Several songs hit me when I hear them...
You'll never walk alone.....Played at my fathers funeral.
Evanesance(sp?)......My Imortal..
Kirsty Mcall......Thankyou for the days.....Played at my uncles funeral as a message from my aunty to her departed husband
Will no doubt think of some more later on..
Have you noticed the continued theme here. Funerals. Music played at loved ones funerals seems to affect people for years to come. We had a thread about last songs a few weeks ago. I would really hate to pick a song for my funeral that for years to come would reduce my friends/family to tears.
So, I guess, I've got to find an obscure song that I like that won't be played regularly on the radio.
This has just been played on the radio,
Don't give up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
Has to be Cavalleria Rusticana, one of the most emotional peices ever written in my opinion.
Used as the theme to Raging Bull, and at the end of the Godfather Trilogy.
You'll never walk alone, played at my brothers funeral.
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. City of Angels anyone!
"In My Life", performed by Sean Connery on George Martin's final album.
Jeff Buckley also works for me.
Eva Cassidy, for personal reasons as well as the beauty of her voice.
The Hymnn Jerusalem by the St Phillips Boy Choir. Played at two of my relatives funerals who died within 24 hours of each other.
Louise xx
One of the great freedom songs...........
Bruce Springsteen
Land of Hope and Dreams
Grab your ticket and your suitcase
Thunder's rolling down the tracks
You don't know where you're goin'
But you know you won't be back
Darlin' if you're weary
Lay your head upon my chest
We'll take what we can carry
And we'll leave the rest
Big Wheels rolling through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams
I will provide for you
And I'll stand by your side
You'll need a good companion for
This part of the ride
Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there'll be sunshine
And all this darkness past
Big wheels roll through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams
This train
Carries saints and sinners
This train
Carries losers and winners
This Train
Carries whores and gamblers
This Train
Carries lost souls
This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'
This Train
Carries broken-hearted
This Train
Thieves and sweet souls departed
This Train
Carries fools and kings
This Train
All aboard
This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'
Songs that make you cry - Oh god - there are so many where do I start
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Miss you Nights - Cliff
Affirmation - Savage Garden
I knew I loved you - Savage Garden
So Beautiful - Darren Hayes
Insatiable - Darren Hayes
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straights
All I want is You - U2
Miracle Drug - U2
Sometimes you cant make it on your own - U2
There are really loads more
You really must listen to the late,great Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers for songs to bring those goose 'The Mary Ellen Carter' 'First Cristmas away from Home' and 'The Lock keeper' Another great weepy is' Forefathers' by Dan Fogleberg.
moon river, always makes me think of my son who died a few years ago
"Why" by Soul Deep UK from the "Don't Trigger" EP.
....gets me every time.
For me its "Everything I Own" by Bread.
Quite a few people think its a guy writing about a ex girlfriend, its actually about his dead father. (makes the lyrics more poignant.
Boy George had a bash and killed the song some years back, ther was also a reggae version but to me the David Gates version is top of the blubber list
You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, Kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, Set me free
The finest years I ever knew,
We're all the years I had with you
And I will give everything I own,
I'll give my life, my heart, my home
I will give everything I own
Just to have you back again.
You taught me how to love,
What its all, all above
You never said too much
But still you showed the way
In my new, I'm watching you
Nobody else will ever know
The part of me that can't let go
I will give anything I own
I'll give up my life, my heart, my home
I will give everything I own
Just to have you back again
Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for-granted
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear the words you long to say
I would give anything I own,
I'll give up my life, my heart, my home,
I will give everthing I own
Just to have you back again
Just to touch you once again
Harry :cry:
Verve: The Drugs Don't Work; "..Now the drugs don't work, They just make you worse, But I know I'll see your face again..."
One not many people have heard of, but one to really make you think and get emotional too......................
Smokey Robinson - Really gonna miss you. From the film of The Temptations sang by Smokey at Melvins funeral.
I know it's available on american import but I don't wanna pay £25 for one track so if anyone has a copy.....................................................................
Excellent news kiss will pm you
Another vote for:
Hurt - J. Cash
Adagio for strings - Samuel Barber
Others:
Street spirit (fade) - Radiohead
Lucky man - The Verve
Back to the old house - The Smiths
Don't let the bastards grind you down - U2
Will you - Hazel O'Connor (personal reasons)
It's good to see Barber's Adagio being so popular. It's my favourite piece of work and I've already said I want it playing me out.
REM's Everybody Hurts is a bit of a weepy for me too. I've always liked the song but a friend dedicated to me on the radio just after my Dad passed away and it's been special to me ever since. Lovely sentiment in that song
