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Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:57

Alice Cooper- I Love the Dead, or The Doors' The End LOL

My serious selection: The Doors- When The Music's Over

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:56

for me.... my theme song

ELP - The Barbarian

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:54

Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:51

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:48

darqdean wrote:

Last thing I want is for people to be blubbing and unhappy - I really don't want to be remembered like that.

When I finally peg it I want something highly inappropriate, something like "I'm Walking Backwards To Christmas" by the Goons, or Cradle of Filth's "Twisting Further Nails" (the demented Techno remix of "The Twisted Nails of Faith") - Cathedral's "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)" would be a hoot (I'd have the words on the service sheet so everyone could sing along), or David Bowie's "Laughing Gnome" or Pink Floyd's "Bike" - and of course Aurthur Brown's "Fire" as my coffin is rolled into the incinerator

But somehow I doubt I'll be having any say in the matter and those suggestions will be ignored, so "Ice In The Sun" By Status Quo; "Here Comes The Flood" by Peter Gabriel (the one from Fripp's Exposure album) and Floyd's "One of these Days".

Of course, I'd want to subject the congregation to at least 30 minutes of my own music, (well, they never listened to it while I was alive and a captive audience is still an audience

) I might even write something especially for the occasion.

You think like me Dean, though I still like my idea of my wired corpse flailing about to Rush's "Animate"

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:35

Peter wrote:

Easy Livin wrote: "Have we been here before?"

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Perhaps in a previous life (or 6), Bob! Wink

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I thought I read that in the PA's handbook ...

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 14:17

Starless by King Crimson... don´t know about the whole song, probably only the sung part... the rest would be a bit weird jejeje

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 13:04

Easy Livin wrote: "Have we been here before?"

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Perhaps in a previous life (or 6), Bob! Wink

Forum Axiom 238-B (repeat after me): All topics of even passing interest must be repeated ad nauseum....

"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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Posted: August 18 2007 at 12:53

Last thing I want is for people to be blubbing and unhappy - I really don't want to be remembered like that.

Of course, I'd want to subject the congregation to at least 30 minutes of my own music, (well, they never listened to it while I was alive and a captive audience is still an audience

) I might even write something especially for the occasion.

What?

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:42

the whole of Merzbow's Pulse Demon. it would mean, "this is how everything that ever happened to me registered in my mind." ;P

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:41

After the final eulogy, Rush's "Animate" will start blasting as my body comes down from the ceilings on wires and dances about the place. Then they'll set my corpse in the casket and place into the earth and play ELP's Love Beach, at which point the hydraulics I've installed in the casket will give the illusion that I am turning over in my grave. A fitting end for a proggie engineer LOL

Edited by 1800iareyay - August 18 2007 at 11:41

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:40

Have we been here before?

View Post	"Fool's Overture" vs. "Funeral for a Friend" Posted: 12 February 2007 at 14:05
	"Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies...)" off Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) and "Fool's Overture" off Even in the Quietest Moments (1977) are both great tracks, I feel. Which do you prefer? Here's concert footage of Supertramp playing "Fool's Overture" click And concert footage of Elton John playing "Funeral for a Friend": click
Forum: Prog Music Lounge Topic: Which Prog track for your Funeral?
Baggiesfaninuk Replies: 144 Views: 2451 View Post	Which Prog track for your Funeral? Posted: 08 July 2006 at 14:46
	Which Prog Rock track would you like played at your funeral when it's time for the Grim Reaper to play his part in life's journey? Would you let the congregation suffer with a 30 minute epic or would you let them off lightly with something shorter? Personally, I would love to have 'Awaken' by Yes played at mine. It's somehow quite fitting with an amazing finale and would have me in Prog heaven ecstasy looking down on all my friends and family!
Forum: Just for Fun Topic: What would u want to play at your funeral
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Topic: Song for my Funeral
Epping Forrest Replies: 25 Views: 314 View Post	Song for my Funeral Posted: 11 November 2005 at 00:37
	"C'Est La Vie" - ELP!!!!!
Forum: Prog Music Lounge Topic: Prog song for your funeral
andYouandI45 Replies: 57 Views: 874 View Post	Prog song for your funeral Posted: 09 November 2005 at 23:08
	Now of course death sucks ass, but if you were givin a choice of what prog song you would like to be played at your funeral what would it be? I would choose Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother". Not the whole album but the 20 minute epic song. Either that, "Close to the Edge", or "The Revealing Science of God" (both by Yes if you didn't know). I think AHM would be bad ass!

