{"id":8726,"date":"2013-02-09T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:29:47","slug":"morbid-blogathon-928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8726","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 9\/13 Morbid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to update the list, below, as time progresses, and some items will get struck off, but remain as a matter of record, as I try to bring the list down to a manageable number of tracks\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

In August 2011 I went to the funeral\/cremation of a member of my team.<\/p>\n

Grant Burke was a keen motorcyclist, a mad cricketer (in both senses of the phrase), and an online gaming weirdo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was also wonderfully sarcastic, bitingly scathing of our politicians, and he would support the underdog until he had no breath left.<\/p>\n

Grant had the weirdest taste in music, coupled with an awesome sense of humour and, if you haven\u2019t guessed yet, it was Grant who, over the course of a year of working together, encouraged me back in to motorcycling.<\/p>\n

His funeral music included \u2018Dreadlock Holiday\u2019 by 10cc for his \u2018intro\u2019.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the service we filed out to the distinctly (but pleasantly) jarring (given the circumstances) instrumental strain of the BBCs Test Match Special.<\/p>\n

In between these two pieces, there were other \u2013 equally oddball \u2013 choices.<\/p>\n

And there was dancing. And there was much laughter.<\/p>\n

And there were tears.<\/p>\n

My point is that Grant\u2019s musical choices for his own funeral\/cremation served to underline his larger-than-life (in a John Goodman kind of way) personality.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t given the subject of funeral musical any further thought, until recently.<\/p>\n

I was having \u2018one of those\u2019 deeply intense conversations with someone, recently, when she raised the subject of musical choices, for her funeral.<\/p>\n

My first thought was \u2018she\u2019s clearly mental!\u2019 (true), but then I remembered Grant, and recalled his musical choices, and what he had done for his friends, his family and his colleagues.<\/p>\n

The smiles. The tears. The dancing.<\/p>\n

She had a point, my friend, a similar point to the one that Grant had so eloquently made.<\/p>\n

I made an effort to listen to her choices; there was much of her character in them.<\/p>\n

And as I listened I started to wonder what my music might be.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, I began a list.<\/p>\n

It quickly grew in to a long list. I\u2019m talking about a very long list indeed!<\/p>\n

The first draft was:<\/p>\n