Music you want played at your memorial service.

[Kurosawa]

Hope this isn't a repeat, I didn't put much effort into checking for it (thanks, Spiced Rum!)

Pretty self-explanatory, what music would you like played at your memorial service?


For me:
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
CCR - Someday Never Comes
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
David Bowie - Let's Dance


For you?

[WattsUp]

Boys II Men - It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

Right Said Fred - I'm too Sexy

[fasttrack]

there was a thread about this at some point.
i can't find it. oh well.
i have specific details about my memorial service.
i want curtains drawn and applause.
and i want saturday sun by nick drake played.

[Kurosawa]

there was a thread about this at some point.
i can't find it. oh well.
i have specific details about my memorial service.
i want curtains drawn and applause.
and i want saturday sun by nick drake played.

Feel free to post all of your "specific details"
I've been reading a lot of existential bullshit and have become increasingly aware of my own mortality and I find this stuff fascinating.

[humanoid]

Hope this isn't a repeat, I didn't put much effort into checking for it (thanks, Spiced Rum!)

Pretty self-explanatory, what music would you like played at your memorial service?


For me:
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
CCR - Someday Never Comes
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
David Bowie - Let's Dance


For you?

I've always thought Three Little Birds would be perfect for the occasion..

I kinda like the idea of a constant loop of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata though...it seems heavy enough to make everyone suitably depressed

[MissingPerson]

I'd like Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive. Because I want everybody to be desperately confused.

Failing that, I want the most depressing music ever written, because I want people to be so fucking devastated that they will never, ever get over it afterwards. They need to be properly emotionally crippled. So I've written my own song for the occasion. It's basically my name being slowly repeated by a weeping orphan, over some mindbogglingly tragic pipe organ music.

[rideincircles]

Plasticities Andrew Bird

[clarky123]

Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen
The End - The Doors

[thelastgreatman]

My dad once said that he wanted Jump In The Line by Harry Belafonte played at his funeral. He was rather drunk at the time, of course, but I still love it as an edict in a Will (he did not put it in his will and we played no music at his services, against my complaints).

I'd request Weird Al Yankovic's take on Candle In The Wind. I don't think he's recorded one. But that sounds good at the moment. Keep in mind my funeral will be a complete and total farce.

Genuinely reflective: Taj Mahal - Take A Giant Step
Just to fuck with the minds of all the young males in attendance: CCR - Someday Never Comes
Make bitches cry: Elliott Smith - Somebody That I Used To Know, Everything Means Nothing To Me, or A Distorted Reality (especially if I OD)
Cliche but perfect: The Band - I Shall Be Released
Trainspotting beat us all to the best one: Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Because it's in my movie: Bonnie Koloc - Jazzman
Because it's in the movie about my dad: The Spaniels - Goodnite, Sweetheart
Because words sometimes obstruct: Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Because I love Graceland: Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble
Because it's about going to hell: Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Because you wish you weren't: Ry Cooder - Jesus Is On The Mainline

[Daft Fro]

Veridis Quo - DP, Discovery
Voyager - DP, Discovery
Music is Math - BoC, Geogaddi

[greghead]

"All Apologies" from Unplugged in New York. That or "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic. 10 minutes of psychedelic guitar freakout

[thelastgreatman]

House music... at your funeral... classy.

Jesus, "God Moving Over The Face Of The Water" is entertainable, but fucking Daft? Are you frealsies?

[sbessiso]

Hope this isn't a repeat, I didn't put much effort into checking for it (thanks, Spiced Rum!)

Pretty self-explanatory, what music would you like played at your memorial service?


For me:
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
CCR - Someday Never Comes
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
David Bowie - Let's Dance

For you?


fucking excellent choice. I might want "Fashion", no wait, yeah I definetly want "Fashion"

[thestripe]

Randy, what is this movie you speak of?

[captncrzy]

I won't be dying.

[roberto73]

Joe Jackson – "Steppin' Out"

[Mr.Nipples]

The Trashmen-Surfin' Bird

[shakermaker113]

I've often though that do you realize by the flaming lips would work. other than that, I don't know.

[jonnypark]

Freebrid - Skynard

[Jerm05]

Freebrid - Skynard

Totally stole my death song

[humanoid]

Totally stole my death song

kill yourself right now and you can have it first

[faxman75]

I plan on having an ipod prepared. My death won't be traditional. First a simple cremation with my ashes being tossed in the garbage or some shit, maybe someone wants them. Then i would like a giant lifesize cardboard cut out of me, with a miller lite and a shot of patron. This will be at a bar and the music will be my ipod on shuffle. It will be a grand celebration.

Everything from Guns n Roses and Motley Crue to pre thriller Michael Jackson and Prince, to Arcade Fire and Gnarles Barkley. It will be drinking from probably 6PM - 2AM. 4 or 5 albums or songs won't cut it. There will be no church or priest or pastor or anything resembling any religion anywhere in the world at my funeral celebration.

