Songs After Death (SAD)

[Lucianarchy]

Not really. :)

I know many sceptics share my views about the afterlife, but I guess some must just think, 'so long, and thanks for the all the fish...' . So what would your funeral / wake song(s) be? Which songs could sum up your life?

Me, I'd go for 'Down at the School-yard (You, Me and Julio)' . :D

[coalesce]

My mother has requested all Frank Sinatra, and for me, probably all Yes and Beatles.

Michael

[Lisa Simpson]

Imagine--John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,

[Irish Murdoch]

Originally posted by Lucianarchy
So what would your funeral / wake song(s) be?

Meet on the Ledge, Fairport Convention.

[LillyThePink]

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.

[sackett]

Smokin' Frank Schubert's Trout Quintet -- the whole thing!

I realize that's going to make a long funeral. I hope I don't croak in hot weather.

[steenkh]

I have not presumed to decide what others should think or do after I am dead. My instructions are that they can dump me wherever they like, make a christian or buddhist funeral, or whatever. I will not be able to appreciate it anyway.

When I was a child, though, I instructed people to sing a Danish pop song at the time: "I have my horse, and I have my lasso!".

[NightG1]

Originally posted by Lucianarchy
Not really. :)

I know many sceptics share my views about the afterlife, but I guess some must just think, 'so long, and thanks for the all the fish...' . So what would your funeral / wake song(s) be? Which songs could sum up your life?

Me, I'd go for 'Down at the School-yard (You, Me and Julio)' . :D
Just One Victory - Todd Rundgren

[Ed]

Bad to the Bone

[The Don]

It changes daily based on my current favourite song:

I think "Uncle F***er" would probably go down best

[wolfgirl]

I agree with steenkh about not being able to appreciate your own funeral since I don't believe in an afterlife, either. Still, I want my funeral to reflect what I stood for. And I want the music to tell my loved ones what I felt about them. So I've already told everyone I want "Old and Wise" by The Alan Parsons Project.

Some of my favorite lines:

And to those I leave behind
I want you all to know
You've always shared my darkest hours
I'll miss you when I go

And someday in the mist of time
When they ask you if you knew me
Remember that you were a friend of mine
As the final curtain falls before my eyes

For some reason, these words always move me. I can't hear the song without tearing up, and just typing them in gave me chills!

(A curious anecdote: A few years ago, I was at the lake with my husband and we were preparing for our final night dive to get our Advanced Diver certification. I had had a very bad experience on my very first night dive the night before but was determined to overcome the fear. As we were gearing up in the parking lot, another diver pulled up in her car and that song was playing on her CD player. I looked at my husband and he knew what I was thinking right away. OMEN!!! Of course, I don't believe in omens, but it was still creepy, hearing my funeral song playing as I was preparing to do something I thought might kill me. Anyways, all turned out well, obviously. I completed my certification and have no problem night diving at all now.)

[wolfgirl]

Originally posted by Lisa Simpson
Imagine--John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky, Excellent choice! I may have to steal it. One of the great songs of all time, in my book.

[alfaniner]

"I'm Too Sexy... For My Casket"

[Lisa Simpson]

I just realized--it's too bad I no longer believe in reincarnation. Then I could have had "The Bitch Is Back" played at my funeral. :)

[LostAngeles]

Cake's "Sheep Go To Heaven"

[BPSCG]

Originally posted by sackett
Smokin' Frank Schubert's Trout Quintet -- the whole thing!

I realize that's going to make a long funeral. I hope I don't croak in hot weather. At least you'd have a prayer of getting a live band preform it.

I want Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

At the end of the last segment of Carl Sagan's series, Cosmos, there's a wonderful montage of shots of people from all over the world just being people. Working in the fields, running around on playgrounds, in shops, in laboratories, etc.

Welling up from the background, like some great eruption, is the last minute or so of Beethoven's Seventh. As the symphony comes to its triumphant end, with angel trumpets and devil trombones, the last visual is of a Saturn V rocket headed for the moon. And as the music dies away, you hear Sagan say, "These are some of the things hydrogen atoms do, given five billion years of cosmic evolution."

If I can't have that kind of sendoff, I don't want to go.

