Funeral Songs

bandit

Due to a mass hangover coupled with just watching high fidelity i gots to thinking about funeral songs. {mordid, i know but thats what sunday mornings are!!!!}

I'd like to have Manics 'This yesterday' as the opener, Jeff Buckley 'Corpus Christi Carol' in the middle and 'Live forever' as the closer

They change everyday but that's what i'm picking today

what would you people want played?

Kurdt

dunno why but i always wanted last kiss by pearl jam to be sung at mine...

thedrowner

twould have to be somehitng fairly beautiful alright (to represent the greatness of me ) i'd need spine tingling singing

but THEN....i'd feel a bit stupid if the lyrics werent relevant in some way. btu **** it, i'd be dead anyway, so why would i care?????

something like 'the dark is rising' by mercury rev. I'd also have some gorgeous opera/classical song like 'the strangers grave' opr 'ophelia's song'. maybe the thinner the air by cocteau twins

something by bjork maybe? Come to me? Araura? I play dead? (that'd be relevant!!!)

maybe that BFF song in me sig? Evaporated?
oh vancouver by jeff buckley
oh oh and who wants to live forever or save me by queen. or barcelona.

seeing a pattern here? ....i'd probably be really vain and get my ma/kids/someone to play me singing a lovely weepy opera song. (hee hee)

DerekD Goldfish

I think I remember this topic coming up before I would probably have last goodbye by jeff buckley and I know its over by the smiths

thedrowner

oh the smiths!!!!!! how could i forget!!!!!!
possibly well i wonder or last night i dreamt somebody loved me,

bandit

Vicar in a tutu:D

Amz

Dont Worry Be Happy was played at my friends funeral it was a song he had always said he'd like played.......It was lovely coz it reallysuited his personality
Me personally i dont know really.......

I think my friends or family would hav to pick em out i dont want sad songs though coz im not really a morbid person and i wouldnt like things to be really depressing......

Meh! im rambling now so ill go......

Pigman

Certainly nothing by the Beatles or U2 that's for sure. A mate of mine got run over by a car a few years ago and having listen to 'Hey Jude' or 'With or Without You' played acoustically in a church just made me feel even more depressed thru its sheer cornyness.

I think I'll just leave instructions to my friends to go through my record collection and pick out whatever tunes that they wanted to listen to on the day. After all, they're the ones who are gonna have to sit thru em, not me.

Amz

My sentiments exactly pigman....

The Evil Monkey

i'd love to have Days by the Kinks at my funeral. one song i would not want is Green Days Good Riddance (time of your life), its been too overdone

Kopf

aqua - barbie girl

polarbelly

funny story bout funeral songs i have...

while i was on hoidays during the summer one of my mates put on 'like spinning plates' by radiohead and he said that he wanted it played at his funeral. so i kinda wetn hell yeah thats a ****in great song, your funeral will be class... so after a bit of chatting we agreed that if i'm attending ger's funeral when 'like spinning plates' is played, i have to stand up and shout at the top of my voice (which is pretty loud)
"yeah!!! radiohead!!! this funeral fúckin rules!!!"

just imagine explaining that to his mum/wife/brothers

anyway on the subject matter i've never really thought long and hard about it... its a big thing for my friends('ur not a real friend unless you know the songs i want played at my funeral' kinda thing) i couldnt really care less at the moment but we'll see

juno

Back in my parent-baiting youth I also swore that my funeral song would be 'Die in the Summertime' or possibly 'Negative Creep'. Now I think I'd like something by Gareth Gates just to remind everyone there that death is not the ultimate horror

I am a negative creep!

Cherry

I want Morcheeba ~ The Sea played at my funeral. Since it'll be a cremation on Clearwater Beach in Florida & my ashes'll be tossed into the shark-infested waters so I'll be at one with nature but the bastards won't be able to eat me. : )

scuzzy

Alice In Chains - Nutshell
Mundy - Birdseed And Trash
REM - At My Most Beautiful
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Divine Comedy - Gin-Soaked Boy
Doves - There Goes The Fear
Embrace - My Weakness Is None Of Your Business
Embrace - Drawn From Memory
Foo Fighters - February Stars
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon
iDLEWiLD - Out Of Routine
iDLEWiLD - Scottich Fiction
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Jimmy Eat World - For Me This Is Heaven
Mercury Rev - Nite And Fog
Nick Drake - Road
Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry (acoustic)
SOAD - Chop Suey
The Frames - Red Chord
The Who - Baba O' Riley
Wallflowers - One Headlight
White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl

