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andYouandI45
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Topic: Prog song for your funeral Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:08 |
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!
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Pseud0
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:23 |
definetly starless
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The Green Tank
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:25 |
I've always wanted to play "Wish You Were Here" (the album, the song alone would be cheesy) at my funeral. That would be so sweet.
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:27 |
andYouandI45 wrote:
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!
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Death does suck ass. Even more than life does. But for my song I'd want one of the following:
Genesis-Dusk "Never to recall this passerby, born to die"
Or even better:
Monty Python-Always Look on the Bright Side of Life; or,
Meatloaf-Paradise By the Dashboard Light (This is a perennial wedding song; I think it's time it was made into a funeral song, at least if it's played at my funeral, I won't have to hear it); or,
back to being serious once more: VDGG-Childlike Faith in Childhood's End.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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ColonelClaypool
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:29 |
Stop Swimming by Porcupine Tree would be perfect for a funeral, imo.
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With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince.
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with.
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:45 |
id like to think prog works better for later birthdays, rather than death.
Like at my 40th, throw on some Brave New World by Barclay James...thatd touch me
ANything sentimental, though, it all differs, like something like all of In Search of the Lost CHord, an album i heard as a child and loved...forgotten for over 10 years to be unearthed by my 18 year old self and open my life to prog once again.
Play that whole album for me, and everything else!
I dont like to feel sad when people die, i like to feel glad they lived and celebrate! BLAST ME SOME SIBERIAN KHATRU PLEASE!!!!!!!! YEYAHH!!!
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An old fart
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:45 |
Both parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond.
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Tony R
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:45 |
Arriving Somewhere Not Here.....
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OldFatherThames
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:49 |
Starless is a good one .
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Xymphony
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 18:53 |
Opeth - Advent
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walrus
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:00 |
epitaph of king crimson shine on.. of pink floyd free as a bird of the beatles time of pink floyd
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you and whose army?
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The Cynic
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:01 |
"For today" by Camel.
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this world is totally fugazi
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:05 |
Eulogy by Tool
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:13 |
Who cares wer'e dead anyway?...................but, mine would be funeral for a friend by Elton John........not prog but a bloody good piece of music.
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chamberry
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:19 |
walrus wrote:
epitaph of king crimson shine on.. of pink floyd free as a bird of the beatles time of pink floyd |
those are good ones. I might add Disappear by Dream Theater
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TheMusicalBox
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:19 |
To One In Paradise by Alan Parsons Project
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:19 |
I prefer to liten them before that inevitable moment.
I don't think something will entertain me in my coffin.
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el böthy
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:36 |
Probably The musical box by Genesis... or Islands by Crimson...you know? sad songs
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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flying teapot
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:49 |
"Never the Same" by Echolyn
Never The Same" [Lyrics by Brett Kull]
WWhat can I say? What can I do you for you? Some are here for but a moment Then are taken in an instant to eternity Remember life and what's been shared with you That you have shared
It's funny how we feel closer With the ones that we love When they're farthest away You can feel them so near Just 'round the corner the memory still clear
"Do not stand at my grave and cry I am not there I did not die." I say to you I will see you again On the other side someday
"There's never endings only discovery," I tell myself over and over again Some leave their mark in our hearts then go
It's hard to continue onward When forever comes down it comes down so heavy Too final to forget You've got to believe there's something more
After the song is over The dance goes on, so dance away When all is said and done Remember what's been given, not taken away But you struggle and you strain As the undertow pulls you down
The years will spare the rod and soften the hardest blow ...but I am never the same With time comes a certain fading and erasing ...but I am never the same
In each man There lies a start that has no end A means to be more A light that shines in its own special way
Left with cold distance I'll always be with you We weather the cycle I'll always be there So fragile to balance Too potent to harness Life charges past the mortal in man
Remember all the life you shared every day There's never any endings ...but I'll never be the same
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jefmoret
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 19:53 |
Either Kevin Gilbert's "Long Day's Life" or (in no way prog) ICP's "Pass Me By"
..and I recently decided that my headstone will read "Surely there's been some mistake"
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