What song do you want played at your fune
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Topic: What song do you want played at your fune
Posted By: ian picken
Subject: What song do you want played at your fune
Date 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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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:32
| 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". |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:40
| "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!! |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:42
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Veşnica pomenire!
------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:47
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. E ------------- 
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chopper wrote:Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:53
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Eh... good question. I'd play 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', by Radiohead.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:56
In a Gadda da Vida, Played on Church Organ 
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:37
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How about Awaken by Yes.
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:49
No prog (get a life, dead people! ), 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
Somewhere over the rainbow
Some day I'll wish upon a star
Somewhere over the rainbow
Some day I'll wish upon a star
Somewhere over the rainbow ------------- "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: jikai55
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:51
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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 ------------- 
I like cheese and I like metal! --Mikael Åkerfeldt |
Posted By: White Shadow
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:58
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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. ------------- [signature] |
Posted By: Greg W
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:00
that's gay.
 Aenema by Tool
Thats my f**k you...I'm dead...I hope you're next song.
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:02
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Mars, the Bringer of War by Holst
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:04
 That's a good one, Chopper -- & how about their "Find the River"? I 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. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:06
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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. |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:35
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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Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:37
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"Rain When I Die" by Alice In Chains. and "Carry On" by C.S.N.Y. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:40
Have we been here before?
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Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:41
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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
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 11:42
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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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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 12:53
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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 " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StMrd_6KmA - 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
 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 audience ) I might even write something especially for the occasion.------------- What? |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 13:04
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Easy Livin wrote: "Have we been here before?" ******************************************************************************** Perhaps in a previous life (or 6), Bob!   Forum Axiom 238-B (repeat after me): All topics of even passing interest must be repeated ad nauseum....------------- "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: el böthy
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 14:17
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Starless by King Crimson... don´t know about the whole song, probably only the sung part... the rest would be a bit weird jejeje
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:35
hhahhaha I thought I read that in the PA's handbook ... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:48
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:51
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Queen - Another One Bites The Dust ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:54
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Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:56
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for me.... my theme song ELP - The Barbarian ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 15:57
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Alice Cooper- I Love the Dead, or The Doors' The End My serious selection: The Doors- When The Music's Over |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 16:42
| ...hope you guess my name... |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 17:18
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Not Prog, but I'd like to arrange for Louis Armstrong's performance of " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Js2TdZGk0&mode=related&search= - 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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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 21:20
That is absolutely epic. You, sir, are a god among mortals.
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Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: August 18 2007 at 22:20
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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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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 03:21
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... ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 03:33
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Or:
Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
That would be sooo cool!
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 03:56
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Funeral for a Friend
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Posted By: ian picken
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 04:23
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Good chat...... P Tree,s Fadeaway is perfect.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 04:28
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A Long Day's Life by Kevin Gilbert -------------  |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 07:45
| I'd want to have Yearning by Mono played. |
Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 20:51
 Are we allowed to refer to that band here? (Great choice)
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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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 21:11
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I think I'd have a few different played. Not sure exactly which, but one that must be included: VDGG - My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) I'll probably make a mix to be played at my funeral so there will be no excuses not to play them. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 07:03
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Afroman - Because I got High
just kidding
Present - Promenade au Fond D'un Canal
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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 08:22
| Prog: Univers Zero - Heresie in its entirity. Non-prog: U.G.K. - One day |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 08:39
VdGG - White Hammer.. Actualy Refugees might be a beter shooise.  ------------- 
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 10:42
Blackbird by the Beatles and the great Satchemo singing What A Wonderful World  ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 11:46
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 12:49
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I'd probably want something by Warren Zevon, just for the satire. Perhaps "I was In The House When the House Burned Down" or "Play It All Night Long" ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 17:15
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I think I like the idea of a mix cd, because there's a few I'd like. VdGG-Refugees DT-A Change of Seasons King Crimson-21st Century Schizoid Man (some final torture for all my relations) and then to liven things up: Europe-The Final Countdown you know what, forget about the mix CD, I think I'll try to have a benefit concert for my dead self where everyone plays songs of my choice. |
Posted By: Novalis
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 06:11
That song played when I was born! Well, right after Also Sprach Zarasthura by Strauss. But seriously, probably something uplifting like Satisfied Mind by Jeff Buckley or 'Emperor' - Adagio by Beethoven. Or why not go all out with Ode to Joy or Jupiter played live, of course. That would be epic. |