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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: MrNovember on 30 Jul 2008, 22:44
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Kind of morbid, but still interesting.
Ennio Morricone - "The Ecstasy of Gold," Seriously, how fucking badass would that be?
Tom Waits - "Come on Up to the House"
Wilco - "Via Chicago," if only because I'm a Chicagoan and, no matter where I live, I always will be.
Spiritualized - "Death, Take Your Fiddle"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Just about the entirety of "I See a Darkness."
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Lay Me Low"
Pretty much any version of "Hallelujah," though I still think Cohen's is the best, with Buckley's a close second.
Ween - "The H.I.V. Song"
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"Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens, but sung by the guy from the B-52s, and he changes the lyrics so that it is about cruising male prostitutes
e.g. "Drove to Chicago---I hope there are men!"
The sadder the circumstances of my death, the more flamboyant the song will be.
yes, perfect
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There is no death scene that could not be improved by Yakety Sax
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At first I thought you were talking about Yackety Yak by the Coasters. Now I find out that there are two well known yackety sax players! My world has been (slightly) rocked.
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There is no death scene that could not be improved by Yakety Sax
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I don't know about songs to actually die to, but recently I've decided that when it eventually comes time for them to carry my coffin out the church doors, I want them to play Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFMqV2FfPNk) really loud.
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it all depends, really. I don't want a super depressing and morbid song if I'm lying in a hospital dying when I'm 85 or so. Give me some happy hardcore, flower metal or perhaps one of the more cheerful Jesu songs. (Stanlow would be rad)
Alternatively, dying in a large explosion- I've always thought the best way to go would be via a nuclear bomb- then perhaps The Angelic Process' Coma Waering song would be a sweet way to go. Car crash/fight to the death? That would be some early thrash; probably something off Kill 'em All but some Razor would also go down well.
Oh, also, Summoning. Farewell or Land of the Dead.
For my funeral, some sort of really inappropriately happy tune would be rad, but I guess The Angelic Process's Shielded by Death would be an appropriate tune. I mean, it is going to be a major bummer for the rest of the world when I'm no longer around; I guess a depressing funeral dirge would set the tone nicely.
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I think it was Ray who said he wanted his coffin launched into space or somethin' to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8HudfbaTE). I agree.
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I guess that's the thing though: would you really want to go out on an ironic note? The shot into space thing is a good idea, I'm just sayin' that perhaps something a bit more serious or appropriate would also be good.
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The album "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?" by the Unicorns. (So I guess technically the song "Ready to Die", but it's not as cool without the build up.)
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Bruce Springsteen - The River
Radiohead - No Surprises
Spiritalized - Ladies and Gentleman
Bowie - Space Oddity
Beck - Lost Cause
Iron and Wine - Naked as We Come
Roy Orbison - In The Real World
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - "Life is not a victory March.."
Gary Julies - Mad World (unrelated to Donnie Darko death, ugh.)
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Sigur Ros - Untittled #1 (Vaka)
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr. (The part where he starts likes howling.)
Nick Drake - Way to Blue
Nick Cave - Sad Waters
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying (this would only work if I was being chased and shot to death.)
Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling
Band of Horses - Funeral
Mew - Forever and Ever
Personally? I'd want to die to Bowie's "Heroes". But, I'm weird. Maybe, Jose Gonazlez's version of "Teardrop" depending on the death.
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"Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen. For my money, it's one of the simplest yet most beautiful songs ever written.
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These are some of my favourite songs. They are all plenty depressing.
"Close Your Eyes", "Shower The People" - James Taylor
"Remember When" - Alan Jackson
"Us and Them" - Pink Floyd
"Blue" - The Seatbelts
"Bell Bottom Blues" - Blind Faith (while I'm on a Clapton note)
"Perfidia" - Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (if only for the chorus of "Goodbye" at the end)
"Dear Prudence" - The Beatles
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The entirety of Notorious BIG's first two albums. Especially 'Ready to Die.' I'd love to offend people with the Ike and Tina line AS I died.
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"Keasbey Nights" by Catch 22. Yes, it's ska (or ska punk, whatever you want to call it), but it's so god damned awesome. Especially the chorus.
