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« on: 03 Feb 2006, 02:08 »
Every forum seems to have one of these topics but QC doesn't seem to yet.
Which songs would you have played at your funeral and why?

I'd have;
Type O Negative-Everyone I love is dead
To make everyone feel really bad, no one I like is alive any more.

Turbonegro-All my friends are dead
Just to reinforce the point

The Flaming Lips-Do you realise?
Make everyone feel really morbid and terrible

AFI-Synesthesia
To make sure everyone got the message once and for all. (The chorus is "Heartbreak incarnate, I'm nothing if not your memory")

The Cure-Just like heaven
Not only is it one of my favourite Cure tracks, it seems particularly poignant at this time

And finish on
Sisters of Mercy-No time to cry

I would possibly chuck in Please kill me by Amen.
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« Reply #1 on: 03 Feb 2006, 02:15 »
Arrogant Worms - Carrot Juice is Murder, so people will be able to solve the mystery of my unexplained skydiving accident.


Also Mahna mahna,incase anyone is sad at all.
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« Reply #2 on: 03 Feb 2006, 02:33 »
Propagandhi - March of the Crabs
Mischief Brew - Roll Me Through the Gates of Hell
Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Evan Greer - The Ballad of the Last Six Months of My Life
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
World/Inferno Friendship Society - Tattoo's Fade
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer - Redemption Song
The Clash - Death or Glory
Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Bouncing Souls - True Believers

They all mean something to me.
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« Reply #3 on: 03 Feb 2006, 05:35 »
I want either the Cream live version of "Crossroads" or "Bombtrack" by Rage Against The Machine, expressly for the "Burn, burn, yes you're gonna BURN!" part. I am putting that in my final wishes. I shit you not.
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« Reply #4 on: 03 Feb 2006, 07:19 »
december - host
pixies - monkey gone to heaven
iggy pop - passenger
my bloody valentine - when you sleep
arcade fire - in the backseat
deftones - be quiet and drive
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« Reply #5 on: 03 Feb 2006, 07:44 »
Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
Iron & Wine - Upward Over The Mountain
Devendra Banhart - At The Hop
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
Earlimart - Heaven Adores You
Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone



wow, that's got to be the saddest mix ever
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« Reply #6 on: 03 Feb 2006, 08:15 »
Necrophiliac by Slayer.
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« Reply #7 on: 03 Feb 2006, 08:27 »
How about Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life"?
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« Reply #8 on: 03 Feb 2006, 09:02 »
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Necrophiliac by Slayer.


man, you are so invited to my birthday party.
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« Reply #9 on: 03 Feb 2006, 09:19 »
iron&wine - naked as we came

and i want my ashes to be scattered on the Tory Sound. while this happens, i've always imagined an auld man would play "the fields of athenry" on the uillean pipes.
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« Reply #10 on: 03 Feb 2006, 10:25 »
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Come on, someone had to do it.
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« Reply #11 on: 03 Feb 2006, 10:36 »
These two come to mind;

Sigurrós - Dánarfregnir og jarðarfarir
Opeth - For Absent Friends
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« Reply #12 on: 03 Feb 2006, 11:14 »
vomit toad - only faggots die
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« Reply #13 on: 03 Feb 2006, 11:43 »
Bahahahaha! That would be amazing.

I would have New Pornographers played at my funeral that way people would not allowed to be sad!
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« Reply #14 on: 03 Feb 2006, 12:14 »
Patrick Bruel - Casser La Voix


probably the most beautiful song ever written
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« Reply #15 on: 03 Feb 2006, 12:22 »
whoa its pootis
hi pootis
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« Reply #16 on: 03 Feb 2006, 13:59 »
definitely smog's "dress sexy at my funeral", perhaps "this is not what you had planned" by the wrens, and maybe just for fun "my life is starting over again" by daniel johnston.  i do hope they let me play dj at my own get-gone.
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« Reply #17 on: 03 Feb 2006, 14:21 »
Lattermans entire first full length. That would be awesome.
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« Reply #18 on: 03 Feb 2006, 14:31 »
The day I turn 80, I am going to die by jumping off of a tall building. And at my funeral, I want them to play "Jump" by Van Halen.
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« Reply #19 on: 03 Feb 2006, 15:43 »
Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
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« Reply #20 on: 03 Feb 2006, 15:58 »
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Devendra Banhart - At The Hop


Yes please.

