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...
Moonlight - 1st Movement, Beethoven
Ave Maria, Schubert
I can't really think of any modern songs off the top of my head other than maybe Pencil Thin Mustache (Jimmy Buffet), to lighten the mood.
On the second thought, the obvious choice just didn't come to mind right away:
My Way, Frank Sinatra
This list is not in order.... and i broke the rules and added more than 5 songs.
1. Hey hey waht can I do, Led Zep
2. Colorblind, Counting Crows (surprised no one else likes this song...)
3. Into the mystic, Van Morrison
4. Wild Horses, Bush OR Rolling Stones, The Sundays ruined it.
5. Dont Wait AND So Long So Long, Dashboard Confessional
6. The Adventure Final, Angels and Airwaves
7. Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones
8. Thats how strong my love is, Otis Redding (Also surprised no one else likes this song)
9. Hear you me, Jimmy Eat World
10. No woman no cry, Bob Marley
11. Please, Ray LaMontagne
12. Comfprtably Numb, Pink Floyd
13. Under pressure, David Bowie/Queen
14. To Be Young, Ryan Adams
15.Free Bird, Skynyrd
I realize you said top five, but i couldnt...
Honorable mentions (HA, yea i know your thinking i have 10 HM's, but...)
1. Let the drummer kick, Citizen Cope
2. Obstacles, Syd Matters
3. Waterfall, Griffin House
4. Knockin on heaven's door, Bob Dylan (No on likes this song?)
Wonderwall - Oasis
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
The Scientist - Coldplay
Lucky - Radiohead
Sleep - The Dandy Warhols
In that order.
Definitely Cyndi Lauper's Girls just wanna have fun. That song is so me! Can't think of anything else.
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don't fear the reaper - blue oyster cult
into the mystic - van morrison
i can see clearly now - by johnny nash (yes nash not cash)
fields of gold - sting
where the roses never fade - hymn song from church songbook
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i collect anything to do with dr pepper!! i'm a pepper, wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
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Never Going Back Again -Fleetwood Mac
Dont Cry- Guns and Roses
The Times Are a Changing- Bob Dylan
My top 5 funeral songs (in no particular order):
1: Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley version
2: Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin (It's played at dad's funeral, his favourite song, and now one of mine)
3:Outside the Wall - Pink Floyd
4:Decades - Joy Division
5: Bohemian Rhapsody/You Take My Breath Away - Queen
VERY Honourable mentions to:
Wish you were here/Mother/Another Brick In the Wall (part1)/Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
Hanging Garden/Tainted Love - The Cure
She's Lost Control/Dead Souls - Joy Division
Imagine - John Lennon
Let Her Cry - Hootie and the Blowfish
Every Breath You Take - Sting and The Police
Within You/As the World Falls Down - David Bowie
November Rain - Guns'n'Roses
You're My Temptation - Alice Cooper
Octopus - Syd Barrett
Honourable mentions to:
Terrapin - Syd Barrett
House of Fun/One Step Beyond - Madness
Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
If you're not the One - Daniel Bedingfield
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
I love my music dont I?
Xx.All alone or in twos the one who really love you march up and down outside the wall.xX
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Simple Man = Skynyrd
Over the hills and far away = Zeppelin
fire on high = ELO
and
right down the line = gerry rafferty (hope some girl crys or something)
1). "Samba Pa Ti" - Santana
2). "Long As I Can See The Light" - Creedance Clearwater Revival
3). "Dead Flowers" - The Rolling Stones (but I'd want the Townes Van Zandt cover. Some might think that's blasphemy, but I love his version)
4). "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" - Bob Dylan
5). "Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd
Honorable Mention:
6). "Wild Horses" - The Rolling Stones
7). "Straight to Hell" - The Clash
8). "So Long" - The Kinks
9). "(Sittin' On)The Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding
10). "Green, Green Grass of Home" - Johnny Cash
"I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink." - Richard Burton
Just randomly stumbling across my old post. A few I've heard since would be added to the list. The order would definitely be different. - 2016
Electric Funeral-Black Sabbath
or
I don't live today-Jimi Hendrix Experience
1. somewhere over the rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo`ole
2. stairway to heaven - led zepp
3. don't let me down - beatles
4. free bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. american pie - don mclean
here's my top five that i came up with tonight:
hallelujah - jeff buckley
dirt floor - chris whitley
street spirit (fade out) - radiohead
lay it down slow - spiritualized
in the aeroplane over the sea (the whole album) - neutral milk hotel
believe it or not this is a list i made in high school, long before the movie (i was a little obsessed with death then).
hallelujah - jeff buckley
dirt floor - chris whitley
street spirit (fade out) - radiohead
digital black epilogue - urge overkill
starsail - the verve
death is not the end - nick cave and the bad seeds
sad and beautiful world - sparklehorse
god moving over the face of the waters - moby
when ye go away - the waterboys
ripple - the grateful dead
no expectations - the rolling stones
the great gig in the sky - pink floyd
crazy face - van morrison
whiter shade of pale - procol harum
change - blind melon
talking *beep* about a pretty sunset - modest mouse
across the universe - the beatles
to love is to bury - cowboy junkies
bad luck, blue eyes, goodbye - the black crowes
can i take my gun up to heaven? - cracker
lay me low - nick cave and the bad seeds
slow nerve action - the flaming lips
short and sweet - david gilmour
untogether - belly
MLK - U2
wave of mutilation (u.k. surf) - pixies