[Lucianarchy]

Originally posted by Ed
Bad to the Bone

Lol You know, putting aside your nastiness, , prejudice, homophobia, brusque-arosity, etc, I kinda like you, Ed.

[Ersby]

Fats Domino "Ain't That A Shame"

[Jaggy Bunnet]

"My Lovely Horse" Father Ted Crilly & Father Dougal McGuire

[RabbiSatan]

None whatsoever - my last concious act would be to wheel myself off a cliff face and save people the trouble of burying a pile of old flesh.

[kieran]

Originally posted by Jaggy Bunnet
"My Lovely Horse" Father Ted Crilly & Father Dougal McGuire
Now would that be with the original tune or with the *cough* lift music tune *cough* ????? ;) "Just play the feckin' note!!"

[EHocking]

Will you miss me, when you're sober - Deborah Conway.

http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/D/Deborah-Conway/Will-You-Miss-Me-When-You're-Sober.html:alc:

[Zep]

I don't care what they choose, after I die. I'll be dead, so I won't be able to do anything about it. I am far more concerned, before I die, that my life's achievements would be worth singing about, so my child and her children are inspired to go even further.

[Jaggy Bunnet]

Originally posted by kieran

Now would that be with the original tune or with the *cough* lift music tune *cough* ????? ;) "Just play the feckin' note!!"

Original I think, there's no place for lift music at a funeral. :p

[sackett]

A dying friend once told me, "I don't mind going, but it's hard work consoling everyone."

There's good reason to plan your funeral festival: People should have something to look forward to. They're more likely to carry out your wishes if they're going to have fun.

Situated among musical people as I am, I can design a damn fine concert for my going-away party. Brother-in-law # 2 used to be lead oboe in the L.A. Philharmonic. (He has a sideline in musical saw; you can hear him backing up the sirens on the soundtrack of Oh Brother Where Art Thou. But I won't require David to play the saw; I can't be -quite- sure I won't be able to hear it.) Sister-in-law #1 is enough pianist to play the occasional gig w/ the LA Philly (nepotism, you say? oh! surely not!) and she can lay some Chopin on the folks, as much as she likes. (Yeah, I have corny tastes. Anybody don't like that can smell my shoes.) Sister-in-law #2 will oblige with summa that fine Bach unaccompanied cello. These will be warmups for the Trout Quintet I booked earlier.

Later, at the wake, brother-in-law #1 will noodle jazz guitar until he's too drunk to see the frets, then switch to piano improv for as long as anybody's there to hear it. This may evolve into a wild-haired klezmer session if sister-in-law #3 brings her flute. Yes, there'll be dancing and leaping about; what would you expect?

[Linda]

"Imagine" has already been mentioned. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Stones has always been one of my favorites since seeing "The Big Chill". But my favorites would have to be "That's What Friends Are For" by....uh, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Dionne Warwick and Gladys Knight? That song was popular back in 1983 when my best friends started dying of AIDS and to this day if it comes on the radio, I start crying. The other is Josh Groban's, "To Where You Are".

[dann]

Not a single M.-Python song??!

[Wally]

"Allways Look On the Bright Side of Life"

:)

[Batman Jr.]

Originally posted by Wally
"Allways Look On the Bright Side of Life"

:)
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Death" ;)

I would want Mozart's Requiem as sung by toddlers. That would be hilarious. All of the instrument parts will transcribed to recorders as well. It will be called "The Elementary School Music Class' Version of Mozart's Requiem Extravaganza as Hosted by Bob Barker!" Bob Barker wouldn't actually be there. I just figured including his name would be a good way to attract complete strangers to my funeral.

[LettristLoon]

When they commit my ashes to the waves, someone's gotta play Elvis Costello's "The Other Side of Summer" through REALLY badass speakers.

- B

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by Lucianarchy
I know many sceptics share my views about the afterlife

If they do, they are not skeptics.

Originally posted by Lucianarchy
Me, I'd go for 'Down at the School-yard (You, Me and Julio)' . :D

It's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", you twit.

[T'ai Chi]

Hmm, I'd say some upbeat KRS-1 song probably, just something I listened to and enjoyed while I was alive.