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?
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'
When I die I won't know what happens after. :-/
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."
you must have a reason why though. otherwise, it is pointless. ;)
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!
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 ;)
Email sent Link - happy to help if I can! :)
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
listen to the song by m83 called "in church"
Quotelove 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. ;)
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
:)
if not for you - george harrison (perhaps a selfish choice?) :)
knockin' on heaven's door - dylan
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
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. :'(
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.
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.
QuoteMy 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.
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
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.
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That's really sad. I don't know what else to write.
Oh Chills, didn't mean to make you sad. We had a big family party at the weekend. Her parents almost didn't go but I'm glad they did. We all thought about her and said "Gill would have loved this" without crying. It was a step forward :)
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Oh Chills, didn't mean to make you sad. We had a big family party at the weekend. Her parents almost didn't go but I'm glad they did. We all thought about her and said "Gill would have loved this" without crying. It was a step forward :)
Yeah, that's a cool thing :)
now I have to listen to Robert Johnson.
Quotenow I have to listen to Robert Johnson.
Good call, I think I may do the same.
P.S. If Satan is somehow roaming this board, I will be more than happy to sell my soul if I could play like Mr. Johnson ;)
i think maybe Gideon, from what I've heard of it, might be appropriate. Or Steam Engine. Or One In The Same, because the way it ends is perfect for a funeral. It ends on that last chord which is just a step away from resolution, and i think that's cool, because the resolution is implied, with going Home, i guess. I don;t know. Plus, it forces you to imagine that last chord, and it's major, and happy, even though the song is slow and sad sounding-ish, it ends with you imaging that last happy chord. And that's where I'll be, strummin happy chords for eternity praising the One who made me.
I most definitely want my funeral to be happy.
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Good call, I think I may do the same.
P.S. If Satan is somehow roaming this board, I will be more than happy to sell my soul if I could play like Mr. Johnson :)
have any of you guys seen The Search For Robert Johnson? if not, you should go out of your way to see it. That and the movie Crossroads (1986). Even though it's not about Robert directly, it is still a fine film.
next year i am making my way down to Mississippi to visit Robert's grave, well, at least the supposed grave(s) and will be visiting the famous crossroads, though i won't be making any deals.
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Oh wow, what an incredible idea. I'd love to see his grave/crossroads.
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That and the movie Crossroads (1986). Even though it's not about Robert directly, it is still a fine film.
next year i am making my way down to Mississippi to visit Robert's grave, well, at least the supposed grave(s) and will be visiting the famous crossroads, though i won't be making any deals.
That's the one with the Karate Kid & Steve Vai, right? I remember seeing that & liking it at the time.
I went to visit Jim Morrison's grave when I was in Paris. That was interesting.
I wanted to visit Nick Drake's grave after reading his biography by Patrick Humphries.
It's a very small grave that's quite hard to find in a small rural church somewhere in England.
I forget where...
It seemed to add to the Nick Drake myth perfectly.
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That's the one with the Karate Kid & Steve Vai, right? I remember seeing that & liking it at the time.
I went to visit Jim Morrison's grave when I was in Paris. That was interesting.
I wanted to visit Nick Drake's grave after reading his biography by Patrick Humphries.
It's a very small grave that's quite hard to find in a small rural church somewhere in England.
I forget where...
It seemed to add to the Nick Drake myth perfectly.
yeh, that's the movie, it's cheesy at times but hotdamn, it reeks of the blues.
i've seen pictures of Nick Drake's grave and it is wicked small. as for Jim Morrison's grave, my aunt lived in Paris for some time and took loads of pictures of his grave, it is pretty crazy site. I can't believe what has become of it. I heard there is a security guard there 24/7.
No shit?!! Not when I went but that was something like 6 or 7 years ago so maybe they do now.
There were a lot of people there, that's for sure.
Knocking on Heaven's Door- Dylan
Death is not the End (Live) - The Waterboys
I'll be there when you die-MMJ
Spirit- The Waterboys
I know it's over - The Smiths
There's a light that never goes out- The Smiths
A Pagan Place- The Waterboys
Ava Maria- A Mass Choir
In the Celtic tradition, the wake should be festive.
Actually not feeling overly morbid.
Realizing its a part of life.
I'm still in doubt wether I want to have 'I will be there when you die' played at my funeral. I mean, it's more or less my favorite song of all times, but the subject makes it a bit... too obvious. And I don't like that.
One song that I definitely want at my funeral, however, is 'Wherever I lay my head' by Tom Waits. It's the most bittersweet song I ever heard and it makes me so happy and sad at the same time..
'I don't need anyone
Because I learend to be alone
Wherever I lay my head
I call my home'
I'm pretty sure I want More Than Words by Extreme at my funeral.
With a slideshow/video of me in my various tapdance/synchronized swimming/jazz dance club costumes.
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That's so funny!
I was thinking of starting a worst songs of all time thread with more than words in mind! ;D
Wait, you were kidding right?
Not about the video (sounds great!) but about the song, right? :-/
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Not about the video (sounds great!) but about the song, right? :-/
Actually, well, yes and no. I would like that to happen, but only as a big joke that everyone would laugh at. Maybe it would cut the extreme misery that the five hundred thousand attendees will be experiencing. ;)
(Okay. I'm volunteering this information, which automatically means nobody can bug me about it. I loved that song. When it came out, I played it so much on my tape that it broke. It's all because of a boy, of course. I think we made out to it in my car when I drove him home one night, and then he wouldn't talk to me anymore, and that song was all I had left. hahaha. Sad, but true.)
That's nothing - I saw their first UK show at the Astoria in London :-[
QuoteThat's nothing - I saw their first UK show at the Astoria in London :-[
YES!!!! Holy shit, really?! :D hahaha. How was it?
Young, stupid & therefore didn't know any better?!!
Pornograffitti had just been released, I was a 16 year old heavy-metal kid & Nuno Bettencourt was the next-best-thing with the six string.
Not something I'm proud of!
Can't believe I'm sat here listening to Leonard Cohen talking about Extreme ;)
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Ahhhh. See how we've grown... ;)