Funeral song

[nudemetalz]

Greetings,

After reading (and posting a little) in the "Scared of Dying" thread got me thinking.
Now I don't mean to be morbid as this doesn't have to be.

What is the song that you would like played at your funeral?
Mine is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. Very powerful and emotive song.

At my Dad's funeral, as we carried out his coffin down the Altar, we did it to "Riders Of The Storm" by the Doors. Boy, you want to hear that echoing all through the church. What a great send-off song !! It was like he cranked up the music himself.
Everytime I hear that song, it gives me a smile. That's what a send-off song should be about.

[Sniper]

No idea what I want. I want those closest to me to choose a couple to fit in with how they saw my life.

[MisterD]

It's got to be the Pogues' "Sick Bed of Cuchulainn"....

***Edit***

For those that don't know it: last.fm (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Pogues/_/The+Sick+Bed+of+Cuchulainn)

[2much]

Easy:

Brothers in arms - Dire Straits
and
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

[Fishy]

Highway to hell - ACDC....

[Paul in NZ]

Steve Earle - Pilgrim (off the blue grass album he did with Del McCourey Band)

I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys
This ain't never been my home
Sometimes the road was rocky ‘long the way, boys
But I was never travelin' alone

We'll meet again on some bright highway
Songs to sing and tales to tell
But I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys
Until I see you fare thee well

Ain't no need to cry for me, boys
Somewhere down the road you'll understand
‘Cause I expect to touch his hand, boys
Put a word in for you if I can

Or - The last track on the (fantastic) Warren Zevon album "Enjoy Every Sandwich" - Keep me in your heart, which is utterly enchanting..

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sometimes when you're doing simple things
around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile

You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on
your blouse
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
When the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you

Engine driver's headed north to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for awhile

These wheels keep turning but they're running out
of steam
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Keep me in your heart for awhile

[nudemetalz]

Wow, that's pretty deep, Paul.
I like.

[Oakie]

'Jerusalem' (old English hymn), just because I like it

As they carry me out 'Always look on the bright side of life' (from Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian'). Yes, I'm serious. I've already stipulated that to my daughters. It's my final message to friends and family.

[MD]

Maybe not what I'd want at mine but still a deep and very biker related-death song. For me maybe OMD Only tears- a real tear jerker if that's what you're looking for.
back to Tull. If you don't know it it's worth a listen.
Story line;
old Biker sad because "his mates are all doing time married with 3 kids up on the ring road..'' Many of us middleagers might relate to his feelings of not wanting to get old and settle down and wanting to keep riding like a hoon blah blah..
'he's the last of the bluebloods, a greaser boy with his Harley Davidson and triumph Bonneville.'Anyway he decides to end his life the way he loved it - on his bike 'so he takes out his bonnneville to do the ton one last time before he takes his leave' as he flys with tears in his eyes he hits the trunk road doing 120 (mph) Sounds like he just rides full tit into his favourite corner. Anyway it's a good song irrespective of the message and a bloody good song if you pay attention to the biker message.

[The_Dover]

Poison - Nothin' but a good time.

[Ixion]

'Jerusalem' (old English hymn), just because I like it

As they carry me out 'Always look on the bright side of life' (from Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian'). Yes, I'm serious. I've already stipulated that to my daughters. It's my final message to friends and family.
Ah, I like that one. I think I'll stipulate that one too. Might as well go out taking the piss. Add it to what I've already stipulated - Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. I've already told 'em what I want on my tombstonbe = "Well, bugger me. Who'd have thought it"

[Hitcher]

Always look on the bright side of life.

Or Crazy Frog...

[MSTRS]

Since the grief at my passing will be of stupendous proportions, to properly reflect the sombre & mournful mood (or indeed to create that mood) - The Ballad of Hollis Brown by Nazareth
:killingme

[Paul in NZ]

Wow, that's pretty deep, Paul.
I like.

The Warren Zevon one is a gut wrencher when you know he knew he was beyond help.

This article by Samantha Bennet is VERY interesting and explains the title of the album..

