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Title: What music do you want playing at your funeral?
Post by: Bentley Bullet on September 09, 2014, 08:21:32 pm: Personally I'd like something fitting like Cavatina (he was beautiful), or simply the best by Tina Turner.

Of course you have to be careful what you request, if, for instance you have a wife who's liable to physical violence, after all you don't want to risk the embarrassment of going out to 'hit me baby one more time', do you! And if you like Queen, and you give your lass the choice of one of their songs, make sure she hasn't got a sense of humour other wise you might get 'another one bites the dust', while the curtains are closing.

After I've popped my clogs and had my funeral, I reckon it'd be a nice gesture to our lass to have me stuffed and brought back home, and laid on the settee. I've mentioned this idea before to her and she said 'well at least there wouldn't be much difference to when you were alive!

With a sense of humour like that there's no way I'd risk letting her pick the songs!

What song would YOU pick?
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Post by: Nudga on September 09, 2014, 08:31:05 pm: Jumpin Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones.
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Post by: RobTheRover on September 09, 2014, 08:42:33 pm: Living in a Box, by Living in a Box.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on September 09, 2014, 09:14:57 pm: Rob

Genius

I'll be cremated, so I'll have Fire by Crazy World of Arthur Brown, followed by Religion by Front 242 (chorus is a guttural Belgian scream of "Let me burn you, let me burn you, let me burn you down")

On a serious note, I reckon I'll have Agnus Dei from Faure's Reqiuem. I want to be sent off to heaven in style and there is no Reqiuem music to compare with that. It raises the hairs on my neck every time I hear it.
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Post by: Filo on September 09, 2014, 09:20:58 pm: Take my Hand Precious Lord by Jim Reeves

Followed by Abide with me
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Post by: not on facebook on September 09, 2014, 09:35:19 pm: Rawhide
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Post by: LongbridgeMGRover on September 09, 2014, 10:06:04 pm: I'd prefer a surprise.
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Post by: Dare to dream! on September 10, 2014, 12:08:20 am: Oasis - Live Forever
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Post by: Wild Rover on September 10, 2014, 08:05:45 am: Without a doubt, the track by Sinead O'Connor at the end of Veronica Guerin film, "One More Day".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0KqDmvlSyw
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Post by: The Red Baron on September 10, 2014, 08:09:57 am: Quote from: Bentley Bullet on September 09, 2014, 08:21:32 pm
After I've popped my clogs and had my funeral, I reckon it'd be a nice gesture to our lass to have me stuffed and brought back home, and laid on the settee.

If you were stuffed your friends might be tempted to take you to the Keepmoat one last time. If the game was like the last one you'd probably still walk out after 70 minutes.

I would like generally uplifting stuff at my funeral, so stuff like "Bill is Dead" by The Fall and "Frou Frou Foxes" by The Cocteaus. I'm sure "Jerusalem" would also feature somewhere.
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Post by: moses on September 10, 2014, 09:19:11 am: If it's a car accident then has to be The Smith's with "There is a light" surely thats the law.
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Post by: MR A-Z on September 10, 2014, 10:42:54 am: Scarlet Ribbons - Sinead O'Connor
Hope There's Someone - Antony & the Johnsons
Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
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Post by: Jenny on September 10, 2014, 11:10:12 am: I don't really care, I'd be dead.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on September 10, 2014, 01:09:32 pm: Quote from: Jenny on September 10, 2014, 11:10:12 am
I don't really care, I'd be dead.

You hope...
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Post by: moses on September 10, 2014, 01:23:21 pm: Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on September 10, 2014, 01:09:32 pm
Quote from: Jenny on September 10, 2014, 11:10:12 am
I don't really care, I'd be dead.

You hope...

With my family, they would asking for a refund of the travel expenses if I emerged "Lazarus like" from the coffin.
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Post by: GM-MarkB on September 10, 2014, 01:35:34 pm: Journeyman - Iron Maiden....not your usual Irons romp
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Post by: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 01:40:44 pm: Anything that won't be written for at least twenty five years hopefully. ;)
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Post by: GM-MarkB on September 10, 2014, 01:51:45 pm: Quote from: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 01:40:44 pm
Anything that won't be written for at least twenty five years hopefully. ;)

Is rude of a Gent to ask a Lady her age...lol
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Post by: IC1967 on September 10, 2014, 02:12:42 pm: Highway To Hell - ACDC
Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be - ACDC
Hell's Bells - ACDC
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Post by: Al4475 on September 10, 2014, 04:31:57 pm: 'Remember the Good' by Roy Orbison if I could change the main line to 'for all HE meant to me I'll remember the good' as opposed to 'all SHE'... Beautiful song and well worth looking up on youtube if you don't know it!

