This looks like a perfect time to recyle my post from Is a bumper sticker with “So Many Christians, So Few Lions” offensive?
I’ve got one!
How about Iggy Pop’s paen to heroin “Lust for Life” being used to advertise a family friendly cruise line.
What’s that?..You’re kidding me.
ELO’s I’m Alive would be interesting at a funeral.
If the deceased is being cremated, then perhaps Cat People (Putting out the fire with gasoline)?
My Aunt Doris requested that, at her funeral, the featured music should be “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Unfortunately, after my aunt died, those in charge of arranging the memorial services decided against honoring this request.
When I started getting into 78rpm records many years ago, one of my first was of the Hal Kemp Orchestra playing 2 songs written by some dude named Brooks Bowman.
Later I found out that both Bowman and Kemp died young in car accidents.
“Leavin’ on a Jet Plane” for a 9/11 Memorial.
“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” at a cancer clinic.
“Catch a Wave” at a memorial for Tsunami victims.
The opening of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” for **any **occasion.
My second cousin really did choose “I Will Always Love You” to play while the bridesmaids entered the church at her wedding. I guess she didn’t notice that it was a dumpin’ song.
“Mack the Knife” at a bris.
So I suppose I shouldn’t expet my request for Forward to Death to be honored?? Bummer. Guess I can’t die then.
I have already told my wife numerous times that I want this kid or someone very much like him driving the hearse at my funeral playing the song. I want people thinking “Fuck it, we laughed when he was alive!”
At Anwar Sadat’s funeral: I Love A Parade
We were asked, I kid you not, to play “Dust in the Wind” for a wedding song. Sheesh.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the title was in Gilmore Girls, probably season 3 or 4, when Rory has sex with Dean, and then the radio comes on. Dean asks her to change the song, so she puts on “Candy Man” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, declaring over his protesting that this will henceforth be “their song.” It’s kind of hard to explain, if you haven’t seen it.
Yikes. Was this a “shotgun wedding,” by any chance?
Before the SATs: Boy or Girl? by Electric Six
Suicide Hotline: Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
During an Amber Alert: Pre-Skool Prostitute by GWAR.
Ha-HA! Going to hell for that.
An outstanding commercial for Aiwa car stereos, that was.
My inappropriate suggestions would be at a wedding: Tammy Wynette’s D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Gin Blossom’s Can’t Call it Cheatin’ (She Reminds me of You), or Asleep at the Wheel’s This is the way you make a Broken Heart.
Last year, the Embassy where I worked got shut down for a week due to some rocket scientist sending in a letter full of talcum powder and sending us into an anthrax scare.
The first day officers were allowed back in I played “Another one btes the dust” REALLY loud until my boss told me to knock it off.
Or Faith No More’s “Edge of the World.”
Here’s a lyric:
“Just sit right down…lay your head on my shoulder
It’s not the point that I’m 40 years older
You can trust me…I’m no criminal
But I’d kill my mother to be with you”
Another wedding song…Weird Al’s “Good Enough for Now”
“I suppose I’m relatively lucky
That’s why my love for you is fairly strong
And I swear…I’m never gonna leave you, darlin’
At least ‘til somethin’ better comes along”
So, I was driving back from a study group for an AP chemistry test, when my cd player came to the song * The Test That Stumped Them All*