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...
oasis - live forever and the beatles - in my life
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release- that is a damn good one.
my revenge on you will not kill you... it will make you want to kill yourself.
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Wow, pretty enthusiastic posts for such a morbid topic :) That being said...
10)"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry
9) "Le Chanson des Vieux Amantes" - Jacques Brel
8) "His Eye is on The Sparrow" - Mahalia Jackson
7) "May This Be Love" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) "How Can I Keep From Singing" - Enya
5) "Angel" - Sarah McLaughlin
4) "All Cats are Grey" - The Cure
3) "The Name of the Game" - Badfinger
2) "Sweet Thing", or "Into the Mystic" - Van Morrison
1) "The Wind" - Cat Stevens
And, as my casket is being carried out, playing on a continuous loop:
"(Theme From) A Fistful of Dollars" - Ennio Morricone
Man, if Rhino or Shout! could buy the individual rights to the songs on these lists, it would make for a damned great compilation series: "Music to Die For, Volumes #1-10"!!
I'll tell you what he said! He told me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercises into my anus!
There's A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Time - Pink Floyd
Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
A Day In The Life - Beatles
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
1. Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
2. Discworld - That's Death
3. Blink 182 - Adam's Song
4. Annie Lennox - Into the West
5. 30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill (Bury Me) [ok, so I had trouble rounding out the list :P]
think it'd be bad taste to list Cake's "I Will Survive"? :P
Honourable mention to Jack Black's suggestion in the film of "One Step Beyond" by Madness
could be worse, I could have said Bye Bye Baby by the Bay City Rollers like in Love Actually :P
1. The Doors - The End
2. Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
3. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
4. Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
5. Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Also like Todd Louiso's suggestion of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.
1. What I Got - Sublime
2. Vernie - Blind Melon
3. Hurt - Johnny Cash version
4. Angel - Massive Attack
5. Endless Dark - HIM
Tiocfaidh ar la.
A LOT of Sarah McLachlan... I love all of her music, but for my funeral I'd want Angel, Do What You Have To Do, Fallen, Full Of Grace, I Will Remember You, Possession, Sweet Surrender, Train Wreck, Wait... okay, it's waaaay too hard to choose.
Other songs (no particular order):
Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter
Dido - Here With Me
Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Joe Jackson - Stepping Out
Jospeh Arthur - In The Sun
Kinnie Starr - Alright
Mr Airplane Man - How Long
Portishead - Roads
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Seal - Kiss From A Rose
Sia - Breathe Me
Télépopmusik - Don't Look Back
The Sundays - Wild Horses
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Tori Amos - Winter
And a lot more... too many to list.
its hard to think of just five but im thinking:
teardrop - massive attack
turn me on im a radio - joni mitchell
the pretender - jackson browne
baby i love your way - preferably the marie de salle version but peter frampton would do
at last - etta james
i could go on but we would be here a while heh
Jethro Tull - Life is a Long Song
Jethro Tull - Slow Marching Band
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphonie
The Beatles - In My Life
Top 5 songs to have played at your funeral
1. I'll be missing you- Puff Daddy and faith hill
2. Rain- Madonna
3. Bittersweet Symphony-The Verve
4. With or Without you-U2
5.Taking you Home-Don Henley
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1. Sigur Rós - Untitled 1
2. The Get Up Kids - Long Goodnight
3. The Beach Boys - Sloop John B
4. Iron & Wine - My Lady's House
5. Minus the Bear - We Are Not A Football Team
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one caress (depeche mode)
spirit of life (dead can dance)
the last beat of my heart (siouxsie & the banshees)
right in two (tool)
asilos magdalena (mars volta)
veil of sin (amorphis)
not in a special order...
"I'm Gonna Build on That Shore": Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers
"Can't We Be Friends": Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
"Stardust": Sarah Vaughan w/Count Basie Band
"I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer": Stevie Wonder
"Grazing in the Grass": Friends of Distinction
Just a few I came up with today:
"New Slang" The Shins
"I Need Some Sleep" Eels
"Hold On Hope" Guided By Voices
"Landslide" Fleetwood Mac
"Bittersweet Symphony" The Verve
Just for kicks:
"5000 Ways To Die" Nerf Herder (then people would have to guess how I went)
'don't look back into the sun' the libertines
'do you realize?' the flaming lips
'whiter shade of pale' procol harem
'our house' crosby, stills, nash and young
'la mer' charles trenet
33 (acoustic) by smashing pumpkins
Soon we'll be dead by leftover crack
Joy by against me
pachuca sunrise by minus the bear
how it ends by devotchka
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Mine are:
The Birth and Death of the Day: Explosions in the sky
a warm place- nine inch nails
i did it my way- sid vicious
that's all i can get about my death music.
1. "Late for the Sky" by Jackson Browne
2. "One Man Guy" by Rufus Wainwright
3. "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann
4. "Complicated Shadows" by Elvis Costello
and as they roll me out to the hearse...
5. "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC
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