| Author | Message | ||
     Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 215 Registered: 08-2004 |
What song would you like played at your funeral? It's tough because you won't be able to hear it. Do you want to annoy the sycophants or stir them into an emtional stupor. Annoying : Frankie Teardrop - Suicide Wistful & thought provoking : Cattle & Cane Just plain melancholy : Ohm Sweet Ohm - Kraftwerk (the saddest tune I've ever heard) The winner is : Trying To Get To Heaven - Bob Dylan | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2005 |
Atmosphere by Joy Division. Hopefully not too soon though! Cheers Jon | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2005 |
jonathan, you beat me by 50 minutes  | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 39 Registered: 01-2006 |
Bird On A Wire by Leonard Cohen maybe. | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 58 Registered: 06-2005 |
new dawn fades - joy division followed by i know it's over - smiths and finally i am the resurection - stone roses (funny how they're all manchester bands) | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 71 Registered: 05-2005 |
My friends and wife have talked about this. My pick is: I've got you under my skin - Frank Sinatra Abigail, one of my favorite Smiths song when in High School. I chuckled at the Stone Roses. That would be cheeky and hilarious. | ||
| Dusty Member Username: Dusty Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
Something as atonal and unemotional as possible to irritate/humour the attendees - possibly a live track (eg 'Throbbing Gristle?). | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
For me it's 'Le papa pingouin'. It sounds like this : http://viptf1.yacast.net/tf1webcast/clip/pigloo/papa_pingouin_320.wmv?MSWMExt=.a sf | ||
| Ulrich A. Bayer Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 5 Registered: 03-2006 |
For My friends: Johnny Cash-We'll Meet Again and tho other ones: Beatles-Good Day Sunshine If it had to be a Go-Betweens-Song: Dive For Your Memory | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 100 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dress Sexy at My Funeral by Smog | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 241 Registered: 10-2004 |
1999 by Prince | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 222 Registered: 04-2005 |
Heavenly Pop Hit by the Chills, of course! Not that I have any afterlife aspirations, but the idea of dying and waking up an angel (if that's what it's about, who knows?) as painted in the song is very attractive. And I'd have to go with Dive for Your Memory and Dusty in Here as my two GoBs nominees (there will be enough time at the service for more than one song). | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 82 Registered: 11-2004 |
1999 is a bizarre choice - but I'd be tempted to go for that myself :-) either that or 'When People Are Dead'. I read somewhere recently that 'Angels' by Robbie Williams and R.E.M.'s 'Everybody Hurts' are the most popular funeral anthems in the UK. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 223 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Everybody Hurts"--argh. Stipe was obviously cribbing from Hallmark for his lyrics on that one. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 251 Registered: 05-2005 |
its a toss up between everybody hurts and shiny happy people for the worst REM song ever. how can such a wonderful band release such tripe - although to give peter buck his due he hates SHP. blame stipe and mills for these abominations | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 84 Registered: 05-2005 |
Back to funeral songs.. what about "After Everything" by the Church? If you haven't heard this one, listen to it and weep..like I did...so true! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 218 Registered: 08-2004 |
I echo your sentiments there Kevin, although it's Mike & Michael who refuse to play SHP live, Peter is comfortable with it. Wanderlust is shite also. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 252 Registered: 05-2005 |
...and every track on the last album | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 84 Registered: 11-2004 |
Kevin thats a little bit strong! 'Leaving New York' 'Electron Blue' 'I Wanted To Be Wrong' and 'The Ascent Of Man' are fine songs. But I suppose thats still only 4 out of 12. I have to say though it's a better record than the awful 'Reveal'. You should blame former drummer Bill Berry for 'Everybody Hurts' as he wrote the music and (I think) some of the lyrics along with Stipe. I really hope that they get back to some kind of form for the next record - although they are still my joint favourite band with The Go-Bees. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 285 Registered: 05-2005 |
I told my wife aboutthis years ago, if she ever remembers, and hopefully it won't be too soon: Its Kinda Funny - Josef K | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 257 Registered: 05-2005 |
matt, i started to give up on them between green and out of time. like a first love however, i couldnt quite let go and bought all the albums including the latest abomination. i can confidently say i am now over them, and unless the next album is a blinding return to form, i will not be buying it. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 228 Registered: 04-2005 |
