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    Posted: November 25 2004 at 08:47

since music is obviously primary in most of our lives here, has anyone thought of what song theyd like played at their funeral? Hahaha, i know its a bit deranged to think about, but id like to be remembered by a good song that would move the audience.

i was thinking of a few:

The Man Who Sold The World- Bowie ( i just thought that this would be funny and very out of place)

Believe- Lenny Kravitz ( the only good Kravitz song. Its cliche and would bring tears with its message of hope and loss and so on...)

Stairway To Heaven- Zeppelin (........id like them to think i was going there......)

Dogs- Pink Floyd ( hey, what can i say? im a blind follower oppressed by the man!)

Achilles Last Stand- Zeppelin (my fave song)
something pretentious
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The Chicken Dance,

then, when that has them good and weepy, the Benny Hill theme....Cry
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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ALL THINGS DULL AND UGLY
Traditional, words by Eric Idle
From `Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album'

All things dull and ugly
All creatures short and squat
All things rude and nasty
The Lord God made the lot

Each little snake that poisons
Each little wasp that stings
He made their brutish venom
He made their horrid wings

All things sick and cancerous
All evil great and small
All things foul and dangerous
The Lord God made them all

Each nasty little hornet
Each beastly little squid
Who made the spikey urchin
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous
All pox both great and small
Putrid, foul and gangrenous
The Lord God made them all

AMEN.




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Since I am a fomer military man and have Scottish heritage Amazing Grace will be played when I make my exit.
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Who Wants To Live Forever-Queen

Mind you if Greg/Gdub turns out to be a necrophiliac........Wink.

Message to Greg's parents:

Please play "Dont let your son go down on me" at my funeral.

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Dont let your son go down on me 


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I always swore it would be the theme tune to 'Happy Days' followed by 'The death of a disco dancer' by The Smiths.

It would probably be something like 'Fruit Tree' by Nick Drake. I always found that deeply moving.

Reed!! Your obsessed with Gregs sexuality. I'm worried about you!!
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^

I dont know which is the softer target, his sexuality or his single-figure IQ !

LOL



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There was a coach at my school that died of a heart attack and he was a big fan of Pink Floyd. he had all their albums sitting in the training room. at his funeral his daughter played The Great Gid In The Sky on the piano and they palyed a video of his life which was a collaberation of pictures where "On the turning away" and wish you were here played in the back ground.

I'd like to have "A Wizard/A TRue Star" play and then Atom Heart Mother or animals and then as i'm lowerd into my grave Tangerine Dream will give a live performance
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"Easy livin" of course!LOL

Followed by "Thick as a brick" in its entirety.Wink
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Benny the bouncer!
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Arena - Ascension. 
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Points: 1492 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2004 at 17:44

Not just a song, from beginning to end, "Epilog" by Änglagard... and maybe then, if time allows, a Pink Floyd medley chanted by some choirboys

 
break the circle

reset my head

wake the sleepwalker

and i'll wake the dead
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Originally posted by Velvetclown Velvetclown wrote:

ALL THINGS DULL AND UGLY


Well, I'd probably choose 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'. But I'm sure my relatives wouldn't grant me the wish. So, in a serious note, I'd have to choose between Jethro Tull's 'Elegy' (not a dry eye in the audience with that one) and 'Blue Angel' by Dave Cousins, one of my favourite songs ever that can be interpreted as being written about either love or death. The tow most important themes in life, Woody Allen dixit.
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hard choice, but right off the the of my head:
Mr. Bungle - Stubb (a dub)

Tool - Eulogy

Or if I wanted to go for the dramatic effect:

Steve Hackett - Shadow of the Hierophant

Genesis - Cinema Show (Seconds Out ver.)

Or if I were fat:

Yes - Don't Kill the Whale
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."
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I like the idea of dressing up my coffin as a 'Pod' 2 and have the Thunderbirds  theme played as I slide away down a  ramp.
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2004 at 07:11
Definitely 'meet on the ledge' Fairport Convention



Followed swiftly by 'Ali Baba's Camel' Bonzo Dog Band


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Points: 1239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2004 at 12:30

the all seeing eye of the catholic church has put the kaibosh on 'secular' music being played at weddings and funerals and so forth in wonderfully progressive Celtic Tiger Ireland so I think I'll be cremated in a druidic ceremony by a host of nubile naked virgin women (though the third qualifier may be hard to find her ) on top of a mountain at midnight to the strains of ....

Wish You Were Here
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nubile naked virgin women ........... WOW must be difficult to find even ONE 
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