music at your funeral

[Richie]

So what would you like to be played...

mine is

1. Send in the Clowns
2. Comfortably Numb : Pink Floyd, The Wall
3. The Show Must Go On : Pink Floyd, The Wall
4. Fire....
5. I Started A Joke...
6. The Age Of Aquarius...
7. Eclipse :Pink Floyd, Dark side of the moon.


Just read anther post and thought of what was played at my Grandads funeral,

From The Film Ali. "The World's Greatest - R. Kelly"

[Anonymous]

1. F*cking Ada (Ian Dury)
2. You won't find another fool like me
3. Deck of Cards (Wink Martindale)

[squirrel_hunter]

Dropkick Murphys - Amazing Grace

As I go straight down to Hell :twisted:

[$i]

I want the theme tune to countdown as i'm lowered down. Seriously! :lol:

[Stig]

Personally, if I had my way, I would want my body thrown onto the nearest bonfire and have done with it.

I would not want to be buried and have people visit my grave, wasting their time talking to a piece of stone and a few bones under the ground. Or being cremated and having my ashes stuck in a pot on the mantle-piece. What a waste of time that would be.

Just get on with life and remember the good times. Spend the money that it takes to dispose of my body (in whatever way) on something that they have always wanted but couldn't justify spending the money.

If music was to be played, then I guess it would have to be "Don't Worry, be happy by Bob Marley, with everyone sharing around the biggest hugest joint.

[Grinch]

I want to be cremated and blown out of a exhaust in to the wind on the top of Porstdown Hill...

I haven't really thought about the music for it... maybe the noise of a nice v-twin would be enough.

[Anonymous]

Personally, if I had my way, I would want my body thrown onto the nearest bonfire and have done with it.

I would not want to be buried and have people visit my grave, wasting their time talking to a piece of stone and a few bones under the ground. Or being cremated and having my ashes stuck in a pot on the mantle-piece. What a waste of time that would be.

Just get on with life and remember the good times. Spend the money that it takes to dispose of my body (in whatever way) on something that they have always wanted but couldn't justify spending the money.

If music was to be played, then I guess it would have to be "Don't Worry, be happy by Bob Marley, with everyone sharing around the biggest hugest joint.

:lol: :lol: That one paragraph says volumes about how fun loving and laid back you are Ape. Great insight into your mindset. Does sound like a great way to go though.



Me personally,

1. Knocking on Heavens Door - G'n'R
2. Sweet Child O Mine - G'n'R
3. Something lively that makes them smile with the irony and laugh at the memory.

thats as far as ive got with the planning.

[Sudoxe]

Allways look on the bright side of life - Monty Python

[tricky]

I always fancied the the burning viking longship funeral.

As for the music its got to be Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Polka Dot Bikini by Timmy Mallet..

[Halonic]

Asleep - The Smiths
Halfway down the stairs - The Muppets

[Skip]

Dont you (forget about me) - Simple Minds 8)

[Mutley]

Personally, if I had my way, I would want my body thrown onto the nearest bonfire and have done with it.

I would not want to be buried and have people visit my grave, wasting their time talking to a piece of stone and a few bones under the ground. Or being cremated and having my ashes stuck in a pot on the mantle-piece. What a waste of time that would be.

Just get on with life and remember the good times. Spend the money that it takes to dispose of my body (in whatever way) on something that they have always wanted but couldn't justify spending the money.

If music was to be played, then I guess it would have to be "Don't Worry, be happy by Bob Marley, with everyone sharing around the biggest hugest joint.

I totally agree, once you have popped your cloggs that's it. Personally, science can have my body to do with what they wish. I am more than happy to be put in the brown wheelie bin and go out to compost. However, if they burn me I want the music to be Come on baby light my fire 8)

[Ceri JC]

Nannou2 by Aphex Twin (very sombre piano piece) as the coffin is carried in and lowered, then, as the doors to the incinerator shut, something silly and jolly, probably The Beatles' "Ob la di, Ob la da", as party poppers go off, to cheer everyone up a bit before they leave. :D

[thor]

BigApe, you could have your ashes scattered? Like, from a firework? ;)

[Cloggsy]

Don't want a church service TBH :!:

Don't want a coffin, like BigApe said, find the nearest bonfire :!:

As far as music goes...

"Goodbye my Lover" James Blunt
"Back in Black" AC/DC
"All Time Love" Will Young
"Funeral Pire" The Jam
"Hells Bells" AC/DC
"Violently Happy" Björk

[Skip]

"All Time Love" Will Young
No offence meant Clive, but :shock: are you trying to keep people away! :lol:

[Cloggsy]

"All Time Love" Will Young
No offence meant Clive, but :shock: are you trying to keep people away! :lol:

As far as the tune goes, I like it TBH :wink:

[Skip]

"All Time Love" Will Young
No offence meant Clive, but :shock: are you trying to keep people away! :lol:

As far as the tune goes, I like it TBH :wink:
Each to their own mate... :wink: :lol:

[cosmiccharlie]

3. Deck of Cards (Wink Martindale)[/quote]

Blimey that take's me back, Had that at my Dad's funeral

my shortlist would be maybe

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd,
The Doors - Break on Through / Summers Almost Gone
You'll Never Walk Alone - Rodgers and Hammerstein (Carousel) Rather than the football version,

Or if ive been really bad
Right next door to hell - G'n'R

[mysteryjimbo]

Highway to hell. AC/DC

Possibly not.....

