I just found this in my files from when I was recovering from serious illness in late 2016. My tastes haven’t changed much since then. NB I don’t currently plan to go away soon – too much living to do still.
Songs for Bruce’s funeral and/or wake
Links in song-titles are to YouTube videos, just so you know what the songs are. At the actual event, use the original vinyl or CD, not the Youtube versions.
| Song | Artist | Album | Why and other ramblings? |
| Pigs on the wing (part 1) | Pink Floyd | Animals | Classic intro Pigs on the wing parts 1 and 2 must begin and end the proceedings. |
| Advertisement (another intentional irrelevant suicide) | Roy Harper | Whatever happened to Jugula? | Sound effects! |
| Decades | Joy Division | Closer | This song has always taken me places. |
| Drugs for everybody | Roy Harper | The dream society | Generosity |
| Hope | Roy Harper | Whatever happened to Jugula? | Because there has to be some. |
| The final cut | Pink Floyd | The final cut | One of the ultimate expressions of my paranoia Don’t use both The final cut and Not now John – both would be too gloomy. |
| Miss Europa Disco Dancer | Manic Street Preachers | Know your enemy | An alternative to the Dambusters’ March. Use the Youtube version ONLY IF you show the video. |
| Not now John | Pink Floyd | The final cut | The other ultimate expression of my paranoia (If using Not now John, it MUST be the album version, i.e. with swearing.) |
| Boogeyman | Motörhead | Rock and roll | Gotta have some Motörhead, and this has a brilliant intro by Lemmy |
| The lord’s prayer | Roy Harper | Lifemask | 20 minutes of Roy’s finest, from a time when he nearly died |
| Ease | PiL | Album | It just rocks! |
| You can have it all | Kaiser Chiefs | Employment | Because I won’t need anything anymore |
| The masses against the classes | Manic Street Preachers | Forever delayed | Class struggle! |
| Change | Lightning Seeds | Jollification | Happy, skip-along pop |
| Faster | Manic Street Preachers | The holy bible | An antidote to happy, skip-along pop. Possibly the finest Manics song. Do NOT use the Chemical Brothers’ remix from Forever Delayed. |
| It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) | REM | Document | Something more populist and upbeat |
| Echoes | Pink Floyd | Meddle | Because it’s just brilliant. If possible, use the version from Live in Pompeii. |
| Pigs on the wing (part 2) | Pink Floyd | Animals | Classic outro – we’ll look after each other |
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 