Song played at your funeral. What would you choose and why?Music 

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I’d want something uppity, like maybe Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3. I want to be cremated and have more of a “celebration” than a funeral, so it would be background music while people eat and talk.
 
emad
Dream Theater - I walk beside you
Pink Floyd - Time
Joe Satriani - Souls of Distortion
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky

and of course, the whole of Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder
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:cheers: to you and to everybody else that chose some Pink Floyd songs - some intelligent people 👍

As for me, I will have to go (literally) with

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

EDIT: Oh, yeah. Why. I thought it was so obvious that I forgot to mention it. Because it's my favorite song while I am alive and it will be my favorite song until the day I die and even later. I'll make arrangements to have an mp3 player running on solar power play all of Pink Floyd albums on repeat, in my coffin :D

The Wizard.
 
Avenged Sevenfold - I Wont See You Tonight Pt.1

My all time favorite song, a mournful power ballad. And its almost 9 minutes long, make them wait longer for the buffea.
 
Sage
I’d want something uppity, like maybe Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3. I want to be cremated and have more of a “celebration” than a funeral, so it would be background music while people eat and talk.
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An Irish funeral?

I've thought of that but I don't think alot of older people could handle it.
 
Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. I was named after the chap, and the adagio is particularly suited to funerals. Great for enhancing grief. :D
 
Samberto
Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. I was named after the chap, and the adagio is particularly suited to funerals. Great for enhancing grief. :D
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You're not wrong there :(... was used to good effect in 'The Killing Fields' if my memory serves me well...

I reckon it would have to be either The Jam - Going Underground (if buried) or Deep Purple - Burn (if cremated)... :sly:

only joking, I think it would have to be Supertramp - The Logical Song - why? It's my favourite song... took me ages to realise this, but Supertramp are a pretty cynical bunch of chaps, hence why I like them so much :trouble:
 
Well.....

I make everyone listen to all my favorite stuff:

* Nirvana-All apologies
* STP-Interstate Love Song
* The Verve-Bittersweet Symphony

* And just for kicks (in all seriousness) all of my Drumcorps music. I love it, and it'll be the last time they'll have to deal with it, just like me.

And save the best for last:

Canon in D, by Bach ( I think the original is the most influential, but I seriously like the GT4 mix, as well.)

The last song is probably the most beautiful piece of music that I've ever had the pleasure of listening to, and that'd definately be the song to play-especially to really get their tear ducts working properly.
 
ExigeExcel
An Irish funeral?

I've thought of that but I don't think alot of older people could handle it.
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Those are what Irish funerals are like?

My grandma had a funeral like that, and it worked out great (and there were plenty of old fogies, and they didn’t seem to mind). I’ve never understood why people would want somber funerals.
 
Green Day - Good Riddence (Time of your Life). No, really. This is not a joke.
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry (original lyrics)
System of a Down - Starlit Eyes
Queen - No-one but You

My job bores me, and this is one of the things I've thought about a fair bit.
 
anyone remember that song that goes like "shout! throw your hands up and shout!" it was something like that... it was used in a commercial for shout laundry soap but its a realy song. its a really happy song. kinda like something you would dance to...

which leads me into the next part... my funeral is going to be a rave. just for the hell of it. a big foam pit right in the middle with strippers all around... i'd have my body on wires hung from the ceilling and it'd be lit up with strobe lights and the techno would be blasting like mad while my body did all these odd dance moves in mid air...


a guy can dream anyway...
 
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anyone remember that song that goes like "shout! throw your hands up and shout!" it was something like that... it was used in a commercial for shout laundry soap but its a realy song. its a really happy song. kinda like something you would dance to...

which leads me into the next part... my funeral is going to be a rave. just for the hell of it. a big foam pit right in the middle with strippers all around... i'd have my body on wires hung from the ceilling and it'd be lit up with strobe lights and the techno would be blasting like mad while my body did all these odd dance moves in mid air...


a guy can dream anyway...
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OMFG... That really upset my stomach, it would weird me out too much I think. :scared:
Props for thinking of something really... erm... different. :crazy:
 
I can think of several songs...
- Life by the Drop (S.R.V)
- Wish you were Here (Pink Floyd)
- Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
- Mabye some sort of Clapton (Acoustic version of Layla)
- Take the Long Way Home (Supertramp)
- If I want to go out with a bang, Running with the Devil (Van Halen)
- Some more SRV. (That's Stevie Ray Vaughan for those not in the know).
- Mabye Castles made of Sand (Hendrix)
 
I can't belive somebody else chose Bach! 👍 I don't know if it's appropriate or not, but my pick would be "Air". Simply because it's the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. Johann Sebastian Bach is my favorite composer by far. :)

If I chose rock, it will be something by the Beatles or Oasis.

