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What will your friends hear when you're gone?

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astrojax69

02:37 / 20.06.05

reading the songs that make you cry thread made me think of the songs i want played at my funeral /wake:

stevie ray vaughan's 'lenny' & 'life without you'
nina simone's 'i feel good' (from verve remixed)
&
bob marley's live version of 'no woman, no cry'

[not necessarily in that order] these are probably at the service.

i also want them to play the cult's 'edie (ciao baby)' and then lots of fun ska stuff, swing blues and funk at the wake later and boogie. dance people, i'm dead!

werwolf

06:59 / 20.06.05

fascinating to have found this thread. because that very question is going around in my mind for a very long time now. and i still haven't found an answer to it.

since i enjoy so many different styles of music and also because i want my funeral to be a huge party that lasts for several days, i'm currently thinking that the best idea would be to have different people mix something out of my cd-collection. anything goes.

even naming artists/bands that MUST be played gives me a hard time. there's just too much that i really enjoy and like and that has left an impression on me.

a tough and highly interesting question.

Rollo Kim, on location

07:10 / 20.06.05

Ace thread.

Did anyone ever have one of those cards that you were supposed to keep about your person that read something like 'in the event of: my death / coma please play the following songs...'

I always thought I'd want "The Order of Death" by PiL. The only lyrics to the song are "This is what you want, this is what you get."

Or maybe I'd have something by Kate Bush, to get everyone sobbing like a baby. Or maybe something from the Gurdjieff Harmonium CD's, again, music that is 'designed' to move you, but also has the potential to make you feel like crap... 'oh god what have I done with my life...'

uncle retrospective

07:11 / 20.06.05

Johnny Cash's version of I see a Darkness.
If I'm dead I want people in tears.

GogMickGog

07:33 / 20.06.05

I've always found the idea of my assembled beloved forcing back tears to "sexual healing" oddly entertaining.

And I want Ooompaloompas.
Lots of them.

Benny the Ball

08:03 / 20.06.05

The Temptations 'I Wish it Would Rain'

I used to joke that I wanted Tubular Bells played in it's enitrity, and I wanted miget pullbearers, and a laser show. But just the Temptations will do.

rizla mission

08:24 / 20.06.05

After a long discussion on this subject, some friends and I decided that there's only one song that'll fit the bill;

"Loveshack" by the B52s.

lord nuneaton savage

10:15 / 20.06.05

"Angels" by supercharged spunk-plumber Robbie Williams.

Only because I WON'T HAVE TO FUCKING HEAR IT 'COS I'LL BE DEAD. HA!

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

12:28 / 21.06.05

Note to self, miss Nuneaton's funeral.

Wait 'Till I'm Dead by the Dogs D'Amour for no other reason than I made an agreement with some friends of mine about this in the late 80's. Though it would seem appropriate.

Wait 'till I'm dead and you will see just what all the shouting was about.

paranoidwriter waves hello

12:48 / 21.06.05

I want a "Day of the Dead"/"Voodoo" type of affair with everyone going ballistic, stamping their feet, screaming at the top of their lungs, slaughtering rubber chickens, and trancing out to 'Sinnerman' by Nina Simone.

paranoidwriter waves hello

12:54 / 21.06.05

I want the Gods to know I'm on the way...

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

13:15 / 21.06.05

Valhalla I am coming?

Shrug

13:31 / 21.06.05

I've always said (half jokingly) that NIN Closer was definite funeral music.
But in lieu of this I would like people to scatter my ashes into the ocean ,on a oppressively warm day mind you, to tune of Dirty Trip by Air. Someone pounding the earth and miserably wailing "why WHY WHY" over and over again if possible.
(%sandwiches and tea in the parish hall after%)

paranoidwriter waves hello

13:39 / 21.06.05

Valhalla I am coming?

More like Prometheus Rising (I hope).

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

14:09 / 21.06.05

Having given the matter some consideration Wait 'Till I'm Dead would seem appopriate as I seem to be one of those people who are appreciated more in retrospect.

rizla mission

14:26 / 21.06.05

Crushingly obvious I know, but 'Highway to Hell' is still pretty impossible to beat for the moment the coffin descends into the furnace..

Tryphena Absent

14:36 / 21.06.05

Sun Ra- On Jupiter the Skies... and there's a piece of Romany music that I always forget the name of but it's definitely not a dirge. I'll look it up.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

14:45 / 21.06.05

Surely Metallica's Jump in the Fire would be a close second for burney funeral (I've forgotten the word, I'm very hot).

