Song at your funeral
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Topic: Song at your funeral
Posted By: the musical box
Subject: Song at your funeral
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 08:47
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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 so on...) Stairway To Heaven- Zeppelin (........id like them to think i was going there......) Dogs- Pink Floyd ( hey, what can i say? im a blind follower oppressed by the man!) Achilles Last Stand- Zeppelin (my fave song) ------------- something pretentious |
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 08:54
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The Chicken Dance, then, when that has them good and weepy, the Benny Hill theme.... ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 10:26
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ALL THINGS DULL AND UGLY
Traditional, words by Eric Idle From `Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album' All things dull and ugly All creatures short and squat All things rude and nasty The Lord God made the lot Each little snake that poisons Each little wasp that stings He made their brutish venom He made their horrid wings All things sick and cancerous All evil great and small All things foul and dangerous The Lord God made them all Each nasty little hornet Each beastly little squid Who made the spikey urchin Who made the sharks? He did! All things scabbed and ulcerous All pox both great and small Putrid, foul and gangrenous The Lord God made them all AMEN.
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 10:44
| Since I am a fomer military man and have Scottish heritage Amazing Grace will be played when I make my exit. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 10:48
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Who Wants To Live Forever-Queen Mind you if Greg/Gdub turns out to be a necrophiliac........ Message to Greg's parents: Please play "Dont let your son go down on me" at my funeral.
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 11:18
Dont let your son go down on me 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 11:21
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I always swore it would be the theme tune to 'Happy Days' followed by 'The death of a disco dancer' by The Smiths. It would probably be something like 'Fruit Tree' by Nick Drake. I always found that deeply moving. Reed!! Your obsessed with Gregs sexuality. I'm worried about you!! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 11:25
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^ I dont know which is the softer target, his sexuality or his single-figure IQ !
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 11:25
Reed is not alone 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Wizard/TRueStar
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 13:08
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There was a coach at my school that died of a heart attack and he was a big fan of Pink Floyd. he had all their albums sitting in the training room. at his funeral his daughter played The Great Gid In The Sky on the piano and they palyed a video of his life which was a collaberation of pictures where "On the turning away" and wish you were here played in the back ground. I'd like to have "A Wizard/A TRue Star" play and then Atom Heart Mother or animals and then as i'm lowerd into my grave Tangerine Dream will give a live performance |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 14:25
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"Easy livin" of course! Followed by "Thick as a brick" in its entirety. |
Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 16:28
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Benny the bouncer!
------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 17:22
Arena - Ascension. 
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Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: November 25 2004 at 17:44
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Not just a song, from beginning to end, "Epilog" by Änglagard... and maybe then, if time allows, a Pink Floyd medley chanted by some choirboys
------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 03:12
Well, I'd probably choose 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'. But I'm sure my relatives wouldn't grant me the wish. So, in a serious note, I'd have to choose between Jethro Tull's 'Elegy' (not a dry eye in the audience with that one) and 'Blue Angel' by Dave Cousins, one of my favourite songs ever that can be interpreted as being written about either love or death. The tow most important themes in life, Woody Allen dixit. |
Velvetclown wrote:Posted By: Nerevar
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 05:30
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hard choice, but right off the the of my head:
Mr. Bungle - Stubb (a dub) Tool - Eulogy Or if I wanted to go for the dramatic effect: Steve Hackett - Shadow of the Hierophant Genesis - Cinema Show (Seconds Out ver.) Or if I were fat: Yes - Don't Kill the Whale ------------- "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 05:56
I like the idea of dressing up my coffin as a 'Pod' 2 and have the
Thunderbirds theme played as I slide away down a ramp. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 07:11
Definitely 'meet on the ledge' Fairport Convention
Followed swiftly by 'Ali Baba's Camel' Bonzo Dog Band ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 12:30
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the all seeing eye of the catholic church has put the kaibosh on 'secular' music being played at weddings and funerals and so forth in wonderfully progressive Celtic Tiger Ireland so I think I'll be cremated in a druidic ceremony by a host of nubile naked virgin women (though the third qualifier may be hard to find her Wish You Were Here |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 12:37
nubile naked virgin women ........... WOW must be difficult to find even ONE 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:16
I have my sources 
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Posted By: K00l Prog Guruz
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:22
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Seperate Lives by Phil Collins because it RULEZZ! Seriously! Stairway to heaven's overated! G2G!
------------- "The world is in your hands, now use it." Good'ol Phil |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:25
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Yes I agree Seperate Lives RULEZZ!.Stairway To Heaven is overrrated. Phil Collins is not an egocentric twat!
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:31
| you're both on drugs. and not the happy buzz good ones |
Posted By: K00l Prog Guruz
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:53
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Its not true... IF you actually listen to Phill COllens yo'll "GET" his
stuff. Its that people are angry that pete Gabe (who waz good) got out
of Genesis and Phill came along. But if you give him a chance it will
blow u away!!! G2G ------------- "The world is in your hands, now use it." Good'ol Phil |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:08
you make a solid case, reasoned, insightful, convincing. I'm converted. Hook me up to a Groovy Kind of Love now
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Posted By: Wizard/TRueStar
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:10
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Anyone hear that metal version of "In The Air Tonight"? I'm not a big phil collins fan but whoever covered it disgraced that song. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:10
Not another Greg alter-ego????????????????????? -------------
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Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:00
| Theres a couple id like to play, but not like I'll really be able to care, what with being agnost and all i think it likely that there isnt an afterlife of any sort. But no matter what collection of emotional pink floyd songs, and some Beethoven I would have to end it with Los Endos from trick of the tail. Wraps anything up nicely. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 26 2004 at 18:28
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How about anything by Elvis. No . I'm getting my dogs to compose something fore my farewell. It will a suprise whenn i wake up in the Nethther world. |
Posted By: zappa123
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 03:36
| KC epitaph |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 05:49
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When I die I hope to take as many people down with me....so I choose: Aenema.....by Tool |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 06:09
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*moves away from Gdub411* I'd have 'She's Moved On' by Porcupine Tree
------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: HaroldTheBarrel
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 11:03
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I'm going to say Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes. Yep, the entire thing. First of all, I like it. Also I think it would eventually begin to annoy the hell out of the funeral goers! ------------- Listen: Your friends have been broken. They've told us of your poison. Now we k now. KILL THEM! |
Posted By: StarshipTrooper
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 12:33
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No Laughing In Heaven - Ian Gillan ------------- 
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 12:43
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not sure who you're talking about, but no new alter egos here pal. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 13:05
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Sorry, not convinced. I have 'No Jcket required' and 'Face Value' 'No Jacket' is rubbish, from beginning to end, IMO. 'Face Value' has its moments, I guess. But, there is nothing classic about his music, its just pop. It may be marginally better than most chart pap, but it reeks of cheese!! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 13:26
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the jam - going underground seems very appropriate for a funeral ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: November 27 2004 at 13:31
| The band SMEGMA with the incredibly moving There's A Forest Fire In Your Left Elbow. |