C'mon, the use of the Pogues' "Body of an American" was one of the most appropriate uses of music on any tv show I've seen.
I'm partial to "The Beast In Me" on The Sopranos. Northern Exposure had some great, and unusual musical cues too.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS - Sep 01, 2005 11:55:50 am PDT #66 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Sep 01, 2005 11:59:47 am PDT #67 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, duh, Corwood. But that was a wake, right?(And a truly beautiful tribute to one of the creators that died.Sniff.) Not just day to day. And consider this an advance directive...I want that funeral. Complete with Bitches in corsets telling each other I was a giant pain in the ass. My actually being laid out in leather pants on the pool table can be left to bullshit consensus, okay, bunk? I'm sort of the Cole of the Bitches, I think. Comic relief...foil, you know, "Queen of the Dunkers" "The Beast in Me" was perfect, too, Hec.
erikaj - Sep 01, 2005 12:16:16 pm PDT #68 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form. Good to know. I'm new around here, sort of. Still, don't skip the bagpipes.
DavidS - Sep 01, 2005 12:23:08 pm PDT #69 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.
No way. I wouldn't mind "Body of An American" played at my funeral, though I've been leaning towards another Pogues song, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" in recent years.
Then maybe all the different takes of "Loose" off the Stooges box set played end to end.
erikaj - Sep 01, 2005 12:35:32 pm PDT #70 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
That was one of the best funeral scenes I've ever seen, and I'm not just being "Baltimore likes carrots!" here, because I'd not seen too much of the show when I watched it the first time and it still got to me. Now that I've got my full dose of "Colesberry's dead, and yet Cheney lives!" from watching all the seasons, I expect to be wrung out like a rag and have my family look at me like I'm having a 'sode again for crying for a fake dead guy. Sort of. But not. Because brilliant producer Robert Colesberry played putz detective Ray Cole, who sort of couldn't find his ass with both hands and a road map. But RC had a real-life sudden heart attack, so they both got a funeral on the show...and sorry for the "blah, blah, Ginger..." nature of this post for non-Wireheads.
dw - Sep 01, 2005 12:55:04 pm PDT #71 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Songs about/mentioning NOLA:
No one has mentioned "Mr. Bojangles" at all?
I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.
It's sad that Steve Goodman is barely remembered nowadays, despite writing this song, "City of New Orleans," and possibly the greatest baseball song ever, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."
Steph L. - Sep 01, 2005 1:49:54 pm PDT #72 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.
Can we play "Leaving on a Jet Plane?" Also: "Highway to Hell," "Stairway to Heaven" (just to balance things out), and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone."
evil jimi - Sep 01, 2005 4:14:12 pm PDT #73 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
well, I'm planning to play a couple of TISM songs at my funeral--unless I die before my folks, in which case NSM. Not sure how they'd react to, "I'm On The Drug That Killed River Phoenix" but I know they wouldn't be happy to hear, "I Might Be A Cunt But At Least I'm Not A Fucking Cunt".
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2005 4:54:12 pm PDT #74 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.
My grandmother always wanted me to sing her favorite hymn ("Just As I Am") at her funeral. She died when I was 17.
Didn't sing. I was too broken up. Wanted to, but my parents put their feet down.
Michele T. - Sep 01, 2005 6:33:16 pm PDT #75 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Fats Domino alive and OK and airlifted out of NO.