A singer's poignant curtain call

Thursday, November 07, 2002

The announcement was made while I was on vacation, and somehow I missed it. So I was mystified by the reverential tone of the promos for Warren Zevon's appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" last week.

Zevon is dying of lung cancer, which has spread to his liver. It's too far along to be operable. He was diagnosed in August and made the official announcement Sept. 12.

Warren Zevon, for those unfamiliar with his work, is a brilliant singer-songwriter who first came to prominence in the '70s, has released nearly a dozen albums and counts among his friends and admirers such high rollers as Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Letterman and author and columnist Carl Hiaasen. He's one of those artists who is highly respected by his peers but not a regular on any Top-40 radio playlists. He is best known for the hit (heard mostly around Halloween) "Werewolves of London" and the offbeat classics "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."

"I might have made a tactical error," he told Letterman dryly the night before Halloween, "in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off."

Since being diagnosed, Zevon has been making the most of the time he has -- probably measurable in weeks. He has been spending time with his two grown children and writing and recording as many songs as possible. It's a poignant burst of creativity and living up against the ultimate deadline.

He is only 55 years old.

I'm not qualified to write an appreciation of Warren Zevon. I'm neither a professional music critic nor even a big fan. I have only one of his albums, "Excitable Boy," though it's one I listen to often. He has played many times at Rosebud, and when I saw that he was coming here, I always had the impulse to go see him. I regret now that I didn't take the chance when I had it.

And that's really what I'm more interested in here. Not the gifted, rather twisted songwriter and performer the world is about to lose, but the unusual circumstances of a man who knows he is about to die and tells the world.

Anyone who knows his music at all knows he was always winking at death. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" is the name of one of his releases, and his latest album of new material, released before he was diagnosed, is eerily titled "My Ride's Here." He wrote songs about killers, vengeful ghosts and violence. (He also wrote beautiful love songs.) And now, Death is coming for him, and he is getting ready with his characteristic sense of irony.

What would you do if a doctor told you you had three months to live? (After you got a second opinion, naturally.) We're all going to die, and that's hardly a news flash. But we skate through our lives under the comforting assumption that we've got plenty of time. "I could walk out of here right now and be hit by a bus," people say, by way of illustrating the capricious suddenness of death, but no one who says that really believes that's going to happen, certainly not today.

What would it feel like to walk through fallen leaves, knowing that you'll never see new ones grow again?

Zevon, who battled with alcohol in his younger days and saw two marriages end, decided two things were important enough to do in his last weeks: be with his children and add to his musical legacy. He wasn't particularly prolific through his career, but now he is furiously writing and recording songs, as if to finish a long life's worth in his short time.

Letterman asked Zevon how his life has changed since his diagnosis. Like any condemned man, the singer is enjoying his last meals. He has learned how much you have to "enjoy every sandwich."

That seems like a good lesson, because everyone's sandwiches are numbered.




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Samantha Bennett can be reached at sbennett@post-gazette.com

[Matt Bleck]

Tighter & Tighter - Soundgarden

[Karma]

We had 'Queen - The Show Must Go On' at my old mans funeral... would like something like that at mine...

Although something kinda funny... like maybe 'REM - It's the end of the world as we know it' would be pretty sweet..

[Badcat]

goodnight LA = counting crows
sometimes you can't make it on your own = U2
walk like a man - bruce springsteen

[Korumba]

"With or without you" U2

[kels]

It was going to be Gary Glitters "Hello Hello"....but ever since I found out he is a Pediphile he can go to hell!

Now I think I will go with "Get Here" by Tracey Ackerman. Very bouncy beat and hopefully will make ppl smile and dance :spudbooge

[Buster]

Metallica... Fade to black. When people are entering the church. (bloody loud!) :cry:
Then my family can choose what they think is fitting when Im carried out. :violin:

[Goblin]

Hymn to Her by The Pretenders:yes:

Oh and Dire Straights, News.

[sunhuntin]

art garfunkel.....bright eyes. and anything shawn mullins. or keith urban, days go by.

