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About This Track
“The Funeral” is the first single taken from Band of Horses’ debut album Everything All the Time. The album was released on March 21, 2006. The song was released as a radio and video single in May 2006 in the US. The single was released commercially over a year later in the UK on limited edition numbered 7” vinyl on May 21, 2007 to coincide with the band’s UK tour dates.
An earlier version of the song appeared on the band’s self-titled EP, under the name ‘Billion Day Funeral’. The heavy subject meaning behind the song’s lyrics relate to the multiple abortions that various girlfriends of singer Ben Bridwell had to receive during his years living in Seattle.
The Music Video for The Funeral seems to tell the story of a man whose dog has died, and saddened by this he drowns his sorrow in alcohol. Afterwards he drives under the influence and the end of the music video seems to suggest he crashes head on into another vehicle. Based on the style other cars and the elevated railroad overhead, the video appears to be set in 1970s New York or Chicago (more likely the latter as one scene in the video shows a sign for the Galway Bay Bar, an Irish pub located in the Lincoln Park neighbourhood).
An earlier version of the song appeared on the band’s self-titled EP, under the name ‘Billion Day Funeral’. The heavy subject meaning behind the song’s lyrics relate to the multiple abortions that various girlfriends of singer Ben Bridwell had to receive during his years living in Seattle.
The Music Video for The Funeral seems to tell the story of a man whose dog has died, and saddened by this he drowns his sorrow in alcohol. Afterwards he drives under the influence and the end of the music video seems to suggest he crashes head on into another vehicle. Based on the style other cars and the elevated railroad overhead, the video appears to be set in 1970s New York or Chicago (more likely the latter as one scene in the video shows a sign for the Galway Bay Bar, an Irish pub located in the Lincoln Park neighbourhood).
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127 hours...
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This is beautiful.
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bliss.
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Beautiful :")
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ParamourT wrote:
Liz Lee
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futchadoc wrote:
This song... words can't even describe how much I love it! It's use on Flash Forward was EPIC... I was so disappointed that they cancelled that show.
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What did you see in your flashforward?
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kiuse wrote:
Nothing better than listening to this song
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demonia0 wrote:
♥
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zZandry wrote:
Legendary
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EvilMathew wrote:
Best song ever.
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Andrew_Nagiev wrote:
Awesome [2]
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...♥...
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steezah wrote:
Theillusions gets a megafail for saying this song reminds her of Kid Cudi. Did you know MGMT reminds me of Chiddy Bang?
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Mego_beaver wrote:
A nice tune
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leaveitall wrote:
i la la la love this track so much
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ajdesa wrote:
Sitting on the pot, taking a dump, eating bag of jalapeno chips & listening to the funeral by band of horses.......ahh..life is good
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DmitriJoK wrote:
awesome
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epic10101 wrote:
amazing
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