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funeral songs

Vic Sage Mar 21 2013 10:21 AM

You're making out your will, and you want to specify 3 songs to be played at your funeral. What are they and why?

themetfairy Mar 21 2013 10:23 AM Re: funeral songs

Screw the music - I call dibs on G-Fafif writing my eulogy!

Mets – Willets Point Mar 21 2013 10:32 AM Re: funeral songs

I've already asked my wife to have people sing "The Parting Glass" at my funeral because it's obviously a song of farewell, and it makes me cry, but it also positive and uplifting.

Vic Sage Mar 21 2013 02:49 PM Re: funeral songs

Always look on the bright side of life - Eric Idle Hallelujah - L.Cohen Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf

cooby Mar 21 2013 03:00 PM Re: funeral songs

Only one -- Fairy Rounde by the incomparable Mrs. Edgy. It is so beautiful and I have the CD on my dressing table with a note taped to it just in case I meet my unexpected demise. Edge--when is she putting out a new recording? I am her biggest fan!

TheOldMole Mar 21 2013 03:05 PM Re: funeral songs

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Fman99 Mar 21 2013 04:09 PM Re: funeral songs

"Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"

TransMonk Mar 21 2013 04:19 PM Re: funeral songs Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 21 2013 04:45 PM

It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll) - AC/DC I've spent a lot of my life taking the long way while wanting to rock and roll. Plus, there's a bagpipes solo. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley's version of Cohen's song - I'm not sure that a more beautiful song has ever been written and Buckley's version breaks my heart every time. We've Been Had - The Walkman - A song about being content with growing up and being OK with having grown older. It's where I'm at now that I've stopped taking the long way. [youtube]b9iOk8PqkKs[/youtube] [youtube]vIw0ewEsNHs[/youtube] [youtube]eoBGqLt96Pg[/youtube]

RealityChuck Mar 21 2013 04:26 PM Re: funeral songs

"Yes, We Have No Bananas." "Rhapsody in Blue." "Nature's Way": [youtube:241ek7rp]m7Acx6D_KA4[/youtube:241ek7rp]

Swan Swan H Mar 21 2013 06:01 PM Re: funeral songs

"When I Go" by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. I will have been gone, of course, but whatever. The song concludes with the lines: Do not worry for my comfort, do not sorrow for me so All your diamond tears will rise up and adorn the sky beside me when I go. "All The Time" by We're About 9. If I go in the next five years or so I expect them to show up and play it. The narrator is talking to his recently departed wife, and discussing their wedding picture, he says: Now I have my hobbies, and I have my games Today I changed the picture in our old oak frame To a painting I made of a photo inside That your father once took of me and my bride. It's you in your white gown, it's me in my bow tie, You with your blushing cheeks, me with my happy eyes. It's you with your parasol, it's me with my hat. Now we'll go down in history looking like that, All the time, all the time. "The One Who Knows" by Dar Williams. For my kids. I don't even need to hear this song - I choke up just thinking about it. Before the mountains call to you Before you leave this home I want to teach your heart to trust As I will teach my own But sometimes I will ask the moon Where it shined upon you last And shake my head and laugh and say It all went by so fast [youtube]RF62YUxZgRc[/youtube]

batmagadanleadoff Mar 21 2013 07:35 PM Re: funeral songs

This thread is morbid and depressing the crap out of me. I'm boycotting the rest of it.

MFS62 Mar 21 2013 07:47 PM Re: funeral songs

Long and Winding Road Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 21 2013 08:32 PM Re: funeral songs

This'll sound a little self-indulgent, but, well... it REALLY depends on the circumstances. The gist: the younger/more untimely I go, the more I'll want something a little consoling, cathartic, or redemptive; the older/happier I go, the more I'm going to want to explore the studio space a bit. THE FORMER (for now): PROCESSIONAL: "Many Rivers To Cross," Jimmy Cliff (FUCKING JOHN CUSACK FUCKING MOVIE STOLE MY SHIT, AND I'M STEALING IT THE FUCK BACK) RECESSIONAL: "We'll Meet Again," Johnny Cash THE LATTER: PROCESSIONAL: "Bombs Over Baghdad," Outkast on a church organ, with pyrotechnics as appropriate INTERSTITIAL MEDLEY: "Simon and Simon Theme"/"Airwolf Theme"/"Fat Albert and the Gang Theme"/"Ghost Rider Motorcycle Hero," Suicide/"Tijuana Taxi," Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass "Total Eclipse of The Heart," Bonnie Tyler (with live recreation of video, possibly involving my corpse as Bonnie Tyler) RECESSIONAL: "We'll Meet Again," Johnny Cash/"Burning Hell," John Lee Hooker/"No Fun," The Stooges

metirish Mar 22 2013 08:55 AM Re: funeral songs

I have thought long and hard about this.....who the fuck wants to hear three depressing songs at my funeral? So I have decided to piss them of instead Gangnam Style Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca" Los Del Rio, "Macarena"

Swan Swan H Mar 22 2013 09:22 AM Re: funeral songs

metirish wrote: I have thought long and hard about this.....who the fuck wants to hear three depressing songs at my funeral? So I have decided to piss them of instead Gangnam Style Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca" Los Del Rio, "Macarena" Maybe if the wake is on a Friday you could throw some Rebecca Black in as well.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 22 2013 09:32 AM Re: funeral songs

I have decided to have an all-request funeral. Carol Miller will DJ.

metirish Mar 22 2013 09:37 AM Re: funeral songs

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I have decided to have an all-request funeral. Carol Miller will DJ. funny, wanted to talk about her....I catch her now and then on Sirius.........damn, she has been playing the same songs since I came to the country....and still sounds like she cares, don't know how she does it.

Mets – Willets Point Mar 22 2013 09:43 AM Re: funeral songs

metirish wrote: I have thought long and hard about this.....who the fuck wants to hear three depressing songs at my funeral? So I have decided to piss them of instead Gangnam Style Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca" Los Del Rio, "Macarena" If you really want to piss them off, insist that it was your will to have them do the dances as well.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 22 2013 10:04 AM Re: funeral songs

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I have decided to have an all-request funeral. Carol Miller will DJ. funny, wanted to talk about her....I catch her now and then on Sirius.........damn, she has been playing the same songs since I came to the country....and still sounds like she cares, don't know how she does it. She does it all for me. Actually I notice she does a certain amount of mailing-it-in, although pleasantly enough. For a few weeks at a time her between-songs remarks about a particular band will be exactly the same. Right now she follows every Eagles song by talking about how good Don Henley's concert was in Atlantic City recently and that the band is doing the 40th reunion on their 41st anniversary. Set your watch by it.

Vic Sage Mar 22 2013 10:22 AM Re: funeral songs

i have a post about how much i loved Carol Miller somewhere on this board.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 22 2013 10:26 AM Re: funeral songs

Book thread.

metirish Mar 22 2013 10:27 AM Re: funeral songs

When I am flipping channels in the car I'll stop at Classic Rewind when I hear her voice.....it's magic.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 22 2013 11:20 AM Re: funeral songs

metirish wrote: I have thought long and hard about this.....who the fuck wants to hear three depressing songs at my funeral? So I have decided to piss them of instead Gangnam Style Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca" Los Del Rio, "Macarena" FUNERALGOER: "At least he's not in pain anymore." [Flips bird at casket]

G-Fafif Mar 22 2013 11:29 AM Re: funeral songs

I'd wish for three more wishes.

Frayed Knot Mar 22 2013 11:30 AM Re: funeral songs

Vic Sage wrote: i have a post about how much i loved Carol Miller somewhere on this board. And somewhere probably in the same thread is my post about how much I didn't like her. But, y'know, different strokes, etc. At my funeral I'd like to hear 'Streets of Laredo' [any one of several versions] and to make it really appropriate I've arranged it so that I'll die in a western gunfight.

Kong76 Mar 22 2013 11:57 AM Re: funeral songs

Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven... Won't you let me in? I never did no harm. I never did no wrong [youtube:368n404z]oaPb6F0enjk[/youtube:368n404z]

Kong76 Mar 22 2013 12:00 PM Re: funeral songs

Bastids cut the end out of the clip!

The Second Spitter Mar 26 2013 04:49 AM Re: funeral songs

"The God that Failed" -- Metallica "Badlands" - BS&ESB.