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General Topics => Music => Topic started by: Colwyn on December 02, 2011, 09:58:37 AM
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Suppose you know a man who is the most boring, dull, conventional, comformist, uninteresting, perfect Monty Python's accountant-type person. And he tells you he has decided what his special song at his funeral will be. It is absolutely predictable it will be . . . "I Did It My Way".
Have you decided on your own yet?
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Always look on the bright side of life - Monty Python.:D
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not Get the Fire Brigade then Eric?:D
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Nah.....don't want them to put my fire out ;)
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"The Great Gig In The Sky" - Pink Floyd.
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Amazing Grace & Last Post! Providing i can find someone to play at mine when i pop my clogs! lol
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Superb valleyboy - a friend went to a funeral where "We'll meet again" was the song at departure which I thought was quite good.
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What about 7 minutes on the travelator to Bohemian Rhapsody
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"Aint Misbehavin'" - Fats Waller.
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When the lady smiles.
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"My Way" but sung by Shane Macgowan of the Pogues at his drunken "up yours" best!
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simply the best for me sung by tina turner of course. very loud as well
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Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
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I am really impressed by these answers. A lot of you seem to have thought of this already and have a firm decision. I don't know whether I am surpised that no-one has gone for My Way except for one person who has gone for an alternative (possibly an ironic, post-modern) version. Perhaps that is because CBF members are just too interesting - including one who is so "interesting" that he might consider getting psychiatric help for the condition.
I have never really considered it; perhaps I should. I am not sure how to start this. Perhaps I should follow Peter Seller's lead - who specified Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" apparently because he hated it so much that in having it played after his death he could share a final joke with his family and friends. If I did this I should surely pick Sinatra's "My Way" which I totally detest. Or since I am determined to be cremated perhaps I could go with J. L. Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" - but that might be a bit coarse, not to mention egotistical. I might choose Bristol Rover's theme song, for no other reason than it would irritate my brother who is a Bristol City fan. But perhaps that song, written in prison by a man convicted of murder, and which may - possibly - be about that man killing his wife, wouldn't be the most decorous. In equally sombre mood it might be "St. James Infirmary" (the Snooks Eaglin version) that Hilary says is the most miserable song ever written and which I am absolutely forbidden to sing in a public house ever again. I toyed with the idea of making it Cab Callaway's "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" - but since I hope to die at an improbably old age my "rascal" would likely have been long dead.
So, in pondering this important issue, I'll take your replies into consideration ... except for one - get help man whilst there is still time.
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I was at a funeral on Monday and they played "The Carnival is Over" by the seekers. Not a dry eye in the church
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k
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Going Home - The Theme from Local Hero. Dire Straits Live in Sydney 1986 and to include the audience reaction at the end of the performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ16mye0QOU
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At my husbands funeral I played Those were The Days Of Our Lives by Queen
But as the curtains closed I chose Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple, mainly because Deep Purple were his favourite group and he was always playing them, I used to threaten to play them at his funeral one day, and I did! It lightened the mood amongst his friends anyway, as theyed heard me say it so often!
I want Creep by Radiohead, though Im sure I wont be that bothered when the time comes!
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The Pretender by the wonderful Jackson Browne.
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I might choose No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley - just to make sure she cries ;)
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go on to You Tube Music and tap in Colwyns Playlist if you want to see his choice :-\
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I tried doing that and ir said I had removed it. Still don't know I will be buried to - I'll just have to live with the doubt I guess.
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I just tapped in colwyn and scrolled down and there it was
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quote:
Originally posted by Julesp
At my husbands funeral I played Those were The Days Of Our Lives by Queen
My second choice Julie.
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Knock on wood?
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Smoke gets in your eyes ?
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The Heat Is On?
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Down down, deeper and down. Status Quo.
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Going underground by the Jam :)
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Where's your Mummy gone ?
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Digging a Hole by Bernard Cribbins, that should cheer em up!
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Simon & Garfunkle "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - for no other reason other than that I like it.
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One of my favourites was a story I read in the paper a few years ago. A lady named Sally was being cremated and they played the Vera Lynn song 'Sally'.The service had not been complete and the CD went onto the next track and it was 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye'.
What a way to go.
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Was the greatest a clairvoyant [?]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lotkzHsIuoA have a listen to the lyrics ;)
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quote:
Originally posted by Ovacikpeedoff
the Vera Lynn song 'Sally'.The service had not been complete and the CD went onto the next track and it was 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye'.
Ermmmmm...........Gracie Fields ?
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Sorry as they were both before my time I got them mixed up. It was Gracie.
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Lucky we have old boys on here then!
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Not so much of the old !
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KK--->O<---B ;)
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Should I be BOKA...Bloody Old Know All ? :D
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Wham' Wake me up before you go go' and Enya 'Where are you now'
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My dad had Monty Pythons Always look on the bright side of life, then Boyz to Men Hard to say goodbye to yesterday. Although a friends mum recently had Burn baby Burn, during her cremation
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My husband wanted Monty Pythons Always look on the bright side of life,but I wasn't allowed to have it at either the church service or at his cremation, but I made sure it was played at the reception after, to the very strange "looks" from all the big wigs that were there.