Best music at my funeral

[dorje]

Anyone think about what you might want the guests at your funeral to hear ? Suggestions:

1. Alice in Wonderland-Charlie MIngus-John Handy on Alto, Booker Irwin on Tenor
2. All the People who Died, Died.-Ji Carroll
3. Dying Crapshooters Blues-Blind Will McTell
4. Salt Peanuts-Charlie "the Bird" Parker
5. Round Midnight-Thelonius Monk
6. Round Midnight-Eric Dolphy
7. I'm waiting for my man-Velvet Underground
8. William Burroughs reading Naked Lunch-three CD set
9. Scrapple for the Apple-Charlie Chan Parker
10. New York's Alright if you like saxaphones-FEAR

[WarmCyanide]

number ten cracked me up. i remember that song. a little less traditional than Sinatra's "My Way" hehe

if you liked #3 listen to mississippi John hurt.

I'm trying to think of one fitting at a cyanide funeral. Maybe just cook me and everyone has "me" tacos

[dorje]

Love Missippi John Hurt and Reverend Gary Davis who has the "Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land " cut which I now include as#11 on my list. Also, FEAR Let's Have a War. Did you every see the documentary "Rise and Fall of Western Civilization" with FEAR as second act ?? Great! Anyone in here gay (Some fool puts up hand ) Lee Ving "We hate faggots !"

[Opiyum]

I'll have a "me" burrito please....extra me guac.

[HistoryofMadness]

tom waites "innocent when you dream"

The bats are in the belfry
the dew is on the moor
where are the arms that held me
and pledged her love before
and pledged her love before

Chorus

It's such a sad old feeling
the fields are soft and green
it's memories that I'm stelaing
but you're innocent when you dream
when you dream
you're innocent when you dream

running through the graveyard
we laughed my friends and I
we swore we'd be together
until the day we died
until the day we died

Repeat Chorus

I made a golden promise
that we would never part
I gave my love a locket
and then I broke her heart
and then I broke her heart

Repeat Chorus

[antony]

I'll have "justify my love." weed out any necrophiliacs in the joint.

or for the real one, when I'm really dead, "Epitaph" by Badly Drawn Boy.

You were right, Badly Drawn Boy (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K1BNOzDnOLI)

[nick]

That's some mighty fine music dorje!Don't forget my invite for the big day.
P.S.A little Robert Johnson would be nice,I'm very fond of "Love in Vain."

[dorje]

Thanks Nic Robert Johnson is another favorite. I actually met Mingus and had the same connect as Art Blakey (look at album covers he is always smiling and nodding) Did some of my posts to you about Ex disappear? Doesn't matter.

[antony]

Thanks Nic Robert Johnson is another favorite. I actually met Mingus and had the same connect as Art Blakey (look at album covers he is always smiling and nodding) Did some of my posts to you about Ex disappear? Doesn't matter.

yea, I think bi11i, wanted that topic to stay on topic. I posted something about it, and bang, deleted.

[nick]

Thanks Nic Robert Johnson is another favorite. I actually met Mingus and had the same connect as Art Blakey (look at album covers he is always smiling and nodding) Did some of my posts to you about Ex disappear? Doesn't matter.
Yeah,Billi cut them.I posted back saying ex wives are dangerous beasts especially lurking ex wives.
Wow Charlie Mingus is one of my heros.You lucky lucky man you.I once saw Miles Davies when I was high as a very high kite.Saw Dizzy as well and Louis Armstrong.

[antony]

I once saw Miles Davies when I was high as a very high kite.Saw Dizzy as well and Louis Armstrong.

I think its you that is lucky nick, I'd give anything to see those guys.

[Ragdoll]

THAT is one heluva funeral line-up, Dorje. I mean...you have it all dialed in. Beautiful, beautiful.

HofM, excellent, the Tom W.

[antigonemuse]

what a great thread...

HAHAHA, My WaY - - I LOVE IT

dOR, your alright in my book!!!

my top five....
Pool Shark
Little Miss Cant be Wrong
Perfect Day
There She Goes
and a little known scottish tune - Peggy Gordon - (unless you live in Scotland)

on my tomb stone
"Hero in Vein"

[slugbone]

Anyone think about what you might want the guests at your funeral to hear ? Suggestions:

1. Alice in Wonderland-Charlie MIngus-John Handy on Alto, Booker Irwin on Tenor
2. All the People who Died, Died.-Ji Carroll
3. Dying Crapshooters Blues-Blind Will McTell
4. Salt Peanuts-Charlie "the Bird" Parker
5. Round Midnight-Thelonius Monk
6. Round Midnight-Eric Dolphy
7. I'm waiting for my man-Velvet Underground
8. William Burroughs reading Naked Lunch-three CD set
9. Scrapple for the Apple-Charlie Chan Parker
10. New York's Alright if you like saxaphones-FEAR

dorje's funeral will be open casket, and as a present for opiophile members, there will be a couple of grams of smack available inside the pocket of his funeral suit, just pretend to be crying over his body and grab a little for yourself

[Powdered Love]

that is incredibly sad...

i didn't even know him, and i'm seriouly getting choked up.

why does life have to hurt so much?

it's just not fair.

[nick]

Wow I forgot all about this.Dorje really was turning into a zen master.one thing is for sure,it will be one hell of a funeral with possibly the coolest music.As Dorje often said blind slide guitar players are the bomb.wise words.

[antony]

I'm starting to wonder if maybe he knew it was coming.

[flipside]

You know, I wonder if this should not be forwarded to his family for the service? Dorjes original post. They probably already know but can never be sure.

[nick]

I'll check with his wife and if she hasn't seen it,forward it.

[SobrietyBinge]

Kid Bailey (may be pseudonym for Willie Brown) -- Rowdy Blues
Jim Thompkins -- Bedside Blues

[SobrietyBinge]

I encourage you to check into those two songs. they can both be found on a compilation CD, Son House and the Great Delta Blues Singers.

From Rowdy Blues "Love you baby, you're so nice and brown" "You've got a home, girl, long as I've got mine"

[$LOADIE*JONES'IN$]

I would have GG ALLINS SONG WHEN I DIE played at my funeral if any of you have hear it you know what i mean and if you havent you really need to check it out lol:D

[pharmboy]

Well if were going to start this up again Ill take

1) Atom Heart Mother (whole album ) Pink Floyd

2) I Robot (whole album ) Alan Parsons Project

& & & & & & & & & & & & & &

[Levity]

Jesus...
Dorje...
I have his quote posted in my AIM profile, and have since his passing.

How odd that this the vwords of this man whom I never met still resonate with me months after his death...

Good man...

1) Tool - Opiate
2) A Perfect Circle - Judith
3) Nine Inch Nails - Closer

And put 'em on repeat till the kiddies weep.

[pharmboy]

I don't really much like Elton John but

Funeral for a Friend

is an awsome song.:jumping-s

[wafflehead77]

Thanks Nic Robert Johnson is another favorite. I actually met Mingus and had the same connect as Art Blakey (look at album covers he is always smiling and nodding) Did some of my posts to you about Ex disappear? Doesn't matter.

You dont get much more creative than Mingus. He is an amazing songwriter and bass player. I actually named my dog Mingus.

Gotta git it in yo soul!!!