[Mr.Nipples]

I changed my mind...
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[MassiveChemicalPunk]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

[miscorrections]

Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack and
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

These are excellent songs for both weddings and funerals.

[thelastgreatman]

Randy, what is this movie you speak of?

I've written what will be the first great film of my generation. You didn't know?

[bartelby]

I've written what will be the first great film of my generation. You didn't know?

finished your script yet?

[TonyWonder]

Teardrop - Massive Attack

or

Parabola - Tool

[betao]

radiohead - pyramid song
sigur ros - untitled 6 (hell practically anything from "( )")
ulrich schnauss - blumenthal

however, after listening to it more, 4 Minute Warning by Radiohead is also a possibility.

[ThomThom]

"Will You Remember Me" - Sarah McLachlan

[amyzzz]

It's called "I Will Remember You"

[amyzzz]

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6097&highlight=funeral

[Ardentbiscuit]

Bee Gees - I started a joke

[thestripe]

I've written what will be the first great film of my generation. You didn't know?

No, I did not.

[BROKENDOLL]

Wow, this is a perfect opportunity to update a previous request in regards to my memorial service! And there's witnesses even! Fabulous! Unlike my planned memorial service, I'll try to keep this brief... Years ago, I told my mother that when my time comes, Stairway to Heaven must be played and my ashes should be rolled up and smoked by those attending the service. (I was quite the pothead at the time.) Unfortunately, mom passed before I did, and there's no way I could ever explain this plan to my father. Since then, I've experienced other things in my life that have reinfluenced my memorial plan and adjustments to it's outcome... I plan to be there! Yep...Why would anyone want to miss their own epitaph from those that love and will miss them? And why wouldn't you want to thank those few who do have nice shit to say? There will be special lighting, an open bar, and of course, a large stairway, left of centerstage. After all has been said, I'll propose a toast to all and thank them for being a part of my life as we lift our glasses, (Not shotglasses.) of Patron Teqilla. (Mine included!) Then I will give the cue to let all the little white doves that have been busily pecking one another in the back go, as I begin my ascent up the stairs as Stairway to Heaven plays to all. And, as I near the top of the stairs, (Which if timed correctly will coincide with everyone's last sip.) I will turn and give the cue for the DJ to start playing "One More Time," as I dance my way into Heaven...

[bballarl]

NWA - Fuck The Police

[whynotsmile99]

NWA - Fuck The Police

that would be hilarious, especially if you were actually killed by police

[Pixiessp]

monkey gone to heaven-pixies

[iv3rdawG]

Hmm I posted it earlier but something happend:

"Let Men Burn Stars" - M83

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[D,,d)]

The Bad Plus- Flim (Aphex Twin cover)

[allthingsthatrock]

I've always though "Hey Jude" by the Beatles would make the perfect memorial song. I always see my life move in pictures when Paul starts belting "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na." If not that one, I'd probably have to go with another Beatles song: "In My Life."

[Sonicifyouwantit]

Im going to live forever

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Ladies and gentlemen we're floating in space - Spiritualized
Unravel - Bjork

[paulb]

radiohead - all i need
swell season - falling slowly

[fiyahhh!]

It depends on when I die. If I'm the first member of my immediate family to die, the it would be "Please Tell My Brother" by Golden Smog. If I live a really long time then it would be "Death Is Not the End" by the Waterboys.

[bullokz]

http://www.cafepress.com/thelastgreatman


hahahaha

[JClemy]

Heres to the night - Eve 6

Everyone would be extra sad because it would make them all think of the fun times they would miss.

[Astrid]

mother fuck.

i was going to pick elliott smith - everything means nothing to me, but randy picked it.

Bleh.

lake of fire by nirvana i guess. but not really. perhaps nude. don't get any big ideas, they're not going to happen.

[iv3rdawG]

swell season - falling slowly

Good one.

[Bosco]

rolling in the casket:

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after ceremony:

ffi-QVH5Lus

[Kurosawa]

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6097&highlight=funeral

Thanks amy, I didn't even consider searching for the term "funeral". I don't think they even play music at funerals, aside from bagpipes.

btw have you seen [Rec] yet?

[mob roulette]

"Time" (Tom Waits)
"Sleepwalk" (Santo & Johnny)
"When The Saints Go Marching In" (Traditional)
"Mansion On The Hill" (Bruce Springsteen)
"My Father's House" (Bruce Springsteen)

This is a narcissistic thread.

Hence the bump.

[algunz]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

[Hannahrain]

I will settle for pretty much anything but "Hard Hearted Hannah".

