30 Day Song Challenge, number 24: a song that you want to play at your funeral

Not that I really care much about having a funeral at all, because I come from a small family and presuming I live a reasonably long time, I don’t think many, if any, people who ever knew me well are still going to be around by then anyway. But I’ll pick Nazareth - In My Time. It’s about being old rather than being gone, but the reflective lyrics are close enough to work.

“Thank You” by Gentle Giant

I know most people hate it and think it’s too maudlin, but I’ve always wanted this:

Which seems more apropos than ever these days.

I’ve actually thought about this, and I’d like ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’.
But I kind of prefer the instrumental version by David Lanz and Matthew Fisher.
Yeah, I know, blasphemy. :stuck_out_tongue:

Try Not to Breathe by R.E.M.

Oh, probably something like this. Or maybe this.

I remember a thread about this last year (no link, I’m too lazy), but my song would be Shirakuen (acoustic version) by Isshi, the former/late singer for the Japanese Visual Kei band Kagrra.

I don’t want to Rest In Peace, I want to Rock In Perpetuity, so Enter Sandman by Metallica. :smiley:

A little Groucho, I think.

Marcia Funebre Sulla con Morte d’un Papagallo – “Funeral March for a Parrot” – by Charles Valentin Alkan.

This is a hard one, but I think I’m going to go with [“Back to Autumn”](“Back to Autumn”) Tall Heights.

Send In The Clowns? I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal, You? … I won’t have a funeral, I don’t think. No one left to come to it, and the handful who do? I would hate to stick my daughter with a thousands of dollars bill for that small handful. If I DID have a funeral, I think The Long and Winding Road would be a nice melancholy tune.

Tom Waits, “Old '55” with a couple of minor lyric changes.

Let’s do that rockin’ live version of, Bang Bang, Out Go The Lights by Pat Travers.

Somewhere - the duet with Within Temptation and Anneke Van Giersbergen.

Absolutely powerful and amazing.

Highway to Hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKggnBh2Mdw

My answer, as always, is Yakety Sax. :slight_smile:

According to Kenneth Clark, it’s actually “Boom Boom”. You were probably thinking “Comedy ____ ____”.

“I Love the Dead” - Alice Cooper

Fourth movement from Mahler’s Ninth (which seriously curbstomps me, that one)

DeVotchKa - How It Ends

That or wild horses by Rolling stones.