[Inspektahdek]

I want everyone to be happy and not sad upon my death, drink and have a good time, celebrate my life, and not mourn it, celebrate how great it was, I'd hate for people to be sad, I want some good drum and bass for sure heheh

[underide]

I want "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees to be played as loud as possible at my funeral.:p


"Highway to Hell" by the AC/DC would be my second choice, and for this one no sarcasm is implied

[Duckfeet]

I just hooked up my itunes, finally, and threw in some old Flaco Jimenez cd I'd mislaid, and was thinking about se texas...I'd actually met, and been friendly with Freddy Fender, who was over in some lowrent AA meeting, that nice people avoided, and this was one of his pals...he was such a good motherfucker, wandering around Corpus Christi on his old Knucklehead Harley, and now of all the fucking songs, the only one I want some junkies to sing when I check out, and in memory of Freddy Fender, I'm listening to Dwight Yoakum's version of Carmelita, which is gotta be there heroin junky's anthem, if we ever had one...at least for us west coast junky's anyway....:::

[bronyraur]

I think I'd choose "Green Onions" by Booker T and The MG's.

I want my funeral to as happy as possible. Lots of music and re-telling of the good times.

[WarmCyanide]

oh dont worry, bron. we'll be happy at your funeral. i'll even teabag your grave.

loadiejonezn good selection GG Allin 'when i die' one of my fav songs.

for my funeral: pink floyd "waiting for the worms" first half of the song, before bullhorn part.

[nick]

Little wing always goes down well at funerals.

[WarmCyanide]

Little wing always goes down well at funerals.

literally or figuratively?

sorry nick.

[nick]

literally or figuratively?

sorry nick.

More of a wasted metaphor-that's me that's wasted not the metaphor.


Sorry bro,I gotta go and fall over now.

[WarmCyanide]

More of a wasted metaphor-that's me that's wasted not the metaphor.


Sorry bro,I gotta go and fall over now.


i'll save your spot. be safe bruddah

[Hiram]

Forever Young - Bob Dylan

[WarmCyanide]

Forever Young - Bob Dylan

if you didn't chime in here on this thread, i would have kicked your ass, you know that??

"eyes of the world" would be a good one

[Hiram]

if you didn't chime in here on this thread, i would have kicked your ass, you know that??

"eyes of the world" would be a good one

Forever Young was a fantastic prayer by ol Zimmy.

Standing on the Moon - Robert Hunter

[wafflehead77]

Forever Young was a fantastic prayer by ol Zimmy.

Standing on the Moon - Robert Hunter

Very simple, very beautiful song. Especially when a healthy Jerry was throwing it down.

For some reason, the bridge in "Black Peter" comes to mind.

Fuckin' Hippies.

[upstate_007]

"Wild Rover" preferably the Dropkick Murphy's version

"Don't Think Twice" Bob Dylan

"New York, New York" Sinatra. Played when people are leaving to mimic what it is like when a game ends at Yankee Stadium. To me, having that song played at the very end of everything would remind a whole lot of people there about me, my love for NY and my love for the Yankees.

[kyuss]

I still miss ol dorje.
When You Number Isn't Up
and
One Hundred Days
both by Mark Lanegan

[LorTabitha]

Amazing Grace - The Unforgiven (a highly underrated 80's band)

It's an awesome instrumental version with lots of bluesy-type (but electric) guitar. My family has been informed that this is "my" song.

I don't really want a funeral, but I know my family will hold one anyway, so I might as well be prepared. My mom didn't want one either, but my dad insisted. We had a hell of a time finding songs that were appropriate and yet wouldn't make us cry too hard.

[nick]

Shine on you crazy diamond........seems to crop up a lot at doper funerals.

[WarmCyanide]

Shine on you crazy diamond........seems to crop up a lot at doper funerals.

we played that when my brother died last year. i got a diamond tat on my arm for him.
he wasnt a doper though. unless tegretol counts :p

[mark_renton]

1. They’ll never take her love from me ( hank Williams senior). Many other Hank songs because like it or not he is the king. http://youtube.com/watch?v=j0_rYXH8D_U

2. He stopped lovering her today ( George Jones).

3 Cum stains on the pillow ( LMFAo for laughs of course, heres the link if you’ve never heard this priceless piece of Americana ( hmmm never thought I’d ever use that word, always thought it was rather gay). ), give her a listen n’ thank me later, and you’ll want to!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JC24cLsv2PA (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JC24cLsv2PA)

4. Saint- Saens - Dance Macabre ( love that song)

5. Fran Litz’s Hungarian rhapsody ( the first part of the piece where it is slow, There are few pieces of music that stir as much emotion up in me as this).

