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    Posted: April 20 2021 at 02:13
I'm wondering what people have thought about in regard to the music for their own funerals, of course we won't be able to witness the event, so it is a bit of a fantasy as to how we'd like it to be. I'd also be interested if anyone has any readings that they'd like.

Anyway, so far my music choices would be:

Hymns
Amazing Grace
The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended

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Going Home by Annie Haslam (at the beginning of the service)
The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd (for the committal)

As for readings, I don't know yet.
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I want to go out to Electrolite by REM - for the last line sung solo.
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it’s never changed since I first heard it. My first choice for a funeral song is Jerry Cantrell’s beautiful cover of Willy Nelson’s “I’ve Seen All This World I Care to See”. 🖤
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I'll take the full Thick As A Brick to accompany my illegal funeral pyre in the middle of the Ardennes woods
Sounds like an OK manner for this atheist pagan I am to leave this bloody world. 

I did hesitate between that and being buried 9ft Underground with the Careavan tune of the same name . TongueBig smile
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Ashes are Burning by Renaissance, obviously, followed by the theme tune to Happy Days.
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At the beginning of the service, when the coffin enters the audience chamber:
Gnidrolog - Long Live Man Dead (not necessarily the whole song, until the 3:40 mark will be fine)

At the end of the service:
Oaksenham - Afterdeath Fantasy

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Peaches En Regalia for me
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ELP -  From the Beginning, Lucky Man, C'est La Vie, Take a pebble

Not because of any real lyrical significance but just because they are some of the calmer tunes and I like them.
I guess if I was into cruel jokes I'd pick some more of the hardcore tunes like Hymn, Time and a Place, Tarkus, The Three Fates or Fanfare for the Common Man.
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A fitting end for me: the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
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Something like this:
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I always wanted And You & I to be played at my funeral.
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Bang a Gong by T. Rex. F**k death.

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Well, whatever song it is, it will have to be quite loud. I will be dead, after all.
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Maybe it'll wake you up....Pun also intended.
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

Maybe it'll wake you up....Pun also intended.

Well, they call them "wakes" for a reason.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Annie Haslam - Still Life
Barclay James Harvest - Hymn
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Renaissance - At the Harbour
Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
The Doors - Light My Fire (but only if I'm being cremated) Tongue

The whole of Rick Wakeman's "Prayers" album. Heart


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 20 2021 at 08:37
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

Maybe it'll wake you up....Pun also intended.

Well, they call them "wakes" for a reason.
   Indeed, they do!  Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Annie Haslam - Still Life
Barclay James Harvest - Hymn
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Renaissance - At the Harbour
Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
The Doors - Light My Fire (but only if I'm being cremated) Tongue

The whole of Rick Wakeman's "Prayers" album. Heart

That's going to be one long funeral. 
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Annie Haslam - Still Life
Barclay James Harvest - Hymn
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Renaissance - At the Harbour
Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
The Doors - Light My Fire (but only if I'm being cremated) Tongue

The whole of Rick Wakeman's "Prayers" album. Heart

That's going to be one long funeral. 
It's my funeral - so to speak - so I won't mind if it goes on too long. Smile
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