Music for a Funeral

[CharlesF]

Having recently had an epiphany that all religion is bunk, and watched The Big Chill again, I wondered what music I could have at my funeral

First up would be You Cant Always Get What You Want by the Stones and inspired by the Big Chill

Also:

I’m Free – The Who

I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred – Moody Blues

Get Off My Cloud – The Stones

Break On Through (To The Other Side) – The Doors

 

[smokeysmoo]

Living in a Box

Going Underground

Spirit in the Sky

Disco Inferno

Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye

Another One Bites the Dust

and for the Mother in Law, Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead

 

[graham56]

I want this. [media]
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[Norm]

A friend who died of cystic fibrosis a few years ago had chosen her own music.

The first track was "The drugs don't work" by The Verve, which now has an added poignancy which I hadn't picked up previously.

When she went through the curtains, though, very few could stop themselves giggling as the unmistakable first notes of The Prodigy's "Firestarter" played across the crematorium.

 

[smokeysmoo]

A friend who died of cystic fibrosis a few years ago had chosen her own music.

The first track was "The drugs don't work" by The Verve, which now has an added poignancy which I hadn't picked up previously.

When she went through the curtains, though, very few could stop themselves giggling as the unmistakable first notes of The Prodigy's "Firestarter" played across the crematorium.

Now that's what I'm talking about

 

[Strick]

Ive had many thoughts on my own funeral music, which change as my taste does over the years.
Not sure what my current choice would be if im honest.
I had a hand in picking music for my Mums funeral, and I made the choice for my Dads funeral last year - several people commented on the day that I had made good choices, and that they felt it made the send off that little more special.

 

[ColinJ]

When she went through the curtains, though, very few could stop themselves giggling as the unmistakable first notes of The Prodigy's "Firestarter" played across the crematorium.

In my dad's case it was Frank Sinatra's My Way. The conveyor belt started up, the coffin trundled and with perfect timing - "... the end is near, it's time to face the final curtain."

Out of the two, I'd go for Firestarter!

 

[Fnaar]

Going Underground... the Jam ??

 

[ufkacbln]

One funeral I went to had Mike Oldfield's "Five Miles Out"

My younger Brother's funeral had Kirsty McColl's "Days"

 

[PaulB]

I'm going with Otis Redding, that's Otis Redding NOT The Temptations, singing A Change is Gonna Come. And they'll leave to Joy Division Oven Gloves by Britain's best ever band.

 

[ufkacbln]

"Summer is Icumen in"

 

[cyberknight]

November rain - guns n roses

or..

Dream within a dream- propaganda

(Edgar allan Poe )


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR792v5h66o&feature=watch_response_rev


Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

 

[Mark W]

Being a bit of a muso, I want Charles Earland's Hammond organ version of 'More Today Than Yesterday'. Simply one of my favourite tunes and always makes me feel upbeat and happy....and its about thirteen minutes long, so give everyone plenty of time to shuffle out before it stops!

Mind you the missus would probably play some bloody Take That just to piss me off!

 

[Globalti]

The full Mozart Requiem for me with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, tearing of clothes, beating of breasts and general mayhem.

Oh and I want to be buried with my ice axe.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Going up...

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Going down...

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