The next album won't be a blinding return to form. It's over for R.E.M., sorry. The combination of Stipe getting banal, Buck getting lethargic, and Berry leaving killed whatever was special about them. Even U2's albums aren't as boring as R.E.M.'s have become. More pompous, perhaps, but not as fatally dull. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 258 Registered: 05-2005 |
christ kurt, thats really depressed me. just had a thought, does anybody think it is possible to aspire to, or attain to the level of success that REM and U2(and many others over the years) have achieved without eventually becoming keech(randy, thats scottish for shit). is it just a sad fact of life that the more successful a band becomes, whatever fired them up in the first place becomes eroded? can anybody think of a band that has bucked this trend? radiohead maybe. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 85 Registered: 11-2004 |
I wouldn't bet on that Kurt. I have a funny feeling that R.E.M. will come back with more back o basics sound - and a much better album. It's widely reported that they are taking a year off this year so it will probably be at least a three or four years gap from 'Around The Sun' to the next record. There is no way that Buck can be described as lethargic about playing! the word on the main fansite is that he constantly urges the others to gig more! Since REM's world tour last year Buck is now starting a second tour with the side project 'The Minus Five'. He's also recently recorded new tracks for a digital arts project. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 229 Registered: 04-2005 |
Matt, maybe I meant "lethargic about coming up with interesting guitar parts." Buck just stopped being an innovative guitarist somewhere along the line, or maybe as his technique grew, he became conventional. Kevin, I think the problem is that successful bands always stick around too long. Huge exception: the Beatles. What would Beatles albums been like if they'd hung in there another 10 years without a break? Possibly as thin and tired as R.E.M. and U2 albums are now. So many bands missed the chance to stop when they would have had an untarnished reputation; they soldiered on much longer and tainted the legend with increasingly mediocre or by-the-numbers albums. I'm thinking Kinks, Stones, Who, Ramones, etc. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 85 Registered: 05-2005 |
I agree with most of you about R.E.M. The last album was nearly fatal for me although I think they have lost it at least once before and come back e.g. Monster was horrible and New Adventures was sad but I really rate "Up" and "Reveal". You have to like the Beach boys though. The Beach Boys have replaced the Byrds in the R.E.M. pantheon. If you don't like the Beach Boys and those Pet Sounds aspirations, you won't like those albums. I really rate songs like "Beat the Drum"(Reveal) and "Falls to Climb"(Up) up there with "Driver 8" and "Fall on Me'. Hey, we're Go Betweens fans! Apart from dragging them around the world, R.E.M. even recorded a song that namechecks Brisbane!(Parakeet: They should have called it Rosella or Lorikeet) | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 86 Registered: 11-2004 |
You know your right Kurt, by his own admission Buck wasn't exactly proficient on his instrument when REM began life. However, how many fantastic guitar lines from Murmur to Green did he come up with?..a lot! He seemed to spend half of 'Up' playing bass and Mills only seemed interested in playing synths. I've asked this before...but I read quite a long time ago somewhere that when The Go-Bees supported REM. REM covered 'Streets Of Yours Town' during one gig. O' What I would do to hear a bootleg of that recording! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 230 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'd like to hear (old) R.E.M. doing "Streets" too--good match of band and song. Another song I read they were doing on tour that I would have liked to hear was Mission of Burma's "Academy Fight Song." | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 221 Registered: 08-2004 |
Academy Fight Song was on 1 of the xmas singles, Kurt. Up is all the better for the synths & drum machines, sounds more like Suicide than The Beach Boys, to these ears. O.K. it was a bit long but Falls To Climb, Walk Unafraid, Why Not Smile, Parakeet, make the 2nd half pretty astounding. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 67 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey pop-pickers Miracle Legion (Mark Mulcahy's old band) were covering 'Academy Fight Song' long before REM. REM's version was on a free 'Bucketful of Brains' single. I could never quite see the appeal of that song.... Back to the thread. Hank Williams 'Alone and Forsaken', without doubt the most depressing song in the entire recorded output of the entire human race. That will have them weeping in the aisles. Just Hank and a guitar, and the reason that I finally saw the light (No, not God just the fact that Hank was great!!!) |