h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Related to the Desert Island Disks thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=7072859&skip=0&show=20 A bit morbid, maybe...but I was talking to some friends a wee whilke ago about what songs we'd like played at our funerals. The format is along the basic New Orleans model: A sad one to start with, 2 Sermony ones during the ceremony itself, Leave on a happy note. Mine: - 'Death Letter Blues' by Eddie 'Son' House - 'Vanlose Stairway' by Van Morrison - 'Chase The Devil' by Max Romeo - 'Dry The Rain' by The Beta Band (If there's something inside that you wanna say/ Say it out loud it will be OK/ It will be allright/ It will be allright ) Points will be deducted for 'My Way' or 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'

Excellent. How morbid.

Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
Dos Gardenias - Buena Vista Social Club
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
Human - The Killers

...and, as a finale...

Fiesta - The Pogues

B

Naughty! You've got one too many there.

Alright, I'd take out The Killers if pressed.

B

I'm not planning to have any music at my funeral, or hubby's for that matter. Hubby has always loved the sound of the church bells, so I'll ask the vicar if the bells can be rung after the funeral service. I know they're more associated with celebrations, but I'd rather celebrate a life than mourn a death.

Well in my case...local authority crematoriums seldom have bells.

True. Being married to a bellringer, I'd be quite happy NOT to have any at my funeral.

B

Let It Loose

Hallelujah
Family Affair

Jumpin Jack Flash

I was at a funeral on Wednesday.

The 81-year-old dad of a very dear friend.

The exit music was 'Simply The Best' (I cried ) - he was!

Tina Turner - "What's Love Got to Do Wit iT"
Arthur Brown - "Fire"
Jimi Hendrix - "Machine Gun"
Jimi Hendrix - "Star Spangled Banner"


~jwf~

I only want one song played at mine, while the coffin goes through the curtain for the final time...

'I'm Back!' the WWE theme tune of Eric Bischoff

Just one for me - Spaniard by the Boo Radleys.

"I've given you all that I have, but if that's not enough I'm sorry."

Cracking walking-into-the-sunset trumpet solo at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxIbfye31Q

Call the Doctor - J J Cale
It's too Late - Gloria Estefan
Can't you Hear me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones

Which version of Hallelujah, pedro? It needs clarified, 'cause for the next six weeks we're only going to hear one.

To my mund, the Buckley and the Wainwright have their merits...but it's got to be a toss-up between:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttv5dyvtF4o
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzu4LE667VM

It'd have to be Buckley, Ed. List with artists..

Let It Loose - Stones

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone

Jumpin Jack Flash - Stones

Sorry but I just have to say something about the way the UK has
got it into their heads that Leonard Cohen's Hal-A-Yule-Ya is an
Xmas carol.
Keee-ripes Kate! What nonsense!

It is a drug sodden parody of antique Jewish fetishism and modern
hyper-sensuality. It employs an understanding of the psycho-physical
expression of the pain/pleasure cycle in the cry of Hal-A-You-Yuh from
ancient prayer rituals to modern heroin injections, sado-masochistic
sexual practices and restrained ejaculations.

Get a grip you lot. Some guy tied to a chair with a strap wrapped round
his arm to restrict blood flow, there-by swelling and exposing a vein for
intravenous drug injections while some hardcase sex worker tries to
arouse him to ejaculation is not my idea of Christmas.

Listen to the damn lyrics.
It's a junky's lament not a Christian rapture.

Though I admire the poet's capacity to see similarities between King David's
epiphany, a sex worker's climax and a drug addict's rush, and, I acknowledge
the primal response of the crying out as a universal expression of the unresolved
conflict of pain and ecstacy, I don't want anyone thinking it has anything to do with
sweet baby HayZeus a-sleeping in the manger.



~jwf~

Just watched the Watchmen film, where Nite Owl and Miss Jupiter get it on to the sound of Cohen's Hallelujah. Very nice.

Here's Nick Cave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekjFdggo1LM

Squiggles...like...Duh! WE KNOW!!!

But Simon Cowall doesn't. He doesn't care for music, does he? And thus for the next six weeks we must be subjected to a not-entirely-incompetent-merely-inappropriate karaoke Cohen cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZucLthble4
Ain't it Grand To Be Bloomin' well Dead

Well, the note on the desktop of my PC which lists readings and various other bits and pieces relating to my funeral also lists Spem Alium by Thomas Tallis and the Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams in the section entitled 'music'. They're a bit long, but that's not going to be my problem, is it?