Your Own Funeral Choose THREE Songs (another spin-off, spin-off thread)

Name [b][i]THREE[/i][/b] songs you'd want played at your own funeral service

Mine:

[b]Led Zeppelin - Thank You
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Beatles - In My Life[/b]

C'mon guys/girls - seriously, BEAT those three - they've got , reminiscence, gratitude, reflection...and are also genuinely great tunes

Lou Reed - Perfect day
Kansas - Dust in the wind
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
The Beatles - In My Life
Extreme - More Than Words

My funeral is going to be slightly different..
First, make everybody feel emotional with either
Queen - Who wants to live forever, OR
Queen - White Queen
Second, inject some hope
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (I will need one)
Finally, get everybody partying with
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down.
But, if my grandparents are still alive, scrap TYMD, and instead they can do the Chicken Dance!

1 - as the people attending (mourners, folk celebrating, the insurers making sure it's not a scam, those who want to make sure I'm really dead, and those who turn up for the free steak pie afterwards) I'd like Andy Kaufman's cover of "Rose Marie".

2 - as my coffin rolls away (it'll be a cremation, just so there's no chance I can come back to this shit-hole) I'd like the theme tune to Peter Kay's "Phoenix Nights" TV show to play, as a cardboard cut-out of Peter's "Brian Potter" character wheels past in his wheelchair shouting "Gerry, Gerry, the coffin's on fire!!"

3 - and finally, just to creep people out, I wan't Led Zep's "Stairway To Heaven"......BACKWARDS.

This is all subject to change, as I also have the themes for Psycho, The Omen and The Exorcist in mind......

The Sixth Sense (soundtrack) - Malcolm Is Dead. That's for people to feel a bit sad and creepy at the same time.
The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven.
Robbie Williams - Angels (for a lighter mood).

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
The Beatles - Let It Be
Frank Sinatra - My Way (Sid Vicious' version might fit, too)

Donny Hathaway - Giving Up
Stevie Wonder - they won't go when I go
George Jones - He stopped loving her today

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

Name [b][i]THREE[/i][/b] songs you'd want played at your own funeral service

Mine:

[b]
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
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A lot of people believe that this song is about bidding farewell to someone you loved, when in fact it was written by Billie Joe Armstrong to say "fuck you and piss off" to someone who's been in your life for a long time and caused you nothing but pain and harm.

It can be interpreted in different ways since the lyrics can be quite ambiguous. It's certainly used in a lot of proms and funerals.

absolutely! ^
hence the title "Good Riddance" - never used as a term of affection is it?

However, The part of the title in parenthesis "Time of your life" allows for a double meaning

and the lyrics themselves are kind enough/good enough - and quite deep in places and I'd love to use for my funeral

Joe Bonamassa - Asking Around For You
John Waite - Always be your man
The Babys - Dying Man

The Black Rose - Thin Lizzy
Blackbird - Alter Bridge
The Rain Song - Led Zep

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

The Black Rose - Thin Lizzy
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love that tune - have to say, actually love Lizzy full stop. But that tune was perhaps Lizzy's last great tune - it kinda went downhill after Rosin Dubh - the album was Lynott/Moore's finest hour together

Mason's Apron and Will You Go Lassie Go are fantastic way to close a great album....I have the demo version somewhere if you're interested

I don't even have all of TL's studio albums so I'm not really interested in demos but thanks anyway. I saw Black Star Riders late last year with Scott Gorham on guitar and they were great. Southbound, The Cowboy Song, Boys Are Back in Town etc. But they only played the intro to The Black Rose :(

the second half of Roisin Dubh needs Gary Moore