Also:
 
Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version) by The Flaming Lips
Checking Out by Langhorne Slim
Fact of Life by Poi Dog Pondering
Tables and Chairs by Andrew Bird
Graceland by Paul Simon

and then I've Seen the Land Beyond by Beck, to digust all funeral goers before someone drags out a grand piano/symphony orchestra and has the musicians play Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition at an incredibly loud volume.

Hmm.  My funeral sounds like a fun time.  Maybe I should consider attending.
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« Reply #21 on: 03 Feb 2006, 16:01 »
But you will be attending silly! ;)
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« Reply #22 on: 03 Feb 2006, 16:19 »
At my funeral Metal Machine Music and the whole SYR series will be played at earsplitting levels (Anagramma will in fact be played twice) and just after it ends i will segue into...
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
and More than a Feeling by Boston.


And as a special bonus: FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #23 on: 03 Feb 2006, 16:19 »
If at all possible, I would like the Flying Luttenbachers to improvise a set to accompany my funeral. Not the wake or anything, but the funeral itself, the actual mass part. I would like the attending priest or whoever is in charge of it to have to shout to be heard over the Flying Luttenbachers.

And on my tombstone they can write "jazz is appropriate for any occasion," or possibly just "motherfuckers."
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« Reply #24 on: 03 Feb 2006, 17:39 »
WHY MUST YOU STEAL ALL THE THRADS FROM LASTR FM!?
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« Reply #25 on: 03 Feb 2006, 18:20 »
Here's a song I'll have on repeat while on my deathbed: "In My Time of Dying" by Led Zeppelin.
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« Reply #26 on: 03 Feb 2006, 20:23 »
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Shut up you junkie bastard :D. I got this from Club Bizarre, a local ALT forum.
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« Reply #27 on: 03 Feb 2006, 21:03 »
For funny ones:
Deerhoof - "Twin Killers" Get it? Because I'd be a dead twin? Or perhaps Cold as Ice by Foreigner

A good depressing one would be "Blue" off of the Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack.
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« Reply #28 on: 03 Feb 2006, 21:07 »
I would definately just want "P.S. You Rock My World" and that's it.

You people all suck cause you didn't say that first.
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« Reply #29 on: 04 Feb 2006, 00:22 »
Daedelus and Hrishikesh Hirway - Thanatopsis

and Nick Drake - Pink Moon
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« Reply #30 on: 04 Feb 2006, 01:27 »
Bonnie 'prince' Billy - Death to Everyone
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« Reply #31 on: 04 Feb 2006, 01:49 »
Possibly Opeth's "To Bid You Farewell",but it would most likely be Iron and Wine's entire album, "Our Endless Numbered Days".
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« Reply #32 on: 04 Feb 2006, 02:52 »
The Calling - Wherever You Will Go.

I don't know why. It's always struck me as a funeral song. Bizarre. My dad wants 'Comfortably Numb' by Pink Floyd and now I can't listen to that without thinking about it damnit.

Everybody Hurts by REM would be nice purely to fuel my REM obsession.
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« Reply #33 on: 04 Feb 2006, 03:10 »
Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up
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« Reply #34 on: 04 Feb 2006, 05:06 »
I actually already have this planned out. I'd basically play the entirety of the John Cage and Sun Ra record I have really loud, and then afterwards, karaoke to King Diamond.