Swap shes and hers to hes and hims and it'd work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqnw6OQXS0
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Post by: Orlandokarla on September 10, 2014, 04:53:48 pm: Binary Sunset.
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Post by: Welling Rover on September 10, 2014, 09:00:28 pm: Oysterband - The Shouting End of Life
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Post by: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 10:21:03 pm: Quote from: GM-MarkB on September 10, 2014, 01:51:45 pm
Quote from: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 01:40:44 pm
Anything that won't be written for at least twenty five years hopefully. ;)

Is rude of a Gent to ask a Lady her age...lol

Eleven days older than Dean Saunders...

Unlike Dean unworried by the thought of lines and unbothered by grey hair.. lol
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Post by: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:27:09 pm: Lol jucy
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Post by: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 10:31:27 pm: :whistle: ;)
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Post by: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:33:09 pm: My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet
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Post by: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 10:34:34 pm: Quote from: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:33:09 pm
My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

Defying gravity?
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Post by: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:37:07 pm: Quote from: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 10:34:34 pm
Quote from: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:33:09 pm
My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

Defying gravity?

Wicked

:)
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Post by: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 10:37:48 pm: Init. :)
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Post by: River Don on September 10, 2014, 10:39:46 pm: Quote from: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:33:09 pm
My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

There is something in choosing an upbeat happy tune like bring me sunshine, it's in the same tradition of playing trad jazz down in the Deep South of the USA. Always look on the bright side of life? Maybe.
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Post by: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:42:44 pm: Quote from: River Don on September 10, 2014, 10:39:46 pm
Quote from: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:33:09 pm
My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

There is something in choosing an upbeat happy tune like bring me sunshine, it's in the same tradition of playing trad jazz down in the Deep South of the USA. Always look on the bright side of life? Maybe.

Precisely, that's why we played it at my dad's funeral to walk out to.
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Post by: River Don on September 10, 2014, 10:53:20 pm: Quote from: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:42:44 pm
Quote from: River Don on September 10, 2014, 10:39:46 pm
Quote from: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:33:09 pm
My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

There is something in choosing an upbeat happy tune like bring me sunshine, it's in the same tradition of playing trad jazz down in the Deep South of the USA. Always look on the bright side of life? Maybe.

Precisely, that's why we played it at my dad's funeral to walk out to.

How about the Benny Hill theme tune?

No. Too much.

I'll always remember Rovers away to Boston, during the minutes silence the fella behind me, his phone started ringing. The Benny Hill theme. Derrr dur dur d d d d dur dur d... He couldn't turn it off. Dur d dur d dur d... It was loud, and he's going Shit! Shit! ... We couldn't laugh but it was smirks all round.
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Post by: redwine on September 10, 2014, 10:56:59 pm: That's funny but I see a funeral as a celebration of a life. Why not laugh as well as be sad.
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Post by: jucyberry on September 10, 2014, 11:05:35 pm: In that case, Wish me luck by Gracie Fields. Can't get much more chipper than that.
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Post by: ravenrover on September 11, 2014, 10:07:21 am: MIne have been chosen for years and my Undertaker knows them
In - Every Grain of Sand - Bob Dylan
Out - I Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody - Bob Dylan

My only stipulation is that whoever is there has to stay in and listen to both songs all the way through
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Post by: LincsRover on September 12, 2014, 11:52:43 pm: If it were up to me I'd have 'in dreams' by Roy Orbison but since I'll be dead (I hope - BST) whatever gives my loved ones some comfort and happy memories will do for me.
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Post by: Sandy Lane on September 13, 2014, 02:20:32 pm: I went to the wake of the crotchety grandfather of a colleague, and he wanted Frank Sinatra's My Way to be played, and sure enough it was blaring out of the funeral home's doors! It was perfect. Happy and sad (and true).
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Post by: mrfrostsdad on September 13, 2014, 03:53:22 pm: Forever Young. Bob Dylan.
The irony!!
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Post by: Crowle Rover on September 14, 2014, 04:31:14 pm: If I'm buried Going Underground by The Jam

If I'm cremated Burn by Deep Purple
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Post by: GazLaz on September 16, 2014, 06:27:27 am: Only the good die young by Billy Joel, when I die when I'm 90.
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Post by: coventryrover on September 16, 2014, 10:22:22 am: Burn baby burn by Ash
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Post by: Draytonian III on September 18, 2014, 11:25:18 pm: Don't you forget about me - Simple Minds
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on September 18, 2014, 11:37:56 pm: If it's going to be Simple Minds, it'd better be Somebody Up There Likes You.
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Post by: Mr1Croft on September 20, 2014, 12:24:52 am: Dropkick Murphys - Going out in Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7g3RuoreRc