Name THREE songs you'd want played at your own funeral service
Mine:
Led Zeppelin - Thank You
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Beatles - In My Life
C'mon guys/girls - seriously, BEAT those three - they've got , reminiscence, gratitude, reflection...and are also genuinely great tunes
My funeral is going to be slightly different..
First, make everybody feel emotional with either
Queen - Who wants to live forever, OR
Queen - White Queen
Second, inject some hope
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (I will need one)
Finally, get everybody partying with
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down.
But, if my grandparents are still alive, scrap TYMD, and instead they can do the Chicken Dance!
1 - as the people attending (mourners, folk celebrating, the insurers making sure it's not a scam, those who want to make sure I'm really dead, and those who turn up for the free steak pie afterwards) I'd like Andy Kaufman's cover of "Rose Marie".
2 - as my coffin rolls away (it'll be a cremation, just so there's no chance I can come back to this shit-hole) I'd like the theme tune to Peter Kay's "Phoenix Nights" TV show to play, as a cardboard cut-out of Peter's "Brian Potter" character wheels past in his wheelchair shouting "Gerry, Gerry, the coffin's on fire!!"
3 - and finally, just to creep people out, I wan't Led Zep's "Stairway To Heaven"......BACKWARDS.
This is all subject to change, as I also have the themes for Psycho, The Omen and The Exorcist in mind......
The Sixth Sense (soundtrack) - Malcolm Is Dead. That's for people to feel a bit sad and creepy at the same time.
The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven.
Robbie Williams - Angels (for a lighter mood).
brENsKi wrote:
Name THREE songs you'd want played at your own funeral service
Mine:
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
A lot of people believe that this song is about bidding farewell to someone you loved, when in fact it was written by Billie Joe Armstrong to say "fuck you and piss off" to someone who's been in your life for a long time and caused you nothing but pain and harm.
It can be interpreted in different ways since the lyrics can be quite ambiguous. It's certainly used in a lot of proms and funerals.
absolutely! ^
hence the title "Good Riddance" - never used as a term of affection is it?
However, The part of the title in parenthesis "Time of your life" allows for a double meaning
and the lyrics themselves are kind enough/good enough - and quite deep in places and I'd love to use for my funeral
love that tune - have to say, actually love Lizzy full stop. But that tune was perhaps Lizzy's last great tune - it kinda went downhill after Rosin Dubh - the album was Lynott/Moore's finest hour together
Mason's Apron and Will You Go Lassie Go are fantastic way to close a great album....I have the demo version somewhere if you're interested
I don't even have all of TL's studio albums so I'm not really interested in demos but thanks anyway. I saw Black Star Riders late last year with Scott Gorham on guitar and they were great. Southbound, The Cowboy Song, Boys Are Back in Town etc. But they only played the intro to The Black Rose :(
Entering the building:
Theme from Cosmos (it's a song by Vangelis, don't know the actual title).
Coffin disappearing:
Going Home, Dvorak (that New World Symphony thing).
Leaving the building:
John 19:41 (from Jesus Christ Superstar.
i know it was my thread, and all.
But if I couldn't have my initial choices - for whatever bizarre reason - then I'd want to have the last laugh - on anyone present.
so,,, My Funeral Last Laugh list:
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Whiter Shade of Pale
Frank Sidebottom - Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite
Monty Python - Galaxy Song
...and I'm sure those present would have a giggle too
In that case, I'd pick three songs from family guy. Very offensive for a Queen forum, perhaps (and I really don't mean to offend, I just find the stupidity of it all amusing) but "Sodomy", "You've Got Aids" and Peter's rendition of the "Jurassic Park" theme (from when Quagmire faked his death, being killed by a pots and pans robot and having his body eaten by a dinosaur).
SkyeTV wrote:
In that case, I'd pick three songs from family guy. Very offensive for a Queen forum, perhaps (and I really don't mean to offend, I just find the stupidity of it all amusing) but "Sodomy", "You've Got Aids" and Peter's rendition of the "Jurassic Park" theme (from when Quagmire faked his death, being killed by a pots and pans robot and having his body eaten by a dinosaur).
Honestly? The Coral's 'In the Forest' when the coffin's brought in, an instrumental of The Doors' 'Break on Through' when the vicar does the eulogy, and Pearl Jam's 'Alive' when the cremation happens.
For my grand finale, I would love some happiness not tears... Maybe even some dancing.
How about...
1.Two tickets to paradise (though, hopefully, I'd be taking one with me... :-) ) - Eddie Money
2. You've Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest
3. And closing out the day... Dean Martin's version of Sway with everyone pairing up to dance out the door.
Yeah. That would be quite the send off.
Thank you... odd named Sir. ;-) I'm thinking I should add a request for a ballroom dance instructor to be there, guiding my mourners through the latter part of the day. No fumbling or tumbling for my send off. Just fluid samba, rumba or whatever dance they would do to dreamy Dean...
John Dowland's 'Unquiet Thoughts'
Avril Lavigne's 'Take Me Away'
The Credo from Haydn's Mass No 13 in B-Flat Major
And just to be extra-melodramatic, I'd like the three pieces to be performed live by orchestra, choir and soloists.