The title says it all really..what song would you have played at your funeral? Mine would be The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony...or maybe Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.. You?

The title says it all really..what song would you have played at your funeral? Mine would be The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony...or maybe Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.. You?

Amazing Grace , By a bagpiper

Slayer - Hell Awaits :P

Emotional: Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Hmm. I'm having trouble deciding on disturbing, amusing, and rousing songs. I'll come back with more.

Can't have just one song at a funeral you know. :D

Johnny Jump Up - Gaelic Storm

The Night Patrick Murphy Died - Great Big Sea

I'm not one for sadness at funerals

"Jamie Across the Water," by Boiled in Lead
"Sloop John B," by The Beach Boys
"Do You Realize?" or "Morning of the Magicians," by The Flaming Lips

AC/DC - Highway to Hell :D

It's a tough question. I'll be dead when the songs are chosen, so I can't really say what I want. They can just play traditinal suneral music. It might give me points in the afterlife. I don't think "Eulogy" by Tool would help.

Well I meant, what song you would request to have played...I was thinking, maybe a Leonard Cohen one - the future - any Leonard fans out there?

Leonard Cohen? How about Avalanche? Basically telling everyone at the funeral to piss of? :p

Wagner - OFortuna
Would make my grandparents get a heart attack and join me on the path to heaven or possibly hell after that :)

lol, I don't know Avalanche..but I think Leonard's suitably depressed for the funeral scene, and he is brilliant with his words..he's more likely to make everyone else wish it was their funeral instead of mine!

Ok start off with

R.E.M - It's the end of the world.

then into

Incubus - Nice to know you

then...

Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want.

followed by...

Rage Against the Machine - Beautiful world

then to counter that song

Coldplay - Don't panic

Then a recorded message by me for my wife followed by

Coldplay - Parachutes

and....

Coldplay - Scientist

and to end it all

Foo Fighters - Times like these....


and.....when my casket it being lifted to be buried or burned (take your pick)

Steve Vai - For the love of god.

During the funeral they should play Rage Against the Machine-"Beautiful World"
and during the burial they should play Incubus's ''Nice to know you"

Mozart's piano sonata KV 576.

Sargentlard,

Thou art a Coldplay fan?

Rammstein - Links 2 3 4

It's what I think life is all about. Doing things because you're told to do things. Just dragging your heels from one day to the next. We are all drones and death is the only escape.

Sargentlard,

Thou art a Coldplay fan?


Yes but I pick those songs because they describe best what I would want people to feel at my funeral.

They are a great band who sometimes put int owords what I tried many times. I still listen to them even I am getting into more and more metal.

Cintecele Diavolvi The Devil Must Kill. It's this song about how vampires have fun :D It goes along with this really light funny music :D

Whatever requiem that fits, as long as I like it during my life:)

Wagner

slipknot - wait and bleed
staind - yesterday
seether - fuck it
rammstein - nebel
hoobastank - crawling in the dark
deftones - digital bath

yep, pretty good lineup

"The Mother Earth Blues." It was written by Memphis Slim, a traditional pre-war bluesman (I suppose). The definitive cover is by the 1960s acid-rock band Mother Earth, Tracy Nelson's first singing gig. I find it very reassuring, reminding me that death is just part of the nature that I profess to be so fond of. I also appreciate the fact that it harkens back to the ancient "earth mother" religions that guided us for thousands of years before the patriarchal Abrahamic religions of the Middle East came along that now threaten to destroy us and our dear Mother Earth.

Well, you can high-hat me all the time
And you might never come my way.
Mother Earth is going to call you,
There's a debt you have to pay.

....I don't care how rich you are.
....I don't care what you're worth.
....When it all comes down,
....You've got to go back to Mother Earth.

You may have a billion dollars.
Your dog has his own Cadillac.
You may have enough money
To buy anything you lack.

....(Bridge)

I'm not afraid of dying.
Don't think it will cause me no pain.
No one who's gone over there
Ever came back to complain.

....(Bridge)

I also wouldn't mind having some NWA played at my funeral.

"Straight out of the Compton"

Good question...coz there are so many good songs

I think I would start with Iron Maiden - Die with your boots on

Then Burn baby Burn by D-ream

Knock on wood by Gloria Gaynor.

Then to finish i would go along with the sarge on the choice of some NWA possibly Hello or fuck the police.

On Derry Quay by Eamon Friel

I wouldn't mind if the people played ''Soil'' by SOaD at the funeral.

Hill of the Skull by Joe Satriani

Coldplay songs, definitely. The Scientist. A Rush of Blood to the Head. Amsterdam. Yellow. In My Place. Clocks. Green Eyes. They're all good!

I choose them because they are mellow. There's another reason, but I need some time to brood over it and put it in words.

Meanwhile, I'm sure the list will grow.

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M*W: I just saw this site and wanted to comment. I don't want a funeral per se. I'd just like to see my family gather with music and a barrel of ice cold beer, maybe a bucket of chicken, and party. The music I'd like played in remembrance of me is:

Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Come Sail Away - Styx
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Almost Heaven, West Virginia - John Denver

as my ashes are strewn on a mountain in Southern WV where I was born.

I don't want music played at my funeral. I'd rather everyone sit there in absolute silence and feel uncomfortable. :D

In all seriousness though, what can a song convey at such a time? You're already dead so what do you care? It's not as though you're going to be listening to it, now is it? You think a song can represent what or who you were in life?

Hmm.. maybe silence would be the best thing for me. It would be a sign that I finally had some peace and quiet. :)

Iron and Wine - Such great heights

Well since I'd be dead, probably "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles so all the nearby buried dead people can hear, or have someone toss my cremated remains into the air and play "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. :p

- N

Ok. Having thought about it a little bit, I've found the song I'd probably get a perverse pleasure at the thought of it playing at my funeral... :)

"Every Breath you Take" by The Police... Imagine the words if you please...


Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take

I'll be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay

I'll be watching you

Oh can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake

I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake

I'll be watching you

:D

How about "You make my pants wanna get up and dance" by Dr. Hook?
Funky!

I'd just put Appetite For Destruction on loop throughout. And maybe "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits, for contrast.

Feed me to the Forest – Blood Brothers (They scream. A funeral should start with power chords and screaming.)
Sheep go to Heaven - Cake (It's ironic, upbeat and... they play horns)
Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk (Because one should rock out to robot music from other planets at funerals)
Break on Through - The Doors (cause the song rocks, and has something to do with death or sommat)
Glass Danse - The Faint (more dancing)
Cowboy Dan - Modest Mouse
May the Living Be Dead (At Our Wake) - Flogging Molly (Irish dancing music about funerals.)
If I died in a shootout with cops– I Fought the Law cover by Greenday
Bring the Pain - Mindless Self Indulgence (Rap metal totally rocks, and MSI was way more hardcore than Limp Bizkit)
Teeth Like God's Shoeshine – Modest Mouse
All Apologies - Nirvana or the Apologist – R.E.M. (Gotta say you're sorry, yeah?)
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
Goddamn the Light - The Thermals (loud guitar, messy drums and shouting)
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead (fabulous song, plus I've been disappeared pretty good)

smack my bitch up - the prodigy
nothing - meshuggah
mmm bop - hanson

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall

Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting.

Graveworm - Nocturnal Hymns,
such a beautiful song.
Here's a sample from their website -> http://www.graveworm.de/sound/6-4.mp3

More SOngs randomly played thoughtout the funeral.....
GNR- Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle.
And If my ashes were shot into space then they would have to play Stairway To Heaven.

Anything with gratuitous use of the word "nigger".
I want people looking at eachother and shrugging as I pass into the next life.

^^^LOL

As for me, let there be a giant trance mix blasted out live like a rave scene.

Suites my musical taste. And it would make things lively as opposed to sad (gulp).

Don't Go- by Yaz
She's Gone- by Hall & Oates
Down Under- by Men at Work

Don't Go- by Yaz
She's Gone- by Hall & Oates
Down Under- by Men at Work

Down Under. One of my my favorite songs of all time. Men at Work are/were awesome. :)

:cool: Farewell my Friend from YANNI OR

Siberia by the Backstreet Boys :rolleyes:

Depends on how I died...

Good death-Looking Out My Back Door by CCR followed by Everything You Know is Wrong by Weird Al.

Bad Death-Paint It, Black by the Rolling Stones followed by American Pie by Don McLean.

Let's throw in Purple Haze in any case, just because.

Either "Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden" or something simple, like Taps.

Feel Good, Inc. - the Gorillaz

" whiter shade of pale" and the tombstone- 'what a long strange trip it's been"

"catholic school girls rule" - red hot chili peppers. im heading to hell anyway, so i might as well go with style

I am not planning on having a funeral.
Burn my body with as few people present as legally possible and toss my ashes out in the trash.
Since it is illegal to dump my naked body out in the woods to rot away, that's the next best option.
No party.
No headstone.
No taking up land.
It's not bad enough that we are all consumers and wasters of resources while we are alive, we want to continue this after death too?
Not for me.

Maybe the Ode "And die Freude", sung, by a large chrous, with full instrumental orchestra, and massive statue of me holding a scepter and a sword being raised over my grave.
That'd be grandiosely awesome!