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Weird (unchecked) fact: In Australia, the most popular burial tune is Highway to Hell.
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The Teddy Bear's Picnic Song
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"Sleep" by The Smiths
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Absolutego.
It would be a long death.
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The only two songs I would want to die to are "Lux Aterna" by Mozart and Barber's "Adagio for Strings." I will, of course, have an orchestra follow me around as I die.
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"Remember Me" by British Sea Power
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Also Sippin 40z by Gravy Train, it would sum up what I did in my life.
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Some how I see my self dying of a horrible accident while "These Snakes Get High" by Awesome Snakes plays loudly in the background.
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This. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpKRd2xQeq8)
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I think I'd like to die to the song "Blood Vortex" by Bloodbath.
Seems fitting. But depending on the cause of death it might not be, I get the image of me taking a whole bunch of people with me and then jumping off of a building in flames with that song.
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Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd.
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May not be the best for everyone, but for me personally...
4 - Aphex Twin
Nanou 2 - Aphex Twin
Pitter Patter Goes My Heart - Broken Social Scene
Starálfur - Sigur Rós
Everyone Says Hi (Metro Remix) - David Bowie
Days Were Golden - Sunny Day Real Estate
Landslide - The Smashing Pumpkins
Every Time Is The Last Time - Bloc Party
I'll update the list if I think of any more.
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"Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens, but sung by the guy from the B-52s, and he changes the lyrics so that it is about cruising male prostitutes
e.g. "Drove to Chicago---I hope there are men!"
best post so far.
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everytime i make one of these lists i feel like kicking myself in the head afterward because i've thought of about a dozen others....with that in mind, the list would have to contain at some point, these songs:
together we will live forever /death is the road to awe - clint manselll & kronos quartet
alice / i'm still here - tom waits
the first time i saw your face - stendeck
small days / we all have a window - autoclav 1.1
this night has opened my eyes - the smiths
burn(acoustic) - android lust
suni c / beauty in the eyes - download
romulus and venus - the tear garden
haze / smothered hope / the choke(regrip) - skinny puppy
crystalline hush / candle burns blue - interlace
fade into you (mazzy star cover) - stray
commence kicking...
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The only two songs I would want to die to are "Lux Aterna" by Mozart and Barber's "Adagio for Strings." I will, of course, have an orchestra follow me around as I die.
I like your style.
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the only one i'd listen too while i was dying was "downtown train" tom waits or "don't fear the reaper" by blue oyster cult
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I just noticed how the Music Talk section on here reminds me of the guys from High Fidelity.
But outside of songs I die to, hopefully after I die they play a salutary 4'33 by John Cage
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"Because I Got High"- Afroman
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The Decemberists - "California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade"
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Obviously (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuX5_OWObA0)
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Talk Talk - Myrrhman or Eden (the part where Hollis sings "Everybody needs someone to live by")
Tom Waits - Train Song
Morricone - Ecstasy of Gold or Once upon a time in the West
John Zorn (Naked City) - Chinatown (the greatest thing I've ever heard appears in this rendition of the song = from 3:29 to 4:00 - the chilling guitar chords with reverb, Zorn's delicate-as-hell sax, the little piano notes that appear here and there, the fact that this song appears amidst the brutal death metal on the album - perfect!)
or anything on Torture Garden (a swift, triumphantly LOUD death)
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I guess that's the thing though: would you really want to go out on an ironic note? The shot into space thing is a good idea, I'm just sayin' that perhaps something a bit more serious or appropriate would also be good.
The song's not for you and it's not for me. It's for the people of Heaven, telling them to watch the fuck out.
Anyways, why does everyone want to die to something really slow or mournful? If I had to pick a soundtrack to my demise it would probably involve Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" in some capacity.
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SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
DARLIN' YOU GIVE LOVE
A BAD NAME
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I just noticed how the Music Talk section on here reminds me of the guys from High Fidelity.
But outside of songs I die to, hopefully after I die they play a salutary 4'33 by John Cage
You just called somebody Jack Black. I hope it wasn't me. God, I hope it wasn't me.
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SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
DARLIN' YOU GIVE LOVE
A BAD NAME
dude
"wanted dead or alive"
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Any Bach Cantata.
