What song do you want played at your funeral?

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I don't know if this type of thread was ever covered before, but i'd like...

"In the Ghetto" by The King Himself.

― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Bitchez Aint Shit

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I think one of the first threads I chined in on a few years ago was what represents your birth and death. So fuck it, here it is again:

Birth: Trio - Da Da Da
Death: Pat Benetar - Hell is for Children

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

"Tomorrow Never Knows" - but i'm undecided as whether it should be the original version or that ccc "You Only Live Twice" mash up.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

whatever the longest musical piece ever composed in. Maybe that several-hundred-years composition of Cage's (or was it Eno...)?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Chameleons

the one that goes "i'm alive in here".

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Luomo!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Just a Closer Walk With Thee, played by my boys

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd also want "Mr. Big Stuff" playing during the eulogies.

― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 25 July 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

If I'm cremated I'd like this played as my coffin proceeds slowly down the conveyor belt to the incinerator

http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3216XB5VR1GVQ21T324RN0RIPR

It's Reel Ten by The Plugz from the Repo Man soundtrack

― Bidfurd, Monday, 25 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

"It's been sooooo hard living / but I'm afraid to die /
I just don't know what's up there / beyond the sky..."

A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

― The Quantity, Monday, 25 July 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I want Nate Dogg to sing about my life.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 July 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

"Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold)," Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 25 July 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Sean Na Na, "Princess and the Pony"

― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 25 July 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

The Mover - Black Blood

It will also be in my last wishes that everyone dance to it. AHAHAHAHA

― moley, Monday, 25 July 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Bunkur - Bludgeon

― ugly and mean, Monday, 25 July 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

moley and ugly, could you guys send me invites to your funeral?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 25 July 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I want Nate Dogg to sing about my life.

And he will, for a low low price! Major credit cards accepted!

― PB, Monday, 25 July 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Rewrite question to: "What song do you want played at rock's funeral?"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Grim Reaper - "See You In Hell"

― gear (gear), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Cliff, "Many Rivers to Cross."

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Richard Thompson - "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
Bruce Springsteen - "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Bruce Springsteen - "The Promised Land"
Dion - "Book of Dreams" (Springsteen cover)

― PB, Monday, 25 July 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Trapped In The Closet chapter 1: R Kelly

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Not sure about the song but I'd like to listen (well, not really but whatever) to some St. Etienne, maybe Sound of Water.

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I changed my mind:

The Langley School - "The Long and Winding Road"

― PB, Monday, 25 July 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Violent Femmes- American Music

If I die by either a drug overdose or drowning, probably best to go with something else.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny

― joygoat (joygoat), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

something by michael jackson

― Michael Burble, Monday, 25 July 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine suggested that the best song to be played as the casket lowered would be that 80s teen-movie theme that goes "Bow bow! Chick-chickahhhhhh! Bow bow! OOOOOHHHH YEAH!!!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

My Way or another Sinatra nugget ? Then a really long Fluxus piece or something way too experimental and hypnotic.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Moon River - Henry Mancini
Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
Dead - They Might Be Giants
Off He Goes - PJ (my favorite song of theirs)

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

The Song that goes "Bow Bow, Chk, Chicka Chooka", that is known from Ferris Beuller's Day Off, is called "Oh Yeah" by Yello. If you haven't watched the video for it, I suggest you do.

http://www.whispers.speedlinq.nl/foto-yello.jpg

I'd have another answer...

"Massachusettes" by The Bee Gees.

― Razzle (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

"Gooseberries and Bilberries" by Ivor Cutler

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

When I was younger and terribly melodramatic, I would have answered with the Fifth Dimension, "Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In." Today I'd be more likely to say Curtis Mayfield, "Move On Up."

But my friend Amelia Ray had the best answer for this. She wants to have Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot, You're Hot" played.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Towards the end of my service they'll play "Return of the Hip Hop Freaks" by Nice & Smooth, and I'll jump up out of the coffin with a cane and top hat to do a big *show-time* dance number on top of my grave. Then I'll lay me down to sleep.

