Music for the Mourners.  With me it would be

Funeral for a Friend by ELTON JOHN  (just the first few piano minutes)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procul Harem)

If not that, something like this:



And I'm not even slightly joking.

My will states "No funeral", however, if friends and family insist, I have asked for those two tunes (or something similar) to be played.

..

Despite claiming I am a failed christian I love this soneg and would love it in my funeral songs!

Another great one to have playing in the slideshow

Oh my god, it's getting worse.

Redmond Neck wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 6:52pm:


Not at all.

I've put up my funeral songs (not that I'd have a funeral).

This would be another one:

Frank wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:51pm:


Aw, shucks   

Being Setanta I would have to say this.

And a reading or two

.......

This topic I suspect was posted by someone in their mid sixties or older!

My reasoning is us in that age group or older in my case  spend a lot of our time fare welling family and friends at funerals.

Listening to the music one thinks the obvious "What songs do I want at my funeral?" as a serious question.

Most of the answers on here are BS from people trying to have a joke, probably aged less than 50!

You too will get old!

Lionel Edriess wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 7:47pm:


Interesting!

I am a massive Stones fan but dont see their music as my sort of funeral music. Bit hard to sit there and get sentimaental thinking of my departed friend listening to "Honky Tonk Woman"  "Brown Sugar" or similar.

I am a sort of failed christian so love some sentimental hymns

Redmond Neck wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 7:58pm:


I think you misunderstand. My point was not about the genre of the music, rather that everyone should gather and share in a celebration of an acquaintance lost.

In an ideal world, this would then result in new friendships formed on a shared basis, the loss of the old.

Growth and renewal, expansion, through death.

A living memory.

Redmond Neck wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 6:52pm:


Damn right.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 4^th, 2016 at 9:28pm:


I think it will be up to your neighbours or your rare niece visits and it'll be more like...

Gordon wrote on Aug 5^th, 2016 at 2:12pm:


http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1469867477/1#1

...

Jim Davidson and his Dandies

I like this one



artist: Notis Sfakianakis

Song: My body                Soma mou

My Body tonight                    Soma mou apopse
You’ve won again                  pali nikises
Conquering my heart            ke tin cardia mou ligises
Scorching darkness              Kafto skotadi
Inside me loneliness            mesa mou I monaxia
My poor body                      Soma mou kaimeno
I can’t control you anymore    the se orizo pia

My body My Body               Soma mou soma mou
Made of clay                      ftagmeno apo pilo
My body you do whatever   Soma mou kanis oti
you want to my mind          thess to mialio

My body My Body              Soma mou soma mou
Made of clay                     ftagmeno apo pilo
My body you do whatever Soma mou kanis oti
you want to my mind        thess to mialio

My body tonight                   Soma mou apopse
You’ve revolted                    epanastatises
You left me without a soul     Horis psihi mou afises
The furies will come             I erinues th’arthoun
Wherever you go                opou ke an’pas
My body you sink                Soma mou vouliazis
On the path you walk           sto dromo pou patas

My body My Body              Soma mou soma mou
Made of clay                      ftagmeno apo pilo
My body you do whatever   Soma mou kanis oti
you want to my mind          thess to mialio

My body My Body                Soma mou soma mou
Made of clay                       ftagmeno apo pilo
My body you do whatever    Soma mou kanis oti
you want to my mind          thess to mialio

My body My Body              Soma mou soma mou
Made of clay                      ftagmeno apo pilo
My body you do whatever  Soma mou kanis oti
you want to my mind         thess to mialio

My body My Body              Soma mou soma mou
Made of clay                     ftagmeno apo pilo
My body you do whatever  Soma mou kanis oti
you want to my mind         thess to mialio

When my sister died in 2007 from cancer, she was a fan of Neil Diamond .... I personally can NOT stand him .... so they played that.  I can't remember which song it was ....

This one will do.

skippy. wrote on Aug 24^th, 2016 at 6:39pm:



 

Like this skippy.

Neferti wrote on Aug 24^th, 2016 at 7:37pm:

 

Neferti wrote on Aug 24^th, 2016 at 4:26pm:

not sure why nef put that up....

any reason nef for that?....

cant see where ag insulted you??...

I was kind of hoping you girls would be over doing that stuff.....

I would hope some threads are above all that..

well we live in hope.

Agnes wrote on Aug 25^th, 2016 at 11:00am:



well agnes not everyone kn ows they upset people  you retaliate I think thats the difference... I am having similar trouble on here.....people seem to think they can say what they like.. but if I say anything I am called all sorts....its weirs on this forum anyway this is about music....and I was really commenting on the music nef selected.....maybe she doesnt understand the hurt that goes with that sort of thing.....

I do because I am there all the time on here....I dont want a war with nef.. or you I am just asking.. WHY?..what brought it on..   surely not something that happened 10 years ago

of course not who would be that immature..

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 8^th, 2016 at 8:23pm:



I agree - what a depressing topic.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - On the Tomb (Над могилой), Op. 61, prelude, (1904), in memory of M.P. Belaieff