What will your funeral song be?
Fifthelement
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No disrespect intended, but what song would you chose to be played at your funeral?
I would probably go with Long Road
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090416/o ... ic_offbeat
Hallelujah or Highway to Hell? Songs to die for
Thu Apr 16, 10:35 AM
LONDON (AFP) - Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is the most popular song played at funeral services, but other more arresting death-bed choices were revealed in a poll published in Britain Thursday.
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Australian rockers AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" has stormed into the funeral charts along with Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust," while Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has a new lease of life after its recent success on a talent show.
More traditionally, hymns including "The Lord Is My Shepherd" and "All Things Bright And Beautiful" are among music chosen by people to accompany their final journey.
For classical music fans, Schubert's "Ave Maria," Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" and Bach's "Air On A G String" are among the most chosen pieces to comfort their loved ones as they pay final farewells.
Television and radio music also features on the burial playlist: theme tunes from popular programmes like "Top Gear", "The Benny Hill Show" and even the Radio Four Shipping Forecast music, which many fall asleep to at night.
"As more people choose non-religious funerals, so they incline towards contemporary songs with which they closely identify," said Lorinda Sheasby of the funeral company which commissioned the survey.
While hymns and classics may have been traditional favourites, pop songs now account for more than half of the music chosen as people's final soundtrack, according to the poll of over 30,000 funerals.
Here are some of the top pieces of music chosen, according to the poll commissioned by Co-operative Funeralcare.
- Top 5 popular songs:
1. "My Way" - Frank Sinatra/Shirley Bassey.
2. "Wind Beneath My Wings" - Bette Midler/Celine Dion.
3. "Time To Say Goodbye" - Sarah Brightman/Andrea Bocelli.
4. "Angels" - Robbie Williams.
5. "Over The Rainbow" - Eva Cassidy.
- Top 5 hymns:
1. "The Lord Is My Shepherd".
2. "Abide With Me".
3. "All Things Bright And Beautiful".
4. "Old Rugged Cross".
5. "Amazing Grace".
- Top 5 classical pieces:
1. "Nimrod" from "Enigma Variations" - Elgar.
2. "Pie Jesu" from "Requiem" - Faure.
3. "Ave Maria" - Schubert.
4. "Nessun Dorma" - Puccini.
5. "Canon in D Major" - Pachelbel.
- Other chart movers (no rankings):
- "Hallelujah" covered by talent show winner Alexandra Burke.
- "Bat Out Of Hell" - Meatloaf.
- "Spirit In The Sky" - Doctor and the Medics.
- 'Highway To Hell" - AC/DC.
I would probably go with Long Road
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090416/o ... ic_offbeat
Hallelujah or Highway to Hell? Songs to die for
Thu Apr 16, 10:35 AM
LONDON (AFP) - Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is the most popular song played at funeral services, but other more arresting death-bed choices were revealed in a poll published in Britain Thursday.
ADVERTISEMENT
Australian rockers AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" has stormed into the funeral charts along with Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust," while Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has a new lease of life after its recent success on a talent show.
More traditionally, hymns including "The Lord Is My Shepherd" and "All Things Bright And Beautiful" are among music chosen by people to accompany their final journey.
For classical music fans, Schubert's "Ave Maria," Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" and Bach's "Air On A G String" are among the most chosen pieces to comfort their loved ones as they pay final farewells.
Television and radio music also features on the burial playlist: theme tunes from popular programmes like "Top Gear", "The Benny Hill Show" and even the Radio Four Shipping Forecast music, which many fall asleep to at night.
"As more people choose non-religious funerals, so they incline towards contemporary songs with which they closely identify," said Lorinda Sheasby of the funeral company which commissioned the survey.
While hymns and classics may have been traditional favourites, pop songs now account for more than half of the music chosen as people's final soundtrack, according to the poll of over 30,000 funerals.
Here are some of the top pieces of music chosen, according to the poll commissioned by Co-operative Funeralcare.
- Top 5 popular songs:
1. "My Way" - Frank Sinatra/Shirley Bassey.
2. "Wind Beneath My Wings" - Bette Midler/Celine Dion.
3. "Time To Say Goodbye" - Sarah Brightman/Andrea Bocelli.
4. "Angels" - Robbie Williams.
5. "Over The Rainbow" - Eva Cassidy.
- Top 5 hymns:
1. "The Lord Is My Shepherd".
2. "Abide With Me".
3. "All Things Bright And Beautiful".
4. "Old Rugged Cross".
5. "Amazing Grace".
- Top 5 classical pieces:
1. "Nimrod" from "Enigma Variations" - Elgar.
2. "Pie Jesu" from "Requiem" - Faure.
3. "Ave Maria" - Schubert.
4. "Nessun Dorma" - Puccini.
5. "Canon in D Major" - Pachelbel.
- Other chart movers (no rankings):
- "Hallelujah" covered by talent show winner Alexandra Burke.
- "Bat Out Of Hell" - Meatloaf.
- "Spirit In The Sky" - Doctor and the Medics.
- 'Highway To Hell" - AC/DC.
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Once I get out of this town
9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
I'd go with The Verve - Lucky Man or Ben Harper - In the Lord's Arms
Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
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I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said, I dont want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, to feel, to know Im alive.
long road - PJ
funeral song - Brad
flower's grave - Tom Waits
we are leaving - Devotchka
going to your funeral - eels
we'll meet again - Johnny Cash
wish you were here - Human drama version
ministrel boy - Joe Strummer and the mescaleros
exit music (for a film) - Radiohead
a Mexican funeral in Paris - Shane MacGowan
-Tom Waits-
Everybody should believe in something...I believe i'll have another drink - anonymous -
Ah that's just drunk talk, sweet beautiful drunk talk.
-Barney Gumble-
They had music playing lowly in the background, but even that sounded religious, but it was "Stairway To Heaven" done in a mournful way.
For me, my children will decide.
"There goes my hero"
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Nice
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
Love Boat Captain/PJ
Shine a Light/Rolling Stones
Air/J.S. Bach
AIC- Don't Follow
First the Seattle '00 (last night) version
Then the version from Bonnaroo
Then the studio version (remix or original, I'm not that picky).
http://www.myspace.com/christianjame (Music Page)
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/19598996 (Personal Page)
"I know that I was born and I know that Ill die.
The in between is mine. I am mine."
Shannon Hoon's change lyrics are really nice too but wouldn't be right to have them too.
I get the shivers everytime I hear it and have always had it as my funeral song.
Looks like your funeral is going to be very loooong :?
1. Queen - The Show Must Go On
2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
3. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
4. Frank Sinatra - My Way
5. Mozart - Requiem
6. Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever
7.The Beatles - Let it Be
8. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
9. U2 - With Or Without You
10. Amazing Grace
11. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
12. Stay Human- Michael Franti and Spearhead
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
want to be enlightened"
"Frozen Charlotte"
Blue like the winter snow in this full moon
Black like the silhouettes of the trees
Late blooming flowers lye frozen underneath the stars
I want you to remember me that way
Far away
I'll be gone
Will you wait for me here?
How long?
I don't know
But wait for me here
Still as the river grows in December
Silent and perfect blinding ice
Spring keeps her promises
No cold can keep her back
I want you to remember me that way
Far away
I'll be gone
Will you wait for me here?
How long?
I don't know
But wait for me here
Follow
Don't follow me to where I'll go
Far away
I'll be gone
Will you wait for me here?
How long?
I don't know
But wait for me here
Follow
Don't follow me to where I've gone
Someday you'll take my place
And I'll wait for you here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abPXvvl ... re=related
But I've been leaning towards Garunteed and Society lately