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Pearl Jam music at your funeral?

whitepantswhitepants Posts: 727
edited June 2008 in The Porch
As my beloved sister will be passing soon, my own mortality has been on my mind a lot. I believe in the afterlife so death per se doesn't upset me so much, it's just the sorrow of missing that loved one that aches so much.

So in thinking about my own funeral, I immediately thought how appropriate it would be to have some Pearl Jam music jamming in the background of my funeral or afterwards at the family reception/gathering.

The first song that came to my mind was 'Alive'!

If I have to, I will write up some funeral terms (oh, I also want to be cremated) that will specify Pearl Jam music as my goodbye.

What about you guys? Have you attended the wake/funeral of a hardcore Pearl Jammer and they requested their music to be played?
~*~Me and Hippiemom dranketh the red wine in Cleveland 2003~*~

First PJ Show: March 20, 1994 | Ann Arbor | Crisler Arena
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  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    I'd love to play Light years at a relatives funeral.
    What the fuck is this world?
  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,086
    I'd love to play comeback, black and arc
  • luke.harvey3luke.harvey3 Posts: 283
    one of my very close friends passed away a few years ago and was set to get Rearviewmirror(g.h's) for Christmas. but sadly passed away unexpectedly on the 21st dec.
    at the funeral his family decided to play betterman and black.
    fitted nicely and as a big PJ fan myself it will always be with me
  • HailHailLeathermanHailHailLeatherman Posts: 126
    Yellow Ledbetter as they are lowering me in the ground. This would cue people as it was the end of the show and they could begin to leave :-)
  • pjalive21pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    Off He Goes, Man of the Hour, and Comeback
  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    Given to Fly
  • Tremendous UpsideTremendous Upside Posts: 118
    2nd for Light Years
  • shar228shar228 Posts: 5
    Given to Fly, Gone, Why Go
  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    It would have to be Present Tense for me, or should I say everyone else who is attending.
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

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  • stickboystickboy Posts: 2,981
    Bugs :D
    Aah, fuck it, I’m just gonna go home, turn on the fuckin’ TV...
    Watch the nightly news and drink a beer...
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    I want them to play Pennywise's 'Bro Hymn' at my funeral.
    That... or 'Fuck Authority'.
    ...
    It would be fitting.
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    Hail, Hail!!!
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Lukin ...
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • scpjfanscpjfan Posts: 131
    I asked my wife to play Off He Goes if I check out anytime soon.
    Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    After seeing the 1st encore for last night, I thought I was at a funeral. Sad, Comatose, Grievence, Black....Ed---get some help!
  • immortalitymanimmortalityman Posts: 5
    Release
    Man of the Hour
    Immortality
    "Immortality..."
  • DeadpoolDeadpool Posts: 155
    For me it would not be Pearl Jam....it would be Alice in Chain's Rain When I Die!
  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    What's the song that Ed sings with the choir? Is it Long Road? That's a good rendition.
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Present Tense, Long Road, Given To Fly...
    A human being that was given to fly.

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    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • bernmodibernmodi Posts: 631
    Love Boat Captain/Man of the Hour/I am mine
  • Fernando AliveFernando Alive Posts: 14
    YLB definitely, cause it sounds to me like something that was really good but now is over.
  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,066
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Lukin ...
    x2
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  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    LukinFan wrote:
    x2


    Who is this Matt Lukin cat anyway?
  • kh65kh65 Posts: 946
    One song says it all for me... "Black".
    "If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room."

    Gambling=a taxation on stupidity.

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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    smile :)
  • mensanemensane Posts: 912
    my mom died last summer. my sister and i each wanted to pick a song to play after we spoke during the service. during my talk, i described the bond that we had shared through music. she was a huge neil young fan, but never got to see him live. the first time i went to bridge school (in 2003), i called her during neil's set so she could hear the show. she always talked about how much that meant to her.

    so naturally, my song choice was Long Road. we even put a few lines from the song on the front of the service program.
  • dropmyleashdropmyleash Posts: 91
    I'd put Guaranteed and Rise on a loop...
    Having tasted, a life wasted....

    ....I'll probably only go back a couple more times.
  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    What's the song that Ed sings with the choir? Is it Long Road? That's a good rendition.



    LBC, Long Road and Betterman..... Personally I dig LBC the most on that.


    Molo Sessions, it was the Walmer High School Choir
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,991
    For what it's worth, I want "I gather speed from you fucking with me" on my gravestone.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • Lost Dog 1977Lost Dog 1977 Posts: 37
    i always said to my bro and my girl i want immortality at my funeral but long road is a nice sound too to leave this world.
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  • gozzo5058gozzo5058 Posts: 611
    long road
    s

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