[jimmycrackcorn]

hmmm.
right now what comes to mind is "blues" funeral from the movie OLD SCHOOL... hellifiknow the name of that song will farrell is singin -shrugs-

[Blinken]

St. James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong
Under the Bridge - RHCP
Good riddance - Green Day

[eudaemonia]

"Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt (http://www.wearescientists.com/music/s_nobodymove_hi.php)" by We Are Scientists

or

"Dying Is Fine (http://www.albertbirney.com/videos/rarariot.htm)" by Ra Ra Riot

[GnarVee]

BUG EYES by dredg

[mpg502]

Time - Pink Floyd
See You on The Other Side - Ozzy Osbourne
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da -- The Beatles

[canexplain]

Master of Time
Setting sail
Over all our lands
And as we look
Forever closer
Shall we now bid
Farewell farewell...

High Vibration go on
To the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
Past a mortal as me
Where can I be

Wish the sun to stand still
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past all mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here

Like the time I ran away
And turned around
And you were standing close to me

Awaken Yes ...........


If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
Id save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you


Jim Croche .............

I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean
for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind,
it's such a fine line
That keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.
Keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.

Neil of couse........................


x***

[davrone]

When You Sleep - My Bloody Valentine
Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
Disappearer - Sonic Youth

[Kurosawa]

I'm gonna go ahead and add:

Oooh Child - The 5 Stairsteps (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu0efgKBYVQ)

to my list. I fell in love with this song in 1991 when it was used in the film "Boyz n the Hood".

[Edit - just realized that youtube video spoils a major plot point in the movie, for those who haven't seen it. Viewers beware.]

[dear_amanda]

Aphex Twin- Flim

PERIOD.

[xxxxxxxxxx]

Slayer Raining Blood

[thedevious]

Completely agree about the Elliott Smith song! I actually thought of it first then checked to be sure no one else had used it and there it was.

So a few other ones I would currently consider.

Moonlight Mile - Rolling Stones
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Ween - The Mollusk
Daft Punk - Veridis Quo

[SoulDischarge]

I always kind of wanted to be a douchebag and play some 40 minute Merzbow song so I wouldn't really be missed. Take that loved ones! But an alternate choice would be Spiritualized - Cop Shoot Cop, which still has that way-too-long noise-freakout quality with a little tenderness thrown in.

[thelastgreatman]

No, I did not.

How could you not be? I mention it fairly frequently. If you'd like to pretend you're going to read it and never get around to it for several months I'd be more than happy to send you a copy (that's what 90 percent of all people do, the other 10 just praise me relentlessly).

mother fuck.

i was going to pick elliott smith - everything means nothing to me, but randy picked it.

Funnily enough, that song is actually in said movie. Way back in high school it was scored to a scene that has since been cut that was a pretty literal depiction of the time I committed suicide but failed to die. Then Royal Tenenbaums had to use Elliott for a much less creative suicide sequence than mine, and I felt it was cliche and ended up cutting the whole thing anyway. But just recently decided fuck it, and put the song back in a new spot.

[thedevious]

Saw Elliott here in Vegas once and I was supposed to see him perform again at the ATP west festival.

He had to cancel...bahahhaha!

No seriously he was amazing I wish he was still around ;(

[thelastgreatman]

I saw him in Philly and was actually, I'm sad to say, incredibly bored and ended up moving out to the lobby because I couldn't take standing in the crowd while he played soft little songs with just his guitar, none of which were familiar to me. It's like he was playing all his not popular songs. It was nice to listen to from the lobby though.

[thedevious]

Bummer

Yea I must have seen him on a good night, fucking hit after hit. Granddaddy did a fine job also.

[fatbastard]

Heroes - David Bowie (church piano-no vocals)

[clumsy342]

Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack and
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

These are excellent songs for both weddings and funerals.

Nice, very nice.

I think I'd have to go with:

Funeral March of a Marionette
(Alfred Hitchcock theme)
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Radiohead - A Reminder
(ignore the vid, just the song)
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[uniform72]

Sigur Ros: Samskeyti [3rd song on "( )"]

Enough said.

[butitdidhappen]

Sigur Ros: Samskeyti [3rd song on "( )"]

Enough said.

Good choice. That's one of the best.

For me, Cause = Time by Broken Social Scene.

S'all you need.

[bleep]

if i become an important dignitary in my lifetime, i'd like an orchestral version of Bjork's "Joga" minus the vocals playing at my funeral. if not, my family will have to be content w/ the sounds of my body crackling in the incinerator instead...

[ShyGuy75]

What a depressing thread

[kingsblend420]

Tool - Disposition/Reflection/Triad

[boarderwoozel3]

My Bloody Valentine - Soon
The Beatles - Let It Be

[real talk]

Avery Island/April 1st

[zenidogx]

What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

[emtgreg]

I won't be dying.

but the 267 people behind you sure will be!!!!





hahahahahahahhahahahahh

:D

[HunterGather]

Any of these would be nice

Small Time Shot Away-Massive Attack
Silent Spring-Massive Attack
Videotape-Radiohead
In This Twilight-Nine Inch Nails
Lights In The Sky- Nine Inch Nails
Hey Jupiter-Tori Amos
Alive-Daft Punk (lolllz. no not rly)

[sbessiso]

The Golden Girls theme song

[rskapcat]

The Golden Girls theme song

That is awesome.

