Hard News: The Music for Occasions
113 Responses
First ←Older Page 1 2 3 4 5 Newer→ Last
-
my funeral should take about 13 minutes due to my choice of music.... quite possibly a lot less than that
at the wake people can play what they jolly well please, I won't be attending
-
I played Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold at a friends funeral - young mother of 4 .
200 people weeping in unison , seemed the only human response to such a death. -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
I will be carried in to this:
Oh Jackie, I hope you never die. I couldn't stand the thought of having to sit through that selection.
;-) -
I played this very slow mantra at a friend's committal service
Deva Premal - Gate Gate . From the Buddhist heart sutraVarious translations , the one I used was
Leaving now
Leaving now
Leaving for the other side
O what an awakening
sorry about the cheesy video -
Paul Williams, in reply to
Sacha, I've got this CD and I might even seen that clip before... didn't stop me having a very teary moment in the office but.
-
Sacha, in reply to
something just primal about those visuals
-
Almost since I first heard it I've thought that I'd like Simple Minds 'Someone, Somewhere in Summertime' at my funeral. Listened to the album recently and thought that 'Big Sleep' might be even better..
But why stop at one!
-
-my takiaue will involve family voices, family-generated music - or just the sound of the ever-rolling sea-
wont be around to care, but my lot know what I love, and that is the sound of them- -
At my dad's funeral there was a LOT of music, including a live jazz band & a full on harmonised rendition of "sunrise sunset" from fiddler on the roof (he was a king of am dram in our little town). Most fitting - and still unlistenable! was Jerusalem. It suited a heathen transplanted Englishman.
I'm going to a funeral on Friday for someone my exact age. If there is no guns n roses we will all be haunted.
Mine will include the theme from "the Snowman" just to get everyone in the (tragic) mood! -
Jackie Clark, in reply to
By golly, Bob, that's a very stern piece of music. Almost fist-shakey. Very you xx
-
I'm going to have to suggest Nina Simone's ' Ain't Got no...I got life'
Slightly ironic but positive affirmations all round
-
bronwyn, in reply to
Jackie, your funeral sounds like jolly good fun! (Apart from the Simply Red, I have to say).
-
Thankyou Bronwyn, I thought so. And Steve my love? You'd do as you were told.
-
A touch of LCD Soundsystem fits all types of occasions very nicely, and I'd plump for this one at my funeral, possibly the best combination of melancholy and dance music you'll ever find:
And as a lapsed Catholic who spent my formative years at an Anglican school, it would be compulsory to have a few hymns. The rather wonderful NZ choral composer Dorothy Buchanan's arrangement of The Lord's My Shepherd is outstanding, and far more moving than the rather dull version usually sung.
I do remember making a list of songs for my funeral as rather a macabre teenager; including, rather ridiculously, 14 Years by Guns n' Roses despite it being about a break up, purely because I was, yes, 14. But now I'd of course plump for November Rain, if only so all the mourners could enjoy themselves imagining Slash's infamous electric-guitar-in-middle-of-a-field solo.
-
Sacha, in reply to
Apart from
we all have bottom lines :)
-
This is the first thing people are going to hear
Then some of this
Then some good old tear-jerking Les Miserables
And some more 80's goodness
There's lots more, but I'm going out to this one
-
I'd like the velvets 'sweet nothing' at my funeral- fairly long, sweet and mournful, and even if the words are not perfect, the chorus fits nicely :)
-
JacksonP, in reply to
Then some of this
You just got the jump on me with that one.
Although I was going to suggest Tim Buckley, having got into trouble over his son earlier. ;-)
-
Paul Williams, in reply to
Harry, you know they’re touring again yeah?
Incidentally, how’s no one suggested Crowdies Better Be Home Soon
Or, Dave Dobbyn’s Welcome Home
-
Caleb D'Anvers, in reply to
Totally with you on the Church funeral acoustics, James. If you could, why wouldn't you go out with the full Tomás Luis de Victoria "Officium Defunctorum," all 60 minutes of it, live and loud, in the gaudiest, most Cyclopeian counter-Reformation cathedral you could find? I know I would.
-
These have to be the first on ones list:
This one has already been listed but is a compulsory:
And for the message from the grave:
-
Chris Waugh, in reply to
Dave Dobbyn’s Welcome Home
Get's me totally teared up, but for entirely non-funereal reasons. That's just perfectly the welcome I want my wife and daughter to get when we get back.
Dunno if anybody outside China will be able to see this, but here's a favourite of the kind I would like at a funeral.
-
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead. Seriously.
-
When my sister was a naughty teenager she suggested she’d like Prince’s Darling Nikki at hers.
That would be interesting -- would the dress code be bikini briefs and raincoats for the gents and underwear with a leer for everyone else?
As a general rule, inspiring the mourners to hump the pews and collect notes in their arse cleavage is not the level of decorum you want for a memorial service.
-
Paul Williams, in reply to
That’s just perfectly the welcome I want my wife and daughter to get when we get back.
Yeah, I similarly imagine a return home to a kiwiana soundtrack. Still, after close on ten years.
Post your response…
This topic is closed.