NationStates Jolt Archive

I've already told my friends and family that 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen is a tune I want played :)

Without any doubt whatsoever,

Take My Hand, by Toto. It's the end credits theme to the original Dune movie.

I'm thinking "Another One Bites the Dust", also by Queen, for me, maybe as the coffin's being lowered into the ground...
JT

Who'll Stop the Rain ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again

All Doctor Strangelove-esqe. ^^ "Mein Führer! I can walk!"

Can't decide... either
"Always look on the bright side of life" - Monty Python
"Herald's Lament" - written by Mercedies Lackey
"Mummer's Dance" - Loreena McKennitt

I can't help but think it would be hilarious to have Highway to Hell by AC/DC playing xD

"Always look on the bright side of life" - Monty Python


The obvious choice if I was ever cruicified for some reason! In fact, that's not my funeral song, but my tortured-to-death song.

I would like 'The regent is dead' from 'Add N to X' ;)

Some Irish Punk Rock with very old whiskey for all, then some Bob Marley followed by my closest friends smoking the scrappings from my lungs.

Wow, dude. Look at the colors.

But then again I plan on living forever.

Master of Puppets by Metallica

"Spit it out" - Slipknot
"Eulogy" - Tool

I would tastefully request for The Snowman Song from Cannibal! The Musical to be played at my funeral.

I would tastefully request for The Snowman Song from Cannibal! The Musical to be played at my funeral.

"Shut the F*CK up Swan!"

Either a disco remix of the death march, or the Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine version of 'Get down with the Sickness'

I LOVE that movie :D When I was watching it, I got to the point of shouting "FFS! Just SHOOT that bastard!" and they did!

I have power! :D

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.

Some Eighties B-Line match box disaster

Well, since it will be a military funeral, I would like them to play some military marches. :)

I also want at least three bagpipers to play "Amazing Grace." No, I'm not "religious" at all, I just love the way the song sounds when played by bagpipes! :)

StarWars Imperial March, whilst the cofin is being removed from the church

Hmmm....maybe Insomnia by Faithless, just for the line 'I can't get no sleep'.
If I'm being cremated, it would have to be Fire by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - "I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you.....fire"
Seriously, probably some Manics...This Is Yesterday, or Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky. And possibly the Secret Machines' 'You Are Chains'

LOL. There are so many admirable choices here; I may have to make some additions to my line-up! In particular, the AC/DC song cited by Goed Twee :D

I reckon In the End by Linkin Park its got the right mood for a funeral. :sniper:

Shiny Happy People by REM.

Hippy Hippy Shake by Swinging Blue Jeans.

6 Underground by Sneaker Pimps.

Shihad - Envy

'You'll never walk alone' By Bryn Terfel.

Yeah, Queen would be good. "Don't stop me now" :D

Or "I'm Going Under" by Evenesance. :D

Great Balls of Fire would be good for a cremation

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again

All Doctor Strangelove-esqe. ^^ "Mein Führer! I can walk!"

I would have the Johnny Cash version myself, but the original is excellent also.

Possibly "In My Life" by the Beatles.

I would follow those up with "For the Love of Money" by the O'Jays to lighten the mood and fire up a soul train.

Or "Love Your Money" by Daisy Chainsaw.

I think I would play that at other people's funerals.

"Don't fear the Reaper" would be cool imo

Or "Deeper underground" would be quite funny

Great Balls of Fire would be good for a cremationNot 'Fire' by Bruce Springsteen or "I'm on Fire"

Or "I'm Going Under" by Evenesance. :D
LMAO. Could you imagine the look on all the old aunt and uncle's faces? :D

Dj Arcane - The Different Person

that is true music. :D

That's Life by Frank Sinatra

Kyuss, Welcome to Sky Valley...its in the middle of one 18 minute track, but they play them as seperate songs live. This part in particular.

"Don't try to take me away
Like I can't live without you
Today, makin' love tomorrow
Some way, swooping your so fragile
Died today, you disgraced the mortal

Fight me lately, tried to someone
We've been laughing since you've been gone
And I want to know, did you all enjoy the show?
It's so sad to see you go

And you know, you're my home
Alone, always on his own

Hangin' low today, I replace the highway
Love the only way, linking hands the wrong way
So unfair to see you go
It's so sad to see you go
I just thought I'd let you know

And you know, you're my home
Alone, always on his own...

