What song should be played on your funeral?

[Moros]

I know you might not rather think about it, but I tought this was kinda interesting. Anyway songs I'd have on my funerals (if it were up to me ofcourse):

Goodbye cruel world - pink floyd
Black - Pearljam
Waiting on an angel - Ben Harper
And some more like those

Oh yeah On the end it would be nice if it was ended with always look on the bright side of life, Monty Python uncensored version.

[Andres]

:inquisitive:

Ok, I'll play along:

My way - Frank Sinatra
Sjeng oan de geng - de Nachtroave (polonaise!)
There ain't no party like an alcoholic party !
We are the Champions - Queen.

Some funeral, he ~:pimp:

[Reverend Joe]

:no:

I want to go out N'ahlans style. I forget what they call the marching band that plays at funerals (or they played at Ed Bradley's funeral, anyway) but it's a great big procession that marches about like a miniature parade, playing "When The Saints Go Marching In" with incredible fervor. If you were to see it from a distance, you would think it was a celebration, were it not for everyone being dressed in black.

Now that is the proper way to go.

[Moros]

:inquisitive:

Ok, I'll play along:

My way - Frank Sinatra
Sjeng oan de geng - de Nachtroave (polonaise!)
There ain't no party like an alcoholic party !
We are the Champions - Queen.

Some funeral, he ~:pimp:
And you are the one posting the inquisitive smily?
:no:

[drone]

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust :laugh4:

But it will probably be Amazing Grace on bagpipes. It's somewhat a tradition in my dad's family.

[IrishArmenian]

Amazing Grace on the pipes sounds great. That song was built for the pipes!
I would also have "The Wild Rover" with the lyrics.
"Fall Back Down"- Rancid.
"Story of my Life"- Social Distortion

[Moros]

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust :laugh4:

:laugh4:

[King Henry V]

http://www.douban.com/lpic/s1399751.jpg.

And Chopin's Funeral March on the way to the church/abbey/cathedral/mausoleum.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

My way - Frank Sinatra

Best funeral song ever.

[Sjakihata]

Bob Dylan - It's all over now, baby blue
The Internationale
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

[doc_bean]

:no:

I want to go out N'ahlans style. I forget what they call the marching band that plays at funerals (or they played at Ed Bradley's funeral, anyway) but it's a great big procession that marches about like a miniature parade, playing "When The Saints Go Marching In" with incredible fervor. If you were to see it from a distance, you would think it was a celebration, were it not for everyone being dressed in black.

Now that is the proper way to go.

Seconded !

Played by a brass band preferably.

[MSB]

When I die :fainting: I want to have a good, slow and miserable funeral march to be played by a brass band all the way through my funeral service. After my corpse leaves the church I want a violin player and an organist to play really sad music. Doom and gloom, yes, doom and gloom must be maintained throughout :san_grin:

[Mithrandir]

I want the crazy frog song.

Nah serious, I want 1 really short song, one 2 minute speech and then be done with it. Instead of flowers I want a party for all 4 people who will show up.

[MSB]

I want the crazy frog song.

Nah serious, I want 1 really short song, one 2 minute speech and then be done with it. Instead of flowers I want a party for all 4 people who will show up.
All four people. You're looky. Even my wife says she won't show up at my funeral :san_laugh:

[Pannonian]

Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A ****

[Lemur]

If I thought I could get away with it, I'd want to have It's Raining Men. That song is appropriate for every occasion, really.

[Don Corleone]

I want them to play the Chicken Dance. I want everyone liquored up and having a good time. It's hard for everyone to be moany and weepy with the Chicken Dance playing. Besides, when I met my wife at a Halloween party and kept bugging her to dance with me, that was the song she picked (to see how badly I wanted her phone number). :laugh4:

[Craterus]

My Way - Sex Pistols (Sid Vicious singing)

Lyrics are pretty spot on for the occasion. And it's more upbeat than the other kinds of *stuff* people usually play at funerals.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Albinoni's Adagio for reflection on mortality followed by Allegri's Miserere to uplift the soul to paradise.