EDIT: Also, to whoever said Metal Machine Music, this could easily be substituted for John Cage and Sun Ra. Other possibilities include some Bill Laswell Project (Preferably his thing with MJ Harris, SOmnific Flux) Buckethead stuff (His more... ambient esque works, preferably), Death Cube K stuff, Dead Can Dance, Ephel Duath, Fantomas' Delirium Cordia, That one album I have that has the Dalai Lama on it, Frank Zappa's compositions (Read: NOt his guitar rock band esque music, the weird freak out stuff like Civilization: Phase II and Burnt Weeny Sandwhich), and various John Zorn stuff.
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« Reply #35 on: 04 Feb 2006, 05:08 »
Any and all rap songs about killing people. Fuck yes.
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« Reply #36 on: 04 Feb 2006, 05:32 »
Current 93 - Intro/Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil [live at the Union Chapel]
Inkubus Sukkubus - Pagan Born
Tiamat - Planets
Amoprhis - Black Winters Day
Nortt - Dod Och Borte
Mortiis - Everyone Leaves
Marillion - Ocean Cloud
Burzum - Tomhet
Ulver - A Capella (Sielens Sang)

I'd probably make a mix-tape.
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« Reply #37 on: 04 Feb 2006, 05:38 »
Oh, Current 93 would be great funeral music.
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« Reply #38 on: 04 Feb 2006, 05:40 »
Modest Mouse - Please Bury Me With It

You know, kinda like a 'we had good times' thing.

My dad wants 'Dust In The Wind' by Kansas.
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« Reply #39 on: 04 Feb 2006, 05:59 »
Your dad is almost awesome. Too bad Kansas is weak man's quasi prog.



But I just hate Kansas.
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« Reply #40 on: 04 Feb 2006, 10:13 »
Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart?

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« Reply #41 on: 04 Feb 2006, 17:11 »
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If at all possible, I would like the Flying Luttenbachers to improvise a set to accompany my funeral. Not the wake or anything, but the funeral itself, the actual mass part. I would like the attending priest or whoever is in charge of it to have to shout to be heard over the Flying Luttenbachers.

And on my tombstone they can write "jazz is appropriate for any occasion," or possibly just "motherfuckers."


Now that would be a truly spectacular funeral.

For myself, people would enter the funeral to Tom Waits - Whistle Down The Wind. Red Right Hand would then play for an hour while everyone stares grimmly ahead, followed by my burial to Fugazi - Long Distance Runner.

The wake would of course begin with Back In Black.
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« Reply #42 on: 04 Feb 2006, 19:57 »
I don't see a problem with just playing all of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and a whole lot of the Cure. Hmmmmm...




The Unicorns-I Don't Want to Die?
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« Reply #43 on: 04 Feb 2006, 20:05 »
I would make a playlist entirely of Testament and Death.

Just so they don't get too comfortable.
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« Reply #44 on: 04 Feb 2006, 20:07 »
Wait til everyone gets inside and the bolt the doors. Put on the entire Man O War back catalogue. :D
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« Reply #45 on: 04 Feb 2006, 21:16 »
Hit the road, Jack
And don't you come back
No more, no more
No more, no more!
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« Reply #46 on: 04 Feb 2006, 21:34 »
Team America theme. This thread has been won.
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« Reply #47 on: 04 Feb 2006, 22:18 »
^No it has not.

I just realized that the Zelda theme does kind of work. It's sort of triumphant.

Also, I think "Flower's Grave" would work better than "Whistle Down The Wind", but still, good call.

New vote is for "Epic" by Faith No More.
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« Reply #48 on: 04 Feb 2006, 23:39 »
On Tom Waits Underground could work or maybe Everything Goes to Hell.
Hell I would probably just play Time and be done with it...
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« Reply #49 on: 05 Feb 2006, 00:27 »
Flaming Lips - Do You Realise
Sigur Rós - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

I think a lot of Flaming Lips songs are good funereal songs, their music seem happy and optimistic most of the time but I always get a sense of melancholy in the music.

Fight Test seems like a good choice too.
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