Don't try to take me away, Like I can't live without you
Today
Makin love tommorow
So way
Swoopin' your so fragile
Died today
You disgrace the mortal

Find me lately
Tied to someone
We've been laughing
Since you been gone
And I want to know
Did you all enjoy the show
It's so sad to see you go

And you know

Hanging low today
I replace the highway
Love the only way
Linking hands the wrong way
So I bare to see you go
It's so sad to see you go
I just thought I'd let you know

And you know."

Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" followed by Jim Morrison's "The End"

One of my favorite childhood songs! :D


The worms crawl in the worms crawl out

First you're sick and then you're worse
And then it's time to call the hearse

They take you out to the family plot,
And there you wither, decay, and rot.

They wrap you up in a bloody sheet,
And then they bury you six-feet deep.

They put you in
the cold, cold ground
with all your relatives
standing around.

All goes well for about a week
and then your coffin begins to leak.
Your stomach turns a slimy green
and puss pours out like whipping creme.

The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms they crawl
all about

The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
They play pinochle
on your snout!

"Kite" by U2 (from All That You Can't Leave Behind)
or
"Besides You" by Queensryche (from Q2K)

...but then, "Space Oddity" by Bowie would be kinda cool, kind of like the "See ya later aligator" from the funeral in the first episode of Red Dwarf...


BTW: To the "Take My Hand" Dune choice - props!! I love that song.

StarWars Imperial March, whilst the cofin is being removed from the church
That's perhaps the most awesome idea I've heard.

Well, as my whole life is one big irony, I suppose it would only be appropriate to end it with the song "Stayin' Alive."

If I had a sense of humour, i'd recommend any of the following.
Going Under/Evanescence.
Another one bites the dust/Queen.
stayin' alive/?.
The first of the gang to die/Morrisey.
Always look on the bright side of life/Monty Python.
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.

"Congratulations" by Sir Cliff Richard just to increase the agony of the bereft. If I'm gonna have a funeral I want as much weeping as possible!

"Spit it out" - Slipknot
"Eulogy" - Tool
Some very quality music !
add to that
"people = shit" - slipknot


Actualy if i was going sappy maybe "November rain" guns and roses

or "Stairway to heaven"

But I usualy not in a sappy mood ... so anything heavy :)

If I had a sense of humour, i'd recommend any of the following.
Going Under/Evanescence.
Another one bites the dust/Queen.
stayin' alive/?.
The first of the gang to die/Morrisey.
Always look on the bright side of life/Monty Python.
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.

Stayin' Alive was originally by the Bee Gees.

A serious one - "Time" by Pink Floyd, anyone?

On the way into the church: "Highway to hell".

When I am being lowered in for cremation: "Burn Baby Burn".

On the way out of the church: The music from 2001 at the end of the film.

That would be perfect...

Stayin' Alive was originally by the Bee Gees.

A serious one - "Time" by Pink Floyd, anyone?
Also a good choice

That reminds me

"Blue skies" by floyd

Some very quality music !
add to that
"people = shit" - slipknot


Actualy if i was going sappy maybe "November rain" guns and roses

or "Stairway to heaven"

But I usualy not in a sappy mood ... so anything heavy :)

Slipknot - I always find it amusing that something that's supposed to be so anarchical should be named after something you might learn in the Boy Scouts.

I asked my dad to have "Stand Back" by Stevie Nicks played at my funeral. He talked me into having "Edge of Seventeen" instead. :rolleyes:

On the way into the church: "Highway to hell".

When I am being lowered in for cremation: "Burn Baby Burn".

On the way out of the church: The music from 2001 at the end of the film.

That would be perfect...

*Sings*

#Burn baby burn! Disco inferno! Burn baby burn!#

No cheesy shit at my funeral...

I'm thinking Sex Pistols & Weird Al Yankovic... And just have a really sucky funeral, so everyone would remember. That would be funny

What about "Relax" by "Frankie Goes To Hollywood"?

Slipknot - I always find it amusing that something that's supposed to be so anarchical should be named after something you might learn in the Boy Scouts.
Well ... I was in the boy scouts ... some reason they dident show you how to make a REAL slipknot (they had an aversion to nuses) lol

Well, as my whole life is one big irony, I suppose it would only be appropriate to end it with the song "Stayin' Alive."
Love that one!