Topic: Funeral music!
erlenst Replies: 104 Views: 1851 View Post	Funeral music! Posted: 30 June 2005 at 22:37
	Ok, I will try making a silly but maybe fun topic If you should choose one song to be played in your funeral, which one should it be ? For me I think Think Of Me With Kindness by Gentle Giant would be a perfect choice ! Best regards, Erlend
Forum: Discussions not related to music Topic: What song would you want at your funeral?
Man Overboard Replies: 68 Views: 801 View Post	What song would you want at your funeral? Posted: 26 May 2005 at 14:19
	I was thinking about it tonight... it would certainly be "The Final Deal" by The Flower Kings... There's no such thing as black and total darkness... there's no such night that's cold, and so starless... Before we know..........the story goes in ways we never have thought of , in wonder ways And so we speak..........in gardens green, We walk the bright hills of summer in Evermore Into the sun, where dreamers run we fight for freedom,...
Forum: Prog Music Lounge Topic: Song at your funeral
the musical box Replies: 38 Views: 477 View Post	Song at your funeral Posted: 25 November 2004 at 13:47
	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...

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:37

"Rain When I Die" by Alice In Chains.

and

"Carry On" by C.S.N.Y.

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:35

Abstrakt wrote:

In a Gadda da Vida, Played on Church Organ

In my funeral played by the same Iron Butterly!!!

Another song for my funeral...: "Cavalli Alati" by Dik Dik (played by the original recording band: Erminio "Pepe" Salvaderi, "Giancarlo "Lallo" Sbriziolo", Pietro "pietruccio" Montalbetti, Roberto "Hunka Munka" Carlotto and Nunzio "Cucciolo" Favia)

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:06

My dad seriously wants all of Supper's Ready played for him....but I think I may just play Eggs is Eggs.

As for me, I'd love to have I grieve by the Gabe.

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:04

chopper wrote:

Maybe "Bridge Across Forever" by Transatlantic, but I really want REMs Electrolyte which ends with the words "I'm not scared, I'm outta here".

That's a good one, Chopper -- & how about their "Find the River"? Ermm

I think it is their most beautiful, sadly evocative song:

Hey now, little speedyhead,
The read on the speed matter says
You have to go to task in the city
Where people drown and people serve
Don't be shy. Your just deserve
Is only just light years to go

Me, my thoughts are flower strewn
Ocean storm, bayberry moon
I have got to leave to find my way
Watch the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
Nothing is going my way

The ocean is the river's goal,
A need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go

I have got to find the river,
Bergamot and vetiver
Run through my head and fall away
Leave the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
Nothing is going my way

There's no one left to take the lead,
But I tell you and you can see
We're closer now than light years to go
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
Fall into the ocean

The river to the ocean goes,
A fortune for the undertow
None of this is going my way
There is nothing left to throw
Of ginger, lemon, indigo,
Coriander stem and rows of hay
Strength and courage overrides
The privileged and weary eyes
Of river poet search naivete
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
All of this is coming your way

"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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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:02

Mars, the Bringer of War by Holst

Edited by heyitsthatguy - August 18 2007 at 11:04

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:00

Peter wrote:

No prog (get a life, dead people! LOL

), but I've long wanted the final movement from Handel's Water Music, which I find very uplifting, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- perhaps as sung by John Martyn.

I think the lyrics are apt:

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

that's gay.

Aenema by Tool

Thats my f**k you...I'm dead...I hope you're next song.

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:58

I think "I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel is the perfect song to play at a funeral because it gets the point that it is very sad but life must go on.

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Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:51

The Ghost of Peredition by Opeth :D.

Nah, just kidding. Either...

Never Let Go by Camel
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John
Sunrise by Uriah Heep
Chequered Light Buildings by Gazpacho
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic) by George Harrison

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