[2much]

Tighter & Tighter - Soundgarden

What album was that on?

[hXc]

The Show Must Go On - Pink Floyd
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Imagine - A Perfect Circle
We Will Rock You - Queen
Nothing Else Matters or Fade To Black - Metallica

[Paul in NZ]

if you want people to cry at your funeral. Play Eva Cassidy's version of "Over the Rainbow" (from her 'Songbird" album). It is possibly one of THE most raw emotion songs ever. Haunting (especially once you know Eva's tragic story)

Nobody seems to remember when Eva started singing "Over the Rainbow," but Chris Biondo says that "Eva had been doing that song for years. She had already recorded it once when she was in high school, I think it was Ned Judy who recorded it for her on his four-track. I remember we were driving to Ikea Furniture one day, she pulled out a cassette and she wanted me to hear 'Over the Rainbow.' And when we'd go places she would sing it in the car. A couple of times I had to pull over, I was crying so hard, it was brutal....

Shit.. I get all teary just writing this... It's a truely beautiful thing..

[The_Dover]

What album was that on?

Down on the Upside.

I may have them play P.I.M.P. by fiddy cent as well.

Just for all my bitches.

[hXc]

At my mates funeral last year they played:
We Will Rock You - Queen
I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss

Me and a guitarist mate of mine played:
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

[Big Dave]

Anything by ABBA - Cause I won't care.

[Colapop]

I know it's weird (for those that know me) but I'd like my theme song played

"Something like a phenomenom" - LL Cool J.

[Scorpygirl]

I want "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" by Simon and Garfunkel at my funeral.

[SPORK]

Got it in one. Fade to Black definately.

Or maybe Nothing Else Matters. Then "Don't Cry" by GNR. "I'm Sorry" by Evergrey would be good as well.

Then "I remember you" on the way out.

But when the coffin's being lowered... YAKETY SAX!

[skidMark]

eminem - when i'm gone .....err ill try think of some others...

ummm eminem like toy soliders

Actually!!!>>> ....The cult - Painted on my heart...

if that is not played i will haunt them....


brilliant song and one of the ones i crank on my iPod while i'm riding...

that and pantera fucking hostile but i don't think thats appropriete somehow

[sels1]

Albatross - (the original) Fleetwood Mac





As they carry me out 'Always look on the bright side of life' (from Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian')..

Excellent idea.

[TonyB]

Further On (up the road)- Bruce Springsteen
But with a few words changed

[nudemetalz]

Albatross - (the original) Fleetwood Mac






Excellent idea.

Yes, that is a beautiful tune alright.

[SPORK]

Actually fuck my previous songs, I want...

Cemetery Gates - Pantera

Listen to it and find out why.

[Paul in NZ]

Albatross - (the original) Fleetwood Mac


Actually.... Peter Green released an acoustic version a couple of years back thats pretty stunning...

[Paul in NZ]

Anything by ABBA - Cause I won't care.

Jeeze, you better hope you are right Dave.....

[Kendog]

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb and Metallica - Fade to Black. Just hope I'll be able to hear them one last time!
Mrs KD

[SPman]

Actually.... Peter Green released an acoustic version a couple of years back thats pretty stunning...
Is that from the "Live in Baden Baden" album..(98)?

[froggyfrenchman]

Jethro Tull- too old to rock and roll
Pink Floyd- wish you were here, shine on you crazy dimond
Iron Maiden- number of the beast

This is turning into a party....

[froggyfrenchman]

Albatross - (the original) Fleetwood Mac

Coolest of cool chill tracks.

Ive got it. Everyone at my funeral has to listen to "Alices resturant" and "The significance of the pickle" by good old Arlo Guthrie:headbang:

[Krusti]

Stairway to heaven.....

Had allways said to kids I wanted " I shot the sheriff ":blip:

[Paul in NZ]

Is that from the "Live in Baden Baden" album..(98)?

Nah, it was a bonus track on one of the last 2 'Splinter Group' albums.. Really nice...