Oh, and of course a live Pogues set for the wake :grin:

[Samurai Waki]

For Whom the Bell Tolls -Metallica

[Csargo]

Adam's Song-Blink 182

The Party Song-Blink 182

[Craterus]

Cretin Hop - The Ramones

just kidding

[AntiochusIII]

I just wanted six billion human beings to break down in tears for losing humankind's Greatest Hero; sixty millions to name their children after me. Six millions to convert to a religion that considers me it's One and Only True God and remain faithful forever; six hundred thousands to pray to my Saintly Soul every single day for the rest of their and their children's lives. Sixty thousands to suffer serious depression because of the trauma of my death. And six thousand or so to commit suicide in my honor, after sacrificing six thousand bulls each. Oh, and my legacy will henceforth be abused every single year in some sort of grand festival all over the world that has even more blatant commercialism than Christmas which could easily bankrupt Japan.

Who needs music?

Or I could, you know, just don't die. :balloon2:

[GoreBag]

If I thought I could get away with it, I'd want to have It's Raining Men. That song is appropriate for every occasion, really.

Good choice.

I don't really mind so much. People can spin what they want, so long as it doesn't suck. Heavy Metal Samurai would be sweet, though.

[Moros]

Or I could, you know, just don't die. :balloon2:
Well you've been doing a good job for now...
You still live do you?



Hello?


Tell me you are a live.



Now don't play tricks on me!



Hey this isn't funny, just say something.


Now don't think I believe you!


Come on just say something.


Oh please tell me you aren't dead.




Damn and now we don't know what songs we need to play. Anyway I'll take care of that you guys do the bull killling and commit suicide?

[Kagemusha]

Niin kaunis on maa.

[Beirut]

Fat Old Sun - Pink Floyd

[Motep]

All four people. You're looky. Even my wife says she won't show up at my funeral :san_laugh:

At least you wont be late!

I shall have them play freebird. And then I shall throw a party. Another good funeral song : Celebrate. Yup you heard me!

note: celebrate chosen for 2 reasons

[GeneralHankerchief]

I know you might not rather think about it, but I tought this was kinda interesting. Anyway songs I'd have on my funerals (if it were up to me ofcourse):

Goodbye cruel world - pink floyd
Black - Pearljam
Waiting on an angel - Ben Harper
And some more like those

Oh yeah On the end it would be nice if it was ended with always look on the bright side of life, Monty Python uncensored version.

Excellent tastes, sir. :bow:

As for me, I'd have Pachelbel's Canon in D played. That way everybody would think it's a wedding and get drunk. And then I'd have It's the End of the World as We Know It - REM played.

[Soulforged]

Without a doubt it will be "The Script for my Requiem" by Blind Guardian.

Here are the lyrics:

Hallowed be the fatherland
God he knows
How long I'd been away
From here I did start for the search so
Full of disease
I still hear my cryouts
From the old cellar's inside

Born in the days of medieval
My inner voice
Is always asking why

I came from nowhere
Without a task, without a name
No fear of evil
Fate, so god please lead me through
Forgotten realms
Mysterious dreams
In sunless rooms I'd sworn
I'll finish that I started, once
I'll find my holy grail
In the holy land

Returning of the miracles
It's my own requiem
The jester's tears
They are inside me
Agony's the script for my requiem
Returning of the miracles
It's my own requiem
Is the script already written
Jester's tears I cry
Yes, I cry

I went out of my mind
In desert lands
Insanity's pawn
Out of control
Much long I've been isolated
From my thoughts
Enclosed by the leader's spell
Bewildered to march
As a glory knight
And I tried

Still I hear the scream of thousands:
"Crucify, crucify!!!
Take it all
Our gold, our homes, our life,
But we didn't kill your Christ!!
Reach out for your holy grail
Enslave us and make us
Your god's sacrifice!!

Returning of the miracles
It's my own requiem
The jester's tears
They are inside me
Agony's the script for my requiem
Returning of the miracles
It's my own requiem
Is the script already written
Jester's tears I cry
Yes, I cry

[SOLO]

Still I'm confused
If I was dreaming
Too late I realized
I'd been another fool
I pay the price

Returning of the miracles
It's my own requiem
The jester's tears
They are inside me
Agony's the script for my requiem
Returning of the miracles
It's my own requiem
Is the script already written
Jester's tears I cry

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I'd have to give this some thought, but:

For the procession
The Imperial March
(insert 18th/19th century Prussian march)

For the burial
Steh Auf! (Wenn Du Am Boden Bist) - Die Toten Hosen :laugh4:

For the service
Das Lied der Deutschen (all of it, especially the second stanza)
Boten Anna
Russian Navy Hymn
Master of Puppets - Metallica

[naut]

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Or

Moby Dick [How The West Was Won Version] - Led Zeppelin

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Ooh, the Tatooine theme from Star Wars would be pretty good as well. The one that plays when Luke is looking into the twin suns.

Bah ba dum, bum, buh ba dah bum...bah ba dum, buh ba dum ba da ba ba...

[Andres]

Bah ba dum, bum, buh ba dah bum...bah ba dum, buh ba dum ba da ba ba...

:inquisitive:

Eh, sounds nice

:inquisitive:

[Zalmoxis]

Why not Last Exit by Pearl Jam? I bit strange but it works.

[Quietus]

At least "The Heathen" - Bob Marley & the Wailers. :skull:

Explosive version --> "The Heathen" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phjxvEIUCbE) (Amandla Festival)

Second song from the clip (after "Crazy Baldheads"). Best chant ever.

[Moros]

I'd have to give this some thought, but:
Boten Anna

:help:

[Stig]

I don't want some sad funeral

Monty Python - Always look on the bright side of life, it is for me
Now we're on funerals, I would also prefer speeches as they had on Graham Chapmans funeral, not sad, but happy and funny, it's not like the end of the world you know

[King Henry V]

I don't want people to be happy to my funeral; I want them to be sad that I'm dead and gone!

[Dutch_guy]

:help:

He probably wants to take as many with him as he possibly can...

:balloon2:

[Reverend Joe]

I don't want people to be happy to my funeral; I want them to be sad that I'm dead and gone!
That's horrible luck, not to mention being awful to the people at the funeral.

The only proper funeral is a celebration, the last chance you have to be happy with someone.

Hence the New Orleans brass band playing "When The Saints Go Marching In."

[Fragony]

'Is that all there is' by Peggy Lee.

or the emperial march.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

He probably wants to take as many with him as he possibly can...

:balloon2:
If I wanted that, I'd play DotA. :laugh4:

Or Dragostea Din Tei :eeeek:

[Moros]

He probably wants to take as many with him as he possibly can...

:balloon2:
I guess so...


Or Dragostea Din Tei
:egypt:

[IrishArmenian]

That's horrible luck, not to mention being awful to the people at the funeral.

The only proper funeral is a celebration, the last chance you have to be happy with someone.

Hence the New Orleans brass band playing "When The Saints Go Marching In."
Agreed. Funerals are celebrations of someone's life.

[Mithrandir]

I don't want people to be happy to my funeral; I want them to be sad that I'm dead and gone!

I make people sad enough by living, better serve them a party as a farewell.

I'd make a nice looking stripper (one from the babethread preferably) come out of my coffin and do a little show for everyones entertainment.

After that Irish coffee and spacecake for everyone.

[Talbot]

I want the following at my funeral:

Hallowed be thy Name - Iron Maiden
Just Killing Time - Black Label Society
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python

[DemonArchangel]

Songs:
More Time to Kill or Vigil by the band Lamb of God

[doc_bean]

This thread reminds me, I'd better make an actual list someday, since I have an aunt who likes to select 'appropriate' music for family funerals, and i'd hate to think what she'd have playing at mine :embarassed:

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Comfortably Numb yet (Floyd version of course), I'd like that to be the opener I think.

Hmm, I've been looking for a good version of when the saints go marching in but can't find one, they're always upbeat from the start. I was at a concert last year where they played a version that started very slow and sad and then for the last minute or so picked up the pace, it was pretty amazing...

[MSB]

I make people sad enough by living, better serve them a party as a farewell.

I'd make a nice looking stripper (one from the babethread preferably) come out of my coffin and do a little show for everyones entertainment.

After that Irish coffee and spacecake for everyone.
:san_laugh: :san_rolleyes:

[Hepcat]

I was at a concert last year where they played a version that started very slow and sad and then for the last minute or so picked up the pace, it was pretty amazing...

