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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2011 at 13:41
Dogs By Pink Floyd, since I was a boy, but its very cynical of me Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2011 at 20:07
Hi,
 
Easy ... there is only one ... "Apocaliptyc Bore" full blast and let them wince when the guitar and violin take off!
 
And the lyrics are pretty with it too ... and BF ... I'm ok with either sky bikes or sky bites .... both fit beautifully either way ... but sky bites is so much more with it in this song, because unless this is a reference to Star Wars, I doubt that the "sky bikes" would make sense ...
 
So yeah ... we took all our fun ... and now it's over ... and the last like in the song? ... ... and now ... it's ok! ... (and take me away Kris and John ... I'm ready!)
 
The only piece I would consider is the last 3 minutes of the film Blade Runner ... and Roy's last words ... "all the things I have seen, all the places I have been ... all tears ... in the rain ... ", and the music just makes you cry, and you realize that this is not just a film ... this is really well written stuff, beautifully filmed and loved ...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2011 at 23:46
I've honestly never been a fan of funerals. Why force my family to pay for a gaudy, overpriced ritual that I won't even get to see? Yes, I understand "It's for the survivors" or whatever. In that case they can play whatever they feel like. I won't get to hear it. A quiet uneventful burial for me please.

In the event I was diagnosed with something terminal and could pick the last song I ever heard while I tripped on whatever awesome drugs the hospital gave me, I would want it to be "Man-Erg.". No particular reason, It's just a song I really like and seems like an appropriate ending theme.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2011 at 14:30
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I come from a literary family ... and one of my father's one act plays was ... you guessed it ... a surrealistic view at a funeral, and of course, my mom always thought it was mean and all that ... but way up there Bunuel and my dad are having a drink and laughing ... at the woman that sneezes on someone else's skirt, on the kid playing with an airplane under the coffin stand, on the many women that have nothing better to do than shed tears ... because one of the daughter's is leaving home ... and on and on ... and I forgot the doggie ... he took a pee on someone's leg!
 
In many ways, when I went to his funeral, it was sad, pathetic, and above all ... too many cynical jerks and professors that were there becuase it was the big thing ... but I am most proud of a few very big name dignitaries that came across the world ... to pay their respects to a kindred soul ... that part was nice and has been a driving force for me ever since ... there are a few of us that understand and know ... the "work" ...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2011 at 21:23
Crime of the century would be great for that type of occasion I think
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2011 at 00:14
This one would be exactly what I'd want.....


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2011 at 05:02
The rain down section of Paranoid Android by Radiohead.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2011 at 06:46
I'm sure I've answered this question once or twice in the past, but my funeral song remains unchanged; 'Seven Stones' by Genesis - timed so the mellotron coda comes in just as the curtains at the crematorium are closing - guaranteed blub fest...

...then segue that into Arthur Brown's 'Fire'; that should raise a giggle or 2

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2011 at 18:49
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Karnivool - Deadman (LOL)
 
All three will probably be a bit too long, so I'd say a Beatles song from the '66-'69 era or Stop Swimming, Lazarus, I Drive The Hearse or Time Flies by Porcupine Tree.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2011 at 01:48
Well, let just say my funeral is going to take forever...

Let's start out with "Glow" by Blackfield, as the people are entering the synagogue (im not jewish I just like that word)
And for the eulogy, instead of people talking, it will be the entire Stupid Dream album...
during the reception, original 8-bit songs from various mega man games will play.

Upon departure when everyone is leaving, I will force the playing of "Paper Boats" by Nada Surf. A fitting end to a night of emotional termoil. :)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2011 at 11:53
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Seems to mesh well Beer
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 14:18
Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Originally posted by Schizoid-Man Schizoid-Man wrote:

The Great Deceiver by King Crimson. Give people something to think about!


Health food fa... erm, wait... is that opening line really the best way to be remembered?
Originally posted by Schizoid-Man Schizoid-Man wrote:

LOL I may have to rethink this. I wouldn't want to have to change my lifestyle to fit the lyrics of my buriel song.

Yeah cause eating vegetarian "meatballs" would be so bad for you...

...also see Food in the U.K

Well the second link doesn't work because the word F***** is in the url, but the word is a homonym and means many things to many people... it's sad that people automatically jump to the worst conclusion.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 14:36
Did they play Rock The Casbah at Bin Laden's funeral?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 15:30
^^^^ LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 18:28
Originally posted by Hoipolloi Hoipolloi wrote:

^^^^ LOL

Ditto that!!  Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 22:49
I'm going with "A Passion Play" by Jethro Tull
Music is my gospel and I preach with my picking hand. -Harry Chapin. Not prog but still cool. Haha

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 23:04
Either "Watermelon In Easter Hay" by Frank Zappa, or "Here Comes The Flood" by Peter Gabriel.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2011 at 02:28
I'm atheist so my choices are based on making any remaining friends and family sit through some decent music for once in their lives :) And I will stress that they are to be tied down until the playlist is finished ...

Yes - Awaken
VDGG - The Undercover Man
Twelfth Night - Love Song
New Musik - All You Need Is Love
Jon Anderson - Song of Seven
Genesis - Stagnation

And just as the curtains close ...

Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire

... just to send 'em away with a smile on their faces :)



Edited by jalist - May 05 2011 at 02:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2011 at 01:03
"Never the Same" - echolyn
"The Spirit Carries On" - Dream Theater

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Belief is not Truth.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2011 at 01:47
This:




And if I could edit the Hackett solo out of Firth of the fifth and get that played as a separate piece, sure. In fact, the performance from Once Above A Time would do.




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