to my Dad’s taste in music – although I think that all makes sense, given the theme. And ‘When I’m 64’ was just too obvious, in case you wondered. The cheery title was contained in a happy birthday text from a mate of mine, who’s a psychiatrist and therefore knows about these things.

Download – If You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Dead

Tracklist

01 Done Got Old - Heartless Bastards

02 Jack Oblivian - Honey- I'm Too Old For You

03 Howlin' Wolf - Getting Old And Gray

04 Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up

05 LCD Soundsystem - Losing my edge

06 David Bowie - Golden Years

07 Dusty Springfield -Goin Back

08 Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song (live)

09 Ann Peebles - Old Man With Young Ideas

10 Bill Withers - Grandmas Hands

11 Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes

12 Sammy Davis Jr - The Folks Who Live On The Hill

13 Squeeze - Labelled With Love

14 Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me

15 Bob Dylan - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

16 The Monsters - Digging My Grave

17 Blue Oyster Cult - (don't fear) The Reaper

18 Peter Hammill - Pushing Thirty

19 Captain Beefheart - Old Fart at Play

20 Scott H Biram - Open up them pearly gates-(traditional)-(live)

21 Ralph Stanley - O Death

22 Dr Ross - I Am Not Dead

23 Penny Goodwin - Too Soon You're Old

24 They Might Be Giants - Older