Song for your funeral

[Jah Lush]

For me it'll be:- Last Orders Please by The Faces, Into My Arms - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and as the curtain closes Jumping Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones.

[steveo]

OK I'll sort that, when are you off?

[Jah Lush]

Sooner than you think.

[Otta]

Er, really? I do hope not.

"Hurt by Johnnie Cash"

Sorry to be pedantic (and a bit of a knob) but Hurt isn't by Cash. I say this because I love the piano led version done by Trent Rezner, and Cash's version is the only one people know.

[*Bob*]

The problem with most crematoria is they fail to provide a decent rig.

So that dream of a rousing airing of Jumping Jack Flash is hoist when the MC starts fumbling with the portable Alba CD boom-box.

[aquarius moon]

Walkaway by Cast

[Jah Lush]

Otta Wrote:

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> Er, really? I do hope not.

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> "Hurt by Johnnie Cash"

>

>

> Sorry to be pedantic (and a bit of a knob) but

> Hurt isn't by Cash. I say this because I love the

> piano led version done by Trent Rezner, and Cash's

> version is the only one people know.

I think most people who love music know who wrote it and have sought out the original Nine Inch Nails version but the video that goes with Johnny Cash's take on it does it for most people. It's impact was so great as it came at the end of his life and is more emotionally charged because of it.

[Parkdrive]

I'd have Prince Buster - Enjoy Yourself, Had me real good time - Faces, and Gimme Shelter - The Stones

[Jeremy]

The original version isn't always the best/definitive version. All Along The Watchtower, Twist and Shout, Tainted Love... I'd put Cash's version of Hurt in the same bracket.

Oh, and Elvis Costello's version of What's so Funny About Peace Love and Understanding. It's a whole other thread, I guess. Just don't mention Puff Daddy!

[El Pibe]

Led Zeppelin's Stairway wasn't a patch on Rol.....oooh wait haaaaaaang on

[Otta]

For the record, Cash's Hurt is awesome, I just wasn't sure if the poster realised it wasn't always his song.

[El Pibe]

I know how you feel, I punch anyone who so much as dares to mention "Geri Halliwell's 'its raining men'"

[steveo]

What about Plastic Bertrand?

[FJDGoose]

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

[El Pibe]

to be vaguely serious for a second, i'd go Two Headed Boy pt II, Jed's Other Poem or Suddenly Everything Has Changed for reflection/melancholy and maybe something like Mathematically Safe or Jake Summers to cheer every one up as they head off to the pub.

[DulwichFox]

FJDGoose Wrote:

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> A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

:)

Or Lemmings:-

Out of control, out of control:

Greasy machinery slides on the rails,

Young minds and bodies on steel spokes impaled....

Cogs tearing bones, cogs tearing bones:

Iron-throated monsters are forcing our screams,

Mind and machinery box-press the dreams.

...but there still is time...

:)

DulwichFox

[miga]

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[DulwichFox]

miga Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > FJDGoose Wrote:

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> > > A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

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> > :)

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> > DulwichFox

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> Although at >20 mins that would be more a slow

> roast than a cremation, a good choice.

You're a long time dead.. 20 Mins is not too much to ask.

DulwichFox

[Robert Poste's Child]

I don't want a funeral but they'll probably do as they like (family motto 'No one cares what you think') so I'll go for

The dance of the knights from Romeo and Juliet as they come in, to set the tone.

Then maybe the Johnny Cash version of Hurt, or maybe Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.

Then as the coffin slides away, Ace of Spades ny Motorhead.

[uncleglen]

Allegri's Miserere and D.O.A. by the Foo Fighters (the Miserere is so long they probably would not allow a third track)

[Robert Poste's Child]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I don't want a funeral but they'll probably do as

> they like (family motto 'No one cares what you

> think') so I'll go for

>

> The dance of the knights from Romeo and Juliet as

> they come in, to set the tone.

>

> Then maybe the Johnny Cash version of Hurt, or

> maybe Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.

>

> Then as the coffin slides away, Ace of Spades ny

> Motorhead.

And Rachmaninov's piano concerto no.2. That should sort them out.

(Edited because I can't see what I'm doing on this effing phone.)

[Jah Lush]

I knew someone who had Motorhead's Ace Of Spades at their funeral. Good choice, I might add. "That's the way I like it, baby, I don't wanna live forever."

[maxxi]

Are we just thinking in terms of music?

Surely a video compilation of hilarious events captured throughout ones life, a la YBF or Rude Tube, and ending in a freeze frame of self in mawkish pose while Jane McDonald does a cover of All Kinds Of Everything.

Feck 'em - if I'm stiff as a board then I want everyone else bored stiff.

*I'll get my shroud*

[adonirum]

If I go before my beloved, I'm definitely having - Don't waste My Time by the mighty Quo.

Opening lyrics should see it right......

"You spend my money You drink my best red wine"

That'll tell her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[El Pibe]

Thinking about it I prefer The Man Comes Around on that album, and it's rather more appropriate for the situation if not exactly my philosophical cup of tea ;)