What song would play at your funeral?

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Inspired by the news item I read some time ago, which stated that some people have played "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" at funerals.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Replacements, "Left of the Dial"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Cure "Homesick"

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

u2's discotheque but nobody i know will do that favour for me.

― doom-e, Friday, 27 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

grateful dead - he's gone
dirty three - i knew it would come to this

oh yeah, and big black - kerosene

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

any takers for wham rap?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"You're Gonna Miss Me"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

'Days in the wake'- Palaca Brothers.
Playing while everyone is arriving.

'4 Violins' Tony Conrad.
No sermons, eulogies or flowers. Just my family and friends having to listen to this all the way through.

'I see a darkness' - Bonny Prince Billy (Whole album, not just the track)
Playing while everyone is leaving.

― neil, Friday, 27 June 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Boo Radleys "Lazarus" (despite the biblical reference, it is my most favourite song)
Tom Waits "Good Old World (Waltz)" - it's fitting and sad and it makes people cry.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"my foolish heart" by the bhundu boys

(see also
Death and Music -
and
funeral music )

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, id definately have the palace brothers record played also. oh yeah, id like a john fahey tune called joe kirby blues played too. anyone wanna swap funeral mix tapes?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I would play every record ever made. Starting with Kiss Alive II.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

trout mask replica

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend of mine went to a funeral where they played Indian Summer by beat happening which I think is a most excellent choice.

― neil simpson, Friday, 27 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

ah damn, yeah that too. everything neil has mentioned so far = just right for me.

how about rolling stones - dead flowers, or the townes van zandt version if you like...

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd so be down to trade funeral mix cds.

― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ah definately, sadly tomorrow i leave for a month long holiday, so i might miss out on this. what the hell am i gonna do without ilx to read?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Suicide "dream baby dream"

― DZ, Friday, 27 June 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

old-school baby, i'm going to have a brass band to roll with st. james infirmary.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

My answer for this, as it is for so many questions, is Peggy Lee singing "Is That All There Is?"

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Smooth Criminal.

Or "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands", just for the congregations benefit.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Basement Tapes', "Underneath the Apple Tree" (right, Matos?)

― avery_schreiber, Friday, 27 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Who Let The Dogs Out? - Baha Men

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

This!

("Ich spuck auf mein Grab" = "I spit on my grave")

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"killed by death" - motorhead

― cameron, Friday, 27 June 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

all of discovery by daft punk (clothing would also be banned from this "ceremony")

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 27 June 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Crash Test Dummies -- "At my Funeral"

Suicide - "Frankie Teardrop", or ALL of "23 Minutes over Brussels", just to entertain folks in the crowd.

or louis jordan, i guess.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 27 June 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

good funeral tunes:

"South Tacoma Way" - Neko Case
"Gone" and "Kite" - U2

and naturally

"Walking On Sunshine", just to end it all on an upbeat note.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Friday, 27 June 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Angel Band" (Stanley Bros version)

― bflaska, Friday, 27 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely we've done this before, no?

In any event...."Everybody Loves You when You're Dead" by Cop Shoot Cop and......WAIT FOR IT!...

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 June 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

if i was bitter at the ed of my rope it'd be all of metal machine music, just to get back at all of those dirty fuckers who never gave a bull's cock about me

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 27 June 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I have not a bull's cock to contribute, Felcher, I'm sorry, but if I come across one, I shall earmark it for you.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hstencil would be sad noone has mentioned this:

Dress Sexy at my Funeral- Smog

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd appreciate it. maybe you'll be given a discman at my funeral with your favorite killing joke album spinning in it.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Drake - "Saturday Sun"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 27 June 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus - Christmas on Earth, and
Black Dog - Chesh

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd have a mix-CD made to give to everyone who shows up

1. My Dad Is Dead - "Too Far Gone"
2. The Modern Lovers - "Astral Plane"
3. The Who - "Heaven and Hell"
4. The White Stripes - "Death Letter"
5. Spacemen 3 - "Walkin' With Jesus"
6. Uncle Tupelo - "No Depression"
7. Pixies - "Monkey Gone To Heaven"
8. Johnny Cash - "Long Black Veil"
9. The Cowboy Junkies - "To Love Is To Bury"
10. REM - "Hope"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Queen - Another one bites the dust

― Marc-, Friday, 27 June 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"When I Leave the World Behind" - Irving Berlin

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"Live Forever" - Billy Joe Shaver.
Not that I'm a Xian, I just love that song.

― skreddy57 (skreddy57), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

My pallbearers have been given specific instructions to just heave me onto a bank of synths and hope something awesome came out of it.

― gazuga (gazuga), Friday, 27 June 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

The Chameleons - Soul In Isolation

"I'm Aliiiive in here"

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Spinal Meningitis" - Ween

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

twelve years pass...

"I Believe in You" - Talk Talk. I am getting more and more obsessed by this song. Somehow it seems just perfect for a funeral as people listen so attentively and this song is so rich with so much love to detail. Additionally it must sound great in a church. With a real choir if possible. I'd like to see the faces of the people at my funeral when they listen to it.

― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 3 September 2017 17:03 (eight years ago)

Coil - Fire of The Mind. Some brought to tears by the sentiment of the song. Other brought to tears by memories of me boring them to tears going on about Coil. The way Balance sings "Holy, holy" as the electronics churn around him really does sound like the ascension of a soul.

― Dan.S., Sunday, 3 September 2017 17:55 (eight years ago)

i believe in you is a great choice.

got a few

aphex twin - rhubarb
lappetites - funeral
crimson n' clover

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 3 September 2017 18:46 (eight years ago)

rolling stones - bitch
motorhead - motorhead

― brimstead, Sunday, 3 September 2017 19:10 (eight years ago)

Sinead O'Connor - In This Heart

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 4 September 2017 18:17 (eight years ago)

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