(I also like how they played "smooth operator" at the funeral of fallen drug kingpin Felix Mitchell Junior).

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

I'd also like "Hard Times" by Kurtis Blow playing to bring the house down.

― Razzle (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

"After Hours" by the Velvet Underground

― t. fiend (t. fiend), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Rewrite question to: "What song do you want played at rock's funeral?"

Loveless? (ducks)

When my best friend died in a car accident a few years ago, we sang Christmas carols at her funeral- in August. I thought it was the sweetest idea, her parents picked Joy to the World and another one whose title escapes me right now. My friend loved singing, and when we were living in a coop together in college she used to start singing carols in about October every year.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

"Faster"-MSP
"Theologians"-Wilco

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Everyone I know says "Atmosphere".

I say "Ecstasy of Gold" by Ennio Morricone. Fuck yeah, Ass-kickingly good!

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

I have plan sequence of melodic songs to be played on the notion of my demise, this is a follow:

Huey Lewis and the News - Do You Believe In Love
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
Supertramp - Give A Little Bit
Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
Jellyfish - Baby's Coming Back
Cutting Crew - I Just Die In Your Arms Tonight

― Comstock Carabineri, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

"Cheyenne's Theme" by Ennio Morricone, from the soundtrack to Once Upon A Time In the West

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)

Huey Lewis and Phil Collins ringing in your ears for all eternity? Choose carefully.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

"Childlike Faith in Childhood's End" by Van der Graaf Generator.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

"the jeffersons" theme song, "movin on up"

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Huey Lewis and Phil Collins will not be ringing in my ear for eternity, for they are melodic craft masterpiece chosen carefully. Huey Lewis sings of the joy of being alive, but Phil Collins reminds us that many peoples are not so lucky, they are alive but not living insted exist, so this is thoughts to keep in mind when go to see Saint Peter and ask for entry and you make sure your name is down so you can come in :)

― Comstock Carabineri, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys' "Sail away" and/or "Your funny uncle" (although I would feel a little obvious, since the song is about a funeral -- but then again, I'll be dead, so maybe I won't feel anything).

Or maybe Norma Jean Bell's "I'm the baddest bitch (in the room)."

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and also Birdie's "Silver line."

Yes, I think about my funeral a bit.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

"You Make Me Feel" by Sylvester sung by a gospel choir, in a black baptist church in Louisiana with one of those big processions down the street and all. I'd rather people dance than cry, it would be much more fitting.

That or any version of "This Woman's Work" to force even the toughest of men to cry at my funeral.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend wants Even the Bad Times Are Good (Tremeloes). I'll go with, erm, Popcorn (Hot Butter)

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

something about how crazy it was that i ended up living until i was 250.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

(Not that I believe in heaven, but it seems like it would help to lighten the mood.)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

probably popplagiø by sigur rós

― rizzx (Rizz), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Straight to Hell - The Clash or Funeral Tango - Scott Walker

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Because I'm passive-aggressive, I want EBTG's "The Heart Remains A Child" to be played at my funeral.

― esque, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Wayfaring Stranger - Bill Monroe
Shenandoah - perf. by Tony Rice
The Wind Cries Mary - Hendrix

When the Saint go Marching in, along with a full NOLA funeral procession. High steppin' all the way out the door, y'all...

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

When I was a melodramatic youth I would have gone for "Exit Music" by Radiohead which might have been changed more recently to "How to disappear completely". I think i'd be more likely to chose something more uplifting now though - spare my poor relatives even more grief than strictly necessary.

You have to weigh up whether your funeral is an opportunity to wallow in the terrible sadness of your passing or as the first step towards recovery for those you leave behind. It could be their lasting memory of you.

Unfortunately, my record collection is mainly filled with depressing wallowy numbers.

