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Funeral Songs, whattcha want playing?


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I want several songs from Warren Zevon's final, focking brilliant album The Wind to be played.

 

I'm getting dusted so there won't be a casket, but I want the entrance song to be "Dirty Life & Times"

 

I want "Keep Me In Your Heart" and maybe "Please Stay" in the eulogy portion. Please Stay is just soooo sad though, and so maybe it will get nixed.

 

The exit selections have to include a non-Zevon homage to the uplifting "part two" New Orleans jazz band street procession songs - probably a revved up version of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" (yeah, yeah, a spiritual song at the atheists funeral. maybe I'll get struck by lightning for it :D ). But that should segue into "The Rest of the Night" as my family and friends head out for what had better be a hell of a party.

 

Among a bunch of other songs, the Dubs' version of Finnegan's Wake will be played and sung very loud at the reception/after party - no doubt fueled by plenty of Guinness and Jameson's.

 

(The Wind is one of the most brilliant, poignent things I've ever heard it. If you haven't heard it, please do yourself a favor and check it out. I know LCR loves it as well. Don't know that he knows the Zevon-Gonzo connnection and all the stuff about Hunter sending Warren chapters of Skinny Dip as soon as he fineshed writing them, but not getting tthe last instalment to him before he died. Yeah, he probably knows all that, but it just makes Warren's passing that much sadder.)

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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 12:09 PM)
"Who Wants to Live Forever?" too obvious a choice?? Or just not a big Highlander fan? :D

 

I LOVE that song - but it makes me cry when I watch the video. Looking at Freddy (who had to have known by that point he was terminally ill) just kills me.

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QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 12:15 PM)
Highway to Hell by AC/DC while they're rolling my bones out...

 

That's what Brian wants played.

 

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 12:15 PM)
Depending on how the next 60 or 70 years treats you, maybe the flip side of bicycle race would work :ph34r:

 

 

Where is that finger smiley when you need him haha. ;)

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I never been to a funeral with music. So is it pumpin in the funeral home or do you like pass out CD's to people so they can listen during the procession. I think I'll pass out CD's....here goes.....

 

Dead Mans Party - Oingo Boingo

Buried Myself Alive - The Used

Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone - Glass Tiger

Fly me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra

Alone Again - Dokken

Only the Good Die Young - Billy Joel (omit after 65)

Superman is Dead - Our Lady of Peace (haha)

Silent Lucidity _Queensryche

It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM (I'm not conceded or anything)

Fly to the Angels - Slaughter

Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr

Nice To Know You - Incubus

Seein Red - Unwritten Law

Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford

Send the Pain Below - Chevelle

Tears May Fall - TKA ( oh yeah...I went there)

Heaven - Warrant

Roll Me Away - Bob Seger

Elevation - U2

Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (bring it Reaper!!)

Don't You Forget About Me- Simple Minds

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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 02:24 PM)
Thanks. I stole him from somebody else and now use him all over the place. I just laugh everytime I see him. He has some killer moves.

 

I think that banana stole some of those moves from

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Welcome to my nightmare. :P

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QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 03:51 PM)
There's only one:

 

That acoustic ending to "Layla" by Clapton's Derek and the Dominos.

 

Just like that scene in goodfellas

 

Jim Gordon, the Derek and the Dominoes drummer, wrote that beautiful bit of music. Then a few years laterhe started hearing voices in his head and he murdered his mother to try to get them to stop.

 

Yep. . . pretty, pretty bit of music that.

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Hmmm, for me, I would probably have to songs:

First, "I hate everyone" by Get Set Go

 

And finally, I would dedicate (from the grave) Zepplin's "Wish you were here" to my friends and fam.

 

My dad, however, wants Spirit in the Sky and Jesus is just alright by me.

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QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 04:13 PM)
Hmmm, for me, I would probably have to songs:

First, "I hate everyone" by Get Set Go

 

And finally, I would dedicate (from the grave) Zepplin's "Wish you were here" to my friends and fam.

 

My dad, however, wants Spirit in the Sky and Jesus is just alright by me.

que?

 

Led Zeppelin's Wish You Were Here and not Pink Floyd's?

 

Not familiar with that one.

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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 04:16 PM)
que?

 

Led Zeppelin's Wish You Were Here and not Pink Floyd's?

 

Not familiar with that one.

Eh, damn, sorry, that's what I meant. It's been one of those days.

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