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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 12:53
Last thing I want is for people to be blubbing and unhappy - I really don't want to be remembered like that.
 
When I finally peg it I want something highly inappropriate, something like "I'm Walking Backwards To Christmas" by the Goons, or Cradle of Filth's "Twisting Further Nails" (the demented Techno remix of "The Twisted Nails of Faith") - Cathedral's "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)" would be a hoot (I'd have the words on the service sheet so everyone could sing along), or David Bowie's "Laughing Gnome" or Pink Floyd's "Bike" - and of course Aurthur Brown's "Fire" as my coffin is rolled into the incinerator Cool
 
But somehow I doubt I'll be having any say in the matter and those suggestions will be ignored, so "Ice In The Sun" By Status Quo; "Here Comes The Flood" by Peter Gabriel (the one from Fripp's Exposure album) and Floyd's "One of these Days".
 
Of course, I'd want to subject the congregation to at least 30 minutes of my own music, (well, they never listened to it while I was alive and a captive audience is still an audienceLOL) I might even write something especially for the occasion.
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Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 13:04
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 14:17
Starless by King Crimson... don´t know about the whole song, probably only the sung part... the rest would be a bit weird jejeje
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Easy Livin wrote: "Have we been here before?"

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Points: 2492 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:48
Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Last thing I want is for people to be blubbing and unhappy - I really don't want to be remembered like that.
 
When I finally peg it I want something highly inappropriate, something like "I'm Walking Backwards To Christmas" by the Goons, or Cradle of Filth's "Twisting Further Nails" (the demented Techno remix of "The Twisted Nails of Faith") - Cathedral's "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)" would be a hoot (I'd have the words on the service sheet so everyone could sing along), or David Bowie's "Laughing Gnome" or Pink Floyd's "Bike" - and of course Aurthur Brown's "Fire" as my coffin is rolled into the incinerator Cool
 
But somehow I doubt I'll be having any say in the matter and those suggestions will be ignored, so "Ice In The Sun" By Status Quo; "Here Comes The Flood" by Peter Gabriel (the one from Fripp's Exposure album) and Floyd's "One of these Days".
 
Of course, I'd want to subject the congregation to at least 30 minutes of my own music, (well, they never listened to it while I was alive and a captive audience is still an audienceLOL) I might even write something especially for the occasion.
You think like me Dean, though I still like my idea of my wired corpse flailing about to Rush's "Animate"
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Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
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Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway
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for me.... my theme song


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Alice Cooper- I Love the Dead, or The Doors' The End LOL
My serious selection: The Doors- When The Music's Over
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Points: 37102 		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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Points: 7991 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 21:20
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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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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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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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2007 at 03:33
Or:
Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
 
That would be sooo cool!
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Funeral for a Friend
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Points: 127 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2007 at 04:23
Good chat...... P Tree,s Fadeaway is perfect.
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A Long Day's Life by Kevin Gilbert


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Points: 6419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2007 at 07:45
I'd want to have Yearning by Mono played. 
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Points: 894 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 20:51
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

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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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