the Song at your funeral

[sidslotm]

Had to put this one in, play rocking robbin at my funeral :haha:

what song do you want played at your funeral, they come round quicker than you think, heh :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

Never gave it much thought really :hmmm:

[MaddogK]

'Sucker in a 3 piece'
-Van Hagar

[Herr-Berbunch]

America's A Horse with no Name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

[Hottentot]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05fYDwpFPEY)

Liberal translation from Finnish lyrics:

Today is a lucky day
No sign of trouble
Today is a lucky day, and I'm happy

I could never be happier
Never, never
Never happier
Than today I could be

If sometimes sorrow troubles you
It troubles, it troubles
Then you can dig the earth
And drown the troubles

Today is my lucky day
No sign of trouble
Today is a lucky day, and I'm happy

Remember a friend
And the trouble goes away
You can surprise the other [friend]And if those idiots I call friends are my friends at all, they will make sure that only the first three verses are being sung while burying the coffin.

[frau kaleun]

Doesn't have to be this version, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmfW7EGAcig

Yes I know it's long but if I'm gonna be dead forever the least people can do is sit still for 25 minutes. :O:

[BossMark]

Leeds United-marching on together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkENv73GtXA

[Sailor Steve]

I plan on being cremated and having no funeral. People who remember me can do what they like.

[Howard313]

Goodbye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzkbiFDIMxM)

Not the title, but it could be.

[Sailor Steve]

On reflection, I wouldn't mind them playing this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdfkdVmmLeA

[Armistead]

I plan on being cremated and having no funeral. People who remember me can do what they like.

I agree, funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living, not to mention it's big business. It seems funerals are often the only time you see family after many years. After the last one I attended I wrote this lil poem.

Buried Alive

Now that I'm dead, friends gathered round
The pastor speaking was finally found
He was a "good man" someone had said
but I only hear it now that I'm dead

They all gather at my last place
They all walk by and stare at my face
"He looks so good" I know this is true
Dead that I am, I look better than you

Lying here getting dirt thrown in my face
as in life, even death's a disgrace
I watch them all and with a sigh
for them to hug, did I have to die


Marg hugs Bill, "Good to see you, dear"
"How long has it been,".... merely ten years
Ten years she cries "How can that be"
then kisses another, oh watch how she flees.

The farewells have all been said.
I guess I'm alone here, finally dead.
Back to your lives, wherever they be,
soon they will be looking at you,

not looking at me.

[Jimbuna]

I went to a cremation recently and Stairway To Heaven was played at the end of the service.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKg4g9zMeHI

[Sailor Steve]

Very nice. "He looks so nice" reminds me of an old Bill Cosby skit: "'Doesn't he look like himself?' If I laid on my bed and looked like that they'd say' Oh my God, we thought you were dead!'"

[antikristuseke]

I'd have this played just to annoy everyone one last time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iSRr3ZuLL8

[Sailor Steve]

You are and evil, twisted young man. I like that. :sunny:

[Penguin]

depends on my mood...:doh:

either this, which is also my birthday song:
Mojo Nixon - You Can't Kill Me ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFz6AYB0h4)
why invent a new melody when there is already a good, fitting one (The song goes to the melody of Amazing Grace)

or that
EA80 - Balsam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCY4-h88xEA)
just a wonderful song, helped me to cope with much pain

I think both shall be played.

[kiwi_2005]

It would have to be some lively up song that will make everyone at my funeral happy. Ive told family I don't want people to mourn for me I want them to enjoy my death and party in celebration of my passing. Bury me then go home and have a big feast and party hard. They must stick to how I want my funeral or I will come back to haunt them for the rest of their lives if they don't!:stare:

I think Bob Marley's song 'lively up yourself' would work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJDMaAb1gsc&feature=related

[flatsixes]

Ry Cooder's "See You In Hell, Blind Boy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Km1gSuDzN8)
(Only, to avoid any unnecessary discomfort, I would probably want it listed as something a little less jarring, like "There's Too Many Saints In Heaven So They're Sending Me Back.")

[razark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFIXsrjkXI


Cause if I'm having that bad a day, everyone else should, too.

Edit:
And I want it on bagpipes!

[Penguin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFIXsrjkXI
Cause if I'm having that bad a day, everyone else should, too.

Edit:
And I want it on bagpipes!

:haha:

Sadly, I could not find a bagpipe version of this song online, I tried all name variations, nothing came up...:cry:
But I see this as a quest, next week I will look into the archives at work. There must be a lunatic somewhere who played and recorded this song on bagpipes. Don't die before we found it, man!

[Bubblehead1980]

Never really thought about it but I have several songs that would be played...


Con te Partirohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrfvP11Hbo


Danny Boy


Walking to New Orleans:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGWhqmF9RI

Finally:Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture(Finale)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ

[Alex]

Anything that would make most people happy.

[frau kaleun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFIXsrjkXI


Cause if I'm having that bad a day, everyone else should, too.

