3 songs for your funeral....

[Fab Foodie]

On Friday we say goodbye to dear friend @hopless 500, she's going out with a bang at the Crem' to the following 3 tunes she picked:

Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of love
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Metallica - Enter Sandman

So I thought about 3 for me (with a certain wryness)….

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Average White band - Pick up the pieces

What might you choose to say farewell?

 

[HMS_Dave]

Slayer - Hell Awaits
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

 

[cookiemonster]

1) Theme from 'The Great Escape.'
2) Massive Attack "Unfinished Sympathy.'
3) Depeche Mode 'Enjoy the Silence.'

 

[PeteXXX]

Arthur Brown ~ Fire
Doors ~ Riders on the storm
King Crimson ~ Epitaph



Farewell @hopless 500

 

[MontyVeda]

walking in... Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & Tijuanna brass ...it's silly and jaunty and demonstrates that i never took life very seriously
the one they've got to sit all the way through... Heaven Can Wait - Meat Loaf ...it's bloody awful and far too long and I'm slightly evil.
walking out... not sure yet.

...but I'd probably go for Gong's Love is How Y Make it for the one they have to sit through... otherwise people might miss the irony and think i actually liked Heaven Can Wait

 

[fossyant]

No TDF theme ? - that's what my mate's missus chose for him - he hadn't planned on kicking the bucket though.

 

[MichaelW2]

A 13minute Peter Frampton guitar solo.
jean michel oxygene
Leader of the Pack. Garry Glitter.
If I cant enjoy my own funeral I dont see why anyone else should.

 

[byegad]

Fanfare for the common man, Copeland
La Mer, in French, Charles Trenet
Galaxy Song, Monty Python
What a wonderful world, Louis Armstrong


Yes I know, you said 3 but I'll be dead so... Yah! Boo!

 

[yello]

John Cage ~ 4'33"

Three times over, or on a loop, as you prefer.

 

[Smokin Joe]

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[sight-pin]

Hotel California
Ennio Morricone: Chi Mai
The Sound Of Silence

 

[gavroche]

Does it matter? I won't be able to hear them anyway.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've said it before, but with credit to Malcolm Hardee for the idea, I would genuinely like a nude man with a lit Roman Candle sticking out of his bum, singing "There's no business like showbusiness".

I understand it's probably a no-no, so failing that I've always liked Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale as the maudlin piece, maybe the walking out. The other bits, nothing too downbeat, I've been to a few funerals recently and that first bit with everyone sobbing at a poignant piece is awful. I love @cookiemonster 's suggestion of Unfinished Sympathy, that strikes a nice chord.

 

[cookiemonster]

I've said it before, but with credit to Malcolm Hardee for the idea, I would genuinely like a nude man with a lit Roman Candle sticking out of his bum, singing "There's no business like showbusiness".

I understand it's probably a no-no, so failing that I've always liked Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale as the maudlin piece, maybe the walking out. The other bits, nothing too downbeat, I've been to a few funerals recently and that first bit with everyone sobbing at a poignant piece is awful. I love @cookiemonster 's suggestion of Unfinished Sympathy, that strikes a nice chord.

Now there's an idea.

 

[oldwheels]

Not mine but my wife specified a bit from Land of the Mountain and the Flood. The bit used as theme music for a series on BBC based on a real life lawyer in Oban.
Generally pretty dreary but this bit is upbeat. The minister had it all set up but when he pressed the button to start the machine had reset itself so we got the wrong music. He did admit to his mistake but he kept to the time he had allowed.
For myself I have not given it much thought. Far too young.