Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - What prog song would you want at your funeral?
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedWhat prog song would you want at your funeral?
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 16171819>
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
ProgMetaller2112 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 08 2012
Location: Pacoima,CA,USA
Status: Offline
Points: 3150 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2014 at 02:31
Rush-The Fountain of Lamneth
“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four



"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
Back to Top
Kobaek View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie


Joined: October 16 2013
Location: Denmark
Status: Offline
Points: 31 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2014 at 02:59
If we're to keep a somber tone, I'd aim for Jethro Tull's Slow Marching Band.

Maybe Comfortably Numb for the humourous value.

But the end choice is probably Songs from the Wood, the first prog song I heard and still a favourite.
Back to Top
Argo2112 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 20 2017
Location: New Jersey
Status: Offline
Points: 4462 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2017 at 14:47
And You And  I  - Yes
Back to Top
Tuzvihar View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: May 18 2005
Location: C. Schinesghe
Status: Offline
Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2017 at 15:12
It doesn't matter. I won't hear it anyway.
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski
Back to Top
SquonkHunter View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 22 2013
Location: Texas, by God!
Status: Offline
Points: 339 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2017 at 18:48
I already have mine picked out:

1. Survival - Yes (1969)
2. Tell Me What You See in Me - Sandy Denny & Strawbs (1967)
3. You and Me - Moody Blues (1972)
4. Meet on the Ledge - Fairport Convention (1969)
5. I'm a Memory - Willie Nelson (1971)

They tell a story from the beginning to the end.
"You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..."
Back to Top
Barbu View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 09 2005
Location: infinity
Status: Offline
Points: 30855 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2017 at 20:44
There's a guy who've mentioned Solsbury Hill, right?

+1
Back to Top
ALotOfBottle View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 17 2016
Location: Lublin, Poland
Status: Offline
Points: 1990 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2017 at 02:07
Frank Zappa - Cosmic Debris 
Back to Top
ExittheLemming View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 19 2007
Location: Penal Colony
Status: Offline
Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2017 at 07:01
To Be Over by Yes (it's a pretty decent song all told, but the irony is to erm...die for....)
Back to Top
Larkstongue41 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 07 2015
Location: Eastern Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 1360 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2017 at 09:14
at least:

The Cure - Plainsong
Camel - Ice
Dream Theater - Scene Eight
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Brian Eno - An Ending/Ascent
Popol Vuh - Song of the Earth (long and slow Agnus Dei)
King Crimson - Trio
"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."
Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Prog Folk

Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20414 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2017 at 09:54
Could"ve sworn I'd answered this about a decade ago, but it was probably in a different thread.

Anyways:
No ceremony or speech, but an open air funeral pye above a hilltop, and the ambers can serve as a bbq...

Funeral For A Friend (this hasn't been mentionned yet)ConfusedTongue
So What? (Miles)
Even In The Quietest Moments
Epitath
Echoes (can be cut in half)
Thick As A Brick (shortened version)
A Love Supreme (whole thing)
Woke Up Just In Time To See The Sun + Song Of The Wind (Caravanserai)
Nine Feet Underground (can be cut to half)
Starless (as an atheist)

and finally my buddies reforming Globalys and playing This Mind Is Mine and the never-recorded-before Lullaby








Edited by Sean Trane - August 05 2017 at 10:07
Back to Top
dr wu23 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 22 2010
Location: Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 20660 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2017 at 11:01
KC...I Talk To The Wind......but as someone else  said I won't hear it anyway.... lol...
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
Back to Top
Ruby900 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 03 2009
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 739 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2017 at 15:25
Great gig in the sky - too obvious?
"I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman
Back to Top
jayem View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 21 2006
Location: Switzerland
Status: Offline
Points: 997 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2017 at 15:45
No prog at my funeral unless something / someone changes my mind. 

I've been planning (parts of) Froberger's "Fantasia sopra Ut re mi fa sol la" as a symbolic return from musical mazes full of tensions and drama back to the good old relaxed basic mode of ut(C) major.
Support mine-clearing !
bandcamp collection
Back to Top
AlanB View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: January 19 2013
Status: Offline
Points: 1212 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2017 at 12:47
Rose Colored Glasses or Bridge Across Forever (both Transatlantic)

Or, for prog-related, Throw Down The Sword by Wishbone Ash
Back to Top
scruffydragon View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 09 2008
Location: trowbridge
Status: Offline
Points: 250 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2017 at 12:54
Just one song? why not all of them. I don't like long funerals but I hate the idea of being shoved down a hole even more.So the more Prog the betterWink
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 18066 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2017 at 13:23
Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares by Tangerine Dream

Same.

Or any Tangerine Dream for that matter. I really like some of the stuff from Linda Spa's time in the band.
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
Tapfret View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: August 12 2007
Location: Bryant, Wa
Status: Offline
Points: 8617 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2017 at 10:23
AlIce Cooper - I Love the Dead 

Bandcamp
Back to Top
Rednight View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 18 2014
Location: Mar Vista, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 4812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2017 at 15:23
Crimso's Red.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
Back to Top
addictedtoprog View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 16 2014
Location: india
Status: Offline
Points: 1422 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2017 at 22:18
VdGG - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
Back to Top
canterburyman View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: September 01 2017
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 1 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2017 at 09:07
Far Beyond from If 3 - no pun intended

Canterburyman
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 16171819>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.145 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.