6. Ol’ Ludvig von - Fur elise ( one of the most beautiful things ever created! I would learn how to play piano for the sole purpose of this lovely piece. Also love his 9th symphony http://youtube.com/watch?v=HylGjhRF3WI (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HylGjhRF3WI) , and pastural symphony ( the pastoral makes me think about country life here in my state).

7.Friedrick chopins en’nocturne..

8. Mozarts - requim ( absolutely flawlessly eerie!). http://youtube.com/watch?v=0-zDH_ekIUg (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0-zDH_ekIUg)

0. The hall of the mountain king ( ok not the best choice for a funeral but still a decent piece, maybe for the reception…… hell who am I kidding?).

9. Dead flowers - Stones ( My favorite Rock’n roll song)).

10. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL - THE ROLLING FUCKING STONES ( A MUST HAVE).

11. Tool- bottom, Prison sex. And the hidden track at the end of the undertow c.d. ( because all 3 are bad ass songs).

12 New York city - the statler brothers ( closely relates to some of the most important events in my life).

!3 George strait - Honkey tonk crazy ( my favorite song.

14 Don’t fear the reaper ( LMFAO), burning for you- BOC.


!5. Nirvana- Where did you sleep last night.

16. Ballad of dwight frye- alice cooper.

17 too many more to list right now.

I'll just come back after I die by haunting one of ya'all to finish my list lol. :violent2:

[pharmboy]

I don't want a funeral. I want to be creamated and have my ashes built into

fireworks, and instead of a funeral have a firework display with me in the

Grand Finale. . I Shit You Not. .:xmas-smil

[rex24u]

I don't want a funeral. I want to be creamated and have my ashes built into

fireworks, and instead of a funeral have a firework display with me in the

Grand Finale. . I Shit You Not. .:xmas-smil

Sounds kind Hunter S. Thompsonesque

[Duckfeet]

Throw my ashes off any west coast pier, where I started, and where I'll probably end...have a girl show her tits, and if u got a music box, play John Prine's "Sam Stone..." and know my last thoughts on earth were how to get the doc to up my dilaudids ;-)

[upstate_007]

Throw my ashes off any west coast pier, where I started, and where I'll probably end...have a girl show her tits, and if u got a music box, play John Prine's "Sam Stone..." and know my last thoughts on earth were how to get the doc to up my dilaudids ;-)

That's got a real simple earthy elegance to it man. I have never been too keen on making a big show of everything anyway which is probably why I love your idea.

[Duckfeet]

Yep, me too: cremation is the least burndensome on people, IMO, and I'd rather people just thought of me once in a while, than some big hooplah, where idiots try to think of something to say nice, and all that shit....

My favorite funeral, I guess, was this guy Gerald, in Louisiana, who knew he was dying, Cancer metasitisized, and he always liked the pretty girls coming to see him, and said the only thing he asked, was that we *not* sing Amazing Grace at his funeral, as he *hated* that song, and thought it was so corny and religious and all, and I visited him every day, and agreed, hated that song......

So, of course, right after they put him in the ground we all laughed and immediately kicked in singing "Amazing Grace..." LOL ... which is pretty cool...and I hooked up with his ex-wife, quite a babe, and she told me he knew I would, and she drug out a pair of old cowboy boots, and said he'd told her to give them to me, as he knew I'd be in there trying to fill his shoes...I was kind of a dog, in those days....

Big ass cowboy boots man, I was almost struck impotent ... Gerald was cool motherfucker, and the only reason I could stand AA for so long, since that's where I met him,,,,

Only thing I ask when I die, is that nobody bring any fucking cats to my funeral... ;-)


That's got a real simple earthy elegance to it man. I have never been too keen on making a big show of everything anyway which is probably why I love your idea.

[Cole Younger]

Very simple, very beautiful song. Especially when a healthy Jerry was throwing it down.

For some reason, the bridge in "Black Peter" comes to mind.

Fuckin' Hippies.


Keeping with this Dead theme, How about "Black Muddy River", one of the last songs Jerry sang before he died. One of the best lines in the tune....."I will walk alone by the black muddy river" ,"And sing me a song of my own". Gotta love Robert Hunter:):cool:

[The_Tortured_Soul]

I fucking love The Velvet Underground!

[jlaw666]

i want them to play "straight to hell" by drivin-n-cryin

[nick]

What's really sad is,as far as I know,none of Dorje's choices were played at his funeral.

[clinton]

yes nick i dont think most of us will have that honor, people will take control of it, think the songs are too crass etc....i think about it all the time....
ive told my family i want a traditional hindu funeral, burning the body on the pyre, the chanting..etc....i dont think ill get it though...i think its quite sad that many peoples last wishes are never really fulfilled

[werty]

Mogwai - Punkrock

[rockbottom]

black sabbath for me please:cool:

[reddragon3668]

Damn, I thought I was seeing things here! This is an old old thread. I have agree with Sabbath... not too long ago I come across an old reunion album from when they played in Birmingham(sp), UK. It was awesome. It was a 2 cd set, I think they played two back to back shows. The cover had a great history of the band. I enjoyed reading it. I guess I am dating myself, eh?

[Ragdoll]

Nick, if I remember correctly, I believe I sent Dorje's list to his family. I do, however, think you're correct...the list either reached them too late, or they had other plans for music. It is sad.

-SisR

[Somanax]

Nick, if I remember correctly, I believe I sent Dorje's list to his family. I do, however, think you're correct...the list either reached them too late, or they had other plans for music. It is sad.

-SisR


The sadness continue's


If his wife had known


I think she would have honered


Then again ......................

maybe we only knew

a last wish's

Rag's a special and personal

Would be extended to you from

Dorje/Sxxxxx

to preserve and

protect I did not spell

privacy is a special thing

On your own you would scream his accomplishment's

In your own way you will scream for his passing

in his way he would be happy to wave..............as he passed by

[candyshop]

Fear -"fuck you,lets rodeo!!"

AND

TSOL "code blue"
(maybe someone will take the hint and I will get some last minute action...)

[HydroApe]

OK, pretty tame but I'd like
Days - The Kinks
In My Life - Beatles

and depending on the route of my demise
Hurt - NIN

[clinton]

TSOL "code blue"



i could only imagine the reaction this would get

[JayTrizzle]

That may be the funniest thing I've ever heard, lol.

[JayTrizzle]

oh and for me it would be Say Hello 2 Heaven by Temple of the Dog
and, just like at my uncle's funeral a few years back
A Pirate Turns 40 by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman

[Wimpkins]

"Going Underground" - The Jam

[libertine]

"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" - Dylan
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" Nirvana covering Leadbelly

both aforementioned already,
thanks fellow opiophiles
for the great taste in funeral music

I used to make my friends promise to play Don't Think Twice if I ever died, twelve empty promises and a lot of worried looks
but seriously, when I die, if I don't hear that song, I'm going to be so fucking pissed...

[BorrowedNostalgia]

Coltrane's "A Love Supreme".. Especially Part 1, "Acknowledgment."

[lilred0005]

Moby- Porcelain
Edit: I just realized this thread was started yrs ago by someone who has since died, kind of creepy & really sad.

[Shadowsblaze]

Op's reaching out from the grave with good things, still providing for us.

[The_Highwayman]

No music, just the sound of forty-five pound plates banging together

[nuts4roxies]

massive attack- angel
red hot chili peppers- slow cheetah run, otherside, scar tissue, under the bridge, honestly anything by the red hot chili peppers