My funeral is probably going to be about 6 hours long thanks to my love of stupidly-long prog epics.
I'd have to have the following songs for sure:
- Ommadawn (Pt.1 excerpt)- Mike Oldfield
- 2112:The Temples of Syrinx (Intro and the second bit)- Rush
- In The Wake of Poseidon- King Crimson
- Tubular Bells (both parts!
)- Mike Oldfield
- Lessons In Love/Love Games/Heathrow- Level 42
- Chain Lightning- Rush
- I've Seen All Good People- Yes (Keys To Ascension live version).
- This Charming Man- The Smiths
- West Side Story- The Buddy Rich Big Band
- Matty Groves- The Fairport Convention
- I Lost My Head- Gentle Giant
- Radioactivity (German version)- Kraftwerk
- I'll Haunt You- Seth Lakeman (for some comic value as much as anything).
- The Wall- Pink Floyd
- Kashmir- Led Zeppelin
- Perfect Kiss- New Order (10min version)
I could list loads of songs but these are the ones that most come to mind. I want my wide tastes in music to come through at my funeral.