Edit:
And I want it on bagpipes!

As an added bonus, make anyone who doesn't get up and do the dance pay for his own drinks at the wake. :yep:

[razark]

Sadly, I could not find a bagpipe version of this song online, I tried all name variations, nothing came up...:cry:
I did a quick search, too.

But I see this as a quest, next week I will look into the archives at work. There must be a lunatic somewhere who played and recorded this song on bagpipes. Don't die before we found it, man!
If the bagpipes are unavailable, a live performance on this instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nGyPz9uT0
would be an acceptable performance.


As an added bonus, make anyone who doesn't get up and do the dance pay for his own drinks at the wake. :yep:
Just remember, the first two letters of funeral are "F U". :D

[Anthony W.]

Sandstorm - on loop.

And "Top Gun Anthem" at the burial.

And I want my showing to have an open bar.

Make it a celebration of life - not - well - a funeral.

[gimpy117]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek&feature=related

this is how i want my eulogy to be

[danasan]

something special

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fj4GCZyhL._SS500_.jpg (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbeyt2_maria-callas-la-mamma-morta_music)

[Highbury]

Anything that would make most people happy.

Agreed. That is why I want Walking On Sunshine. I hate the song myself, but put it on in a group and everyone smiles, laughs and dances.. even if they are all just taking the mic on the awful and overly cheery song :D

[sidslotm]

oh yeah, you can all sing this for me, and please keep in key:haha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMFHs5-22kM

[Castout]

There are a few.

None that would make people sad however. To me death is mission complete than game over.


However if anyone wants to raise eyebrows I think this will do just that. People will think God damn it he's not taking his own death seriously. :haha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAYhNHhxN0A

This one song came into mind mostly for its tune. It's the kind of tune I'd love in my funeral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM

And I love this song for its lyrics, right now it's probably what I'd like to play at my funeral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtFqQ1K0Ils

[TarJak]

We played "Always look on the bright side of life" at my father's funeral. I think I want something more up beat though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uyWAe0NhQ

[Paul Riley]

I think Vader's 'imperial march' will do nicely for mine :salute:

[Paul Riley]

Really though,I think a traditional viking burial at sea with flight of the valkyries would be brilliant! :arrgh!:

[Castout]

Really though,I think a traditional viking burial at sea with flight of the valkyries would be brilliant! :arrgh!:

I'd like my beloved grandmother to be entombed in a pyramid too next to Giza's. :O:

[Paul Riley]

I'd like my beloved grandmother to be entombed in a pyramid too next to Giza's. :O:

hahaha! fantastic! that would be great,off to Osiris we go! :arrgh!:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Just remember that the living have to continue to listen to the chosen song in the future, and it may become unbearable. I had a close friend die in '92 and he had Snap's Rhythm is a Dancer played, for the next decade whenever I heard it starting on the radio, or worse, in a pub/club I had to remove myself or I'd just burst :wah:, I'm a little better now.

Maybe better picking something awful.:03:

[HunterICX]

Quite easy and it's a fact...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-WasNzVpI

HunterICX

[Castout]

hahaha! fantastic! that would be great,off to Osiris we go! :arrgh!:


I mean this thread about the song we would like to play at our funeral and not to go about our fantasy on how our funeral should be.:O:

Frankly I don't care what would become of my body after I died. I mean I don't care at all. I used to want to be buried now I simply don't care. Chop it to pieces and feed it to the dog or anything simply don't care. Maybe a cremation. Maybe that HunterICX song from Queen would be fitting during my cremation.

[Stealth Hunter]

Stephen Eicher's Agnus Dei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1G-LKuwKY

[Castout]

Stephen Eicher's Agnus Dei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1G-LKuwKY


Very solemn and calming I like it. Conservative which is not necessarily bad and a good choice on that.

[Ducimus]

Dust in the Wind by Kansas.

Yeah i know, very cliquish :shifty:

[Torvald Von Mansee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA

Seems very appropriate for a funeral.

[MH]

Pull Me Under
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhfkfnbAMQ

[Thunder]

Highway to hell:D

[Arclight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY

Couldn't think of something more appropriate. Played as the last song, obviously.

[Ducimus]

This tune would work for me too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBgp5aDH23g

[Stealth Hunter]

Very solemn and calming I like it. Conservative which is not necessarily bad and a good choice on that.

I thought it was used very well in the opening of the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGYVHlYJIk

[TLAM Strike]

I don't care as long as they play it loud enough to wake the dead...


:O:

[sidslotm]

We played "Always look on the bright side of life" at my father's funeral. I think I want something more up beat though


Amazing, I like this

[antikristuseke]

I must change my original song to something worse, far worse, yet strangely more fitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A8_a--Ni4Q

[Penguin]

I must change my original song to something worse, far worse, yet strangely more fitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A8_a--Ni4Q


ay caramba! this is ... :o:o:o

would love to come to your funeral, just to have a look at the faces of the people when they hear this "song" :O: