The long list
A couple of people have asked about the funeral song business.
Here is the long list, as it currently stands:
1. Last day in June - Finn
2. Saints - The Breeders
3. You will surely love again - Chris Wilson
4. Turn and Run - Neil Finn
5. Thrilloilogy - Powderfinger
6. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
7. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
8. Goldmines - Josh Pyke
9. Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan
10. Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
11. Time for a change - Split Enz
Apparently I can't put any of this detail in my will, which frankly makes me wonder why I even have one.
Mr Fix and I had an interesting conversation about Number 5. I argue that, despite the obvious rock overtones it's still quite the melancholy number. I further argue that, if you are a bit rock, why wouldn't that be reflected at your funeral? Hence, the inclusion, at least on the long list, of Number 2.
Number 11 seems very telling, doesn't it? In fact, when put together like this no doubt this list says a lot about my state of mind. Many of these (1,7,9, for example) have endured on the list, which is not to say that I think about this every day, but it does pop into ones' thoughts every now and then.
Also, who wouldn't want to play Kaiser Chiefs' 'I predict a riot'? One of my friends is very attached to the idea of playing 'Bat out of Hell' by Meatloaf, which surely would lift the mood, but I suspect his parents wouldn't approve.
Here is the long list, as it currently stands:
1. Last day in June - Finn
2. Saints - The Breeders
3. You will surely love again - Chris Wilson
4. Turn and Run - Neil Finn
5. Thrilloilogy - Powderfinger
6. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
7. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
8. Goldmines - Josh Pyke
9. Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan
10. Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
11. Time for a change - Split Enz
Apparently I can't put any of this detail in my will, which frankly makes me wonder why I even have one.
Mr Fix and I had an interesting conversation about Number 5. I argue that, despite the obvious rock overtones it's still quite the melancholy number. I further argue that, if you are a bit rock, why wouldn't that be reflected at your funeral? Hence, the inclusion, at least on the long list, of Number 2.
Number 11 seems very telling, doesn't it? In fact, when put together like this no doubt this list says a lot about my state of mind. Many of these (1,7,9, for example) have endured on the list, which is not to say that I think about this every day, but it does pop into ones' thoughts every now and then.
Also, who wouldn't want to play Kaiser Chiefs' 'I predict a riot'? One of my friends is very attached to the idea of playing 'Bat out of Hell' by Meatloaf, which surely would lift the mood, but I suspect his parents wouldn't approve.
posted by gigglewick at
11:15 pm
8 Comments:
I've often thought that TOSAW's "Our Home" would be an awesome funeral song, although I probably wouldn't use it for my own.
I haven't actually got a list. I may have to steal "Here Comes the Sun" in order to get me started (which, now I think about it, is not quite the point of a funeral song).
I may have to add U2's "Elevation", if only to ensure that people would spend days wondering whether I was just taking the piss.
I'm pretty sure the line 'A mole, digging in a hole, digging up my soul now going down excavation"
might seem somewhat inappropriate.
Yes, that is the line I was thinking of. Since they follow it up with "I and I in the sky/You make me feel like I could fly/so high" or similar, the "hole thing" is clearly a metaphor for death and resurrection and so entirely appropriate.
Or, alternatively, not.
If you really wanted to annoy your parents, there's always ACDC's 'You Shook Me All Night Long' with its unforgettable and moving line, "She was a fast machine, she kept her motor cleaning, she was the sweetest damn woman I ever seen..."
Or go straight to Monty Python for 'Sit on my face and tell me that you love me....'
INC,
Hmmm. That seems a stretch to me.
Kath,
Indeed. What are your thoughts? And let's please cease all this talk of people dying before their parents, it is wrong wrong wrong.
(even though I started it).
also INC, Mr Fix says "I like it".
So you'd have one fan in the crowd.
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It may have been a pretty average sort of day, but I hope Mr Fix won't be too disappointed to learn that I am not yet planning the guest list for my own funeral.
If I actually meet Mr Fix before I die that will leave only 99 things left to do. It will also make the thought of him attending my funeral a little bit less surreal.
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