funeral music

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Heart - Alone
Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Poison - Fallen Angel...

& etc.

Uh, on topic: "Blackbird" or possibly Klymaxx's "Meeting in the Ladies Room."

People kind of rely on the cliches to get through bereavement I think. Of course I don't mean to be disrespectful to Jess.

But I just think if I had to I'd rather just not upset people and stick to traditions. I dunno, maybe people would expect my funeral to be full of that music they'd always hated.

This also raises the question about how much my funeral is about me and how much it is about those I leave behind. I'm kind of leaning towards it being more about everybody else.

Now come on Suzy, did you make this up or what?

Nobody, but nobody, can beat my estranged father's funeral. Having not seen him but the once for about eleven years, we went along with our heads bowed and feet shuffling. And as we entered the chapel, the song playing was *ahem* "Bob The Builder". Now, at first we presumed that there was some kind of insensitive chapel radio, but then we figured 'aah, well, he did work in the building trade, rather odd, but kind of understandable, maybe, ummm'. During the service they played the rather cliched "My Way". And as we were walking out, half of his family in tears, what did they play? Why, "Who Let The Dogs Out" of course.

This is all true. And much as I feel bad about it, it is the funniest fucking thing I have ever experienced in my life.

I want my funeral to be a performance of Martin's Mass For Double Choir. The "Agnus Dei" alone is AMAZING.

The last two tracks of XTC's "Skylarking" will be played at my funeral, that much I know. To acknowledge my death, and to celebrate a new beginning.

the service was low key and they played his last (unfinished and really incerdibly beautiful) requirem (it's first performance). yes, it was a low key affair but the same as for anyone else (apart from members of the aristocracy).

While there's a Wedding Music thread currently floating around ILM, and while I'm on another thread posting about the song Strychnine, I'll have to come here and say that at my funeral I want the Sonics' version of Huey Smith's Don't You Just Know It playing as my casket is lowered.

Gooba gooba gooba goo-ba
GOOBA GOOBA GOOBA GOO-BA
ha ha ha ha
HA HA HA HA
ha ha ha ha
HA HA HA HA
heyyyy-ay-o
HEYYYY-AY-O!

Or, if I get semi-seriouslike about it, that Don't Cry No Tears song by Neil Young. Not so much for the overall lyrical content as the chorus, but y'know...

Or...I'll just change my mind like I do about most things...

This also raises the question about how much my funeral is about me and how much it is about those I leave behind. I'm kind of leaning towards it being more about everybody else.

-- Ronan, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (6 years ago) Link

I have left specific instructions with a family member forbidding Amazing Grace from being sung. I worry a little bit that its absence will upset someone, but I hate that song and really don't wanna go out like that. I'm thinking about subbing another Christian hymn - Let There Be Peace On Earth or something.

John Coltrane, Blue Train.

Uh, on topic: "Blackbird" or possibly Klymaxx's "Meeting in the Ladies Room."

-- Ryan Schreiber, Saturday, February 9, 2002 7:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

Either To Live Is To Fly or You Are Not Needed Now.

queen - only the good die young... i thought about this for years

aguas de marco - tom jobim & elis.

I used to think Thirty Three by the Smashing Pumpkins, but maybe that's a bit emo. I like the idea of To Here Knows When by MBV, but that might be a bit selfish. Maybe not though.

it doesn't have to be a good song

when i die, i want a brass band to roll.

Anal Cunt

'Dead Gay and Dropped'

From its love of Rob Base to the first known network-TV use of a track from David Lee Roth's Spanish-language recut of "Eat 'Em and Smile," "My Name is Earl" beat "The O.C." this year for music supervision. Talk about mope rock -- sheesh. Marissa Cooper should've had a New Orleans funeral, for our sakes.

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A friend of mine died eight years ago, and his family played the album Let It Be over the speakers as everyone was getting situated in the pews and looking at his pictures.

It was one thing to hear "Long & Winding Road" and the title track playing, but it was another thing to hear all of those "I dig a pygmy!" studio chatters along with them.

I have no idea what should be played at my funeral, if there is one. If would have never predicted that my wedding soundtrack would have included Air and Silver Jews either.

