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What song(s) would you like played at your funeral?

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Everything You Know is Wrong by Weird Al Yankovik - just because it would make people go WTF?
Heaven is a Place on Earth - semi-appropriate, and very 80's
Who wants to Rule the World - One of my favorite songs
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Maybe Rush's Ghost of a Chance. The Rolls the Bones album wound through my rotation the other day and I thought about just how much that song reflects my own personal worldview. It's the most beautiful rock song ever IMO.
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I hate to chime in but I notice you really like bands that I really dislike. I've never been able to like Rush and I've really never liked The Doors either. I'm a huge rock fan of the 60's and 70's and have a pretty big collection though. At least you favor the same type of music :beer:.

As for what I'd like to be played...I don't really know. Maybe one of Brahms' symphonies like his second or third. Or perhaps just the second movement of his 4th.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Vic
Maybe Rush's Ghost of a Chance. The Rolls the Bones album wound through my rotation the other day and I thought about just how much that song reflects my own personal worldview. It's the most beautiful rock song ever IMO.
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I hate to chime in but I notice you really like bands that I really dislike. I've never been able to like Rush and I've really never liked The Doors either. I'm a huge rock fan of the 60's and 70's and have a pretty big collection though. At least you favor the same type of music :beer:.

As for what I'd like to be played...I don't really know. Maybe one of Brahms' symphonies like his second or third. Or perhaps just the second movement of his 4th.
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How could you not like this song, if only just for its poetry?


Like a million little doorways
All the choices we made
All the stages we passed through
All the roles we played

For so many different directions
Our separate paths might have turned
With every door that we opened
Every bridge that we burned

Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace

I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last...

Like a million little crossroads
Through the back streets of youth
Each time we turn a new corner
A tiny moment of truth

For so many different connections
Our separate paths might have made
With every door that we opened
Every game we played

Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace

I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last...


It's freakin' beautiful.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
How could you not like this song, if only just for its poetry?
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This is where our music values differ. I don't deny Rush or The Doors have songs that are poetically beautiful, but when I listen to music I often don't even try to listen to the words. I listen to rhythm and melody, and judge a song by that. Probably the same reason I enjoy a good symphony over an opera, or why I really love surf music.
The Doors and Rush have never had a sound that really sparkled to me. Similar bands such as Yes and perhaps older Pink Floyd music have. Lyrics are a bonus to me.

But yes, I won't deny that song has amazing lyrics. :thumbsup:

edit: I also wouldn't mind having the instrumental peice "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny played at my funeral, either. 🙂
 
songs at my funeral: "many rivers to cross" by jimmy cliff, "angel" by aretha franklin, and i've always had this fantasy that some beautiful, tearful woman would insist on "you're the best thing that ever happened to me" by gladys knight.
 
Finally settled on these three songs:

Vivaldi - Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo "La Follia" op 1 No 12,R V 63 in D minor
Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
Nine Inch Nails - Leaving Hope
 
Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Hanson - mmmbop
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:music:
In an Mmmbop you're gone
In an Mmmbop you're not there...
🙁

I don't think the mourners will be able to handle that 🙁


As for me, I don't know. Part of me wants Fatboy Slim's Praise You. Another part of me wants Sigur Ros' Svefn-G-Englar but then, I don't really want people making out to moody, depressive music at my funeral.
 
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