Music to be buried to
I was thinking the other day (Not quite in so morbid a way as this sounds) about the sort of track that you would want played at your requiem?
I was watching Rhys Ifans brilliant portrayal of Peter Cook in Not Only But Always ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408046/ ) and was really struck by the scene where Dudley Moore performs (I wont tell you what because you really need to watch it) at his funeral. I have also read about other people specifying which track they would like played at their own mortal departure lounge and it got me thinking about my own (Someday not too soon I hope)
Obvious choices could be My Way or Leaving On a Jet Plane which are fine but I was thinking of some not so obvious one's...Here's my list
1) Free: Love You So (Because the sentiment is beautiful)
2) John Coltrane: Ascension (Stereo and Mono) versions (Just to get my own back on the one's who may have turned up just to gloat! Or uninvited)
3) The Jayhawks: Will I See You In Heaven (Self explanatory really great song)
4) Sandy Denny / Fairport Convention: Who knows where the time goes (I defy anyone to have a dry eye after that one!)
5) The Band: I Shall be Released (Well, you need some obvious ones in there really)
6) The Beatles: In My Life (George Martins favorite and one of mine)
7) Bob Dylan: Forever Young (Gotta have some Bobby to send me off!)
8) Carol King: Tapestry ( I love this album, its never really far from my turntable )
9) : Never My Love ( Its one of our songs as in Hey honey their playing our song except they never do play this one, shame)
10) Cat Power: Wild Is The Wind ( I like to think of this one as being quite cinematic, like the end of a tragic movie. The scene would be late November as the snow falls over the small congregation gathered at the graveside, a slow tracking shot slowly pulling out further and further until the scene is just a speck. Fade to black, roll the credits)
11) Chopin: Nocturne in G minor (Ahh! Chopin, even when you are really happy he can really make you cry. I dont know whether I would want people to cry really but it would certainly get them thinking about their own mortality!)
12) Demis Roussos: Goodbye My Love Goodbye (Really Kitsch yep, and the image of his in his kaftans would get them chuckling, great voice though and a great artists, very underrated)
13) The Detroit Cobras: Now Your Gone (No one said it all had to be sad bit of good old rocknroll be a nice send off)
14) Doris Troy: Jacobs Ladder (For that big hair gospel send off with flowing gowns and waving hands this is fantastic. No wonder she was one of John Lennons heroines!)
15) The Flaming Lips: All we have is now (Yep draw your own conclusions)
16) George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (well, it made me strangely comforted when I heard about Georges passing. What a genius! What a beautiful soul)
17) The Hollies: Im Alive (That should confuse them!)
18) Irma Thomas: Moments to remember (Could maybe be by way of a final recommendation to everyone. I can just see my fellow record collectors asking “I know its not really the time or place, but who was that record by? You know the one you played as the took the coffin away?)
19) Leigh Nash: Charmed Life (Check her out! Shes great! Id like to see smiles and this one would even put a smile on a crowd at a funeral)
20 ) The Beatles: The End
Thats all for now folk (Cue the cartoon ending)
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