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    Posted: January 29 2008 at 06:11
Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

Mars, the Bringer of War by Holst

That song played when I was born! Well, right after Also Sprach Zarasthura by Strauss.Wink

But seriously, probably something uplifting like Satisfied Mind by Jeff Buckley or 'Emperor' - Adagio by Beethoven.

Or why not go all out with Ode to Joy or Jupiter played live, of course. That would be epic.
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I think I like the idea of a mix cd, because there's a few I'd like.
VdGG-Refugees
DT-A Change of Seasons
King Crimson-21st Century Schizoid Man (some final torture for all my relations)
and then to liven things up:
Europe-The Final Countdown

you know what, forget about the mix CD, I think I'll try to have a benefit concert for my dead self where everyone plays songs of my choice.
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I'd probably want something by Warren Zevon, just for the satire. Perhaps "I was In The House When the House Burned Down" or "Play It All Night Long"
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Points: 31319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2008 at 11:46
Originally posted by Black Velvet Black Velvet wrote:

Prog: Univers Zero - Heresie in its entirity.
 
 
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Blackbird by the Beatles and the great Satchemo singing What A Wonderful World Thumbs%20Up
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VdGG - White Hammer.. Wink Actualy Refugees might be a beter shooise. Smile
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Prog: Univers Zero - Heresie in its entirity. Non-prog: U.G.K. - One day
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Afroman - Because I got High
 
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I think I'd have a few different played. Not sure exactly which, but one that must be included:

VDGG - My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)

 
I'll probably make a mix to be played at my funeral so there will be no excuses not to play them. Tongue
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

...hope you guess my name...

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Originally posted by Peter 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

Agreed, although at my funeral I think I would prefer the version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow
which includes "What A Wonderful World", as sung by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (which has similar lyrics: )

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops thats where you'll find me oh
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to,why, oh why can't I?

Well I see trees of green and
Red roses too,
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Well I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark and I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying, I...I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more
Than we'll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.

Someday I'll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find me
Oh, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I?
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I'd want to have Yearning by Mono played. 
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A Long Day's Life by Kevin Gilbert


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Good chat...... P Tree,s Fadeaway is perfect.
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Or:
Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
 
That would be sooo cool!
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Points: 7113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2007 at 03:21
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

In a Gadda da Vida, Played on Church Organ Cool
 
Dude, f**kin' A! That's EXACTLY what I want!
Although, I have given this matter some slightly more serious thought, and I recall a chap who played some accoustic guitar at his brother's funeral. And I thought, "Yeah! I'd want the first movement of 'Thick as a Brick' at my funeral, and then it would finish, and everyone would softly, reverently clap, and then he'd go on to do the other forty odd mintues of the thing on the accoustic."
 
Well, that or Holy Diver...
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Camel - Airborn
Simon and Garfunkel - Leaves that are Green
Jackson Browne - For a Dancer
Cat Stevens - If I Laugh
The Allman Brothers Band - Little Martha
 
 
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Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

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
 
That is absolutely epic. You, sir, are a god among mortals. Clap
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Points: 35794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 17:18
Not Prog, but I'd like to arrange for Louis Armstrong's performance of "We Have all the Time in the World" to be played -- from the Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It's a beautiful, poignant song, and provides some nice irony. "Live and Let Die" might be kind of interesting.
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