― Wobble (Wobble), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I think I posted this here before, but I want Elton John to rewrite the lyrics to one of his millions of crappy hits in my honor. I cannot improve on the suggestion of my friend Don, that it be "Get Back, Honky Cat."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Cornelius - 'Rock/96', which begins with orgasms (ie conception) and ends in a very sudden backwards guitar line that seems to rip the entire song off the speakers (ie death). Or 'Lazy', which would describe one of my biggest habits and has the final line, "Music: stop".

― BARMS, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Mothership connection!

― Bn1, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Waters of March by Elis Regina and Tom Jobim

Thank You Friends by Big Star

Look at What I Almost Misssed by the Parliaments

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

"Find the River" by R.E.M.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

If I'm only allowed one it'll have to be "Gobbing On Life" by Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias.

Song for your funeral?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

It's not what song I want played at my funeral - it's what song I would like to hear at your funeral.

― crown victoria (dymaxia), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

In a Lonely Place.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

"Reek of Putrefaction" by Carcass

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

The Birthday Party - "Mutiny in Heaven"

― Cheeseburger-style funbox to GO! Fries come in regular and crepuscular size (Eas, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure i've said this here somewhere before, but assuming i get the send-off i want - being strapped to an the outside of an enormous rocket and launched into the sky - then it'd be "lower your eyelids to die with the sun" by M83.

failing that ... i dunno. "peacon" by the workhouse? "lonesome tonight" by new order? "i'm coming", the marc almond cover of jacques brel? ach, fuck it, i'll be dead. stet will probably outlive me and sneak on crazy frog instead.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

you'll get 1 Astra firework [kept in a dry, clean biscuit tin] and the tune to Last Ninja II played on my mobile phone, and you'll like it.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

id like the song "believe" by Cher to be played at medium volume throughout the entire ceremony to the heavily drinking crowd (there will be an open bar during the ceremony, hopefully), and the song will only be stopped while my freind plays harvest moon on his accordian.

ive thought about this alot.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Judas Priest's "Epitaph"

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Isaac Hayes' "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymystic"

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:08 (twenty years ago)

having had more than six months to think since my last post, i realise that the song i want played at my funeral is "the impossible dream" - the carter USM version.

that said: if we can do the rocket thing, m83 it is.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Not because of its spiritual context, but Al Green's Jesus Is Waiting. It's just a sick, sick song...

― Marc B., Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

@ my grandfather's funeral: 'nothing compares to you' by sinead o'connor

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

ceremony

albert ayler - our prayer

― 6335, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

The Cure: The Funeral Party

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

"Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees
"I'm Immortal" by the Trash Can Sinatras

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Either Ravel's "Bolero" or "Paradise City" by G'N'R... I can't decide yet.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

March of Bumblebee or Waltz of the Valkyries but definitely not Flight of the Roman Soldiers.

― Rinky Dinky Din, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

"You're Gonna Miss Me," 13th Floor Elevators

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

egyptian shumba

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

What songs do you want played at your funeral?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

harmony constant - mike nesmith

― whatever (boglogger), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

If I'm cremated I'd like this played as my coffin proceeds slowly down the conveyor belt to the incinerator

It's Reel Ten by The Plugz from the Repo Man soundtrack

Nice!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

"Sunrise" by Young American Primitive

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Corniest and most sentimental answer in the whole world, but true: Joni's version of "Both Sides Now" from Travelogue.

I am officially old.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

The Smithereens' "Only a Memory."

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

"Cold as Ice" - Foreigner

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I've always thought it would lighten the mood to play "Pomp and Circumstance No. 1" by Edward Elgar at my funeral, though it would probably only be amusing in the U.S., where it connotes graduation rather than hope and glory.

― Okeigh, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

I would like George Harrision's "All Things Must Pass", immeaditely followed by "Art of Dying" which would include a laser show as I was shown through the door.

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

it's either got to be something totally apt like Joy Division's eternal or totally inappropriate, like New Orleans Jazz, US hardcore or Yakkety Sax.

― bela lugosi, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

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