For me? "Come Downstairs & Say Hello" by Guster. One of my favorite songs. It starts out all slow and sad and ends happy. Perfect for a slideshow of my life. Yes, I've thought about this WAAAAY to much! :P

[coldstart]

Off the top o' my head: Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty

[brenda]

freeee bird!!! skynard

[Backwater]

Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates' Life For Me

[gaypalmsprings]

Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates' Life For Me

Surrender the Booty!

[frozen pilgrim]

echoes

[Quadromarshia]

The End- The Beatles

I want them to fill my coffin with confetti. Then, the last part of the song, balloons fill up and as the song is ending my body floats out into the sunset.

[TommyboyUNM]

I have 3 on the list:

Barenaked Ladies - One Week: I don't like them, but...."It's been one week since you looked at me!"

Slayer - Angel of Death: Complete with a full light show

Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film): Favorite band and just sounds like an awesome funeral song.

[TommyboyUNM]

Yes, I've thought about this WAAAAY to much! :P


My friends and I have had detailed conversations about our funerals. I definitely want mine to be a roast.

[betao]

If I were to die tomorrow, this is what would play at the funeral:

Sigur Ros - Ara Batur

[rskapcat]

Oooohhh...I forgot about Van Morrison's "You're My Woman". I told my husband that he can pretend it was his idea to play it. Won't be a dry eye in the house. Cry for me, bitches! :D

[allyjoy]

I'm not having a funeral or memorial service or any of that, but if people feel the need to mourn, they can have a kick it at someone's house no longer than it takes to play the following list of songs:

Erykah Badu - AD 2000
Lauryn Hill - Just Like Water
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
NIN - Everyday Is Exactly the Same
Foo Fighters - Home
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
Matthew Winters - Last Refuge of a Desperate Man
Beck - Volcano
Sade - King of Sorrow
Radiohead - There There
Shekinah Glory Ministry - Yes
Billie Holiday - April in Paris
Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

[CalmerThanYou]

I'm sure it's been said, but Floyds Shine On You Crazy Diamond


edit: nice morbid thread topic! sheesh

[Donaldj]

"Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" or "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands"

[allyjoy]

"Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" or "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands"

LOL!!!

[sin213]

The Asshole Song by Dennis Leary

I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane,
While people behind me are going insane.

I'm an asshole
I'm an asshole

I use public toilets and I piss on the seat,
I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?"

I'm an asshole
I'm an asshole

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces,
While handicapped people make handicapped faces.

I'm an asshole
I'm an asshole

Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song
Ranting and raving and carrying on
Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong...

[faxman75]

That's actually Dennis Leary. Not Miller. :)

[sin213]

That's actually Dennis Leary. Not Miller. :)

doh. of course it is... ahahahaha...

thanx, fax. ;)

[Jon Blazed]

The Trashmen-Surfin' Bird

fuckin awesome

[Distorted_Jungle]

Massive Attack-Angel would probably be a pretty good song.

[Mak Attack]

NIN - A Warm Place

[mahhhc]

If I were to die tomorrow, this is what would play at the funeral:

Sigur Ros - Ara Batur

the epitome of epic earth moving post-rock. touche.

[Suffacated]

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[boarderwoozel3]

Drawing from the Coachella talent pool, I'd go with:

Let It Be - Paul McCartney
-or-
Soon - My Bloody Valentine

[Coachella Bound]

Bowie - Space Oddity, as my casket is released into space....

[Suffacated]

9 more and you become "Old School"

[Coachella Bound]

9 more and you become "Old School"

hahaha, honestly these last hundred posts have taken forever. After they announced the lineup shit got a little weird around here so i stayed away for a little bit. Its good to be back now. I can pick and choose what to talk about w/out hell breaking loose.

I actually went to a memorial service today. It was for my Great Grandpa. Nothing really to get to hub bub about, he lived a long life. Just a lil bit strange, seeing how it was the first family funeral for me.

Its funny cause they did infact play a song they thought he'd like.

[greghead]

Maggot Brain

[zajaa]

ssssiiiigggguuuurrrr rrrroooossss

[AAM!!!]

Depeche Mode-
Condemnation
World In My Eyes

Morrissey-
First of the Gang to Die
I Will See You In Far Off Places
This World Is Full Of Crashing Bores

The Smiths-
I Know It's Over

Roxy Music-
More Than This

The Verve-
History

David Bowie-
Ashes to Ashes



It's weird thinking about this hahah