Persistent earworm alert XXXV

The lyric, "If I should die in a car wreck, may I have Van Morrison on my tape deck," from Poi Dog Pondering's "U Li La Lu," has been on my mind a lot in recent days.  I don't know what triggered it, but I've wondered, since playing the song on KCOU in the early '90s, if the songwriter's primary objective with that wish was for the protagonist to hear a great artist one more time or to be thought of as deep after passing away.  Or, perhaps both of those objectives were intended, in roughly equal measure.  Ever since hearing the song way back when, that lyric has always jumped out at me.