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22nd May '13 12:02:04 AM Firestorm17

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6th May '13 9:24:24 AM moderator Madrugada

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Cleaning up the examples. Removed the Music folder because "This group/singer/band plays it" isn't what trope is.

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* Famously used during [[TheSpock Spock's]] funeral at the end of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''... which seemed a little odd for a Vulcan. And yes, it featured Scotty playing the pipes.
** It's not odd: it's just Scotty [[TearJerker saying his goodbyes]] [[ToAbsentFriends to an old friend]].
* Of course it is used in the William Wilberforce biopic movie ''Film/AmazingGrace''. Since the original tune of the song is unknown, this is perhaps more an example of artistic license than a mistake.
** The original tune could have been any number of Common Metre tunes in use in England in those days - but at the time, the Church of England (of which John Newton was an ordained priest) did not allow the singing of hymns during the service - they sang the psalms and the parts of the mass only - so there was no real reason to write a tune for it or attach it to a melody.
** And, since no one knows the origin of the tune "New Britain" (the first ''recorded'' example is from the 1800s) it might have come from that time.
* Exception: "Abide With Me" (itself a popular funeral hymn) is also used in the soundtrack for ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' during the scene where they [[spoiler: find Jim's dead parents]], mostly because using "Amazing Grace" would make whoever chose the soundtrack sound like a colossal bastard. It's sung by a female soloist. No bagpipes in sight.

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[[folder:Music]]
* Béla Fleck and the Flecktones bass god Victor Wooten plays this entirely in harmonics for his solo spot in most shows, to pretty amazing effect.
** Chris Squire was doing that twenty-five years ago.
* Dropkick Murphys often play a version of this at their concerts, adding in rhythm guitar and bagpipe riffs. Moshing ensues.
* Flatfoot 56 plays this at every show. At one show there was a brawl and the band walked off stage and ended the show. They came back out a few minutes later to play Amazing Grace, saying that they had never ended a show without playing that song first, and that they didn't want that show to be the first time.
* The end of Grace Jones's "Williams' Blood."
* Pat Metheny's "Estupenda Graca" from the 1981 ''Offramp'' album is a remix of Amazing Grace, but with Nana Vasconcelos on vocals and berimbau!
* Ani [=DiFranco=] had a studio version on her cd "Dilate" (1996) and has a kickass live version on "Living in Clip" (1997)
* Music/{{U2}} used this as an intro to "Where the Streets Have No Name" during their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebHOVTCUDso 360° tour]]. Being there to sing along to it with close to 100,000 other people was a surreal experience.
* Craig Morgan name-drops it in both "That's What I Love About Sunday" and "Tough"...
* ...as does Music/RayStevens in "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex"...
* ...and Jason Michael Carroll in "Where I'm From", to the point that he even quotes the first two lines at the end.
* If you think an opera singer performing Amazing Grace ''a capella'' wouldn't reduce a stadium full of rock and roll fans to awestruck silence, may I present [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B0awbQXSFs Jessye Norman]].
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* Exception: ''CloneHigh'' substitutes FranzSchubert's ''Ellens dritter Gesang'' (a.k.a. "Ave Maria"). It turns out that Genghis Khan is an amazing tenor.
* Another parody: in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry's imagined death has his favorite song "I'm Walking On Sunshine", also played by the bagpipes.
** Considering ''[[{{Tearjerker}} Jurassic Bark]]'', it might not be such a parody.
* Used hilariously in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', where the Joker [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA eulogizes]] the believed-to-be-dead Batman, and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to murder his supposed killer]] by sealing him into a coffin and rolling it into an acid pool. The end of the scene is accompanied by Harley Quinn playing the song ''[[Funny/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries on a kazoo]]''. Given that this is Joker, both conveying genuine sadness and savagely funny mockery of funeral tropes at the same time was likely his intended goal.
** When they recorded this scene, they were only able to do one take because when Arleen Sorkin (Harley) had finished, everyone was laughing too hard to do another take.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Ike's Wee Wee": At Ike's funeral, conducted by Father Maxi dressed as a rabbi, the piper plays [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila "Hava Nagila."]] As the boys walk away from the funeral, Kenny falls in an open grave and is crushed by the tombstone, and the funeral reconvenes around the grave, the priest changes to his normal appearance (Kenny's Catholic), and the piper plays... "Hava Nagila."
** And has everyone covering their ears.

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* Aversion: ''CloneHigh'' substitutes FranzSchubert's ''Ellens dritter Gesang'' (a.k.a. "Ave Maria"). It turns out that Genghis Khan is an amazing tenor.
* Parody: in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry's imagined death has his favorite song "I'm Walking On Sunshine", also played by the bagpipes.
* Used hilariously in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', where the Joker [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA eulogizes]] the believed-to-be-dead Batman, and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to murder his supposed killer]] by sealing him into a coffin and rolling it into an acid pool. The end of the scene is accompanied by Harley Quinn playing the song ''[[Funny/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries on a kazoo]]''. Given that this is Joker, both conveying genuine sadness and savagely funny mockery of funeral tropes at the same time was likely his intended goal. When they recorded this scene, they were only able to do one take because when Arleen Sorkin (Harley) had finished, everyone was laughing too hard to do another take.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Ike's Wee Wee": At Ike's funeral, conducted by Father Maxi dressed as a rabbi, the piper plays [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila "Hava Nagila."]] As the boys walk away from the funeral, Kenny falls in an open grave and is crushed by the tombstone, and the funeral reconvenes around the grave, the priest changes to his normal appearance (Kenny's Catholic), and the piper plays... "Hava Nagila."

3rd May '13 8:50:43 AM erforce

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30th Apr '13 5:51:54 PM LentilSandEater

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29th Apr '13 11:34:01 AM NephandiMan

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