Brigade du jour

16:30 / 21.06.05

How about 'Down Down' by Status Quo?

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:36 / 21.06.05

Don't laugh, but I agree. IMHO "Down, Down" is hugely underated.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

17:12 / 21.06.05

I was at a truly surreal funeral a couple of years ago. It was held at a non-denominational crematorium in Belgium that looked to have been designed and built some time in the early 70s. It had a pronounced retro sci-fi look to it and the chosen music for the moment the coffin went down a (seemingly to me) unnecessarily long conveyer belt was Jean Michele Jarre's 'Oxygene'. I remember thinking that it was like being in an episode of Logan’s Run and that the person whose funeral it was would probably have been amused by the entire effect...then felt bad because the circumstances of the death were particularly tragic for the family.

So not ‘Oxygene’ then.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

20:51 / 21.06.05

Rather obviously, "Lay Me Low" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds . It's exactly the sort of overblown description of the mourning that the world will go through once the singer meets his demise that would make my friends and family smile despite themselves. I hope. Failing that, something particularly upbeat and shouty recorded by myself, because a) the world won't be free of me that easily, and b)if you can't have the last word at your own funeral, when can you have it?

I've thought about this too much, haven't I?

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:00 / 22.06.05

Speaking of Mr. Cave, Death Is Not The End would seem another good choice, especially for a suicide.

In retrospect that may be in poor taste.

14:52 / 22.06.05

I was just about to say "Death is not the End" myself.

Punji Steak

15:40 / 22.06.05

Perhaps influenced by the other thread currently topical: Motorhead - Killed by Death

juan de marcos

19:50 / 22.06.05

Swans - Failure
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Gathering Storm
Godflesh - Don't Bring me Flowers or Go Spread Your Wings
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Teddy Roosevelt's Guns
Motörhead - March or Die
Lard - Time to Melt
Diamanda Galás - Les Litanies du Satan

after that the party can start, beginning with The B-52's Dirty Back Road

juan de marcos

19:51 / 22.06.05

Swans - Failure
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Gathering Storm
Godflesh - Don't Bring me Flowers or Go Spread Your Wings
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Teddy Roosevelt's Guns
Motörhead - March or Die
Lard - Time to Melt
Diamanda Galás - Les Litanies du Satan

after that the party can start, beginning with The B-52's Dirty Back Road

Haus of Mystery

21:23 / 22.06.05

Not terribly original, but 'Disco Inferno' playing as my coffin heads flame-wards always tickled me. It's impossible not to groove to which is a plus.

Or maybe 'the Final Countdown', because it fucking rules...

Mmothra

21:47 / 22.06.05

Shirley and Dolly Collins: Anthems in Eden
Thuja: All Strange Beasts of the Past
Tod Dockstader: Apocalypse
Antony and The Johnsons: S/T

Damn it, it's MY party. Play what I want!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:09 / 22.06.05

I was gonna say "Lay Me Low", but I've been beaten to it.

So I'll go for the old standby. The theme from Godzilla And The Invasion Of The Astro-Monsters.

matthew.

02:06 / 23.06.05

Can I be obvious and say Rocket Man? I know it's not a death song per se, but it really conveys heartfelt sadness.

Also, Space Oddity by Bowie. I want people to think of me as somewhat of a Colonel Tom, that courageous explorer of unknown (intellectual) territory.

Or maybe even In My Life by the fab four. God, I'm obvious.

frownland

12:54 / 01.07.05

I decided many years ago that I want the Monty Python theme......over and over and over......

Rachel Melmoth

16:39 / 03.07.05

I've always told my fiancee that if and when I go, I want there to be a big, drunken drug-fueled wake at which they play They Might Be Giants' "Birdhouse In Your Soul." The last thing I'd want is everyone I care about getting all mopey over me.

Jack The Bodiless

19:44 / 03.07.05

I also was going to pick 'Lay Me Low'. So now it has to be either The Wildhearts' 'Thunderfuck' (industrial metal sludgarama ending in a sonic boom specifically designed to blow your speakers/ears), Aqua's 'Doctor Jones', or the Ark's Theme from the Raiders soundtrack.

ronfinch

15:09 / 26.08.05

Has anyone gone for "You Only Live Twice" - John Barry - yet?

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