Nearly half of the music that Bach wrote was church cantatas (the surviving ones - about half - take 60CDs in the recording I have, which would fit the whole of Beethoven's output). Whether they are sad or joyful or thoughtful or admonitory, they all radiate his his simple and absolute faith, and this certainty makes them the most relaxing music to listen to that there is (as well as stunningly beautiful, of course).
But perhaps, just at the end, the Quodlibet from his Goldberg Variations - this is a remarkable combination of the theme of the variations with a medley of popular songs - leading into the final statement of the theme.
Paul
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Not sure about the music to have playing WHEN I pass over - although Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" wouldn't be horrific, particularly if I'm wearing the silly green suit in a far and distant land at the time.
At the funeral though the only absolute is "Amazing Grace" and that MUST be played on the bagpipes. Anyone who has ever heard a massed pipe and drum band do that song will understand why.
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I just noticed how the Music Talk section on here reminds me of the guys from High Fidelity.
It used to be worse, and a lot of people are usually joking.
But outside of songs I die to, hopefully after I die they play a salutary 4'33 by John Cage
You're either very funny, or I hate you. Which one is it?
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I just meant they reminded me of the guys from High Fidelity with all the lists that they make, not being music snobs.
It's 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
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Well sheesh guys has I'm surprised nobody mentioned Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" already. (http://"http://www.idkwtf.com/videos/latest-videos/dear-sister-snl-digital-short")
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I just meant they reminded me of the guys from High Fidelity with all the lists that they make, not being music snobs.
Ah, well that's me all over. The central character in High Fidelity is essentially, me.
It's 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
Re-read the question and try again. I know what the piece consists of.
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It has been reread and reunderstood. I don't know, that's for you to decide, it was meant as a joke. Like, I hope they play that after I die, as in I hope they give me a moment of silence.
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I may be a big ol' dork, but I think "Waltz for Zizi," from the first Cowboy Bebop OST would be a pretty nice way to go out.
Also possible: "My Body Is a Cage" - Arcade Fire
or if I happen to be in a pretty good mood when I'm dying, the cover Bauhaus did of "Ziggy Stardust."
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It has been reread and reunderstood. I don't know, that's for you to decide, it was meant as a joke. Like, I hope they play that after I die, as in I hope they give me a moment of silence.
My point was that I hate that piece and that if you like it, by extension I hate you. It was a joke. Sort of. I don't hate you, actually. I do hate the piece.
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Yeah, actually I pretty much despise John Cage, and that piece. But it's good for jokes, like if it were used after you die it would be like a moment of silence.
I guess all of my posts on here have been rather silly.
Here's a serious list:
Explosions In The Sky - A Song For Our Fathers
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Ode to Isis
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
At The Drive-In - Arcarsenal
Sigur Ros - Se Lest
Yndi Halda - We Flood Empty Lakes*
*This is the one that I would want to be playing the most
Also there would be certain circumstances that I would like to die under in which I want Too Many Puppies by Primus playing.
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Three yeras ago when I first got into the Mae Shi I was also on a plane going overseas, and decided that if the plane crashed, their "Revelation Three" was what I wanted to be hearing.
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Vaka by Sigur Ros, probably. I want the Diamond Sea by Sonic Youth to be played at my funeral.
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Leonard Cohen- If It Be Your Will
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How about the entirety of The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place- Explosions in the Sky
especially Your Hand in Mine, First Breath After Coma, or Memorial (depending on the death)
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I want the Diamond Sea by Sonic Youth to be played at my funeral.
We have a winner.
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The Mortal Kombat theme of course.
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another one for me? would be
"end of the line"
by traveling wilburies
listen to that shit, think of roy orbison, and TRY not to get at least a little choked up
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A single, wavering note on a tuba.
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Aw man why would you want to go out to an OC episode. That shit is gross.
It's not that I want to go out on to an OC episode, I want to go out to an SNL parody of an OC episode!
Actually "The Diamond Sea" would be a great song at a funeral 8-)
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A single, wavering note on a tuba.
Are you, perchance, a devotee of Gerard Hoffnung?
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I changed my mind. I want "Dick In A Box" played on repeat during the entire service as a final farewell to any of my tight-assed friends.
