Which Prog track for your Funeral?

Hmm this is hard.

S. Hackett 'In Memoriam' or D. Gilmour 'Near The End'

I can't decide between KC's Epitaph and Monty Python's Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.

Peter Rideout wrote: Make sure the wind is blowing out to sea when you release the ashes, Tony, and Jim, a black feather boa would be acceptable]

Peter - I'd be wearing my best ostrich feathers for the occasion (dyed black, of course)... and nothing else (now there's a vision for you to take into the afterlife).

For me, it would have to be 'Seven Stones' by Genesis, with the curtains closing at the crematorium just as the mellotron coda surges in all its magnificence; emotive, emotional, yet uplifting at the same time.

Then, just as the lake of tears begins to lap at my bier... straight in with 'Mr Slater's Parrot' by the Bonzo Dog Band, 'The Dustbin Dance' by Spike Milligan & 'Cocktails For Two' by Spike Jones - this would then be followed by an all night psy-trance extravaganza, at which the headliner would be Steve Hillage's 'System 7'; simultaneously bringing smiles to the faces of the thousands of attendees, and reminding them what a contrary old bugger I was.

...actually, I'm a bit narked that I'll miss it!
    

Porcupine Tree - Collapse the Light into Earth

"I won't shiver in the cold
I won't let the shadows take their toll
I won't cover my head in the dark
And I won't forget you when we part

Collapse the Light Into Earth

I won't heal given time
I won't try to change your mind
I won't feel better in the cold light of day
But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay

Collapse the Light Into Earth"

Oh and also all of 'Dark Side of the Moon', because it's the perfect album to mark the end of a life.

Imagine it; they've just finished lowering your coffin into the ground and they hear "..and everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon."

And then... "There's no dark side of the moon really — matter of fact, it's all dark."

They'll have nightmares for years.

EDIT: Haha funny thought, 'Los Endos' by Genesis :P or '9 Feet Underground' by Caravan


Edited by DeepPhreeze - July 21 2006 at 02:17

At my funeral: NO prog-track at all - it should be the Nits' fabulous "26a ( Clouds in the sky )" and no other song ! But, well, you can add "Estonia" from marillion at home if you're sad about my departure, it helped me, too, in several cases.

I'll play, When I'm 64, if I just happen to die when I'm actually 64. I think it would cause a smirk er' two.

King Crimson's "Prelude: Song of the Gulls", from "Island". It seems very appropriate.

Prog tune: Baris Manco - Lambaya Puf De

Non Prog tune: The theme tune to Thunderbirds (with my coffin made up to look like Pod 4)






Edited by sigod - July 11 2006 at 11:16