Music at your funeral

Chinafoot

Make me smile (come up and see me) by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

and

If I should fall behind - Bruce Springsteen

(I also want the latter to be my first dance at my wedding. 'Tis beautiful for either)

fade2black

Kingp35 wrote:

We just have great choice in music!

This is true...I'd start an off topic conversation about movie soundtracks...but i'll be nice.

Put "honor him" on at full blast sometime...it really is an amazing theme.

SexyD4Lady

Ickle Magoo wrote:

I would like to be cremated & I'd like these songs played.....
Angels - Robbie Williams
Ride a White Swan - T-Rex
Knockin' on Heavens Door - G'n'R

Angels was sung at my cousin's funeral a few years back, it was beautiful.

I'd have to say Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton, Lullabye (Goodnight my Angel) by Billy Joel or My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Ella Fitzgerald.

funky penguin

fade2black wrote:

This is true...I'd start an off topic conversation about movie soundtracks...but i'll be nice.

Put "honor him" on at full blast sometime...it really is an amazing theme.

Everything on that album is movie soundtrack gold. He's an amazing composer.

He's also doing The Da Vinci Code soundtrack. Should be interesting to see what he comes up with.

Sorry for the off topicness.

Rhyme

Highway to Hell...

Nothing more, nothing less

Dirk Gently

The monster mash and do the Dudek.
It would also be a non-religious event.

R0ot

2 songs

Soul Asylum - Can't Even Tell (Clerks Soundtrack the credits theme)
The Eagles/Kansas - Dust in the Wind (Both versions are great, but has to be acoustic guitar only)

fade2black

funky penguin wrote:

Everything on that album is movie soundtrack gold. He's an amazing composer.

He's also doing The Da Vinci Code soundtrack. Should be interesting to see what he comes up with.

Sorry for the off topicness.

Ah yes...there's a reason why you're in my friends list.

Santa Claus

Green Day - Time of your life (or good riddance to give its proper title though I wouldn't want people thinking good riddance)

Crucifix

The Mariner's Revenge song by the Decemberists

rainbow kirby

Non-religious event for me!
I'd start with Tenacious D - Tribute, then into Sonata Arctica - The Cage, followed by The Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (I just love the thought of a whole funeral's worth of people doing the time warp), and leaving with Helloween - I Want Out.

funk-you

I want six of my mates to wear orange jump suits while carrying my coffin into the church while The Beatie Boys - Satotage is playing.

When i'm being put in the ground - Wilson Picket - Land of 1000 dances.

-Funk

p~b

the shins - caring is creepy
frou frou - let go

funky penguin

fade2black wrote:

Ah yes...there's a reason why you're in my friends list.

BOOYA!

dead air

Actually I don't know, I've never really considered having music at my funeral, not that i've ever really thought about it. Maybe some quieter smashing pumpkins playing in the background. I don't think there's any one song that could sum me up. Creep by Radiohead maybe.

Nightwish

Beauty of the Beast by Nightwish

Ruu_Old

Quality thread I forgot The Clash-Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Gnome

I'm afraid it has to be Supermoves by Overseer followed by Magic Dance by David Bowie and Overture to the Sun to finish.

Stench Blossoms

Sia - Breathe Me

peckerhead

A little bit of Cash...

djmarkus

nobody wants a lone piper then?

The Gnome

orla wrote:

Sia - Breathe Me

Somebodies been the Six Feet Under DVDs again...

20 Times 20 Times

broad black brimmer

never walk alone

Duiske

Probably go with Christy Moore - Don't forget yer Shovel.

Basq

Death Cab For Cutie "I Will Follow You Into The Dark"
Elliott Smith "Needle In The Hay" / "Waltz #2"
Counting Crows "Raining In Baltimore" / "Round Here"

- yep, a cheery funeral for me!

Robbo

I'd prefer, rather than name actual songs, to give a guide to whoever was presiding over ceremonies. Three songs.

1. The pun-laced opener to show what a good humoured chap I am. Something along the lines of 2Unlimited or Dr Alban will show them all how ker-ay-zee and off the wall I was.

2. The 14 minute long metal opus (bonus points for inclusion of material by a guitar virtuoso. Imagine that echoing around a church). This is not borne out of any particular afinity towards metal but I figure it's the kind of thing you'd torture your family with in life, so you might as well torture them in death as well.

3. The maudlin "aren't you all sad I'm gone because I really was quite sensitive number". Some Damo Nice or one of those incontinent saps. Better still that Green Day song, y'know the one that soundtracks a thousand teenage girls crying into pillows.

Hopefully, that will have them all following me in the mortal coil shuffle with gusto.

spanner

highway to hell

coffee_cake

2nd movt of Beethoven's 7th

Stench Blossoms

The Gnome wrote:

Somebodies been the Six Feet Under DVDs again...

Its a good song!

Katykaboom

That Damien Rice song - cant ake my eyes off you is very sad.