Possibly...

November Rain - G'n'R
Ha Ha You're Dead - Green Day
Always Look On the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python's Flying Circus

A bit of a mix, with a touch of humour. :wink:

[wyrdness]

"Lay Me Low" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - possibly the most blackly humourous funeral song ever, and certainly the only rock song to contain the word "fluegelhorn".

They're gonna lay me low
They're gonna sink me in the snow
They're gonna throw back their heads and crow
When I go

They're gonna jump and shout
They're gonna wave their arms about
All the stories will come out
When I go

They will interview my teachers
Who'll say I was one of God's sorrier creatures
There'll print informative six-page features
When I go

They'll bang a big old gong
The motorcade will be ten miles long
The world will join together for a farewell song
When they put me down below
They'll sound a fluegelhorn
And the sea will rage, and the sky will storm
All man and beast will mourn
When I go

[northwind]

I'm having Do You Realise by the Flaming Lips...

"Do you realise, that everyone you know one day will die
and instead of saying all of your goodbyes,
let them know you realise that life goes fast,
it's hard to make the good times last
Realise the sun doesn't go down
it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round"

Plus, there's a Biffy Clyro song called Hope For An Angel that's 9/10 touching ballad about a dead friend, with the last 1/10 total sonic murder with extra screaming. Just because it'll make everyone at the service **** themselves.

[_Stretchie_]

Is there a song titled

"I've left you with loads of debt...... Sorry"

:?:

[Blue Flame]

It has to be:-

The Jam: Going Underground for me. :wink:

[Halonic]

Nannou2 by Aphex Twin (very sombre piano piece) as the coffin is carried in and lowered, then

damn fine, reminds me, really should Avril 14th to my list

[Stingo]

'Since I've been loving you'
'In my time of dying'
& 'Babe, I'm gonna leave you'

Led Zeppelin - imitated but never bettered. Great stuff.

[Ed]

'Somewhere over the rainbow' from The Wizard of Oz. I can still picture Judy Garland singing it on the film.

and - coz I'm a believer - 'I know that my Redeemer liveth' sung by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

[Supervox]

I want to be cremated & have my ashes scattered at sea; as for music :-

(1) Affirmation - Savage Garden

(2) Where Do I Go ? - Hair (the musical)

(3) Freebird - Lynrd Skynrd

[northwind]

I want to be cremated

The Ramones? :)

[wyrdness]

I want to be cremated

The Ramones? :)
:D :D :D

[tricky]

I want to be cremated

The Ramones? :)

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be cremated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be cremated
Just get me to the embalmers put me in a box
Hurry hurry hurry before I go i like rock

I'll get me coat.....

[Anonymous]

Is there a song titled

"I've left you with loads of debt...... Sorry"

:?:

Money for Nothing - Dire Straights... close enough!?

[mac]

Good Riddance (Time of your life ) - Green Day

[Balky001]

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

I was only Joking - Rod Stewart

Flight of the Valkyries - Wagner

[Anonymous]

Flight of the Valkyries - Wagner

Shome mishtake there, shurely..... :lol: :lol: :lol:

You can have Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) or Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov). :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'd go for the Bumblebee one personally (but then I have the fast yellow curvy, with a set of yellow and black leathers...................and I'm a fat *******!)

[Nexus242]

I'd be quite happy with a mix of Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, Bel Canto, Front Line Assembly, The Fixx and Sarah Mc Lachlan. I may die in the next decade or so but I'm still stuck in the 80s to earl 90s.

:)

[Balky001]

Flight of the Valkyries - Wagner

Shome mishtake there, shurely..... :lol: :lol: :lol:

You can have Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) or Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov). :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'd go for the Bumblebee one personally (but then I have the fast yellow curvy, with a set of yellow and black leathers...................and I'm a fat b*stard!)

You know, my German was never really very good! :lol:

[Biker Biggles]

I'll be going up to the"spirit in the sky",Norman Greenbaum.
Also "stairway to heaven"(No,not Rolf Harris)and "Won't get fooled again" :lol:

[medwaysv]

bon jovi-dead or alive

[madmal]

cremated, mixed into hundreds and thousands and sprinkled on all those orrible kids icecreams.

highway to hell....acdc

stairway to......led zep

banana splits theme tune :P

[Treacle]

There has been some top tunes posted so far ie Aphex twin ect. But for me it has to be Orpheus by David Sylvian.

