Music for the dead

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I was driving home from work last night listening to 'The Eternal' by Joy Division :notworthy: and couldn't help but think how perfect a funeral song it is.

I concluded I will have it played at my funeral followed by Rock & Roll by Gary Glitter and So What - the Metallica version.

Any thoughts on what the throng will bop to when you pop it?
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I think we've had this before?, it's still Severance, Atmosphere and Last Exit For The Lost.
I would also have to consider Giest by LOUD or the theme tune from Jaws.
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Ha, this is a perennial favourite amongst a bunch of old Goffs In Denial... :innocent:

...I'm not a fan, but I think the Jam's "Going Underground" would be pretty good. :wink:
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Bauhaus - Exquisite Corpse :twisted:
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The Michael Nyman Band - Endgame from Drowning by Numbers soundtrack, then as everyone is leaving...
Megadeth -Wake Up Dead! at extreme volume :twisted:
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Dead Can Dance - The host of Seraphim (serious choice)

Motorhead - Killed by Death (silly choice!)
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If I'm in a lofty mood when writing down my last will (not so likely): My Death - David Bowie

otherwise: Golden Brown - the Stranglers

... but shouldnt it be better a song that the funeral guests like (if there are any)? I can't hear it anymore anyway. ;D
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still Heartland/GimmeShelter -the single greatest side of vinyl ever pressed. :von:
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One of my own, probably Outrospection.

That way I get to speak to those present, and of course...

"These musings won't deter the earth from taking what will die" :von:
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I think we have to decide first whether we're going for "Celebration of Claire's Life" - :roll: it's what she would've wanted ( :eek: no it isn't! :twisted: )...

...or dirgy misery and everyone crying into their drinks saying "We never realised her true greatness while she was alive..." etc etc.

The latter option is infinitely preferable :wink: , so...

Eyes Of Nature by SWANS, definitely.

I've always thought Lisa Gerrard's "Sanvean" would be beautiful played at a funeral.

I'd have to some Banshees and some Sisters, any tracks would do quite frankly.

And that's a top choice from Libby and Keef with "The Host Of Seraphim"and "Severance". :notworthy:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:still Heartland/GimmeShelter -the single greatest side of vinyl ever pressed. :von:
Absolutely damn right, Lee.

Though when I pop my clogs, it's gonna be Into The West by the stupendous Ms Lennox as I glide into the flames.
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Is it wrong to want to be carried up the aisle in a casket borne by 6 epileptics, all at various stages of seizure, to the strains of Sneaky Bat Machine's 'Boneshaker'?
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Not entirely seriously...

I want to be sent out into the Atlantic in a burning longboat to the strains of Led Zep's Immigrant Song Image

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well I'm a bit busy at the moment, but if I ever get round to dying then possibly 'under the milkyway' by the church would be nice.
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Monty Python Flying etc. - "allways look at the bright side of life"
Lech Janerka - "wieje"
Notre Dame - "My ride into after life" : " I went to satan to live my life I tried to lure him into making me a wife A young and horny to bare my child"

yup "Heartland" it's great choice :notworthy:
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I'll force the funeral guests to sing along to the soundtrack. As opposed to hymns. And with that in mind:

The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Outcasts - Mania
James Rays Gangwar - Either Cadillac Coming or Blue Lover
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boudicca wrote:Eyes Of Nature by SWANS, definitely.
That has to be one of my most favourite songs :notworthy:
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Bartoszek wrote:Monty Python Flying etc. - "allways look at the bright side of life"
exactly.
or Leichenhalle by Die Ärzte 8)

or Top Nite Out :von:
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Brideoffrankenstein wrote:
boudicca wrote:Eyes Of Nature by SWANS, definitely.
That has to be one of my most favourite songs :notworthy:
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And In The Eyes Of Nature
We Could Never Have Been Born
And The Light That Surrounds Us
Will Take Us Into It's Arms
And When We Die We'll Disappear
Into The Eyes Of Nature
And We're Here Just For A Little While
And Then Our Body Disappears
Into The Eyes Of Nature
Into The Arms Of God
Into The Mouth Of Indifference
Into The Eyes Of Nature
And We Are Nothing But Experience
In The Eyes Of Nature
And We Will Live Forever
In The Eyes Of Nature

(annoying, those capitals, innit? but I couldn't be arsed changing them)

Seems like both our pop-yer-clogs playlists are the same. :lol:

Well, Libs, if we're both run over by a bus whilst crossing the road together at a future HL meet, Quiffles can organise us a double funeral...

HL can have a proper goff partay! ;D
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Ya fookin' goff :lol:

No doubt you'll have a headstone fashioned out of Murph's not-goth-honest brick, too ;D
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Motz wrote:Ya fookin' goff :lol:

No doubt you'll have a headstone fashioned out of Murph's not-goth-honest brick, too ;D
In the shape of an ankh, yes... :innocent: :lol:
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pikkrong wrote:Leichenhalle by Die Ärzte 8)
:notworthy:

Lalalalalalalala... :lol:
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If I were to be cremated, it'd have to be 'Fire' by Arthur Brown.
Nice quiet church, the coffin enters the curtain to the furnace,
all of a sudden.............................................
'I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE, AND I BRING YOU.......FIRE!'
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