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[Jacki O.]

What music do you want played at your funeral? Make a mix cd for your funeral/memorial service.

So far here's mine:
1) Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
2) Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
3) Camera Obscura - Eighties Fan
4) Otis Redding - Coffee and Cigarettes
5) The Clientele - Reflections After Jane
6) Latryx - Lady Don't Tek No
7) The Cramps - All Women Are Bad
8) Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning
9) Animal Collective - Did You See the Words?
10) Interpol - Obstacle 2


......................i have to think about this some more.......................
24-25 songs in a mix cd?



SO you can view this in two ways:

1) Death is sad and scary and not for message board discussions. Jacki, you are a silly lady and I am not going to be posting in this thread. I ignore it and you.

-or-

2) Death is definitely sad and scary but discussing it in relation to my own death is somewhat comforting and makes it less scary. We're all gonna die right? Jacki, you are a silly lady but in thinking about what music i would like played at my funeral or memorial service, i feel better about this inevitability and i also feel like i got that item out of the way and can focus on better things in life like that hamster eating popcorn on a piano thread that Chad just posted.

[raubhimself]

everyone should uh... sendspace their mixes or something. Yeah.

I'll think about mine later.

In one of my college psych classes we had to write our obituary and mine was all about Van Halen and David Lee Roth reuniting and playing at my funeral. Too bad they reunited a few years later, completely shattering the coolness of my death.

[Jacki O.]

In one of my college psych classes we had to write our obituary and mine was all about Van Halen and David Lee Roth reuniting and playing at my funeral. Too bad they reunited a few years later, completely shattering the coolness of my death.

Maybe....you were supposed to die right before that event but you somehow unknowingly cheated death.....

everyone should uh... sendspace their mixes or something. Yeah.

yes!

[unluckycharm]

a tentative mix .. need to add more to this.

the kinks ~ waterloo sunset
the zombies ~ hanging on a dream
buffalo springfield ~ expecting to fly
tomita's version of debussy's claire de lune

[Andrew James Matthews]

Scott Walker - Scott 3

[marty]

this is just for starters:

1) miles davis-bitches brew
2) fugazi- waiting room
3) mike watt- comptenplating the engine room
4) junior brown
5) wes montomery


I would like to employ the tequila entrance fee at my wake.

[mig50]

"number 1 in heaven" by sparks, on repeat FOREVER.

[mancopter]

This.

[donald]

Hurt: the Johnny Cash version
Music for a dying man: Players Club
Kraid/Metroid; Minibosses
I Believe: Joe Satriani
Perfect Day: Lou Reed
Mama I'm Coming Home: Ozzy
Home Sweet Home: Motley Crue
Fade to black: Metallica
it's a wonderful world: Louie Armstrong
today: smashing pumpkins

some of these make me happy, some make me sad, I will have to split it up. Maybe one for my wake, and one for the actual funeral.

[mancopter]

This.

As instant karma for my lame post, this song has been stuck in my head since I posted it.

[Jacki O.]

today: smashing pumpkins

oh man that's a good one. I have so many good memories associated with that song.


I would also add to mine:

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

[capharnaum]

real quick off the top of my head

three days - jane's addiction
diamond sea - sonic youth
The Birth And Death Of The Day - explosions in the sky
no one wished to settle here - mouth of the architect
cortez the killer - neil young
nobody home - pink floyd
the house that guilt built - the wrens

[Jacki O.]

i would probably also add these to mine:

Desmond Dekker - Oh The Isrealites
The Decemberists - Here I dreamt I was an Architect
Devotchka - How it Ends (maybe)
Beck - Everybody gotta learn sometime
MGMT - Kids
Witchcraft - what i am
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
The Beta Band - Needles in my eyes
David Byrne - Glass, Concrete & Stone
David Bowie - Queen Bitch
Donavan - Season of the Witch

[raubhimself]

Tentative mix:
Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Neil Young - Words (Between the Lines of Age)/Revolution Blues/See the Sky About to Rain/Hold Back the Tears/Through My Sails too many to choose from
Sonic Youth - Turquoise Boy
Talking Heads - Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)
Aphex Twin - IZ-US
Chromelodeon - Trianglular
Tortoise - Everglade
Tortoise - Glass Museum
Trans Am - 4,738 Regrets
Trans Am - MOTR
Trans Am - Sad and Young
Cat Power - Good Woman

UPDATED

[ericj]

Cut off Artists are Architecture In Helsinki and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet.

These are in no order.

I will probably edit this playlist until I die. My hope is that someone will arrange these songs as they see fit for my funeral.

Got that, Jesse?!