[Karma]

if you want people to cry at your funeral. Play Eva Cassidy's version of "Over the Rainbow" (from her 'Songbird" album). It is possibly one of THE most raw emotion songs ever.

I like the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version as well...

[SlashWylde]

What is the song that you would like played at your funeral?


G n R "Dont Cry' followed by "All in the Waiting" a guitar instrumental by 'Buckethead'

[BuFfY]

I wrote a list when I was about 13 of what I wanted at mine.
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Adams Song - Blink 182

And a Backstreet Boys song... I was 13 ok!!

[Flatcap]

I would like to say

"Killed by Death" by Motorhead

But it would probably be some shite organ music as fenerals are for the living, not the deceased

[stify]

"always look on the bright side of life" and " i'm going home" from rocky horror

and somit from pink floyd if i could get that squeezed in for me

[Slingshot]

My wife has strict instructions to play "The Great Gig In The Sky" off Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

Listen to it now...



Go on...


Listen to it!!!



And....turn it up real loud!!!!

[nudemetalz]

Yup, The Great Gig In The Sky is a chilling number alright !!

[Marknz]

The live Spion Kop version of "You'll Never Walk Alone", and a lone piper playing "Amazing Grace"

[Back Fire]

See You on The Other Side - Ozzy Osbourne

Always liked that song....

[Maha]

At a funeral years ago, about the same time Freddie Mercury died, the husband of the deceased put 3 Queen songs together..... Who Wants To Live Forever... Show Must Go On.........cant remember the third but i know it wasnt.... Another Bites The Dust........... that would have been tooooooooo funny/cruel.....:gob:

[_Gina_]

Saddest Song Annie Lennox
Trouble Coldplay
Goodbye Blue Sky Pink Floyd
Cool #9 Joe Satch


Actually I had thought that I could compile a collection of music and that could be my funeral.....played loud

It's all about me you know....!!

[Ogri]

Elton John's Funeral for a Friend from the Yellow Brick Road album:niceone:

[nadroj]

Stairway to heaven, House of the rising sun & Dark side of the moon. Fuck hearing hymms.

[Scorpygirl]

Thinking about it a bit more:

Into the West - Annie Lennox from Lord of the Rings (Return of the King)
Sirius from Clannard
Anywhere Is from Enya

[Maha]

The Womble song...................:rockon:
Underground over ground
Wombling free
The Wombles of wimbleden commen are we.............:yes:

[NotaGoth]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here


For certain reasons I can't handle hearing that song without wanting to cry.

[SPman]

Broken - Tracy Chapman
When I Go - Dave Carter

or maybe...The Dead Stare - Enslaved.

[Scorpygirl]

The Womble song...................:rockon:
Underground over ground
Wombling free
The Wombles of wimbleden commen are we.............:yes:

Making good use of the things that we find
Things that the everyday folks leave behind!!! :doobey:

Madame Cholette
Uncle Bolgeria
Tobamora
Orinocco
etc.

[Maha]

Yes Yes Yes scorpy..................:yes:
But dont forget Wellington he was the cutest......................:first:
And im sure everyone would the words so there would be no issue's there, and its bouncey and light and when the funeral is over everyone could go outside and pick a piece of rubbish and bin it.............. and now im starting to sound like texmo or swantiger......................:whistle: :wacko:

[C_A]

In my time of dying - Led Zep (can't believe it hasnt been said yet)
Shine on...- floyd
great gig in the sky - floyd
that metallica song - was a tribuite to dead bassist cliff burton, (crushed by tour bus etc) mostly instrumental.

[Scorpygirl]

Yes Yes Yes scorpy..................:yes:
But dont forget Wellington he was the cutest......................:first:
And im sure everyone would the words so there would be no issue's there, and its bouncey and light and when the funeral is over everyone could go outside and pick a piece of rubbish and bin it.............. and now im starting to sound like texmo or swantiger......................:whistle: :wacko:

Of course ... how could I forget Wellington!! :slap: He was little and cute!

Great idea, an environmentally friendly funeral!!! :2thumbsup :grouphug: