Songs You'd like played at your own funeral

HalloweenJack · 12-08-2008 8:38pm

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain or Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

razorblunt · 12-08-2008 9:21pm

U2 - Stay
ELO - Mr Blue Sky

I'd prbably plump for ELO would be nice to give everyone a surprise with an upbeat number.

rainbow kirby · 12-08-2008 10:15pm

First of all System of a Down - Aerials, then be cremated to Rammstein's Feuer Frei.

Borneo Fnctn · 13-08-2008 1:10am

Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart.

The mourners will be made to do a line dance. On the stage will be line dancing strippers. That is all I ask. I think I've earned it over the years.

elaine_donly · 13-08-2008 2:49am

My ex once said he wanted ELO's song Im Alive to freak everyone out and when you listen to the song and they just keep saying Im Alive! over and over again it's really funny.

DenMan · 13-08-2008 12:27pm

Creek Mary's Blood by Nightwish is one I would love to be played. Brings a tear whenever I hear it. Truly breathtaking, the story, words and the music.

tinkletoes · 14-08-2008 12:05am

I'm the Ocean- Neil Young

brucer24! · 14-08-2008 12:08am

jimmy eat world - hear you me : i love this song!!
luther vandross - dance with my father

Frankie Lee · 14-08-2008 12:27am

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine - James Brown

Heading for the light - The Travelling Wilburys

Restless Farewell - Bob Dylan (simular to the parting glass by tommy makem i know)

minxie · 14-08-2008 12:33am

id go for this:
Please Release Me Let Me Go - Engelbert Humperdink :eek:

pearl jam:black

Sellphone · 14-08-2008 1:18pm

Or even..
Highway to Hell AC/DC, depending on?
Stairway to Heaven, Led Zep

or
Death of a clown , Kinks
The Other Side, Aerosmith
Wake Up, Arcade Fire
And finally a line dancing session down the aisle to Prince Charming/AdamA Ant
Think I would be probably be starting to rot by time this lot was over!

Nailz · 14-08-2008 10:03pm

JerryHandbag wrote: »

I'd get Bono to sing a version of He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

Nah, I'd get your man from ConAir to do that!

Nephilim Wolf · 24-08-2008 7:14pm

It would have to be both 'And There Will Your Heart Be Also' by Fields of The Nephilim & 'Holiday by the Scorpions. Two beautiful and unforgettable songs.

rowlandbrowner · 25-08-2008 1:40pm

I'd love to have Robbie Williams brought out, heavily sedated and stripped to his disturbingly patriotic underwear. The congregation would throw rotten fruit and the concept of shame at him, while he stumble's through "angles" in a confused shrill crying voice, with the backing track replaced by the second take of Machine Gun by the Peter Brötzmann octet. Ah I love the thought of being lowered into the furnace while Williams is made to pay penance for inflicting that awful song on so many grieving hysterical idiots, over a European free jazz soundtrack.

Keyzer · 25-08-2008 4:01pm

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Isn't It A Pity - George Harrison

Phototoxin · 25-08-2008 4:03pm

Meadows of Heaven by Nightwish

Havermeyer · 25-08-2008 10:35pm

Rock lobster - B52s. T'would be funny.

Wave of mutilation - Pixies

Echoes - Pink Floyd.

rebeldiamond · 29-08-2008 6:22pm

I actually have 4- dunno if thats too many but anyway....

Tonight, Tonite- The Smashing Pumpkins
My Immortal- Evanescence
The Next Life- Suede
Hymn For Her- The 4 Of Us ( a little guilty pleasure but if you heard it you'd understand!)

03-09-2008 5:38am

I actually spent awhile making a mix CD to be played at my funeral and had to listen to everyone tell me how morbid it was. I was trying to get the point across that I'd like music which ment something to me when I was alive be played and not what people attending though I might like. Two of the songs I chose were Adam's Song by Blink 182 and Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips.

evs · 04-09-2008 1:43pm

Blackbird by The Beatles
Three Days by Jane's Addiction

JerryHandbag · 05-09-2008 12:09pm

Sigur Ros -Ára bátur

Karen_* · 05-09-2008 1:12pm

Keane - bad dream

Prefabsprouter · 05-09-2008 3:23pm

Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey

Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Prefab Sprout - Pearly Gates

tinz18 · 05-09-2008 3:54pm

I'd pick no popular songs that people love... too many of my favourite songs of mine were ruined for me because of me associating them with death:(...so i'd pick a really nice trad song called John O'Dreams or failing that no one knew how to play it because of its obscurity i'd pick Say goodbye by Skillet.:cool:

sedohre · 14-09-2008 5:41pm

Roberta Flack - The First time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7gzXz1cHo

Breath by Telepopmusik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwNikCItFI8&feature=related

Zangetsu · 15-09-2008 11:06am

In My Life > Yesterday > Guitar Gently Weeps anthology version and watch the masses fall into a pit of sorrow.

Finish with Live Forever and laugh from beond the grave at what I just put my family and friends through mwahahaha!

guitarsongs · 22-09-2008 12:44pm

Zaph wrote: »

The original by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes is much better

For my funeral it would have to be This Must be the Place by Talking Heads.

.... with "Heaven" ( also T.Heads ) as an encore!! ( Ok, I know it's about a bar, but "Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens" ) would leave 'em all with something to ponder on...
PJ

NAGGIE03 · 23-09-2008 3:16pm

'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' from the Wizard of Oz!!!

Having everyone skipping behind my coffin like a loada munchkins!

Sephiroth_dude · 24-09-2008 12:54am

a couple spring to mind

nirvana-you know your right
rage against the machine-killing in the name of
pantera-planet caravan
guns and roses-you could be mine
metallica-entersandman

there are others,just cant think of the at the moment,one of those five would do nicely though.

Sephiroth_dude · 24-09-2008 12:44pm

slayer angel of death is another one id consider :cool:

Songs You'd like played at your own funeral

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