Funeral Music

[primushead]

I'm kind of ripping off Link's idea, but what music would you want played at your funeral?  Not to be bleak or anything, but it is kind of an interesting question.

Radiohead's "No Surprises" would be one of my picks.  Anyone else?

[marktwain]

When I was a melodramatic kid, and I thought I'd die of a broken heart, I wanted 'Tomorrow is a Long Time' by Dylan.

Now I'd like Corey Harris' version of 'Just a Closer Walk with Thee'

[Alligator Gar]

When I die I won't know what happens after. :-/

[Specialist]

Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues

"You may bury my body down by the highway side so my ole' evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride."

[TheLink]

you must have a reason why though.  otherwise, it is pointless.   ;)

[dragonboy]

I posted this elsewhere, apologies for the repeat:

Bury Me In Smoke by Down.
7mins of Pepper Keenan's (COC) heaviest & best swamp-riffs.
Perfect for any Stoner Rock fan or Reefer Head about to be cremated!

[TheLink]

dragon, please email me so we can disucss this.  i feel you are joking, but you may be an interesting candidate for interview.  do you mind?  you too primushead.  and mr conway, you are definitely invited.  jacket fans are welcome.  this is really something i am doing, so if you want to talk about songs you want at your funeral and why and whatever the fuck else, on camera, email me.  peace.

jbriggsmmj12@yahoo.com ;)

[dragonboy]

Email sent Link - happy to help if I can!  :)

[tomEisenbraun]

i always thought "feelin yourself disintegrate" byt he flaming lips would be excellent, but its just a bit too hopeless, despite being such an amazingly beautiful song.

I don't know, maybe "Naked As We Came" by Iron and Wine. Such a beautiful hopeful song about living and loving and dying still in love to the one person who you spend the rest of your life with. I have good ideas of who that lady may one day be.

 ;D

love is so beautiful

[darkglow]

listen to the song by m83 called "in church"

[EC]

love is so beautiful

:)

Wellll, I was at a memorial tonight.  A lot of music was played along with a big slide show.  It was very intense, and also very beautiful, and also tremendously sad.  It was not a person I knew very well, but it was a friend of a person I do know very well.  Anyhow, what am I trying to say?  There were sad songs that made you weepy, and then there were rockin' songs that made you rock a bit in your chair.  There was almost constant music.  I liked that a lot.

I think I'll have to make a setlist for my funeral. ;)

[ratsprayer]

im a pure ass at heart, and i thought id leave people with more questions than answers about me as a person when i go, so i choose

'people ain't no good'  by nick cave

 :)

[whothrewthecake]

if not for you - george harrison (perhaps a selfish choice?) :)
knockin' on heaven's door - dylan

[darkglow]

i still cannot listen to "you've got a friend" by james taylor without thinking of my oldest brother's funeral.. that was really a touchy moment for me when they played that song

[ratsprayer]

yeah, my uncles funeral a few years ago, my dad was in charge of music and is a huge huge skynyrd fan, so he chose a live version of 'free bird' so that song has lost all cheapness value that most peope associate with it.  i can barely listen to it at all now without getting choked up.   :'(

[EC]

Oh mylanta.  See, that's part of it - I wouldn't necessarily want to have people associate my favourite music with sadness...  Music is so memory-inducing.  It's like an instant trigger.  You gotta be careful.

Maybe I would pick the worst music ever.  The cheesiest, stupidest crap.  Then people would laugh, and then if they ever heard it it might make them laugh again.

Okay.  That is ENOUGH thinking about death tonight for me.

[SMc55]

My cousin died about a year ago and her husband had 'Norwegian Wood' played as we entered the church. "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me?" It was lovely and so personal. I miss her.

[Chills]

My cousin died about a year ago and her husband had 'Norwegian Wood' played as we entered the church. "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me?" It was lovely and so personal. I miss her.

That's really sad. I don't know what else to write.

[TheLink]

hey all.  good stuff.  hope you're not all too depressed now.  the point is, we all love music to a point and we should leave something on our way out.  it is always sad to lose someone you love, even if not to death.  i still miss my 1st girlfriend very much and some music i hear makes me think of her and get sad.  but, that is not the point.  if each song could tell a lil story about you, how would you want it to go down?  yea, it is rough to think about dying, but it is goin to happen anyways, so may as well pick some tunes for your funeral and explain why.  if anyone wants to help me, please feel free to email me.
thanks. 8)
jbriggsmmj12@yahoo.com

[corey]

Some friends of mine have a band and they play "where the soul of man never dies", which my wife wants to use at her funeral. They play it with a little more punk influence and she really digs their version.
My grandmother had it at her funeral, but it was a more traditional bluegrass version by another group. She had lots of that kind of stuff playing at hers, which was kind of neat. I hate to say neat since it was at my grandmother's funeral, but you know what I mean. I'm not a religious person at all, but I can really dig those old bluegrass spirituals sometimes. The harmonies are amazing.