To ask for your funeral music

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I've narrowed it down to The Only living Boy in New York by Simon and Garfunkel ( I'm obsessed with the weather forecast, only news I need)
And Raise Hell by Brandi Carlisle. Also something by Magnetic fields....Andrew in Drag probably not appropriate though...

I want Bat Out of Hell. I also want something by Bruce Springsteen although I can't decide what, Clare Island by the Saw Doctors and Fairytale of New York. DH said I'll need a double slot at the crem just for the music!

I believe songs are a way of communicating our love and wishes to those we leave behind.

For my sons; A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes and When You Wish Upon a Star (both Disney songs). Songs that I hope would encourage them to dream and follow those dreams.

For Friends & Family: In My Life (The Beatles). The lyrics make it pretty self explanatory.

For my Husband: God Bless the Broken Road (Rascal Flatts) because we found our true love in each other after kissing a few toads/toadesses.

And just because I love Bluegrass: Reunion in Heaven (The Primitive Quartet)

But, since DH and I have both decide we don't want funerals, our loved ones can play their favourite party music, rock on, and share good memories and good times.

1. A Bird In The Thyme - Tiny Ruins
2. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
3. Teo Torriate - Queen

In your will is too late, IME wills aren’t usually dealt with until after the funeral.

I also heard this on the radio one day and it made me sob and I have no idea why. I'm not Scottish either but It is also now on my funeral play list

Sunshine on Leith is beautiful.

Whatever whoever is organising it wants- it's not for me, after all. If anybody wants a recommendation from the woman of hour though, I'd go with 'Club Tropicana', as it it my sincere hope that where we are all going, the drinks truly will be free.

I play the organ at several village churches when I'm back in the UK.
People often request a stirring and/or emotional piece for the outgoing processional and the one that really made me smile was the request for the Theme from Chariots of Fire !

Fairport Covention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Barbara Dickson - Caravan Song

I LOVE that FC song.

At my husband's aunt's funeral in a crematorium during COVID, they played the Fairport Convention song. She was a big fan.

My husband's funeral was a traditional C of E one in our village church.
His organist friend kindly played and chose:

• Rhosymedre (Vaughan Williams) (played at Diana's funeral)
• Prière à Notre-Dame (Boëllmann, from Suite Gothique Op.25)
• Largo (Peeters Op.71, No. 2)
• Panis Angelicus (Franck)
• Vater unser im Himmelreich (Buxtehude, BuxWV 219)
• Gelobet sei'st du, Jesu Christ (JS Bach, BWV 604)

and I requested

• Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)

Musical reflection (Voluntary) mid service

• JS Bach Concerto for two violins, 2nd Movement (Flute/Violin/Piano arrangement)

he suggested but we didn't go with

• Ave Maria (Schubert, Bach, or Caccini) - One of three alternative versions...

Hymns were:
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (from our wedding)
The King of Love (Dominus me regit) = psalm 23
Lord of all hopefulness (DH was an amazing craftsman; his strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe)

We went out to the graveside to:
Bells by Jean Langlais (my husband was an eminent bell ringer)
After the burial of his casket and before the service, his high-powered bell ringing friends rang and rang and rang the bells of our village church. My DH had recently overseen their repair and refurbishment.
For a funeral, they all had a grand time and the only real sadness is that my DH wasn't there to enjoy seeing all his friends and ringing with them.

The Sid Vicious version of My Way

Every feeling- Ezra Furman

I am hoping for Chesney Hawkes "the one and only" so everyone laughs!

Oh my God, Switch 625 is one of my favourite pieces of music

@hollowvoice it's definitely one of their best underrated songs 💕

2 hymns, Cwm Rhondda and Jesu Lover of My Soul

The Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart. (Movement III of one of Beethoven's late Quartets, the 132) The most lovely thing I've ever heard.

Both Ends Burning by my beloved Roxy.

Have been to a few funerals recently and I find the classics are the best.

Moonriver Andy Williams was wonderful and Nimerod The Hunter is good for a man. I also heard this one..

“Hello It’s Me” by Todd Rundgren

It was lovely. I know it was Mr Big’s funeral song in Sex in the City but it played out very well in the funeral I attended.

Can't really decide

Probably "Heartbeat of the Earth" by Inkubus Sukkubus and of course Calon Lan

We chose WKWTTG for my brother's funeral. Really, really lovely.

I would like Cristina's version of 'Is That All There Is?'.

This made me well up! So beautifully thought out and poignant.
I'm sorry for the loss of your husband.

Me too.

And Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves.

A friend of mine had that!

On holiday with the family last year we ended up at a karaoke night. I knew my daughter in law had a nice voice but I’d never heard her sing properly. Well she sang Songbird by Fleetwood Mac and I absolutely bawled crying, it was so beautiful. I’ve asked her to sing it at my funeral. She was a bit 🤨 but she didn’t say no.

Bat out of hell and firestarter. Coming in I want Widor's Toccata.

I also want everyone in full on goth and 100 bats 🦇 released.

I might have thought about this too much 🤔