FUNERAL PLAYLIST

[william_kent]

In the UK the cheapest crematorium entitles you to 3 tunes before the coffin descends into the flames

I was discussing my funeral with my life time best friend, she asked me 'do you want to be cremated?" and I didn't know what to say but what I do know is my playlist as my body is consumed in flames, so yeah I will be cremated

my 3 tunes are:

on entry mystic vibes, burning my stash of expensive Japanese incense



POPOL VUH - AGUIRRE 1

some dubious eulogy followed by MY PHILOSOPHY in a nutshell



THE SPECIALS - DO NOTHING

IT MAKES NO SENSE!

I'm just living in a life without meaning
I walk and walk, do nothing
I'm just living in a life without feeling
I talk and talk, say nothing

and as my body is consumed by flames:



HAWKWIND - BORN TO GO

DEATH IS NOT THE END!

what's your 3 tunes that your loved ones will never be able to hear again without bursting into tears?

I can't bear to hear Acker Bilk Stranger On the Shore ever again and yet it pops up in the most unexpected places and I just break down as I think of my distant and unresolved relationship with my now dead father

I know someone who hates ENO because every time she hears that tune off APOLLO that was used on BBC2 arts programmes she bursts into tears because some idiot chose that as one of the 3 tunes at her mother's funeral

 

[william_kent]

@sufi delete this thread, I was getting bit maudlin

 

[william_kent]

I'm just living in a life without feeling
I walk and walk, I'm dreaming
I'm just living in a life without feeling
I talk and talk, say nothing
I'm just living in a life without meaning
I walk and walk, do nothing

 

[william_kent]

this has been my funeral playlist for the last ten years, the only thing that may change is the version of "Born to go", I might swap it out for the BBC recording with the extremely awkward Stacia intro

"COUNTDOWN COMPLETE"



BORN TO GO!

Lemmy is on fire on this recording just like my lifeless corpse will be when it is played at my funeral

We were born to go,
We're never turning back
...
We're breaking out of the shell,
We're breaking free
We're hatching our dreams into reality

 

[DLaurent]

 

[0bleak]

THE SPECIALS - DO NOTHING

IT MAKES NO SENSE!

I'm just living in a life without meaning
I walk and walk, do nothing
I'm just living in a life without feeling
I talk and talk, say nothing

since I failed at making a VDGG/Specials mash, and since I already had stems and loop prepared, this was some kind of fun consolation prize for myself (well, fun to make - I'll leave it to others to decide if it's a fun listen).
Made in real time by applying effects to stems of the same loop from the original track playing on multiple decks, and by also changing the tempo to be in line with standard techno.

 

[william_kent]

I was like a capricious princess in a German fairytale and I demanded that @0bleak produce the ultimate gloomcore tune by mashing up Van Der Graaf's live version of "Still Life" from the VITAL album with the Specials but it was a task that only RUMPELSTILTSKIN or Hercules was capable of, and although @0bleak has M4DSK1LLZ even he is not mythical enough but this DUB TECHNO tune satisfies my criteria

@0bleak 23/ 23

edit: I'll probably nag you for a wav so I can burn it to a CD and play it at the WHITE HOTEL when @catalog gets his act together and risks losing loses his home by remortgaging his house to bankroll the week long DISSENSUS takeover and ends up shaking a soggy Starbucks cup at random passers and imploring them "spare change? I'm hungry, please feed me, I have a puppy and a wife to feed, poor me" etc

 

[Murphy]

 

[Murphy]

 

[0bleak]

edit: I'll probably nag you for a wav so I can burn it to a CD and play it at the WHITE HOTEL when @catalog gets his act together and risks losing his home by remortgaging his house to bankroll the week long DISSENSUS takeover

already sent, mate
The starting source is MP3, though (legal 320 MP3, not a youtube rip, but still MP3)

 

[william_kent]

already sent, mate
The starting source is MP3, though (legal 320 MP3, not a youtube rip, but still MP3)

I've no idea what the sound system at the WHITE HOTEL is like, but I'm sure it'll sound fine on my out of date iMac

 

[0bleak]

I've no idea what the sound system at the WHITE HOTEL is like, but I'm sure it'll sound fine on my out of date iMac

I might do another version of it, too.
Came up with some new ideas for it...

 

[Murphy]

music during actual funeral rites is relatively new this end, I’m thinking more of the afters and all have led to song-based revelry

i don’t even want a funeral, why put my loved ones through a commercial obstacle course and a day of stress? comparatively, music is a distraction in some services now, a highlight in others

I respect anyone who does wanna go out in style, my mum’s will be a tough day, cathartic rites I’d just rather avoid pushing my kids through the slog of it - go out for a meal, walk Helvellyn, dont go fishing cuz that’s boring too, play a bunch of Sea,us Ennis and Dubs if they have to - you see how Deadzilla I went then, getting tune-picky instantly haa

 

[william_kent]

I thought this would be easy, select 3 tunes - one as your friends and family enter the crematorium ( POPOL VUH for me, blissful ambience ) , the second as some sort of summation of your life ( DO NOTHING for me because I am full of existential angst) , and the third as your coffin descends into the flames ( BORN TO GO for me because I am full of sark and DMT has taught me that DEATH IS NOT THE END )

 

[Murphy]

Just talking all around the subjdct chewing the fat at god knows a clock during night shift psychosis wink

 

[Murphy]

I thought this would be easy, select 3 tunes - one as your friends and family enter the crematorium ( POPOL VUH for me, blissful ambience ) , the second as some sort of summation of your life ( DO NOTHING for me because I am full of existential angst) , and the third as your coffin descends into the flames ( BORN TO GO for me because I am full of sark and DMT has taught me that DEATH IS NOT THE END )

a true Hawklord

 

[william_kent]

music during actual funeral rites

I was horrified when my mum told me about her NZ friend who had the funeral filmed and then the family sent out DVDs

she was insane, the last time she came to the UK somehow she had become a "HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR" despite never being anywhere other than Ayrshire and New Zealand and I'm pretty sure she was "Church of Scotland" if pressed but she insisted on going to some Holocaust memorial thing and everyone was wondering 'when did you ever leave Scotland to be tortured by Nazis?"

 

[william_kent]

@0bleak I should have said I've downloaded the wav and I've just played it 3 times in a row but then I realised I should acknowledge you in some way - thanks

 

[william_kent]

@WashYourHands this thread is aimed at the cheapest conveyor belt funeral option available in the UK and you get 30 minutes, 3 songs or hyhms, an eulogy or two (my mum and me were too distressed and my useless brother never turned up because he is an illegal alien and he didn't want to lose his home in the grand old USA so we let some anon vicar chat some shite about a guy she never met ) and then you're out and the next bunch of teary eyed idiots are in

it's grim

what's worse is PETS FUNERALS

my friends cat of 22 years kicked the bucket and she is getting fleeced, just say you're going to bury the cat in your garden because otherwise you will get RINSED

 

[william_kent]

@0bleak I'd probably share some of my dub techno productions now but a hard drive crashed destroyed my creativity

edit: I accidentally emailed you a "do you think drone is sexy" tune, probably best delete