It'll prolly be a long funeral then...

blissful

it would have to be, either the stones, wild horses or muse BLISSSS

Miss-Misery

I'd have to have something by Jeff Buckley, 'last goodbye' or 'grace' or 'lover you should've come over'.or 'i know its over' by the smiths or 'heyday' by mic christopher, or 'revelate' by the frames or 'pitseleh'or 'between the bars' by Elliott Smith or 'where the stars turn blue' by ryan adams. but hopefully i'll be nice and old and want german accordion renditions of 'killing me softly' or something odd like that

Kali

Personally i'd like nothing more than Roger Waters to arrive and play Wish You Were Here... but since thats not likely to happen (plus i hope to outlive someone already in their 50s)...

The Doors - Break On Through
Neil Young - Old King
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
George Harrisson - All Things Must Pass (the album version)

nothing worse than going to a funeral and some horribly depressing song is played... something by they might be giants could be good as well

metalish

my songs would be-
Samshing Pumpkins 'tonight tonight'
the frames 'lay me down'
jeff buckley 'last goodbye'
tool 'sobar'
metallica 'the unforgivan'
R.E.M 'everybody hurts'

Dob77

"Release" by Pearl Jam was played at a friend of mines funeral. Twas very sad....

Personally I'd like:
36 strings by the Redneck manifesto
Underneath the Weeping Willow by Grandaddy

sodiumlightbaby

The Cure - Faith
The The - Love is Stronger than death

shay

Think for a minute - the Housemartins

Hey, true story - no bull s*itinn', mate of mine went to his uncle's funeral and they are the sort of family that have sessions. They asked him to get up and sing one, and after much persuasion and with true innocence he got up and sung "Alive" by Pearl Jam. I had to get up and leave the room!

Kurdt

or maybe something full of hate and anger to scare yer relatives that think yer just as "normal" (dont bate me for that) as the girl next door...(no, not the porn girl from next door)..

hands up who knows what i'm on about? coz i sure as hell am lost!

anyhoo, i'd love the end by thte doors (oh cliché where art thou?)

Achille

this is like choosing ym favourite band, im always changing my mind about this. (yes, i do talk about it alot)

i want my funeral to be like a big long extended party, with beach volleyball. and my coffin will be fitted with a beer keg, so when you pull my arm down, the beer comes out.

anyway, ive thought about loads of songs, some fo them already mentioned. but the one song im definitely sticking with is the closing song... Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven.

and Wonderwall of course.

thedrowner

yeah see i want everyone BALLING at my funeral, no parties for me, i want people to be devastated.
anyways

i believe my mum has written into her will that her sister has to tap dance on her coffin......

Kurdt

i want a karaoke theme at mine...everyone has to choose a song to sing...granted it may take a few days but yis will thank me for the time off work

irokie

i heard about this thread quite some time ago, but i hadn't got myself together enough to come and find it...

as for funeral music, i think it'd be fun to play stuff that'd get ppl even more depressed than they already are... or else play that all time classic "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!!!"

so then choices would be

koRn - dead bodies everywhere
radiohead - exit music (for a film)
metallica - to live is to die

but not really... i don't know what i'd want played, something buckleyesque, or p'raps a joyous dash of summat from johnny and his amazing telemecaster... it's all so confusing... i love resurrecting threads from the last page before closing...

Bard

Yep, this question came up before.

And when it did, I said:

"Malcolm McLaren: Something's Jumping in my Shirt"

rapture_queen

I have thought about this before and there is too many that i want so what i suggest is that my funeral last for days and basically give people a reason for listening to good music together.

A really long party!!!!!!!!!
for those who know me i want my coffin to be painted in flowers
none of this dull brown ****!!!

Anyway melon collie......-smashing pumpkins
Everybody Hurts (is a very popular choice at funerals, so maybe that)-R.E.M
no there is too many i would be here for days!!!!!!!!!

johnnynolegs

you and whose army - radiohead

Kurdt

nobody girl by ryan adams...though i'm not a girl...indeed i am nobody, but not a girl...perhaps this can be taken care of...


what about one of those big long metal songs...that would be pretty good...like pantera-cemetary gates or metallica - one