Last sunday, I went to see Serge's grave at the cemitière of
Montmartre Montparnasse. It was one of the best kept graves, easily found with all the plants and pictures. And when me and mrs Guuzbourg walked back (to have lunch at La Closerie des Lilas, a place Serge visited in the 60s), I mused about the music that should be played at my burial. I always said Rest in Peace by the Beasts of Bourbon ('cause that's a hilariously drunk song) and Requiem pour un con by Serge. The latter might give people some mixed emotions - just who is the asshole that gets a beating in this song? Maybe I should choose Avec le Temps by Jane Birkin, in the live-version from Au Bataclan. Or her tearful rendition of Je suis venue te dire (
click). Or maybe La Mort by Brel? I'm undecided here.
Are you? Do you know which songs should be played at your funeral, and why? Let's make it a competition. Send me (guuzbourg(a)gmail.com) the name of the song and the reason you want it played, and 5 winners get a (very upbeat) Filles Fragiles 2 cd.
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El Dia de los Muertos, ofcourse.
Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem pour un con
Jacques Brel - La mort
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http://www.fillessourires.com/ecoutez/requiem.mp3
corrected that, thanks P
BeantwoordenVerwijderenSerge is in Cimetiere Montparnasse.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYou are right - I always mix up those two.
BeantwoordenVerwijdereni think about my own funeral too much too... well not saying you do but...
BeantwoordenVerwijderenlearnalilgivinanlovin - gotye
but easily the best song about death is
bottom of everything bright eyes
i just want to dance to it.
Ah, that's an easy one.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenNick Cave & The Bad Seeds with their cover from 1986 of 'The Carnival Is Over'. Covered a lot of times and mostly very bad (in fact this song is a drag in itself, I admit) But Nick Cave does a great version, also because of Blixa Bargelds brilliant minimalistic guitar playing.
Written by Tom Springfield for The Seekers, he claims. But the truth is that it's a Russian traditional called 'Stenka Rasin'. I got a lot of versions of this song already, but still can't find the version by Charles Aznavour & les Compagnons de la Chanson from 1951, recorded as 'Stenka Razine'. Anyone outthere who can help me?
Any way, not French but a beautiful funeral track imho. Can't wait.
Listen:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/19/1768981/Nick%20Cave%20And%20The%20Bad%20Seeds%20-%20The%20Carnival%20Is%20Over.mp3
there is a song La Legende de Stenka Razine by Charles Aznavour, but that is not the song you want, right?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThat's the one!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenFrom 1982 it says here: http://pages.infinit.net/patof/aznavour/musique/disco_fr/45.htm
Lots of cool old sleeves at that site by the way.
check yer email then
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt's been bugging me for days, but at last I found it: the opening notes of "La mort" are the Dies Irae theme from Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique. Good old sampling and recycling...
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