Songs for your funeral?

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  • 10-25-2006, 04:35 AM
    Dusty Chalk
    Songs for your funeral?
    I was listening to Miles Davis & Gil Evans' Sketches of Spain, and I've decided that I want "Concierto de Aranjuez" played at my funeral.

    You?
  • 10-25-2006, 05:03 AM
    kexodusc
    Cool topic...hmmm lemme think, what would be appropriate?
    In the following order I choose:

    bom bom bom..."Another One Bites The Dust"....


    "Highway To Hell"...fitting.

    "Enter the Gladiators" would be kinda funny.

    But, If those are no good, just play the "Imperial March".
  • 10-25-2006, 05:12 AM
    Dave918
    Handsome Family's Grandmother Waits for You would do nicely

    -dave
  • 10-25-2006, 05:52 AM
    GMichael
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kexodusc

    bom bom bom..."Another One Bites The Dust"....

    "Highway To Hell"...fitting.

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    You took my choices.:incazzato:
  • 10-25-2006, 06:10 AM
    kexodusc
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GMichael
    You took my choices.:incazzato:
    Sorry....tell ya what...if you feel that strongly about them, you can use'em first :ciappa:
  • 10-25-2006, 06:18 AM
    Resident Loser
    I've always...
    ...been partial to Harry Nilsson's I'd Rather Be Dead

    jimHJJ(...and yes, it does make sense...)
  • 10-25-2006, 06:26 AM
    GMichael
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kexodusc
    Sorry....tell ya what...if you feel that strongly about them, you can use'em first :ciappa:
    Thanks, but I've over it now. Maybe next time Mr. Fast Fingers.
  • 10-25-2006, 06:32 AM
    noddin0ff
    Gonna go with Lyle Lovette Since the last time (...somebody died)
  • 10-25-2006, 08:09 AM
    SlumpBuster
    Oooo... How morbid. "Long Black Veil" Not the Van Morrison or Cheiftains version, but the version by Mike Ness of Social Distortion. Yeah, the lyrics might not entirely make sense, but so what.
  • 10-25-2006, 08:20 AM
    Troy
    Why? I won't be able to hear it anyway.

    I've been to funerals with songs. It's usually inappropriate and ALWAYS too long.

    No songs for me.
  • 10-25-2006, 08:36 AM
    GMichael
    How about,

    Bad to the Bone
    We're Having a Party
    Burn Baby Burn
    Heaven & Hell
    I Know the Reaper
    All My Love
    Cremation
    Not Even The Trees
    One Sweet Day
    Calling All Stations
    (Don't Fear) The Reaper
    The Great Gig in the Sky
    Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden
    Heaven Can Wait
    Necrophobic
    Slipped Away


    I'm planning a big party for this day. Any of you who are still around are welcome to come.
  • 10-25-2006, 09:17 AM
    ForeverAutumn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GMichael
    I'm planning a big party for this day. Any of you who are still around are welcome to come.
    I hope that it'll be a closed casket. Bear maulings are gruesome. :(

    I don't plan on dying anytime soon, so I'm gonna hold off on choosing my song just in case it hasn't been written yet.

    If BarryL is still around when I die, I'll let him pick the music. He'll, no doubt, come up with something interesting.
  • 10-25-2006, 09:21 AM
    basite
    it is faaaaaarrr to early to think about that (logically, when you're only 16) but anyways

    maybe bill evans, or
    Marc Moulin - Memories of you


    an then some party where everyone is going to be invited...
  • 10-25-2006, 12:43 PM
    dean_martin
    i'm thinkin' a real down-home country theme:

    Ride Me Down Easy as performed by Billy Joe Shaver;
    You Can Kiss My Broke Ass Goodbye - an unfinished work by yours truly which should be ready by then;
    and the big send-off closer - a frenetic, genuine Appalachian version of I'll Fly Away performed live.
  • 10-25-2006, 01:16 PM
    GMichael
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
    I hope that it'll be a closed casket. Bear maulings are gruesome. :(

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    I'm subtracting points for this one.:shocked:
  • 10-25-2006, 06:54 PM
    unleasHell
    I've thought about this before and I don't want anyone to steal my pick (well unless I die first....)

    The Eternal (song number 8) off of Closer by Joy Division

    there is simply no better song for a full casket....
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    rest in peace....Ian
  • 10-25-2006, 08:25 PM
    Dusty Chalk
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Troy
    Why? I won't be able to hear it anyway.

    I've been to funerals with songs. It's usually inappropriate and ALWAYS too long.

    No songs for me.
    Yeah, Concierto is definitely way too long. That was part of the point. 16 minutes, slow, and there's some nice "wake up" moments.

    I don't really like my family. Either that, or I have a perverse sense of humour.

    That said, it is a very pretty piece, and to those 1 or 2 kids who will be wandering around bored, I'm hoping it will penetrate their skulls.

    And WRT "why?" -- it's just an hypothetical question. If you don't have an answer, well good on you.
  • 10-25-2006, 09:07 PM
    PeruvianSkies
    Well, for me I am going to have to go with FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND-elton john, although it would be cut shortly before it transitions into LOVE LIES BLEEDING. I would also want Mozart's REQUIEM, at least sections of course. I may also go for something like Bach's "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" BWV 639. Hmmm, what else....

    GOODBYE by Plankeye.