A current article in the UK’s Telegraph prompts this question.

What song do you want played as they carry you down the aisle / throw you in the oven?

sibeen said:

A current article in the UK’s Telegraph prompts this question.

What song do you want played as they carry you down the aisle / throw you in the oven?

Ride On, AC/DC. Probably.

sibeen said:

A current article in the UK’s Telegraph prompts this question.

What song do you want played as they carry you down the aisle / throw you in the oven?

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12VUjgYMm1U

wookiemeister said:

sibeen said:

A current article in the UK’s Telegraph prompts this question.

What song do you want played as they carry you down the aisle / throw you in the oven?

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12VUjgYMm1U

or

Tokyo Ghetto Pussy – Everybody Get On The Floor

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

Dunno, probably some protestant hymn from my childhood.

Though if given a chance, I intend to have an advance wake with me in attendance with plenty of music cos I love music as most of my mates know, rent our very nice Victorian style stone town hall, free booze and speak to the pizza shop about 500 bucks of pizza for the catering.

i’ll spend about 20 years building a huge salt pyramid and declare myself pharoah of some patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere

i’ll then fake my own death and then collect the entrance fees from backpackers and grey nomads as they visit my “tomb”

I’d be more interested in the headstone.

I’d like a quote from Banjo Paterson’s The Man From Ironbark: “He was a humourist of note, and keen at repartee”.

i’ll still be posting to the holiday forum after my death

no one reads my posts and i’m fairly repetitive so no one would ever know

my headstone will just say

“mossad”

wookiemeister said:

my headstone will just say

“mossad”

Got ‘im, YESSSSSS!!!!!!

party_pants said:

wookiemeister said:

my headstone will just say

“mossad”

Got ‘im, YESSSSSS!!!!!!

unlikely

the complete Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ?

maybe in this salt pyramid i can be stored in a hybaric chamber in an induced hybernation state periodically being reactivated when needed

CrazyNeutrino said:

the complete Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ?

wookie von mcsparkles the third thats my name i put on my fake passport when i visit dubai

Spooky – Lydia Lunch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFkYJhI0fyU

Battlestar Galactica (The Shape of Things to Come)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7XY2sZpbL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A7WXZbQuxY

Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues

When all the guests are seated….I want this played, with the film clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40ushYAaYA

kii said:

When all the guests are seated….I want this played, with the film clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40ushYAaYA

That’s a cheery choice.

I don’t want a funeral, so just the sound of the incinerator firing up will do me :)

For me it will be the Choral section from the fourth movement of Beethoven’s 9th.

Not because of the lyrics, as the recording will be Harnocourt’s version done with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and all the vocals are in the original German.

It’s just the best bit of music that has ever been written, and I can only go out with the best :)

Bubblecar said:

That’s a cheery choice.

I don’t want a funeral, so just the sound of the incinerator firing up will do me :)

How about something from the Fire Requiem? Flamma Flamma seems like a good choice.

(I have this CD…I must play it today – with the sound turned up…mr kii is at work)

wookiemeister said:

i’ll spend about 20 years building a huge salt pyramid and declare myself pharoah of some patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere

i’ll then fake my own death and then collect the entrance fees from backpackers and grey nomads as they visit my “tomb”

Seesh. Dream up your own plan instead of pinching mine. You’re supposed to be the ideas person.

morrie said:

wookiemeister said:

i’ll spend about 20 years building a huge salt pyramid and declare myself pharoah of some patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere

i’ll then fake my own death and then collect the entrance fees from backpackers and grey nomads as they visit my “tomb”

Seesh. Dream up your own plan instead of pinching mine. You’re supposed to be the ideas person.

sorry thats the pharoah’s idea now

wookiemeister said:

morrie said:

wookiemeister said:

i’ll spend about 20 years building a huge salt pyramid and declare myself pharoah of some patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere

i’ll then fake my own death and then collect the entrance fees from backpackers and grey nomads as they visit my “tomb”

Seesh. Dream up your own plan instead of pinching mine. You’re supposed to be the ideas person.

sorry thats the pharoah’s idea now

i suppose i could just cover the whole thing in fibreglass to make it waterproof for a few hundred years

I told my kids to just play that Simpson’s episode about the monorail at my funeral.

I have an epitaph picked out too, from Simon and Garfunkel’s “Feelin’ Groovy” (The 59th Street Bridge Song)

I’ve no deeds to do
No promises to keep
I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life I love you, all is groovy

podzol said:

I have an epitaph picked out too, from Simon and Garfunkel’s “Feelin’ Groovy” (The 59th Street Bridge Song)

I’ve no deeds to do
No promises to keep
I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life I love you, all is groovy

Nice…..*steals *

firstly i’d like to welcome everyone for coming today, it means a lot for me

on leaving you’ll find that the doors are locked and you’ll not be able to leave the building ie my salt pyramid. the drinks you were given have been spiked

instead of returning to normal life you’ll be instead embarking on a journey to the underworld with me, entombed with me – yours truly wookiemeister

thank you for your time and you may return to the funeral

wookiemeister said:

firstly i’d like to welcome everyone for coming today, it means a lot for me

on leaving you’ll find that the doors are locked and you’ll not be able to leave the building ie my salt pyramid. the drinks you were given have been spiked

instead of returning to normal life you’ll be instead embarking on a journey to the underworld with me, entombed with me – yours truly wookiemeister

thank you for your time and you may return to the funeral

Any cats?