What about the song from Fame as well - somewhere in there is a line where Irene Cara (I think it was) belts out, "I'm gonna live forever..."

Love that one!

What about the song from Fame as well - somewhere in there is a line where Irene Cara (I think it was) belts out, "I'm gonna live forever..." I think that'd work best if you performed a rather public criminal event first. I'm not encouraging you to.. it would just fit better.

I am having the worst time trying to think of the tune I want. I mean, I know it, I can hear it, but it has no lyrics. It's a very 70's kind of thing. Some light guitar, lots of horns. It's got the flow of a casual walk down the street downtown - like you'd expect to hear it in the opening credits of a cop show. It's quite frustrating.

"Livin on a prayer!" by "Bon Jovi"

I think that'd work best if you performed a rather public criminal event first. I'm not encouraging you to.. it would just fit better.

I am having the worst time trying to think of the tune I want. I mean, I know it, I can hear it, but it has no lyrics. It's a very 70's kind of thing. Some light guitar, lots of horns. It's got the flow of a casual walk down the street downtown - like you'd expect to hear it in the opening credits of a cop show. It's quite frustrating.

Shaft? :p

Shaft? :p
Hehe, not the theme song, but yes, very much in that vein. Without the cool Isaac Hayes voicework. Shaft came out in '71, I don't think the the tune I'm thinking of is quite that old. I've checked the Studio 54 soundtracks, it wasn't there, either. Wish I could remember which CD I've got it on, there's too many of them laying around here. I'll find it yet, it's been on my mind lately.

At first, I was thinking 'bout 'Allways look on the bright side of life' too but then everybody said that too and now I can't say it anymore!!

So what would I take instead??.........................Oh, oh, now i know it!

'The End' by The Doors. Perhaps my ashes can be sprinkled to the graveyard in Paris...next Morrison of course :cool:

Bananaphone. Nothing to do with a funeral, but it is a likely cause of death. So it could be argued that it is.

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banaphone (boo doo bee doo bee doo.)
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping, ponanaphone.....

Urgh, it's in my head again!

Sure enough, a handy one-hit-wonders site had it listed among a pack of others.

Pick Up the Pieces , Average White Band. Now I can rest happier.

Either....
Highway To Hell - AcDC
or
Duality - Slipknot
or
Heritic Anthem - Slipknot

Hells Bells - AC/DC

Jingle Bells, jingle bells......

The Benny Hill song!

24 hours of non-stop german style polka.

No eulogy, no speakers, and everyone must sit and listen to it.

24 hours of non-stop german style polka.

No eulogy, no speakers, and everyone must sit and listen to it.
Just because you're dead, doesn't mean that the people who knew and loved you have to suffer.

Just because you're dead, doesn't mean that the people who knew and loved you have to suffer.


What if it's their fault that I'm dead?

"Strangers When We Meet" by David Bowie
The entire Moody Blues album "In Search of the Lost Chord"

for all you ladies, I recommend "She's Dead" by Jim's Big Ego.

And finally, a selection of Johnny Cash, who most probably wrote the best music to die to ever. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire for a cremation, and a few others.

"Morning Train" by Shirley Easton

What if it's their fault that I'm dead?
I assume that if somebody killed you they probably wouldn't be invited to your funeral?

I assume that if somebody killed you they probably wouldn't be invited to your funeral?

They might have driven me to suicide?

Aretha - "Climbing Higher Mountains"

I assume that if somebody killed you they probably wouldn't be invited to your funeral?
Suppose it depends on the circumstances! Anyway, if they're gonna be miserable cos you're dead, might as well give them the chance to be miserable in style! Real tears of horror :D

They might have driven me to suicide?
Then write a last note saying that it is your dying wish that the person in question should listen to a tape full of the most horrifying music known to man. No reason to inflict pain on your poor parents/kids other people.

Then write a last note saying that it is your dying wish that the person in question should listen to a tape full of the most horrifying music known to man. No reason to inflict pain on your poor parents/kids other people.Yeah, get them a copy of any Britney Spears album. That should do the trick. :cool: