Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
Related to the Desert Island Disks thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brune...19585?thread=7072859&skip=0&show=20
A bit morbid, maybe...but I was talking to some friends a wee whilke ago about what songs we'd like played at our funerals.
The format is along the basic New Orleans model:
A sad one to start with,
2 Sermony ones during the ceremony itself,
Leave on a happy note.
Mine:
- 'Death Letter Blues' by Eddie 'Son' House
- 'Vanlose Stairway' by Van Morrison
- 'Chase The Devil' by Max Romeo
- 'Dry The Rain' by The Beta Band ( If there's something inside that you wanna say/ Say it out loud it will be OK/ It will be allright/ It will be allright )
Points will be deducted for 'My Way' or 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Mu Beta using less than 30 cha
Excellent. How morbid.
Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
Dos Gardenias - Buena Vista Social Club
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
Human - The Killers
...and, as a finale...
Fiesta - The Pogues
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
Naughty! You've got one too many there.
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Mu Beta using less than 30 cha
Alright, I'd take out The Killers if pressed.
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Cheerful Dragon
I'm not planning to have any music at my funeral, or hubby's for that matter. Hubby has always loved the sound of the church bells, so I'll ask the vicar if the bells can be rung after the funeral service. I know they're more associated with celebrations, but I'd rather celebrate a life than mourn a death.
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
Well in my case...local authority crematoriums seldom have bells. 
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Mu Beta using less than 30 cha
True. Being married to a bellringer, I'd be quite happy NOT to have any at my funeral.
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by pedro - tilting at windmills
Let It Loose
Hallelujah
Family Affair
Jumpin Jack Flash
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Br. magwitch - addef addysgwr currently playing Left 4 Dead 2.
I was at a funeral on Wednesday.
The 81-year-old dad of a very dear friend.
The exit music was 'Simply The Best' (I cried  ) - he was! 
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by ~ jwf ~
Tina Turner - "What's Love Got to Do Wit iT"
Arthur Brown - "Fire"
Jimi Hendrix - "Machine Gun"
Jimi Hendrix - "Star Spangled Banner"
~jwf~
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by RadoxTheGreen - (On Opera 10 TURBO!) not caring what BBC message board this is as long as h2g2 remains AWESOME!!
I only want one song played at mine, while the coffin goes through the curtain for the final time...
'I'm Back!' the WWE theme tune of Eric Bischoff 
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Christopher
Just one for me - Spaniard by the Boo Radleys.
"I've given you all that I have, but if that's not enough I'm sorry."
Cracking walking-into-the-sunset trumpet solo at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxIbfye31Q
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Rudest Elf
Call the Doctor - J J Cale
It's too Late - Gloria Estefan
Can't you Hear me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
 
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
Which version of Hallelujah, pedro? It needs clarified, 'cause for the next six weeks we're only going to hear one.
To my mund, the Buckley and the Wainwright have their merits...but it's got to be a toss-up between:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttv5dyvtF4o
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzu4LE667VM
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by pedro - tilting at windmills
It'd have to be Buckley, Ed. List with artists..
Let It Loose - Stones
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
Jumpin Jack Flash - Stones
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by ~ jwf ~
<aside>
Sorry but I just have to say something about the way the UK has
got it into their heads that Leonard Cohen's Hal-A-Yule-Ya is an
Xmas carol. 
Keee-ripes Kate! What nonsense!
It is a drug sodden parody of antique Jewish fetishism and modern
hyper-sensuality. It employs an understanding of the psycho-physical
expression of the pain/pleasure cycle in the cry of Hal-A-You-Yuh from
ancient prayer rituals to modern heroin injections, sado-masochistic
sexual practices and restrained ejaculations.
Get a grip you lot. Some guy tied to a chair with a strap wrapped round
his arm to restrict blood flow, there-by swelling and exposing a vein for
intravenous drug injections while some hardcase sex worker tries to
arouse him to ejaculation is not my idea of Christmas.
Listen to the damn lyrics.
It's a junky's lament not a Christian rapture.
Though I admire the poet's capacity to see similarities between King David's
epiphany, a sex worker's climax and a drug addict's rush, and, I acknowledge
the primal response of the crying out as a universal expression of the unresolved
conflict of pain and ecstacy, I don't want anyone thinking it has anything to do with
sweet baby HayZeus a-sleeping in the manger.
</aside>
~jwf~
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Christopher
Just watched the Watchmen film, where Nite Owl and Miss Jupiter get it on to the sound of Cohen's Hallelujah. Very nice.
Here's Nick Cave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekjFdggo1LM
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
Squiggles...like...Duh! WE KNOW!!!
But Simon Cowall doesn't. He doesn't care for music, does he? And thus for the next six weeks we must be subjected to a not-entirely-incompetent-merely-inappropriate karaoke Cohen cover.
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Posted 2 Weeks Ago by Mrs Zen - has had enough
Well, the note on the desktop of my PC which lists readings and various other bits and pieces relating to my funeral also lists Spem Alium by Thomas Tallis and the Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams in the section entitled 'music'. They're a bit long, but that's not going to be my problem, is it?
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