This has come up on every message board I've ever been on, and my answer remains the same.

I want Elton John to rewrite one of his shitty hit songs in my honor. "Honky Cat" has been suggested.

But seriously - I always fancied a bit of 'Houston in Two Seconds' by Ry Cooder.

My ex girlfriend wanted that big, sprawling Yo La Tengo track off Electro Pura. Was it 'Blue Lined Swinger'? I loved her for that

this topic always makes me wish i was religious. jesus, lover of my soul by the edwin hawkins singers would be such a pumping church anthem, and so apt if it actually represented anything that i believed in. getting all the best music AND getting to go to heaven, though: no fair. still, maybe playing religious stuff if you're atheistic's good in the whole pascal's wager sense.

I'd like Crash Worship to reunite & shower the mourners with my ashes, honey, milk, and a liquid to be named later.

I asked this of a musician friend long ago, and she suggested Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot, You're Hot." I liked that.

"Let It Be" would tug too many strings. I think maybe I'd go with Three Dog Night's "Out in the Country."

There's another thread about this. Again, I will say Stars of the Lid's "Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2", but with a new, awkward twist: 2 old men and 2 old women must attempt to perform it live, a capella.

Dude there's like half a dozen threads about this at least. Kinda had to just pick one for the revive.

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

"A Little Lost" by Arthur Russell.

or maybe "Song IV" by Peter Zummo, featuring Arthur Russell.

it would just have to involve Arthur Russell.

Get Physical just put out a comp on this theme:

1 Erik Satie - 1. Gymnopédie – selected by DJ T
2 Rob Gallagher – Little One – selected by Gilles Peterson
3 Photek – Modus Operandi – selected by Storm
4 The Stranglers – Golden Brown – selected by DJ Hell
5 Cerrone – Supernature – selected by Kevin Saunderson
6 Radiohead – Sit Down Stand Up – selected by Laurent Garnier
7 Chloé – Paradise – selected by Chloé
8 The Beach Boys – 'Til I Die – selected by David Holmes.
9 Peggy Lee – Is That All There Is? – selected by Ewan Pearson
10 Inti Illimani - Caramba, Yo Soy Dueno del Baron – selected by Ricardo Villalobos
11 Link – Amenity – selected by Richie Hawtin
12 Pharoah Sanders – Astral Travelling – selected by Francois K
13 Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent) – selected by Coldcut

10 Inti Illimani - Caramba, Yo Soy Dueno del Baron – selected by Ricardo Villalobos

good old Ricardo.

altho there are a lot of Inti songs/traditional Chilean numbers I would have picked before it.

also not so sure how keen people will be to get the hankies out and dance a cueca at a funeral.

aphex twin - "rhubarb" and "lichen"

papa-oom-mow-mow

7 Chloé – Paradise – selected by Chloé

shit, i didn't see this one at first. fuck sake.

i wanna play some arvo part, but i know that i'd have to have a really sad death to justify it. i'd want people to be tumbling out of the chapel feeling like their grief had been appropriately translated into music, not just kinda bummed but super curious to go download some arvo.

sincerely wants, some overshadowed by atheism; 'jesus, lover of my soul' by the edwin hawkins singers; telephone by erika badu; mother's last word to her son by washington phillips.

10. Ricardo Villalobos selected ‘Caramba, Yo Soy Dueno del Baron?’ by Inti Illimani
I chose a piece by my favourite folklore band as the melancholies, tradition, pride and fortune of this track creates a mixture that directly connects to the person I have become. It can either be interpreted as melancholic or joyful.

"Opus Dei" by Laibach. Natch.

It can either be interpreted as melancholic or joyful.

Ha, this is like half of Chilean folk music.

No wait, if Ewan Pearson gets the Peggy Lee version of Is That All There Is?, then I want the Cristina version.

So I've been tasked with finding specific tracks for a friend's relative's funeral, and I'm stuck on a couple of them. They are:

Claude Leveillée, “Emmene moi”.
José Feliciano, “Ain’t No Sunshine”.
José Feliciano, “Envidia”.

