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    Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:16
What song would you want played at your funeral? I would have either The great escape by Marillion or Goodbye to yesterday by Spocks Beard.
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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".
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"Yesterday" by the Beatles.  "To Lay Me Down" by the Dead.  "If you want to sing out, sing out" by Cat Stevens.  "Ten Years Gone" by Zeppelin.  All four have as much spiritual meaning to me as Amazing Grace, although they can sing that one too!!
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Originally posted by chopper 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".


It's funny you bring up "Bridge Across Forever" because I was listening to it in my car and thought, "I'd like this played at my funeral". I just hope this wasn't foreshadowing something imminent.

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Points: 1264 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:53
Eh... good question. I'd play 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', by Radiohead.
The best you can is good enough...
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In a Gadda da Vida, Played on Church Organ Cool
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How about Awaken by Yes.

 

 
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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?



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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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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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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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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:

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?



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Thats my f**k you...I'm dead...I hope you're next song.
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Mars, the Bringer of War  by Holst

Edited by heyitsthatguy - August 18 2007 at 11:04


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Originally posted by chopper 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".

Thumbs%20UpThat's a good one, Chopper -- & how about their "Find the River"?ErmmI 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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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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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

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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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Points: 762 		Direct Link To This Post 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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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?

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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! View%20Post
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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 !



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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

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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... View%20Post
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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

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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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