What do you want them to play at your funeral?
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This morning's news had the poignant story of a Dutch woman who died next to the grave where she wanted to be buried. In her bag they found her will, arrangements for her funeral and even the music she wanted played.
I get the feeling that the choice of funeral music is something that many people have given quite some thought. It's intriguing: is the choice of music a statement about yourself? Is it an epitaph?
A survey a little while ago carried the dismal news that James Blunt's 'Goodbye My Lover' was the song most requested at British funerals, closely followed by Robbie Williams's 'Angels'. No prizes for guessing that 'Wind Beneath My Wings' and 'Tears in Heaven' also made the top ten.
What would you play at yours?
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Shoop shoop diddywop cumma cumma wangdang.
no reason.
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I always thought Highway to Hell would be good.
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'Miss World' by Hole
"I've made my bed and I'll lie in it / I've made my bed and I'll die in it"
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easy, "lay me down" by The Frames
bit soppy, but hey, i'm not having a funeral with any pesky skipping or dancing. misery damnit! and plenty of it.
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If You Don't Know me by now...you will never ever know me!
Gold.
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"Hero" by Foo Fighters? Let everyone know how cool you really were.
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I'd get a New Orleans jazz funeral. Mainly cos there's one in the opening scenes of "Live and Let Die", but surely it's a better accompaniment than "Lightning Crashes" or "Stairway to Heaven".
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I'd get a New Orleans jazz funeral. Mainly cos there's one in the opening scenes of "Live and Let Die"
Yes! There's also one in Angel Heart that stays with you long after they've marched out of shot.
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'Know Your Product' by the Saints
DADAT-DAT-DAT-DAA!
'Oh What a Agony' by the Conquerors
Sweet lament for hard times
'Point That Thing Somewhere Else' by The Clean
They can lower me down to this ...
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Russell, 'cause you seem to be here.
Do you really have to open this site up to everyone? I mean, your friends seem quite reasonable and all that.
Just wondering.
Very nice work, congrats from this tech to your techs.
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I sense a Simply Red hater in our midsts
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David Cormack, your suggestion was the funniest so far,
For irony you'd be hard pushed to go past the first line of the chorus to "Fame"...
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FUNNIEST COMMENT ABOUT FUNERALS
HUZZAH!On an interesting side note, funeral, is a delightful anagram of Real Fun.
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FUNNIEST COMMENT ABOUT FUNERALS
HUZZAH!On an interesting side note, funeral, is a delightful anagram of Real Fun.
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heh, and you get the credit for the first double post...
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I assume we all remember the funeral scene in _Man on the Moon_?
Get everyone up and singing!
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Do you really have to open this site up to everyone? I mean, your friends seem quite reasonable and all that. Just wondering.
Heh. Much as I'd love to run it as a social club, the idea is that it becomes so popular that I can work full-time on Public Address off the advertising income. But, I promise, the PA readers are a nice bunch. And we'll delete trolls.
Very nice work, congrats from this tech to your techs.
Thanks! I'll pass that on.
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Since I won't hear buggar all.
The entire Bach B Minor Mass, played on massed recorders to bore evryone rigid. (as well)
Or,
Patience & Prudence"Uh huh, uh huh, gonna get along without you now.
Got along without you before I met you
Gonna get along without you now.... " -
I want to die in summer so my friends can cannabilise me on the BBQ over a few beers.
They can play whatever music they like.
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I'm a wonderful thing, Baby by the Blow Monkeys. I'd like to go out the way I have lived, with people laughing at me...
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I want to die in summer so my friends can cannabilise me on the BBQ over a few beers.
They can play whatever music they like.
You've Got A Friend In Me by Randy Newman?
Don't Touch My Hair by The Riptones?
Great Balls of Fire?
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a meddley of Joy Division, of course!
- New Dawn Fades
- Transmission
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Atmosphereand to finish, because it's got the best lyrics of any song I've ever heard:
- Twenty Four Hours
("Now that I've realized, how it's all gone wrong
Got to find some therapy, this treatment takes too long
Deep in the heart of, where sympathy held sway
Got to find my destiny, before it gets too late") -
'Staying Alive' by the Bee Gees.
Title says it all doesn't it?
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"I want to die in summer so my friends can cannabilise me on the BBQ over a few beers.They can play whatever music they like.
You've Got A Friend In Me by Randy Newman?
Don't Touch My Hair by The Riptones?
Great Balls of Fire?"or maybe
Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def LeppardThough I imagine they would prefer salt and possibly a touch of pepper.
Being a teacher there may not be any hair left to touch soon. Speaking of which, is anybody participating in "Movember"? I was going to be a girls blouse and not join in but due to peer pressure from work colleagues combined with the fact that I know I can produce more of a mo' than a couple of them I'm in baby!!
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'Staying Alive' by the Bee Gees.
Title says it all doesn't it?
Reminds me of that story about a bunch of friends discussing what they'd like people to say about them at their funeral. They variously choose:
"He was a kind person"
"He was a visionary"
"We'll never see his like again."
The last one thinks for a minute, then he says he'd most like to hear them say "Look! He's moving!"
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