That actually sounds like a piece which we played in the Rotorua Symphonic Band which was called 'At a dixieland funeral' and started off morbid and ended up with when the saints go marching in.

As for me, not sure (far too many possibilities). But maybe something like:
I'll Be Around - Cab Calloway
Into the West - From the LOTR
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me - Duke Ellington
Don't Get Around Much Any More - Duke Ellington
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Touriste d'une Vie - Paris Combo
Attraction - Paris Combo
Dombıra 1 (the only details I know about the song)
Cottage in the rain - Fats Waller
Toulouse - Claude Nougaro
Tu Verras - Claude Nougaro
Abi Gezunt (A Bee Gezindt) - Cab Calloway
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - Georges Guetary/George Gershwin

hmmm...
I had better stop there before I get too carried away. Maybe I should just turn my funeral into a music appreciation session since there is no way I would be able to narrow the music playing list to any less than 2 hours.
:juggle2:

[Craterus]

Dead! - My Chemical Romance

[Csargo]

Songs:
More Time to Kill or Vigil by the band Lamb of God

And I thought no one listened to Lamb of God.:guitarist:

[Talbot]

I would add Vigil by Lamb of God onto my list. Have the end bit playing as my coffin burns. (In fact there it is in my signature.)

[Reenk Roink]

Black - Pearljam

Alive by Pearl Jam... :laugh4:

[InsaneApache]

I decided to go go for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hQnBUcJB3s

Closely followed by this for my offspring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxcRYd8icr8

[Strike For The South]

Anything by Skynyrd

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Some excellent suggestions.

If I was feeling Puckish, I might go for "Last Show" by Reel Big Fish.

I'd probably like what the Reverend Gonzo suggests.

[IrishArmenian]

Excellent choice, Alexander.

[Abokasee]

Mines probally gonna end-up being a Long silence some ramdom ass song, then they drive and completely forget I exsited

I've always liked: I dunno really never have been a fan of music to be honest

[Mooks]

I went to a funeral for my aunt once. Never knew the lady, but I played along and didnt speak the whole time. Didnt really get the point of the whole thing. She is dead, no point in crying over it (My uncle actually was drinking a beer during the powerpoint video). I hope my funeral is not like that, maybe a speach going over my achievements (Hopefully a long and glamorous list), distributions in the will, and then put 6 feet under; no point in crying.

[Justiciar]

I don't want music at my funeral. I want the woefull wailing of crowds, a ten minute silence, and a great big murral of my ugly mug plasterred on every street corner! :wacky:

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I don't want music at my funeral. I want the woefull wailing of crowds, a ten minute silence, and a great big murral of my ugly mug plasterred on every street corner! :wacky:
You want to die in the service of the IRA? :inquisitive:

[marcusbrutus]

Always look on the bright side of life

[Samurai Waki]

I think perhaps that after my death, they'll throw a huge parade, celebrating and cheering, old ladies with a tear in their eyes, and the Children will come out to play tiddly-winks or whatever the blast kids play with these days. Then they'll encase my body in Carbonite, and then they'll encase my already Carbonite Encased Body in Concrete and soak that in a bath of Molten Iron. After the Iron is cooled, they'll put my tomb aboard some ship, sail it somewhere off the Coast of Java, and detonate it. Hopefully sinking me with the ship.

[Somebody Else]

Lots of ABBA, throw in a bit of Britney... uh, that crazy frog thing too. Stick in a few other things that have had the tempo ramped up to an exceedingly annoying level. Oh, and the volume has to be deafening.

What?

I'm not around to hear it, what do I care?

[Mooks]

I think perhaps that after my death, they'll throw a huge parade, celebrating and cheering, old ladies with a tear in their eyes, and the Children will come out to play tiddly-winks or whatever the blast kids play with these days. Then they'll encase my body in Carbonite, and then they'll encase my already Carbonite Encased Body in Concrete and soak that in a bath of Molten Iron. After the Iron is cooled, they'll put my tomb aboard some ship, sail it somewhere off the Coast of Java, and detonate it. Hopefully sinking me with the ship.


Or better yet, launch the tomb straight too the moon!