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(http://www.alessonislearned.com/cmx/lesson006.jpg)
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well you see me and all my friends here in my hometown all have a different way that we want to die, and mine is to die fucking a tiger, I know it's weird but it just needs to happen, cause really, be honest, what's more badass?
I mean it's a tiger!
so I think it's only appropriate to do it while listening to "eye of the tiger"
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Bonus points for actually managing to fuck a tiger in the eye.
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I changed my mind. I want "Dick In A Box" played on repeat during the entire service as a final farewell to any of my tight-assed friends.
CHRISTMAS.
DICK IN A BOX.
HANNUAKAH.
DICK IN A BO-HOX.
KWANZA.
A DICK IN A BOX.
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If "Dick in a Box" is going to be played at your funeral, then you'd better make sure that they give you an open casket and leave your fly undone.
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Depending on the person, no preparation would be needed to make it fitting other than putting him in the coffin.
...that sounded quicker and witter in my head.
I don't know about dying to something, but I want Everything Dies by Type O Negative and Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen played at my funeral. And when I am buried, I want a sapling to be placed above my body. Because trees are better than flowers.
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Not sure if this has been said before, but M.I.A by A7X.
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Journey - Don't stop believing. 8-)
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We Decide It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ConLzMk-jg) - Dr. Steel.
Poetic Justice, if you will.
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The funeral will be held in a locked room, and the entire discography of the angelic process will be played
Ed~
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NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA KATAMARI DAMACY
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NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA KATAMARI DAMACY
rotflmao ... that's the song I probably *will* die to... :roll:
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flaming lips - feeling yourself disintegrate
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Neutral Milk Hotel's untitled track
A slow drown appears out of nowhere. I turn my head on its side, thinking I have another gnat stuck in my ear. Then the organs start. My eyes widen in surprise. A blast from a fuzzed out guitar. There appears in front of me a conglomeration of awesome. Batman steps out of the shadows. Biker Mice from Mars pop wheelies on their bikes. Naota and Kanti slowly drop down from the sky. Hooters girls bring me plates of hot wings and bacon. Matrix and Bob and the rest of the ReBoot cast invite me to a game. Rocco and his friends...do whatever it is they do. Wolves, bears, penguins, falcons, lions, dinosaurs, dragons, and unicorns side by side in peace. A bitchin' tank replaces my truck. Ninjas, pirates, and zombies. Also, I know kung fu.
Then the drums kick in, and we all rock the fuck out before my family pulls the plug.
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At The Drive-In - Arcarsenal
Would 'Invalid Jitter Department' be somehow more fitting?
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Where Is My Mind - Pixies
like in Fight Club
or Shiny Happy People by R.E.M
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Some more ideas...
Obnoxious Songs to go out to:
Living In A Hole - Pantera
Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains
In This Shallow Grave - Arch Enemy
Bloodrucuted - Dethklok
Serious List:
Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel ( I could be buried right after evilCarl ; )
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam (I've always thought it was a great ending song)
Love Yer Brain - The Flaming Lips (This one I probably actually will have played at my funeral, Flips are amazing!)
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The Sickbed of Cuchulainn - the Pogues.
Preferably performed by a bunch of my friends, really fucking drunk.
People would be drinking shitloads of whiskey and dancing and stuff.
"McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands
When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair
And in the Euston Tavern you screamed it was your shout
But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair
You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lousy drunken bastards singing "Billy In The Bowl"
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church
Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round" <-(at this point someone makes my corpse sit up, weekend at Bernie's styling)
At the graveside of Cuchulainn we'll kneel around and pray
And God is in His heaven, and Billy's down by the bay"
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'Irish Rover,' 'Girl With Brown Eyes,' 'Rainy Night In Soho' - there's so many!
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Fucking "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden.
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At The Drive-In - Arcarsenal
Would 'Invalid Jitter Department' be somehow more fitting?
I don't really think so, what I'm thinking about with these songs to die to is what would be playing while I die, and I'd like to die going down in some sort of crazy action movie sort of car chase shoot out sort of thing, which I imagine something like arcarsenal being played during, actually I would've put the first three tracks from Relationship of Command on that list.
