Prog song for your funeral

Probaby one of the following:

Awaken -- Yes

Afterglow -- Genesis

The Long and Winding Road -- The Beatles (not prog, but a beautiful song
just the same)

Blacksword wrote: Turn of the Century - Yes Then at the wake, I would have 'Still Life' by VDGG played on repeat for a few hours, then round the evening off with loads of The Cure and The Smiths. If I'm dead I dont see why anyone else should enjoy themselves..

 

If its the remastered Still Life then i'd have fun.

Heaven forbid anything should happen to you, but if you were to 'pop off' then ensure the invite get passed through

 

Agree with you on the cure/the smiths though, might need to make my excuses then.

jackinthegreen wrote: Hmmmm... Collapse The Light Into Earth.

I would definitely go with Pink Floyd's Great Gig in The Sky. Definitely.

OMG WHO AM I KIDDING!!

 

FUTURE LEGENDS PART 2 BY FRUUPP

Mmmmh... good question. I'm always thinking about that and my friends knows the songs that I like to "listen" in my funeral... Well, more than songs, complete albums... here is my list...

Complete albums: Close to the edge (Yes), Wise After the Event (Anthony Phillips), Dust and Dreams (Camel); Das Wagner Distater (Klaus Schulze); Recordings (Porcupine Tree); Going for the One (Yes); Leda et le Cigne (Mugen); Sleeps with Fishes (Michael Brook); In the Court of the Crimson King; Voyage of the Acolyte (Hackett); Crisis (oldfield); and of course Gould's "Fanfare for a Common Man"...

I just listened to And You and I with this in mind.

I think the world would cry for you if this played, this song is absolutely beautiful in every way...absolutely stunning ending to kick off the emotions, my dead body would probly start crying!!!!!  Its not even tears of sadness, its almost tears of joy that the beauty of the whole situation exists, and it makes you wonder

 

AND YOU AND I

I think for the sake of the guests it'd have to be something short & sweet so they could get out to the wake. I'd rather they remembered me for putting on a good spread than saying "Do you remember old Phils funeral and that bloody cr*p music we had to sit through?"

I used to sing in a church choir and at weddings (different I know)  whenever someone picked a piece of music that wasn't traditional we all groaned because usually, it just didn't work....(please no, not Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens again! oh no, not Amazing Grace on bagpipes!). Somehow only traditional hymns work in a church (unless maybe we're talking alternative e.g. humanist ceremony).

I think I'd be boring and traditional when it came to funerals as well. But I did like that at Graham Chapman's funeral (of Monty Python fame) they sung "Always Look on the bright side of life"!   

The Spirit Carries On---- DT

Rip Off?

ok......

Cemetery Gates will do...

 

If it has to be a prog song I'd probably go for "And You And I", there'd be floods of tears by the end. It's a bit long for everyone to sit through though, so the song I really want is Electrolyte by REM, because it's short, happy-sounding and ends with the words "I'm not scared, I'm out of here".

 

I'd like to be cremated. Everybody would have a glass of Cinzano Bianco and lemonade, and as the coffin slides through the curtain I'd like The Birdy Song by the Tweets (or failing that Agadoo by Black Lace) and for all those present to do the dance. On the off chance that there is an after life, witnessing that would give me enormous pleasure.