# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 24: a song that you want to play at your funeral **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881 "2016-07-25T20:11:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/1 "2016-07-25T20:11:18Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hr9oxQJs14). It’s about being old rather than being gone, but the reflective lyrics are close enough to work. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/2 "2016-07-25T20:48:28Z")
**[“Thank You” by Gentle Giant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkbswzx38Dg)** ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/3 "2016-07-25T21:30:48Z")
I know most people hate it and think it’s too maudlin, but I’ve always wanted this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t_YXSHkAahE/maxresdefault.jpg "Imagine - John Lennon (Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YXSHkAahE) Which seems more apropos than ever these days. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/4 "2016-07-25T23:10:39Z")
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. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/5 "2016-07-25T23:25:57Z")
[Try Not to Breathe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RokyGRQP0no) by R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/6 "2016-07-25T23:36:38Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/507dNZIZFBc/hqdefault.jpg "Detention - Dead Rock 'n Rollers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=507dNZIZFBc) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/7 "2016-07-25T23:39:14Z")
Oh, probably something like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OKn0ybVQ7E). Or maybe [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qIBHStUc0). ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/8 "2016-07-25T23:53:52Z")
I remember a thread about this last year (no link, I’m too lazy), but my song would be [Shirakuen (acoustic version)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAO9fTK2KGU) by **Isshi** , the former/late singer for the Japanese Visual Kei band _ **Kagrra** _. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/9 "2016-07-26T05:01:16Z")
I don’t want to Rest In Peace, I want to Rock In Perpetuity, so _Enter Sandman_ by Metallica. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/10 "2016-07-26T05:30:18Z")
[A little Groucho, I think.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHihA1jfohE) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/11 "2016-07-26T05:51:16Z")
[Marcia Funebre Sulla con Morte d’un Papagallo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4gaU9YERv0) – “Funeral March for a Parrot” – by Charles Valentin Alkan. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/12 "2016-07-26T12:38:43Z")
This is a hard one, but I think I’m going to go with [“Back to Autumn”](“Back to Autumn”) Tall Heights. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/13 "2016-07-26T13:04:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/14 "2016-07-26T14:03:03Z")
Tom Waits, “Old '55” with a couple of minor lyric changes. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/15 "2016-07-26T15:58:58Z")
Let’s do that rockin’ live version of, _Bang Bang, Out Go The Lights_ by **Pat Travers**. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/16 "2016-07-26T16:31:52Z")
[Somewhere - the duet with Within Temptation and Anneke Van Giersbergen.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eqBmEO5MHE) Absolutely powerful and amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/17 "2016-07-26T20:15:25Z")
_Highway to Hell_ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKggnBh2Mdw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKggnBh2Mdw) ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/18 "2016-07-26T21:36:40Z")
My answer, as always, is [Yakety Sax](https://youtu.be/ZnHmskwqCCQ). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/19 "2016-07-26T22:36:38Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Let’s do that rockin’ live version of, _ **Bang Bang** , Out Go The Lights_ by **Pat Travers**. 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) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881/20 "2016-07-26T23:29:14Z")
[DeVotchKa - How It Ends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdaJQTJ9XPQ) That or wild horses by Rolling stones. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-24-a-song-that-you-want-to-play-at-your-funeral/760881.md?page=2)