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I was more making a gag about 'dancing with the corpse's ashes.'
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NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA KATAMARI DAMACY
Why? Why did you do this? I haven't picked up this god-forsaken game in a month and I was finally able to get the song out of my head. Now it is back...
On topic: "Bright Spring Morning" by Suburban Legends, the slow version they wrote for Dallas...as cliche as that sounds
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I have a deal struck up with a friend that he will play "Arizona" by Kings of Leon at my funeral on Organ.
If I were alive to hear it, I'd probably cry tears of joy.
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Always Look On The Bright Side of Life will be played at my funeral. I'll die to whatever the theme music was when the guy was being chased off of the cliff by topless supermodels.
God I love Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
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Haha, this is almost typical, but:
Covenant - "Like Tears in Rain"
The Dismeberment Plan - "Time Bomb"
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Or, whatever that Dylan song Soy Bomb was dancing to. I'd like to make a statement, too.
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we're almost at the end of the second page
and there is no mention of 'sex bomb' by flipper
what is this
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Or, whatever that Dylan song Soy Bomb was dancing to. I'd like to make a statement, too.
'Love Sick.' Great tune.
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If "Dick in a Box" is going to be played at your funeral, then you'd better make sure that they give you an open casket and leave your fly undone.
Now I have to watch Clerks and/or touch myself. Not sure which.
Though, wanting to watch a Kevin Smith movie--albeit his best--makes part of me want to actually die.
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Villanova Junction from Hendrix's Live at Woodstock. It's such a beautiful track.
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The Safety Dance
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If "Dick in a Box" is going to be played at your funeral, then you'd better make sure that they give you an open casket and leave your fly undone.
don't forget the second before you kick the bucket to down a handful of viagra, appearently you'll have a woodie for days thanks to rigor mortis
how do i know this? some questions are best left unanswered
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Actually I am pretty sure that when you die your heart can't pump any more blood (understatement makes it funny!), and, see, that's what powers boners.
Also, the longer I go on, the more I realize that "Automobile" by N.W.A. is the Only Funeral Song. Damn you, Gaz, why did you have to introduce me to this song?
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Because everyone needs to hear it.
The Safety Dance
Especially if you died due to a dancing accident.
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No, rigour mortis makes your muscles go stiff. Your dick is not a muscle. Your dick is made stiff by the blood pumping through it. Watch a full-salute penis, and it throbs, because it's kept that way from the blood. Also note it's a darker colour. Rigour mortis does not apply to your dick.
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I didn't realise the definition of a muscle was 'something you can bend and twist.'
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http://www.teenhealthfx.com/answers/Sexuality/1845.html
http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/answerspot/message.php?message=22
http://iq.lycos.co.uk/qa/show/4467/ - it appears you can have an erection after death, however - but not due to rigor mortis
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rigor+mortis
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it is well documented, though, that in many cases erections appear post mortem. This is specially true when the person dies in an upright (hurr) position, such as hanging, since the blood will travel to the lower parts of the body, causing an erection.
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Death erection! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection) That's what it is called on Wikipedia. I am not sure if I would see a band called Death Erection.
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Solution: you and I form said band. You want lead guitar or rhythm? Or will we switch off?
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it is well documented, though, that in many cases erections appear post mortem. This is specially true when the person dies in an upright (hurr) position, such as hanging, since the blood will travel to the lower parts of the body, causing an erection.
Yes, as I accepted in my previous post. But my point that it wasn't to do with rigor mortis still stands.
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wow... weird crap I never needed to know :-o
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You needed to know about dead men's boners. Don't lie to yourself.
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To die to, it's gotta be:
True Believers - Bouncing Souls
Morphée - Moxy Früvous
But at my funeral? Well. I'm not particularly religious, but the traditional, "Here I Am, Lord" is the one song that I hope is sung at my funeral. And the traditional Old Irish Blessing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAq2fJWWorc played on a boombox held by my oldest friend (and mortal "enemy"). Everyone will look infinitely offended, then break up laughing.
Better be laughter at my damned funeral.
Also acceptable song(s) would be an amalgam of Explosions in the Sky, Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Beirut, and Leonard Cohen. Don't ask how, just do.