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]

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

[Moros]

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

And you are the one posting the inquisitive smily?

[drone]

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

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

[King Henry V]

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

[Moros]

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

[Reverend Joe]

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.

[doc_bean]

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 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

[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

[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).

[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

[Samurai Waki]

For Whom the Bell Tolls -Metallica

[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.

[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.

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

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

[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...

Eh, sounds nice

[Moros]

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

[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

[Dutch_guy]

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

[naut]

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Or

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

[Craterus]

Dead! - My Chemical Romance

[Reenk Roink]

Black - Pearljam

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