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What will your friends hear when you're gone?

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Mon Oncle Ignatius

08:28 / 27.08.05

Hmmm, how about "There's A Place Around The Corner (Where Your Dead Friends Live)" by Einstürzende Neubauten?

As for the "Final Countdown" - for me it'd have to be the Laibach version, and their "B-Maschina" would be a pretty epic way to be piped out. Because if you're going to go big, you don't want to go too quietly.

09:32 / 27.08.05

(and while you're at it

Keep the nightlight on inside the

Birdhouse in your soul)

14:55 / 27.08.05

Young Prayer by Panda Bear (of Animal Collective) in its entirety would exorcise a fair bit of grief and let people get on with getting pissed for my soul (I'm expecting a good wake with my more morbid friends making speeches while perched on my coffin). The 3rd track sea shanty might help things along a bit.

Failing that 'My Home is the sea' by Superwolf, purely for the line:

'I have often said/I would like to be dead/ In a shark's mouth'

That sure is a way to go...

18:15 / 27.08.05

I want people to think of me as somewhat of an Uncle Tom, that courageous explorer of unknown (intellectual) territory

matt, why do you... Oh hang on.

Right, sorry - I guess I misread that.

11:23 / 28.08.05

Probably, "If It Be Your Will" by Leonard Cohen.

00:59 / 31.08.05

AC/DC's Thunderstruck. Full viking funeral. Full viking regalia. Fuck yes

19:29 / 31.08.05

I want a N'wallins-style Jazz funeral and I want the band to play the Rolling Stones' "You Got to Move" (it's from Sticky Fingers and it rules mightily)

12:28 / 05.09.05

Anything by Living in a Box.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

19:58 / 06.09.05

What If God Was One Of Us- even though it's a crappy song, that's how I want people to remember me.

22:23 / 06.09.05

I have two (listen well, friends who might be there):
Such a Small Love - Scott Walker
It's a Miracle - Trashcan Sinatras

Keith, like a scientist

21:43 / 07.09.05

i want that funeral dirge from Return of the King that Eowyn sings. Something startling, loud, and emotional.

then something light and pretty from Sebadoh.

05:25 / 08.09.05

Tori Amos - Happy Phantom

Though B-Maschina would be hot.

10:43 / 08.09.05

oooh. lay me low by nick cave. good to leave with delusions of grandeur i think.

16:44 / 08.09.05

I remember having this conversation when I was 14- a friend of mine died in a car crash and had 'Catch' by The Cure played at his funeral service- even now 17 years later the song sends shudders down my spine and brings a tear to my eye...

...anyway as a result we discussed amongst friends what song we would have played at our funerals- I chose Freedom by Alice Cooper mid 80's hair metal anthem- being the sensative adolescent brat that i was i went home and played it very loudly. When my mother asked me to turn it down - i shouted at her that she was 'ruining the song i was going to have played at my funeral'- and then made her listen to it repeatedly so she got it right when the time came.

oh dear...

i don't think its still my choice- but i don't know if my mums been told yet!

so if i croak before i remember to tell my mum- here's some suggestions

The Auteurs 'Junk shop Clothes' - As everyone files out of the church it'll feel like a Wes Anderson movie, trust me.

Julian Cope 'Out of My Mind on Dope & Speed' - just to make people smile at the funeral.

David Bowie 'Golden Years' - kind of sad but with a groove to move out of the church to...

Bob Dylan 'Buckets of rain' - Not a dry eye in the house with that one.

The Fall- Wrong Place Right Time - Perfect for a premature departure...

Belle & sebastian- Me & The Major- just cos its ace.

Gershwin's Rhapsody in blue - could add a Woody Allen flavour to proceedings..

anyway there are some ideas just don't let mum play bloody Alice Cooper....

21:41 / 20.09.05

Nice one cog! Will have to look into living in a box.
(not too soon though, I hope!)

08:20 / 21.09.05

One Rainy Wish - Jimmy Hendrix - Axis bold as love
Just a man - Faith no More - King for a day
Achilles last stand - Led Zep - forget which album
Would - Alice in Chains -Dirt - the perfect reflection on what any of us 'would' do
Fuck, theres a Verve song on northern soul, but I cant think of the name... Feeling from a vending machine... you know it
Dead - The pixies - doolittle
and then all c - building kids or Mike patton just to piss people off

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