The Beatles - In My Life
"There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all"


Oasis - Let There Be Love
"I hope the weather is calm as you sail up your heavenly stream
Suspended clear in the sky are the words that we sing in our dreams

Let there be love "
Incidentally, my user title reads title of this song right now.......... I hope it doesn't mean anything(if it does, it's your fault James!).

crimson_menace
Canon in D, by Bach ( I think the original is the most influential, but I seriously like the GT4 mix, as well.)
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That is so wrong! :D Canon is wonderful(I believe it means "law"), but it's not Johann. It was by Pachelbel. ;)
 
a6m5
The Beatles - In My Life
"There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all"
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Thumbs up to In My Life. George Martin’s electric harpsichord solo is to die for… :p
 
a6m5
I can't belive somebody else chose Bach! 👍 I don't know if it's appropriate or not, but my pick would be "Air". Simply because it's the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. Johann Sebastian Bach is my favorite composer by far. :)
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There's a really great version of it on the Collateral Soundtrack, Track 11.

And I'm actually listening to Cello Suite No. 1 In G Major right now, performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Awesomes! 👍 👍
 
Rethinking what I previously said, there are way too many Pink Floyd songs I would like to be played at my funeral...

The choice is hard:

Comfortably Numb
High Hopes
On the Turning Away
Two Suns in the Sunset
Wish You Were Here
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Learning to Fly
Etcetera etcetera etcetera (NOT a Pink Floyd song ;))

I guess I'll just have my whole favorite selection played - that will fix the problem easy :D

On a more serious note, though, it is not really an Italian tradition to play songs (as in non-religious songs) at someone's funeral, but I guess the final wishes of the person to whom the funeral is "dedicated" (for lack of a better word :D) should also be respected?

I have a friend of mine (Italian friend) that hates Knockin' on Heaven's Door because they played it at one of his best friends' funeral. So, I guess it can be arranged to have a non-conventional song to be played at someone's funeral.

I wonder how they will take it if a whole album was played? :scared: :sly:

The Wizard.
 
rather then music, how about they play a long sound clip of some group c car or some other sports car like an nsx lm going around a track like the nurburgring... that would be pretty cool. shame i wouldnt be around to hear it! :lol:
 
Samberto
Thumbs up to In My Life. George Martin’s electric harpsichord solo is to die for… :p
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It just might be my favorite song by John Lennon. :)

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There's a really great version of it on the Collateral Soundtrack, Track 11.

And I'm actually listening to Cello Suite No. 1 In G Major right now, performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Awesomes! 👍 👍
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:lol: Yo-Yo Ma is awesome. I have his CD called "Classic Yo-Yo", it might have the same track you were listening to. 👍 "Air" from Collateral sound sad. I usually don't care too much for classical piano, but the sad tone would fit the funeral perfectly. :D
 
Orion - Metallica
Instramental (Sp?)

Fade To Black - Metallica
"Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye"

Waste Of Time - Pennywise
"Or is there a heaven a distant valley
A golden meadow waiting for us in the sky
No one right answer spirit seems broken
Still I just can't help but wonder why
Seems like a tragic waste of time
Who cares what happens when you die?"
 
a6m5
That is so wrong! :D Canon is wonderful(I believe it means "law"), but it's not Johann. It was by Pachelbel. ;)
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Erm.... :crazy: :scared:

My bad, 'tis blasphemy to confuse the two.

I was visualizing the playlist in the whole 'jukebox' deal in GT4.

I knew that...I actually have a few recordings elsewhere...

I feel so retarded... :dunce:
 

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