If anyone has one of these lying around, could you kindly share it? It would be a huge help.

sunshine http://www.mediafire.com/?zntwumifm41

Surprisingly hard to find, these. Envidia -> only ever done on TV & on youtube?

thanks a ton Stan, and yes, they are bloody tricky. Luckily the rest are mostly hits / easy to find.

Envidia: if you can record audio, then maybe record that youtube video or the studio version (vinyl rip) streaming here : http://melomanoincurable.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/679/ ?

well tuned piano.

I can record audio, so that's perfect, thanks. I'd prefer not to use YouTube rips but I might not have an alternative in some cases.

Best take that one, that vinyl rip sounds pretty awful :-/

Still looking for that third one, will try again tomorrow if you've got the time & nobody else found it for you.

you're a champ.

Emmène-moi (hope it's the right version) http://www.mediafire.com/?jiyz2hjzjmt

That's amazing, thanks.

dress sexy at my funeral - smog

3 songs had to be chosen for my wifes funeral last week.
in the end after a lot of soul searching (my wife refused to enter into any discussion re her funeral ) i chose :

entrance : 'riders of the storm' : the doors (my wifes fave band)
contemplative : 'you made me so very happy' : lou rawls/david axelrod (from me to her .. )
leave'em smiling exit : 'blitzkrieg pop' : the ramones (my wifes fave band #2, and her fave glass of red wine track)

unexpectedly several people came up to me after and commented on the excellent music.
however, what really surprised me was when folks asked me what the music was, i answered 'the second track ?', expecting it to be the lou rawls track that would instigate interest, to which the response was 'no no, the entrance music'
tough crowd.
so, now all i have to do is figure out my 3 choices, cos knowing my kids they'll all be absolute shyte, and i aint having that ..

too dark for ilm.

Those are lovely choices.

ta.
i would have liked to have gone a little more leftfield as my wife would have loved the shock value of the sex pistols and ministry, but after a lot of umm'ing and arggh'ing, i decided to compromise.
seemed to have worked.

your post literally brought a tear to my eye mark. great choices. so sorry for your loss.

it made me rethink my attitude to music at funerals too. whenever asked i always say i want 'agadoo' by black lace as i won't be there and it amuses me (in advance) that my friends will have to endure 4 minutes of musical hell but i think i need to have a slight maturity reappraisal.

Glad your choices went down well Mark. Thank god for music eh?

indeed nickb.

thank whatever deity one believes in (or otherwise), as it became very clear that music cuts through so many layers of unspoken emotions.

Van der Graaf Generator, "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End":

"And though dark is the highway,
and the peak's distance breaks my heart,
for I never shall see it, still I play my part,
believing that what waits for us
is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past.
In the death of mere humans life shall start!"

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARauoaILbx8

(recently experienced on a funeral)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cTUnUtzx4

Last year I see I was going for VdGG but this year I'm all about The Walkabouts' version of the old standard "Satisfied Mind":

When my life is ended, my time has run out
My trials and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt
But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piYAbPeC_PI

Ektomorph - fuck you all

(was played today on a funeral i attended...by a catholic preacher!)

Has anyone attended a funeral with a soundtrack chosen by the deceased? How was it received?

I picked out the music at my grandmothers funeral, mostly 70's country and folk. Songs she loved. at my funeral I want deep organ lounge like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9YA9hGxBg

Just saw my dad for the last time yesterday. Brought a little speaker into the hospital and played him Ocean Songs by Dirty Three (one of his favorites), along with some others I thought he’d appreciate—King Crimson, Eno, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt, Stars of the Lid, Velvets, Arthur Russell, Talk Talk, Them, Dylan, Robert Wyatt, Neil, Beatles, etc. Also brought a guitar and a little amp, which he seemed to respond positively to, although it did get me very politely shushed by one of the nurses for getting carried away with a fuzz pedal. I was getting ready to see him again this morning, but by the time I got in the shower, he was already gone, as I learned immediately after getting out. Absolutely fucking crushed.

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thank you for posting.♡

Thank you. <3

It’s been a hell of a Thanksgiving, that’s for sure.

(Oh yeah, Richard Thompson, he loved Richard Thompson.)