kii said:

wookiemeister said:

firstly i’d like to welcome everyone for coming today, it means a lot for me

on leaving you’ll find that the doors are locked and you’ll not be able to leave the building ie my salt pyramid. the drinks you were given have been spiked

instead of returning to normal life you’ll be instead embarking on a journey to the underworld with me, entombed with me – yours truly wookiemeister

thank you for your time and you may return to the funeral

Any cats?

yeah but i don’t think they’d like being entombed forever with me so i gave it a miss, the pyramid will have a catflap though

You are welcome Kii :)

4’ 33”

Boris said:

4’ 33”

That’ll send the punters to sleep. Let’s face facts here, people, the only reason anyone would turn up would be to witness the demise of someone who’s had over 300 birthdays.

i. won’t. care.

bwhahahahahahaha.

;-)

Boris said:

4’ 33”

You’re so silly.

The Ying Tong Song, as sung by the Goons.

My epitaph should be the last stanza of the most famous Bedlamite song:

With an host of furious fancies
Whereof I am commander.
With a burning spear and a horse of air
To the wilderness I wander.
By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summoned am to tourney,
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end.
Methinks it is no journey.

Highway to hell
AC/DC

Mr buffy has said he thinks “Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back” would be appropriate.

Our friend who ran Madigan’s entered the church in her lipstick red coffin to the strains of Edith Piaf (in French) singing “No Regrets”. I don’t recall the actual name of the song she left to, but it was a female singer and part of it was about the last chance cafe. I wasn’t in much of a state to listen too hard.

Then later I looked up the English translation of Piaf…and that was even sadder.

It was, though, entirely appropriate.

Where will you go when days grow
Short and winds grow cold and green leaves are shaken?

There was a road as once I saw
Wound with bright ivies and trumpeting haws
Of whitest sand embroidered with flowers
That very few had taken

Where will you stay while rivers run
And days eat days and white stars are pining?

In hopes more true in hearts more gay
In love that is stronger and brighter than day
In hands that heal in thoughts that play
In all eyes shining

Why do we talk of go and stay?(Of go and stay)
We will all be here till here is there

INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

if my husband outives me then i want them to play ‘you were the wind beneath my wings’ for him.

‘

>>i want them to play ‘you were the wind beneath my wings’ for him.

Not Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport…?

I’d be cool with a crazy Hendrix-Star-Spangled-Banner style cover of “Hit The Road Jack”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ajHezlJq-A

Johnny Cash – The gambler

Glance Fleeting said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ajHezlJq-A

Johnny Cash – The gambler

Who had the original version? proly about 40 years ago? fairly sure it wasn’t Johny Crash

Kenny Rogers.

no,,,wait…I couldn’t possible know that

sibeen said:

Kenny Rogers.

no,,,wait…I couldn’t possible know that

Full marks sibeen, just couldn’t dredge that up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwcOaaRo1Y

islands in the stream

It was played at the funeral I was at in St Arnuad last month, bob.

The deceased was a ‘country & western’ fan shudders

I would have preferred a mormon :)

Glance Fleeting said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwcOaaRo1Y

islands in the stream

. Yeah that’s another song like “Bye bye Miss America pie” it’s about the death of Buddy Holly or something but the actual words don’t make any sense.

>>I would have preferred a mormon :)

Something by The Osmonds?

I reckon Hello, Ma Baby would go down well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49EoV50oba0 :)

On a more serious note, I think Villanova Junction by Jimi Hendrix would be nice. It’s a sombre instrumental blues, the last piece played at Woodstock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnS0HitDpJU

This song would piss off my parents, so I want this played should I die before them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25ORRgLxdA

Divine Angel said:

This song would piss off my parents, so I want this played should I die before them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25ORRgLxdA

I remember a father who ripped “don’t blame it on the children” off the gramophone and snapped it into pieces.

Dad was an Hawaiian music fan. He disappeared behind the curtain to the strains of Bing Crosby singing “Sweet Lelani”. It was original as a parting tune. Saddens me to listen to it now. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Kym-TTbV0

This will be mine.

I was looking to see some dreams drip from your fingers
I was working in that lonely place where memory lingers
If there were words, if there was hair that I could drag you back with
If there was one single little hook that I could break your back with
Here we go
Oh yeah
Better get my head down there
Oh where?
Down there in that cavern where heaven grows
It’s somewhere down there between daytime and the dark
And I’m gonna sweat beneath the light of a warm world
Oh yeah
Better get my head down there
Oh where?
Down there in that cavern where heaven grows
Out here in the street, naked in front of God and everyone
I’m beginning to see daylight yawning down there
And I’m just sitting here waiting for things to come
Cram that page baby, you know I’m marvellous
You think I’m sweating like this just for fun?
And hey I know it’s true but I just can’t say it
(Say it, say it)
Hey I know it’s true but I just can’t say it
(Say it, say it)
All right, all right!
Just…. one….. touch
And everything will be all right
Just…. one….. touch
And everything will be all right

ummm, appropriately titled The Slab :)