[lynw]

Bon Jovi - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Manowar - Heart of Steel
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls

:)

[Biker Biggles]

Oh and I forgot Sympathy for the devil and Dead Flowers by Sir Mick and the old stagers. :lol:

[Lissa]

I don't believe in God, so no religious stuff for me.

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

Bed of Roses by Bon Jovi

My Sacrifice by Creed

Then they can either send me into the fire or drop me in the pit to the O Fortuna Chorus from the Opera Carmina Burana...................otherwise known as the Old Spice music :D

[wyrdness]

'Since I've been loving you'
'In my time of dying'
& 'Babe, I'm gonna leave you'

Led Zeppelin - imitated but never bettered. Great stuff.

Ah yes, "Since I've been loving you" - possibly Zep's most under-rated song and one of my all-time favourites. Maybe I'm just an old hippy at heart!

Which reminds me - I'd also like "Colours of a Shade" by Robert Plant (from his stunning solo album "Fate of Nations").

[Richie]

just had another tune pop into my head,

Bruce Dickinson, Darkness be my friend...
got it on 7" vinel somewhere, b-side, got it from a Jukebox back in 1990

[tinpants]

Processional in: Creed, Bullets.

Following the reading: Ian Dury, Reasons to be Cheerful pt3

Processional out: Limp Bizkit, Behind Blue Eyes


And for the internment: Keane, Bedshaped.

8) 8) 8) :lol: 8) 8) 8)

Followed by the biggest ****-up in history. Celebrate the life, not mourn the death etc, etc!

[Richie]

Processional in: Creed, Bullets.

Following the reading: Ian Dury, Reasons to be Cheerful pt3

Processional out: Limp Bizkit, Behind Blue Eyes


And for the internment: Keane, Bedshaped.

8) 8) 8) :lol: 8) 8) 8)

Followed by the biggest p*ss-up in history. Celebrate the life, not mourn the death etc, etc!

The Who's version was the best... IMHO

[Jelster]

I have a couple of pieces of music that really bring back good times to me, when I was at school...

Do any thing you wanna do - Eddie & the Hotrods
Reward - Teardrop Explodes

Then there is the other side of my music taste, so when they walk out from the service I would like Unchained Melody by George Benson

.

[tinpants]

Processional in: Creed, Bullets.

Following the reading: Ian Dury, Reasons to be Cheerful pt3

Processional out: Limp Bizkit, Behind Blue Eyes


And for the internment: Keane, Bedshaped.

8) 8) 8) :lol: 8) 8) 8)

Followed by the biggest p*ss-up in history. Celebrate the life, not mourn the death etc, etc!

The Who's version was the best... IMHO

I like them both, but I would prefer Limp Bizkit at my funeral. TBH it was a toss-up between this and The Who's "I can see for miles" or "Who are you?" :wink:

[Professor]

An automotive theme would be appropriate at a biker's funeral.
Preferably songs describing horrible death in a crash. So here is my
pick:

Leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las),

Deadman's Curve (Jan & Dean),

Tell Laura I Love Her (Ricky Valence).

[Viney]

Death is not the end - Shut up and Dance
Straight out of Compton - NWA
Curtain Call - Eminem
Simply the Best - Tina Turner

[wyrdness]

Death is not the end - Shut up and Dance

Is that a cover of the Bob Dylan song?

In that case, I'd have Nick Cave's version with Kylie singing the line "When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men, just remember that death is not the end"

[Viney]

Death is not the end - Shut up and Dance

Is that a cover of the Bob Dylan song?

In that case, I'd have Nick Cave's version with Kylie singing the line "When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men, just remember that death is not the end"

No

[Stormspiel]

My dad has told me that he wants cremating and Prodigy Breathe & Firestarted playing at his funeral, and that it's fancy dress

[Richie]

I like them both, but I would prefer Limp Bizkit at my funeral. TBH it was a toss-up between this and The Who's "I can see for miles" or "Who are you?" :wink:

again more great tracks,
I also like "Rain on me" , from the Who, Quadrophina..
and "I'm Free" - from Tommy.

[argatxa]

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

:D

[Cloggsy]

My dad has told me that he wants cremating and Prodigy Breathe & Firestarted playing at his funeral, and that it's fancy dress

Brilliant :lol: :lol: :lol:

[BIKERBLOKE]

Mine would probably be Marooned by pink floyd but I would love to get away with the Ace of Spades by motorhead although I feel the vicar may object to the latter. :D

[Lionheart]

Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
Fade to Gray - Visage (when I go in the burner)

Oh, and maybe 'she f###ing hates me' - Puddle of Mudd

[kwak zzr]

i want everyone to stand quiet and think about how great i was!

[argatxa]

yeah right.....

:lol:

[Philbo]

Hi folks, not been on in a while.....

1 killed by death - Motorhead
2 No voices in the sky - Also by Motorhead.....OK so I'm a cynic!

[UlsterSV]

At my cremation;

Gold - Spandau Ballet
Disco Inferno - The Tramps

Won't be a dry eye in the house.