given that laura's dad dies, and this topic comes up, i was wondering what everyone thinks would be their top 5 funeral songs-
any medium- band, sung by your widow- whatever.
here are mine-
1. the end- the doors
2. alone i break- korn
3. imagine- a perfect circle
4. lost cause- beck
5. suspended in dusk- type o negative
i am looking foreward to reading yours...
I Will Never Pass This Way Again (Tracey Lawrence)
American Trilogy (Elvis, Live from Hawaii)
Dante's Song (Loreena McKennit)
Goodbye (Emmylou Harris)
Run Like the Wind (Mike Batt)
It was hard to narrow it down to five, but then I guess I'd better leave some time for the eulogies ;)
1. Time by Pink Floyd
2. Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles
3. The Day the World Went Away (Still) by Nine Inch Nails
4. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
5. Lateralus by Tool
"I hate escalators. I tripped on one once, fell for an hour and a half!"
Demetri Martin
1. Bohemian rhapsody -Queen
2. Don't fear the reaper -Blue oyster cult
3. My way -Frank Sinatra
4. Knockin on heavens door -Bob dylan
5. Wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
1) Aimee Mann - Today's The Day
2) Cat Power - The Greatest
3) Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves
4) Lamb - Gabriel
5) Neko Case - Star Witness
Just spitballin' here...
1) "Bron-Yr-Aur" by Led Zeppelin
2) "Forever Young" by Rod Stewart
3) "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2
4) "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan
5) "Far Away Boys" by Flogging Molly
Blue-Joni Mitchell
Bridge Over Troubled Water-Roberta Flack
Hallelujah-Kathryn Williams
Streams of Nancy-Kate Rusby
Faraway Voice-Katie Melua
A million sympathies for Jennifer Hudson.
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Golden Slumbers - The Beatles
How it Ends - DeVotchKa
Videotape - Radiohead
The Moon - Cat Power
Let's never come here again because it will never be as much fun.
1. Eddie Vedder - Society
2. The Kinks - Strangers
3. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
4. Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free
5. Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Honorable Mentions:
Muse - Invincible
Snow Patrol - Run
Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
Flaming Lips - Do you Realize??
Stars - Calendar Girl (Somehow edited to be for a man)
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Well, hopefully I'll achieve something in my lifetime, so I'd play happier songs.
1. "Old Man" by Neil Young
2. "We Are the Champions" by Queen
3. "Heroes" by David Bowie
4. "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor
5. "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson
I'll make him an offer with the force while possessed by a demon, and being eaten by a shark.
"Rock And Roll" by Led Zeppelin. Because heaven is where I can learn, finally, how to play that drum solo at the end.
"Pancho+Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt. Favorite song by favorite troubadour
"Boulder To Birmingham" by Emmylou Harris
"Rainy Day Women #12+35" by Bob Dylan. Because a mix tape should start off by rocking and then kick it up a notch. Unfortunately, my next two picks didn't kick it up so now I gotta bring the energy level back up.
"I Don't Wanna Grow Up" by Tom Waits.
Sigur Ros - Untitled #1, especially from 4:30 on
youtube.com/watch?v=P0AZIFmkogY
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
youtube.com/watch?v=cMhkr-cgnHU
Michael Nyman - The Departure
youtube.com/watch?v=0mSC0RnAwbE
Sigur Ros - Untitled #6
youtube.com/watch?v=NnXuLNOwzDk
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y
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5 we're not going to take it
4 moody river
3 fixing a hole
2 wonderful life
1 spirit in the sky
MEANWHILE...
-laura PALMER
:):):)
idc about 5, but i would love this one:
Live and Let Die-Guns N Roses cover
Sublime- Santeria
RHCP- otherside
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Green day- Good riddance
Muse- Plug in Baby
I'd tell you to go to hell but all dogs go to heaven
Johnossi - There's a Lot of Things to Do
Catch 22 - As the Footsteps Die Out Forever
Beatsteaks - Hello Joe
Streetlight Manifesto - Forty Days
AFI - This Time Imperfect
Art: Safety is my middle name.
Ray Peterson: I thought his middle name was Louis.
I almost considered putting a type of negative song on here but I'd rather have a more upbeat feel at my funeral so I left off most hard rock......
Lake of Fire by Nirvana or The Meat Puppets
The River of Dreams by Billy Joel
Back In the High Life Again by Steve Winwood
Estranged by Guns N Roses
The Walk of Life by Dire Straits
My mother-in-law passed this week. Here is the list of songs that were played at her funeral:
The LSU fight song
Laura's Theme from Dr. Zhivago
Red Red Wine - Neil Diamonds
Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills
It had to be you - Rory Partin version
Our Town - Aaron Neville
Forever in Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond
golden slumbers - the beatles
julia - the beatles
starman - david bowie (theres a starman waiting in the sky.... beautiful)
exit music (for a film) - radiohead
shine acoustic - muse.
Man that list is hard to choose. I do prefer things a little faster and rockier, but I guess if proably not 100% appropriate. Gutted.
"Ever get the feeling that no one even sees you?"
"I have a really good body, so no"
1. I am the ressurection - stone roses
2. satellite of love - lou reed
3. as long as they've got cigaretes in hell (or Gas panic!) - oasis
4. Albion - Babyshambles
5. Desolation row - Bob Dylan
6. Happy Birthday (just too make it mine)
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"i like a few women, but i like men an awful lot more" - Noel Gallager
1. another one bites the dust - Queen
2. wish you were here - Pink Floyd
3. so glad I was there - California Dreams
4. good riddance- Green Day
5. yellow ledbetter - Pearl Jam
1.Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd
2.Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo
3.Sail Away-David Gray
4.A Bad Dream-Keane
5.Sideways-Citizen Cope
(6.Breaker-Low)
November Rain - Guns N Roses
Lucky You - The National
Bird On A Wire - Leonard Cohen
Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time - Rod Stewart
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac