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Dean Papa

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:26:17 +1200

if you don't want to be a precious tosser, at least not in death, then something the folks can sing along to would be nice. However, if you do want to go that way, then Clint Mansell's epic 'Death Is the Road to Awe' would fit that bill nicely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMddte6yD2w…

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:37:38 +1200

Everyone likes Donna Summer.

Not everyone ;)

Jackie Clark

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:09:48 +1200

Sometimes I wonder how some of us are even friends with each other. And then I remember that NO-ONE in my life likes the same music that I do. How is that even possible? Except for Donna Summer. Everyone likes Donna Summer.

Russell Brown

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:01:16 +1200

I like this one.

JacksonP

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:51:59 +1200

Crikey, that was quick. Over half a dozen remixes on Soundcloud already. Haven't really had the chance to grade them in any way, but this seemed to work.

The xx – Angels ( Take It Easy Hospital Remix )

JacksonP

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:42:31 +1200

I'm picking this will make a few wedding playlists in future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nW5AF0m9Zw

Dean Papa

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:20:45 +1200

Mrs Ted's favourite song, movingly performed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-PKHaQPvjI

Chris Waugh

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:13:32 +1200

erm.... well, your choice of words is more than enough to explain why I didn't google it... I'd rather just leave it in Wellington in the 80s. I may well be glad there's no equivalent for the 50s.

Islander

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:01:12 +1200

Just type in "Life Begins At Forty " in google and you get the whole monstrosity!
Nothing for 50-oids...

Chris Waugh

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:31:11 +1200

Does anybody else remember that Life Begins at 40 song that Lindsay Yeo used to play on 2ZB's birthday calls for those turning 40? Is there a 50 equivalent?

ETA: I've been doing this job too long... even on a summer holiday I can't switch off the impulse to correct…

Pete

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:12:43 +1200

For Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_hDcNr5KQ
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNBcSHVVvw

For Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQExf09gUs

Birthdays are for children

Isabel Hitchings

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:10:51 +1200

Were we to ever get married there would be this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hca-yvFUPk

and maybe this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rht01wob5B4

And then, because maybe it shouldn't be all Bowie all the time we could have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE

I suspect my darling would, however, prefer discreet jazz and nothing that encouraged dancing which may be why we…

JacksonP

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:53:58 +1200

I always liked this version…

Too much.

Although I feel this is sacrilegious to my main man Thom, this in a similar vein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf7RI4Ka_CQ

Kris V

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:05:29 +1200

I'mma have a PARTY on Saturday.

Fiddy, innit? Right then. I'm leadin' out with this...

I always liked this version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCol9pkD6us

Me & the hubcap are currently planning our 20th wedding anniversary gig... we'll be having it at our friends' bar, with 3-4 local bands & a DJ (all friends of ours)…

Simon Grigg

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:46:26 +1200

Bowie for funerals? For me it has to be this:

If I had to pick a David Jones song to say goodbye to, I'd be edging towards this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIzE3j84kKU

Isabel Hitchings

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:32:39 +1200

Bowie for funerals? For me it has to be this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1UVwHUDakI

Sofie Bribiesca

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:33:13 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQyoJiI58Zo&feature=related

Anytime, Any day will do. Actually, all of the Album.

Emma Hart

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:22:39 +1200

But yeah, it wasn't meant to be solely about funeral playlists. I'mma have a PARTY on Saturday.

Both at once. This played at my 21st. I'd like it to play at my funeral. (Though that will largely be down to my Musical Director and my overall Artistic Director. He threatened…

Alec Morgan

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:11:32 +1200

50th, it’s your party RB, sprinkling of history maybe but think–what do you really like and what do you mostly play these days, or, return to in party mode? don’t pander to the punters, just blast it.

Funerals tend to be a bit ‘Desert Island Disc’. “Another one bites the…

Richard Aston

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:54:10 +1200

Death Merch!
Now there is a growth trend
for you early adopters…
…tee shirts, cups, coasters,
mixtapes, cards, posters,
cookbooks & teatowels…
putting the FUN back in funerary!

Not to mention the DVD sales , action figures ( of the deceased) and oh the sponsorship deals " Dieing for a Coke…

JacksonP

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:28:32 +1200

I'mma have a PARTY on Saturday.

Fiddy, innit? Right then. I'm leadin' out with this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm8PH4xAss

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:27:20 +1200

event mgmt...
And someone selling tee shirts by the exit.
Death Merch!
Now there is a growth trend
for you early adopters...
...tee shirts, cups, coasters,
mixtapes, cards, posters,
cookbooks & teatowels...
putting the FUN back in funerary!

Chip Matthews

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:26:54 +1200

Word! The first time I went to england to see my brothers after my Dad passed, I would spend days walking around listenin to either Che's 2 b s'pacific, or Roots Manuva's brand new second hand. Both albums were the perfect soundtrack for me during those months away from home,…

Richard Aston

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:42:12 +1200

Umm … this is supposed to be a thread about music for turning 50 to, not really a funeral – more like an excuse for an epic party
Oh ....
Sorry Russell killed you off a bit soon .

Paul Campbell

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:41:24 +1200

We had a great turning 50 party, didn't really tell anyone, called it a 'solstice party' and over did the prep a little more than usual and had a great time – my usual party music list solution is to simply place a chosen pile of CD's by the CD…

Russell Brown

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:31:04 +1200

Umm … this is supposed to be a thread about music for turning 50 to, not really a funeral – more like an excuse for an epic party

Like I need an excuse! But yeah, it wasn't meant to be solely about funeral playlists. I'mma have a PARTY on Saturday.

Paul Campbell

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:24:45 +1200

Umm ... this is supposed to be a thread about music for turning 50 to, not really a funeral – more like an excuse for an epic party

Richard Aston

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:14:55 +1200

Man its going to be one long funeral so far...
They are going to be dancing in the aisles. They will be crying and laughing, shaking their bodies, praying and meditating... hey I think I can sniff that faint wiff of weed in the air...
And someone selling tee shirts…

JacksonP

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:56:15 +1200

Yes, I'm developing a keen sense of irony.

So this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk&feature=related

But definitely this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCNwgzM2rQ&feature=related

Joe Fisher

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:50:12 +1200

how about the late, great Etta James

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApNirMC9gM

Russell Brown

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:49:44 +1200

But for pretty much any occasion you care to mention, I’d play this.

Yes. That one.

Danielle

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:49:15 +1200

I failed to represent NZ at all, didn't I? How about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRgX5H7Q6KY

Joe Fisher

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:45:26 +1200

Chip whenever I got homesick living in the mountains in Europe I would play 'Waka'.. must be those drums !

Danielle

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:21:35 +1200

It totally isn't a funeral without a funky song about coke-fuelled paranoia, amirite?

JacksonP

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:17:45 +1200

Great Danielle. All your musics belongs to me. Well, you know what I mean.

Was wondering which Bowie I'd pick. This is a bit obvious maybe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0

But for pretty much any occasion you care to mention, I'd play this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCk6KEtbVc&feature=related

Russell Brown

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:12:39 +1200

I can’t say I’ve ever given this much thought, because LA LA LA I AM NEVER DYING I CAN’T HEAR YOU MORTALITY DOESN’T EXIST. Ahem. But obviously:

Ah! I picked 'Do You Realize?' when I was interviewed on a Christian radio show recently. Of course that should be there.

Danielle

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:58:43 +1200

I can't say I've ever given this much thought, because LA LA LA I AM NEVER DYING I CAN'T HEAR YOU MORTALITY DOESN'T EXIST. Ahem. But obviously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zYOKFjpm9s

Then something appropriately epic, which also turns into a dance party. Um...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY77zDzNmYw

The lullabye I sing to my children:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8muJIOznsg

Sadness…

Sacha

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:34:07 +1200

imagine a return home to a kiwiana soundtrack

Another whole post. More choices than Dobbyn.

Paul Williams

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:16:18 +1200

That’s just perfectly the welcome I want my wife and daughter to get when we get back.

Yeah, I similarly imagine a return home to a kiwiana soundtrack. Still, after close on ten years.

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:31:43 +1200

When my sister was a naughty teenager she suggested she’d like Prince’s Darling Nikki at hers.

That would be interesting — would the dress code be bikini briefs and raincoats for the gents and underwear with a leer for everyone else?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qvs1a1Xuzw

As a general rule, inspiring the mourners to…

Megan Wegan

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:18:52 +1200

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead. Seriously.

Chris Waugh

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:00:36 +1200

Dave Dobbyn’s Welcome Home

Get's me totally teared up, but for entirely non-funereal reasons. That's just perfectly the welcome I want my wife and daughter to get when we get back.

Dunno if anybody outside China will be able to see this, but [[http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjU5NTY5NTI=.html|here's a favourite of the kind I…

Ross Mason

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:59:47 +1200

These have to be the first on ones list:

This one has already been listed but is a compulsory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

And for the message from the grave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA

Caleb D'Anvers

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:17:13 +1200

Totally with you on the Church funeral acoustics, James. If you could, why wouldn't you go out with the full Tomás Luis de Victoria "Officium Defunctorum," all 60 minutes of it, live and loud, in the gaudiest, most Cyclopeian counter-Reformation cathedral you could find? I know I would.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OvViVpydw

Paul Williams

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:14:50 +1200

Harry, you know they’re touring again yeah?

Incidentally, how’s no one suggested Crowdies Better Be Home Soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD8pMIH1puw

Or, Dave Dobbyn’s Welcome Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQlVmvXAGLI

JacksonP

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:13:48 +1200

Then some of this

You just got the jump on me with that one.

Although I was going to suggest Tim Buckley, having got into trouble over his son earlier. ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2NkUmIH83U

Rob Stowell

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:01:27 +1200

I'd like the velvets 'sweet nothing' at my funeral- fairly long, sweet and mournful, and even if the words are not perfect, the chorus fits nicely :)

Dave Patrick

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:53:40 +1200

This is the first thing people are going to hear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHhB9zV_rQ

Then some of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM

Then some good old tear-jerking Les Miserables
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DNaw2-hLg

And some more 80's goodness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQSpJfpVHmg

There's lots more, but I'm going out to this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-et1avPAIY

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:53:22 +1200

Apart from

we all have bottom lines :)

bronwyn

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:47:33 +1200

A touch of LCD Soundsystem fits all types of occasions very nicely, and I'd plump for this one at my funeral, possibly the best combination of melancholy and dance music you'll ever find:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2V_ZT-nyOs

And as a lapsed Catholic who spent my formative years at an Anglican school, it would…

Jackie Clark

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:34:00 +1200

Thankyou Bronwyn, I thought so. And Steve my love? You'd do as you were told.

bronwyn

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:12:58 +1200

Jackie, your funeral sounds like jolly good fun! (Apart from the Simply Red, I have to say).

Paul Morrison

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:51:02 +1200

I'm going to have to suggest Nina Simone's ' Ain't Got no...I got life'

Slightly ironic but positive affirmations all round

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ

Jackie Clark

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:27:44 +1200

By golly, Bob, that's a very stern piece of music. Almost fist-shakey. Very you xx

Ana Simkiss

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:00:48 +1200

At my dad's funeral there was a LOT of music, including a live jazz band & a full on harmonised rendition of "sunrise sunset" from fiddler on the roof (he was a king of am dram in our little town). Most fitting – and still unlistenable! was Jerusalem. It suited a…

Islander

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:22:04 +1200

-my takiaue will involve family voices, family-generated music – or just the sound of the ever-rolling sea-
wont be around to care, but my lot know what I love, and that is the sound of them-

Harry Musgrave

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:19:59 +1200

Almost since I first heard it I've thought that I'd like Simple Minds 'Someone, Somewhere in Summertime' at my funeral. Listened to the album recently and thought that 'Big Sleep' might be even better..

But why stop at one!

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:57:05 +1200

something just primal about those visuals

Paul Williams

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:38:43 +1200

Sacha, I've got this CD and I might even seen that clip before... didn't stop me having a very teary moment in the office but.

Richard Aston

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:23:28 +1200

I played this very slow mantra at a friend's committal service
Deva Premal – Gate Gate . From the Buddhist heart sutra

Various translations , the one I used was
Leaving now
Leaving now
Leaving for the other side
O what an awakening

http://youtu.be/0ACr83mM8no
sorry about the cheesy video

Steve Barnes

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:15:24 +1200

I will be carried in to this:

Oh Jackie, I hope you never die. I couldn't stand the thought of having to sit through that selection.
;-)

Richard Aston

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:07:04 +1200

I played Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold at a friends funeral – young mother of 4 .
200 people weeping in unison , seemed the only human response to such a death.

http://youtu.be/EoESeUWdolo

bob daktari

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:59:30 +1200

my funeral should take about 13 minutes due to my choice of music.... quite possibly a lot less than that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9CoA_qPXs

at the wake people can play what they jolly well please, I won't be attending

Andrew E

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:57:19 +1200

Depending on the circumstances (aside from death), Arvo Part's Cantus in Memoriam for Benjamin Britten always sends a shiver down my spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp2oxWdRMuk

When my sister was a naughty teenager she suggested she'd like Prince's Darling Nikki at hers. I'd like to think she's moved on from that now...

Jackie Clark

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:35:22 +1200

I will be carried in to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAhpIjazFN0

then mourners will be treated to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqYnevHibaI

and then this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3WvI_S6-k

with a bit of this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6okRuOLc8

And I will be carried out to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grc2rYZOWc8

And I expect everyone to sing along to all of these songs.

And there will…

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:23:44 +1200

Not sure about relevance, but this one always gets me. Might have to insist that Romanek's spectacular clip is played too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Gregor Ronald

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:23:08 +1200

Grateful Dead's "Attics Of My Life" deserves an occasion. I once went to a helicopter pilot's funeral, where Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" was cheesy but just the thing – not a dry eye in the place. And nothing matches Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" for skiing bumps.

Andrew Moore

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:08:08 +1200

There's not a dry eye in the house as I'm wheeled out to this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms2x7hVqghs

Steve Barnes

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:05:38 +1200

That’s one advantage to a live-music funeral that I hadn’t thought of. At least then even if you do end up paying, you’re paying musicians.

It's really not about the paying, it's the concept of "Ownership" I have a problem with. All Music is derivative but a performance stands alone,…

Karen Crisp

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:02:53 +1200

I considered having 'In the Mood' by Glenn Miller played at my father's funeral, but in the end chose Johnny Cash for carrying out the coffin. Hardly a dry eye..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvgDXkHjAHM

Chip Matthews

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:01:28 +1200

Man, dunno. I think some tele stuff and still performing with King Kapisi. Would LOVE for Tere to do an album

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:55:50 +1200

We will break the law this weekend and sing “Happy Birthday” to Russ without paying royalties.

Had a friend send footage he took to his parents in the UK. It was his childs birthday.Everyone gathered around and sang "Happy Birthday".
He got an email a short time later with a…

James Butler

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:53:02 +1200

In the UK at both my Brothers and my Mothers funerals, a week apart FFS, we had to request and source the music through the Funeral Directors, copyright law don’t cha know, so the selection was limited. This just added to the sadness and anger.

That's one advantage to a…

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:47:35 +1200

even death is eventually about copyright..

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:46:26 +1200

Still, nice to know someone was making money out of it all.
NOT.

Not. Really not.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:36:21 +1200

In the UK at both my Brothers and my Mothers funerals, a week apart FFS, we had to request and source the music through the Funeral Directors, copyright law don't cha know, so the selection was limited. This just added to the sadness and anger.
Still, nice to know someone…

James Butler

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:32:58 +1200

For comparison, my Dad went out to most of the Orpheus Choir singing this in Wellington Cathedral. And sometimes I wonder why I find it hard to let go of the whole church funeral thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjsRhfi37Ws

Emma Hart

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:23:39 +1200

Anything by Jeff Buckley has a 'gone too soon' feel to it, but I've always thought his version of Hallelujah would be good.

Oh, my mother's funeral. My brothers all heavying the celebrant to make absolutely sure that the version of Hallelujah that got played was the Leonard Cohen, not...…

Dan Slevin

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:22:15 +1200

I'm told that Peter Sellers chose In the Mood for his funeral:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw

Inspired by that, my good friend Richard said he'd rather this (and insist on everyone doing the actions):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xwjx6XyiM

As for me, this'll do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wOHP8zxgU

JacksonP

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:20:57 +1200

Actually, the other one that resonates is this by Felt, off 'The Pictorial Jackson Review'. Ahem.

I'd play it during a slide show of photos. Well, someone would. Hopefully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDIg3Ri2wg

Jackie Clark

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:18:07 +1200

I had a lovely fan experience recently when I decided that for that set I really needed a high-quality copy of the legendary Bobby Busnach‘s remix of Donna Summer’s ’I Feel Love’

I can't even listen to it. I have joytears prickling at my eyes just thinking about it.

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:12:28 +1200

I’m 50 years old a week from today. I know, I know, I don’t look it – I’m lucky in that sense

Dude ! lols .

Well, people do keep telling me this. It's the hair.

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:07:24 +1200

Beautiful. And what's Teremoana up to these days?

Jackie Clark

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:01:49 +1200

I'm really sorry about your sister, DR x

Peter Darlington

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:01:36 +1200

My friend Pete Darlington approached such a birthday by choosing a track for every year of his life and giving his friends the mixtape, but he has a librarian's training and I'm not that systematic.

Heh, that damned thing took 18 months and nearly killed me! I do not recommend...…

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:00:31 +1200

Anything by Jeff Buckley

and anything by Mr Cohen

andrew r

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:49:19 +1200

....I'm 50 years old a week from today. I know, I know, I don't look it — I'm lucky in that sense — ....

Dude ! lols .

My funeral tune ...hmmm maybe .. NWA fk the Police --- may as well go out with a bang. Or maybe Look…

JacksonP

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:43:18 +1200

This was played at the funeral of a friend

The thought has me in tears. Anything by Jeff Buckley has a 'gone too soon' feel to it, but I've always thought his version of Hallelujah would be good.

But I think he took that up a level when he mixed…

Steve Barnes

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:39:17 +1200

And for Russ' birthday, who could resist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4QXvRZefk&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB9B18D84B1F550CB

Mark Thomas

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:39:09 +1200

Probably not suitable for a birthday, but I've been listening to this album nonstop since I discovered it last week. Utterly brilliant, best of the year in my unhumble opinion.
http://soundcloud.com/alt-j/sets/an-awesome-wave/

http://youtu.be/MPH89HIBLiw

Steve Barnes

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:37:37 +1200

."gimme dat harp, boy.....it ain't no fat man's toy".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGxSiGTmoFQ
Anytime's a good time for the Captain.

John Armstrong

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:25:52 +1200

He..

James Butler

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:13:48 +1200

I've been thinking about this one a bit recently (although I don't plan on dying anytime in the next 50 years). I was brought up in the Anglican church music tradition, and I always assumed that I would have an Anglican funeral, perhaps with Thomas Tomkins' Funeral Sentences:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsGDiu0S13A

Even…

Kumara Republic

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:10:28 +1200

“I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxaJKm9sdI

Before my eldest sister succumbed to a brain haemmorhage, she didn't want a conventional funeral, so she opted for a musical piece verging on Wagnerian.

Robert Fox

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:08:49 +1200

An old uni friend of mine had visions of this being played at his funeral while he was stuck in a crevasse and fearing the worst while climbing in the Himalayas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNbuS163I_4&feature=related
Luckily he survived his ordeal but I would have loved to have gone to the funeral.

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:08:10 +1200

take my wife, please :)

John Armstrong

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:05:47 +1200

Oh shit, I didn't mean that! Damn you, bald lady..

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:04:10 +1200

Woah, heavy topic for a Monday!

Thanks for sharing, seriously.

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:59:38 +1200

And it has a line that reminds me, every time, of my wife.

roflnui

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:57:28 +1200

Plenty of time for one of those 17-min versions of “Stairway to Heaven”?

I'd prefer the 15-min version of 'I Feel Love'.

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:57:24 +1200

How about we kick off my funeral with a spot of Monty Python (‘All Things Dull and Ugly’)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPriOQkKd6k

Otherwise, you’re getting hymns (and yes atheist friends, this would be a wonderful time to grit your teeth and indulge me) – I’m particularly partial to ‘Dear Lord and Father of…

dc_red

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:56:01 +1200

I think you’ll need to have a full three-day tangi and make up playlists for each step of the way.

Genius

Plenty of time for one of those 17-min versions of "Stairway to Heaven"?

Chip Matthews

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:55:52 +1200

This was played at the funeral of a friend who took his own life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI

I think I’d like that. And for my Dad’s, earlier the same year as my friend, I chose this as my musical input to the day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RQjMJr8z44

For years after before I left Che’s band,…

John Armstrong

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:55:26 +1200

For me, fIREHOSE's version of Daniel Johnson's Walking the Cow is it (I recommend 'watching' the clip with your eyes closed; the song is just all about surreal visual imagery that is just not helped by actual cows walking..).

I'd be hard pressed to justify the choice, but for me…

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:55:18 +1200

that may promote funerals amongst selectas

dc_red

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:51:00 +1200

"I've smoked too much" is awesome, but might lead to some unwanted speculation as to cause of death? Or, heck, wanted speculation!

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:50:31 +1200

I think you’ll need to have a full three-day tangi and make up playlists for each step of the way.

Genius. But may have to take life-lengthening steps. That shit's gonna take decades to get right.

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:48:54 +1200

I think you'll need to have a full three-day tangi and make up playlists for each step of the way.

A friend of mine died in 1998. At his funeral, a Smashing Pumpkins song was played as the mourners left the chapel. I don't remember what song it was, but…

LegBreak

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:48:36 +1200

Simply Red : "If you don't know me by now"

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:47:27 +1200

Oh, and no funeral shit on your birthday, sir.

Oh hell no. Like I said, the impending celebration just washed up the perennial playlist again. I am going to bust out some I AM STILL A-FUCKING LIVE tunes on Saturday.

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:46:03 +1200

Oh, and no funeral shit on your birthday, sir.

Russell Brown

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:45:56 +1200

I’d like those who knew me to chose my soundtrack. Seriously. The conversations about choices would be magnificent.

I don't trust my friends that much :-)

Sacha

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:45:18 +1200

I'd like those who knew me to chose my soundtrack. Seriously. The conversations about choices would be magnificent.

Public Address

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:45:18 +1200

Discussion from blog post.