Funeral music

For mine, I'm having:

- The Clash, Straight to Hell

- Fairport Convention, Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

- John Coltrane, Venus (from Interstellar Space)

-- Ian

'For a Dancer' - Jackson Browne.

Beautiful way to say goodbye to a loved one, and focus the mind on the real big issues.

John.

-- Big Sleep followed by Somebody Up There Likes You by Simple Minds from their New Gold Dream LP

-- I Believe In You by Talk Talk from their Spirit of Eden LP

Interesting topic to say the least...

"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." - Mark Hollis (1998)

More seriously though?

Kennedy's: "The Lark Ascending" Ralph Vaughan Willams.

"Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" by the same composer.

Both will bring a tear to your eye.

Nime

Also obvious, but in a different way

Morning Dew [from 8/5/77] by the Grateful Dead

Leopold

'Draw on, sweet night' (John Wilbye)
Brahms' German Requiem

Mrs S says that I could have anything from my collection as it's all funereal. She says she'll ask them to play traditional hymns to make sure that I'm really dead as she always sings along to Songs of Praise and I always tell her to shut up.

Last year a friend of ours died, he chose Always Look on the Bright Side of Life as the coffin was brought in and Sitting on the Dock of the Bay for his final exit...

"Who Wants To Live Forever", Queen
"Free Four", Pink Floyd ("Life is a short warm moment - Death is a long cold rest")
"The Great Gig in the Sky"

Motorhead - Killed by Death

Pat Travers - Boom Boom Out go the Lights

I'm sure we've done this one before...

Either 'Isifan' (Bill Strayhorn, Duke Ellington Orchestra) or Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk).
'Blood Count' or 'After All' from the Ellington Orchestra would also be fitting.

I decided recently I want New Order's 'Elegia', preferably the full 17-minute version, as it would give the audience plenty of time to reflect on how nice I was.

But then, I'm only 25, this may not be appropriate when I am 75.

I also haven't made a will or told anyone [who will remember]...

I'm having the Merrie melodies theme tune....

'That's all, folks'



Stephen

I've already told the wife what I want, and after hearing the words, she's told me I cant have it

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Watching Over You.

I'll be on my way - The Saw Doctors

Regards

Mark ;0)

i happen to like funeral doom music
although im sure thats not the type of funeral music you meant by your post.

i do feel sorry for mum for the
torture i must have put her ears through
as i was growing up,lol
jason

The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics

Elgar's Cello Concerto 1st movement

Lifted - Lighthouse Family

FR

Music is expressly forbidden at my funeral! I don't want junk, and then I don't want to spoil other people's future enjoyment of something good by making them associate it with a funeral! I'll HAUNT any bugger who plays music when I'm planted!!

Alex

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Originally posted by MerryDance:
We've had wedding music .How about most moving for a funeral.My vote would be for Zero by Lamb-it just breaks me up.Don't know if it's bcause it's a Sunday but I've been playing it over and over....

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EPIGRAPHS by Ketil Bjornstad (piano) and David Darling (cello) on ECM would be perfect for me now, since my first choice, George Philipp Telemann has beeb dead for sometime. The guy composed funeral music for NINE different mayors of the city of Hamburg, and I would have felt pretty comfortable to comission such an experienced composer. I like a lot his Funeral Music for Garlieb Sillem "Schwanengesang 1733".
Haim

I've opted for Dylan's Knockin on Heaven's Door. I know its crass but why should my death be any different to my life?

Fauré - Requiem

My two requests to my wife for my departure;
Stairway to Heaven Led Zep and the other extreme of my musical taste
Adagio for Strings by Barber

Clive