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Offline TempusVox

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Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« on: September 02, 2010, 12:27:30 PM »
Yes....this is macabre as hell, but what songs would you like to have played at your funeral, or wake? I'm not talking about the funeral dirge here either. Before you answer, think about the people in attendance. Be realistic- don't answer "Something by Cannibal Corpse", unless you think your family rolls like that.

For me:

Adagio for Strings
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Sonata #14, Opus #27 "Moonlight"
Ave Maria
Further on Down the Road
and finally, Amazing Grace with bagpipes
AND
Always Look On the Bright Side of Life

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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 12:30:39 PM »
Quote from: TempusVox on September 02, 2010, 12:27:30 PM
Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
:lol That would be so awkward!

Mine would probably be some sad stuff like Stop Swimming, Lazarus or Collapse. Yeah, those kind of Porcupine Tree songs.

EDIT: On second thought, it would only make people more sad so I'm not sure... :-\
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2010, 12:46:48 PM »
Maybe Lenny, but it's a bit cheesy. Dogs by Damien Rice perhaps.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2010, 12:48:33 PM »
The Great Gig in the Sky-Pink Floyd

And I think I might have to steal that "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" idea from you when the time comes Tempus.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2010, 12:49:21 PM »
The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 01:16:45 PM »
Satch - Flying in a Blue Dream
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2010, 01:25:48 PM »
Cannibal Corpse - "I Cum Blood"

Cuz my family totally rolls like that.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2010, 01:27:19 PM »
Would probably start with a soft-ballad type of song like "Lullaby" by Blackfield, then followed by "Wreath" by Opeth.  :biggrin:
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2010, 01:35:46 PM »
Collapse the Light Into Earth - Porcupine Tree
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2010, 01:37:58 PM »
Quote from: GuitarCozmo on September 02, 2010, 01:16:45 PM
Satch - Flying in a Blue Dream

mmmm, wonderfull!!

Or Maybe midnight! or I'm Becoming - Steve Vai
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2010, 01:42:14 PM »
Time by Hans Zimmer, from the Inception soundtrack.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2010, 01:43:28 PM »
I've never thought about that before. 

As people are coming in, play some southern rock classics like "Freebird" and "Midnight Rider". 

Then to start the ceremony play the Arkansas Razorbacks fight song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEY5xJ32fB8

Then the preacher gives a short little sermon followed by "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFarrin

Testimonials

Then a small local jazz band can play "When the Saints Go Marching In" in New Orleans funeral style

The preacher says a few more words and then play "Jesus Freak" as people leave.  :biggrin:

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« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2010, 02:01:46 PM »
Theme from To Kill A Mockingbird, by Elmer Bernstein.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2010, 02:05:01 PM »
A few years ago, I actually burned my mom a CD of mellow songs I wanted played in the background when people come to view my body at the funeral home.  I know, kinda depressing thing to do.  It was all Kevin Moore songs.  You can go at any moment, and I wanted the comfort of KM tunes filling the room on my dying day.  :blush

1) "Eve" by Dream Theater
2) "Chroma Key" by Chroma Key
3) "Colorblind" by Chroma Key
4) "Subway" by Chroma Key
5) "Standby (Looks Like Rain)" by OSI
6) "Sad Sad Movie" by Chroma Key
7) "White Robe" by Chroma Key
8) "Our Town" by OSI
9) "Space-Dye Vest" by Dream Theater
10) Bonus track: "Song for Tori" by Kevin Moore
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2010, 02:06:22 PM »
What a depressing list. :lol
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2010, 02:11:30 PM »
Quote from: TempusVox on September 02, 2010, 12:27:30 PM
and finally, Amazing Grace with bagpipes

I still tear up like a baby when Scotty plays that as Spock coasts down the torpedo tube.

I don't have any songs that are that meaningful to me, and all the funerals I've been to have been short and sweet, which is how I would like it: Get in, and get out; don't spend hours of time mourning for me. I've always liked the theme song to Shawshank Redemption though, what plays when Andy tells Red about Zihuatenejo in the yard.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #16 on: September 02, 2010, 03:36:55 PM »
'Faith No More - Surprise! You're Dead!', being able to joke about it makes death not nearly as depressing as it already is.

One a more serious note, I don't think I'd want people to hear something I chose for them to hear, if they want to link a song to my passing then they can just do it themselves.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #17 on: September 02, 2010, 05:27:35 PM »
Dream Theater
-The Spirit Carries on
-Wither
-Take Away My Pain
-Octavarium

Nightwish
-Ghost Love Score (Orchestral Version)
-Eva (Orchestral Version)
-Meadows of Heaven (Instrumental Version)
-While Your Lips Are Still Red
-Beauty of the Beast


Jon Mayer - Say
Within Temptation - Somewhere
Yiruma - River Flows In You
Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come
Jeff and Mychael Danna - The Blood of Cu Chalainn
Danyew - Wake Up
Metallica - Hero of the Day
Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home
Staind - So Far Away
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
The 69 Eyes - Only You Can Save Me
Louis Armstrong - We have All the Time in the World
Opeth - Hours of Wealth
Opeth - Windowpane
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond Pt. 1 & 2
System of a Down - Roulette
The 35 Minute Justin Beiber Ambient Remix I found on DTF

So far that's all I got
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #18 on: September 02, 2010, 05:29:29 PM »
Jeff Buckley. Any song, although Hallelujah is a bit cliché. Also Anathema - One Last Goodbye.

Oh, and something from ( ).




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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #19 on: September 02, 2010, 05:29:43 PM »
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #20 on: September 02, 2010, 05:42:19 PM »
Quote from: wolfking on September 02, 2010, 05:29:43 PM
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness.

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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #21 on: September 02, 2010, 05:48:35 PM »
No sad music at all. I want my life to be celebrated not mourned. So to answer the question...METAL!  :metal :metal. Yes, I'm being completely serious.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2010, 06:48:35 PM »
Opeth - Isolation Years
Eisley - Lost at Sea

That's it.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #23 on: September 02, 2010, 06:56:17 PM »
Fatal Tragedy.















No seriously.

















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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #24 on: September 02, 2010, 07:58:34 PM »
My wife wants me to play that disco song "aaaaAAAH - FREAK OUT!" at hers.  She's swell.

I wouldn't want anything too sad.  Rain Song by Led Zeppelin would be lovely.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #25 on: September 02, 2010, 08:01:02 PM »
Devin Townsend - Bend it Like Bender
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #26 on: September 02, 2010, 08:02:55 PM »
Serious-- Until The End Of Time - Toto


Funny---Dead Mans Party - Oingo Boingo
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #27 on: September 02, 2010, 08:06:44 PM »
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Devin Townsend - Bend it Like Bender
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #28 on: September 02, 2010, 08:18:04 PM »
My first thought was Iced Earth's "Watching Over Me"
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2010, 08:29:56 PM »
The Number of the Beast
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #30 on: September 02, 2010, 08:30:16 PM »
You know what else would be a funny song to stun family and friends.  Hell, by the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #31 on: September 02, 2010, 09:54:00 PM »
Nothing. I want no music, just akward silence as they play a recording of me listing random people there, and then say that those were the people who sexually mollested me as a child.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #32 on: September 02, 2010, 10:17:58 PM »
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #33 on: September 02, 2010, 10:40:47 PM »
Quote from: Adami on September 02, 2010, 09:54:00 PM
Nothing. I want no music, just akward silence as they play a recording of me listing random people there, and then say that those were the people who sexually mollested me as a child.
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Re: Songs You'd Want Played At Your Funeral
« Reply #34 on: September 02, 2010, 10:58:26 PM »
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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