# Music for a Doper's funeral **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 15, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154 "2003-12-15T17:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![stikfiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@stikfiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stikfiger)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/61 "2003-12-19T14:15:22Z")
I’ll most likely write my own song to be sung at my funeral, which will involve my body, wrapped in white linen, being dropped into a shallow hole in the middle of Texas hill country. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/62 "2003-12-19T18:37:31Z")
“Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds. Although “It’s The End of the World as We Know It” is pretty cool, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/63 "2003-12-19T20:38:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katiekilldare \* > \*\*_She Goes On_ by Crowded House. A little sad, but mostly comforting. > > Plus, it’s only appropriate Neil Finn have something to do at my funeral, one way or another. \*\* **katiekilldare** , that would have been one my choices, except that I’m a guy. Great pick. ---
**Author:** ![blasphmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/64 "2004-01-19T19:45:14Z")
Hmm… First for my funeral to start I want Gomer Pyle to sing Back Home Again in Indiana During the service Rose Tint My World Meatloaf’s Bat out of Hell Shakira’s Whatever, Whenever Ghostbusters Theme Cabaret Pure Imagination Ghost Riders in the Sky Roses Cantina Then, as my casket is whizzed down the aisle on a motorized deatkart I want the A-Team theme playing! And in the hearse ride to the cemetry (Fast F’ing drive speed limit or sl+5, I’ve never held up traffic in my life and I won’t start now) there’ll be an incecream man PA system playing Convoy and Eastbound and Down. And as a team of midgets lowers my casket into the hole, the oompa loompa song. (These aren’t necessarily my best/favorite songs, just ones I like that would fit) Oh and somewhere I’ve got to work in Blondie’s one way or another-cuz if anyone’s coming back ot haunt your ass it’s goin to be me. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/65 "2004-01-19T20:41:59Z")
As my coffin is borne to the grave, I want them to play “Rock n Roll Part 2” by Gary Glitter. I want the pallbearers to walk and sway in time to the music. As the coffin is lowered in, I want the Marine Hymn played. I wasn’t in the Marines, but I really enjoyed “Heartbreak Ridge.” Then at the reception afterwards, nothing but Beastie Boys, Tragically Hip, AC/DC, and some Michael Jackson songs from “Off the Wall” and “Thriller.” Also some Duran Duran, just to mix it up a little, a few selections from “Seven and the Ragged Tiger.” I am absolutely, 100% serious. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/66 "2004-01-19T20:55:46Z")
My only absolute request is bagpipes. _Amazing Grace_ is fine, but I don’t have to have that particular song. Just so long as there’s something on the pipes. And for the more somber part of the ceremony (mostly, I want to have a good ol’ Irish wake), I think that Bach’s _Komm, Susser Tod_ would fit nicely. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/67 "2004-01-19T21:30:32Z")
All in all, interesting choice of songs. However, I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned the song that I most would like to be performed at my own funeral… Monty Python’s _Always look on the bright side of life_ ! JoseB ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/68 "2004-01-19T23:28:44Z")
The one ceremony that you can be absolutely sure _you are not going to be alive for_ and you are trying to dictate what music is played! You people are so selfish 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/69 "2004-01-20T03:44:35Z")
**[Black Muddy River](http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/bmr.html)** by The Dead. If not that, then **[Dirt](http://maffetore.com/phish/song.html?s_id=148&a_id=10)** by Phish. ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/70 "2004-01-20T04:12:24Z")
I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned already… “Another one bites the dust”, anyone??? ---
**Author:** ![blasphmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/71 "2004-01-20T04:19:55Z")
Is it just me or does anyone else think it’d be funny for a chick’s funeral to have the benny hill song play while the pallbearers skitter around the church. Ok, so it is just me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/72 "2004-01-20T04:46:07Z")
> [@Already in Use](#): > > I wanted this song to be playing when they lower my coffin, but then I remembered I want a ship-burning Viking funeral (legality issues be damned), so they can play it when they set the boat on fire: the Spike Jones version of “Holiday for Strings.” What better song for a funeral than one with tuned cowbells and maniacal laughter forming the melody? I’d also like a Viking funeral. Musicaly,I’d like some Pogues, _The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn_ and _If I Should Fall From Grace With God_ at least. I don’t have a wife or kids so I can blow the life insurance on beer (Dopers welcome!) ---
**Author:** ![pinkus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pinkus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/73 "2004-01-20T04:55:38Z")
“Sugar Mountain” Neil Young “Sound of Silence” Tom & Jerry “Rust Never Sleeps” **Neil Young** "“Please don’t bury me” **John Prine** "Don’t Murder Me" **Greatful Dead** ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/74 "2004-01-20T05:02:05Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Avarie, by “This is My Story”, do you mean “Blessed Assurance”? (Chorus- “This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior All the day long.”) Yes, that’s the one! I’m not a churchgoer, so I figured someone would recognize it - thanks! ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/75 "2004-01-20T06:15:19Z")
> [@Belrix](#): > > _Amazing Grace_ - preferably on a bagpipe… Well, I was at a funeral two days ago and they played this. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/76 "2004-01-20T06:45:38Z")
amazing grace with pipe _and_ drum Metallica - Orion Grateful Dead - Black Muddy River Don McLean - Starry Night Jane Monheit - Somewhere over the rainbow Pink Floyd - Brain Damage/Eclipse **zoe, Gig was on The Wall** Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child John Lee Hooker - I cover the Waterfront Chris Cornell’s version of - Ave Maria Kurt Elling and Von Freeman - Goin to Chicago (off KE’s Live in Chicago) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Life by the Drop Bosstones - Rascal King ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/77 "2004-01-20T07:18:29Z")
> [@flight](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Belrix > > Amazing Grace - preferably on a bagpipe… > > Well, I was at a funeral two days ago and they played this. In Australia at least, Amazing Grace is one of the most [popular](http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/15/1037080898549.html) funeral songs around. (I’ve heard it at a number of funeral, including my mother’s.) ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/78 "2004-01-20T12:24:35Z")
> [@Gorgon Heap](#): > > Pearl Jam’s “I’m Still Alive.” > > 😉 😃 - I’d love to see their faces Gorgon Heap. I think you’d just have to laugh which I suppose might be a nice thing at a funeral. I know it’s clichéd but I think a live performance of Mozart’s Requiem would be cool - with really good choir and orchestra. Pity I wouldn’t be alive to hear it. That’s just fantasy anyway. In reality I’d just like something appropriately sedate and beautiful like a solo stringed instrument or something played by a family member or friend. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/79 "2004-01-20T13:09:13Z")
“My Way”, as belted out by Sid Vicious “If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God” by The Pogues “Always Something There To Remind Me” by Naked Eyes “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House “Here Comes The Sun” by Nina Simone “Troy” by Sinead O’Conner “Goodbye, Goodbye” by Oingo Boingo Theme song from the Pink Panther by Henry Mancini If I were female I’d also add “She’s Gone” by Hall & Oates. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154/80 "2004-01-21T00:27:44Z")
**buttonjockey** , Great Gig in the Sky is from DSOTM. It’s the last track on side 1. My songs: Allman Brothers Band - Jessica Dropkick Murphys - The Torch Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding Marshall Tucker Band - This Ol’ Cowboy Mouthwash - We Evolve Operation Ivy - Vulnerability (only if I die from being hit by a car) Pinhead Gunpowder - MPLS Song Pink Floyd - Us and Them The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (don’t know why, but this is a good funeral song) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-a-dopers-funeral/219154.md?page=5)