# Music for your funeral??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419 "2006-07-14T02:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/21 "2006-07-14T04:51:25Z")
If my family insists on a funeral I demand they play Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/22 "2006-07-14T04:54:08Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > And last, but not least, for my nearest and dearest who’ve endured all this (with the help of plenty-O-booze flowing)… > “Oh, Lord, I’m on My Way,” from Porgy & Bess Excellent choice. While making random mix tapes, I stumbled upon the fact that the _Confutates_ from Mozart’s Requiem seques absolutely gorgeously into _Let It Be_ by The Beatles. That would be what I’d have to request. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/23 "2006-07-14T05:30:39Z")
I’ve never really thought about it before as I don’t really care what happens after I’ve died but, thinking about it some now, I’m going to have to pick \*Eulogy \*by Tool. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/24 "2006-07-14T06:10:42Z")
Now that I’ve thought about it, I think I’d like some songs that said something about my life, instead of it being a time of mourning, I’d like it to be a time of celebration; just be happy I was here for it all - I was. _A Red Letter Day_ - Pet Shop Boys _Come and Play in the Milky Night_ - Stereolab _Tooi Kono Machi de_ - from Card Captor Sakura, or \*Key of the Twilight \* from .hack//sign, for my dear husband And maybe _Sora_, from Escaflowne, since it’s the “lullabye” I sing to all the babies in my life, and will sing to mine when they’re born. I just love it. And my brother, who of all of my family understands me the most and loves me anyway, _he_ would play _Parklife_ for me. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/25 "2006-07-14T06:38:25Z")
My boyfriend wants AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” played at his funeral. I’m not sure if he’s joking or not. I think that the Transplant’s punk ballad “Sad But True” is good. We were going to play that at a family friend’s funeral but his mom threw a hissy fit. She didn’t know him at all. Despite the swearing, the song really is touching. I always bawl like a baby after the second verse. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/26 "2006-07-14T09:54:58Z")
(I thought we just had a thread on this.) _Why Me?_ by Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/27 "2006-07-14T12:12:08Z")
The MSU Spartan Fight Song! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/28 "2006-07-14T12:48:55Z")
_ **Profisiscere, anima Christiana, de hoc mundo!** _ from _The Dream of Gerontius_. ::blinks in astonishment that anyone else knows “The Long Day Closes”. Gorgeous, especially in male-voice arrangement.:: ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/29 "2006-07-14T13:02:06Z")
Celebration by Kool and the Gang. Complete with dancers in hot pants. Of course, by the time I die that song will be 100 years old, which is appropriate 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/30 "2006-07-14T13:13:08Z")
Judy Collins verson of In My Life. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/31 "2006-07-14T13:17:45Z")
Since I have a long list a CD or two during the showing and all that will play in loop while my mourners mingle about. On the list so far in no particular order: “Ripple” by the Grateful Dead “Brokedown Palace” Dead “Walk the Line” Johnny Cash “Remember Me” Loreena McKennit (Sp?) “Wild Mountain Thyme” by whomever my Dad chooses “The Unicorn” by whomever (in honor of childhood sing-a-longs with my folks) “Seven Bridges Road” sung by the Eagles “High Lonesome Sound” Bill Monroe “Only Us” Peter Gabriel “San Jacinto” P. Gabriel “Rythym of the Heat” P.Gabriel “Washing of the Water” P.Gabriel “Secret World” P.Gabriel “I have the Touch” P.Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” P.Gabriel “Eat the Music” Kate Bush “Back In NYC” Genesis “Suppers Ready” Genesis "Lilywhite Lillith "Genesis “Dear Prudence” Beatles “Rain” Beatles “Stella Blue” The Dead Holy crap, that’s alot, there’s more but it would take too much time. At this point, the eyes need to be wiped dry, the bottles need to be dusted off and opened, the speakers shake, and laughter prevails. To start the celebration cue “Yakkety Sax” ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/32 "2006-07-14T13:21:21Z")
Goodbye World (old foot-stompin’, rafter-rattlin’ gospel hymn) ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/33 "2006-07-14T13:35:45Z")
I’m thinking of opening with “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley and ending with “Seasons Of Love” from RENT. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/34 "2006-07-14T13:54:55Z")
Well, given my druthers, which is unlikely, I’ll have a very brief funeral followed by a long, drunken wake. That said, the song “Surrender” from Lloyd Webber’s _Sunset Boulevard_ has always appealed to me–that, and “Hand Me the Wine and the Dice” from _Aspects of Love_. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/35 "2006-07-14T14:05:08Z")
Grieg’s Funeral March. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/36 "2006-07-14T14:14:50Z")
Pepper Mill has said often enouigh that she’d like CCR’s _Out My Backdoor_ at her funeral. I’d want classical music at mine. Beethoven’s seventh, maybe. I’d kinda like Wendy Carlos’ rendition of Bach’s _Little Fugue in G_, too. It contains my favorite moment in music. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/37 "2006-07-14T14:21:34Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > The Pixies’ cover of “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song).” “You’ve got your good thing and I’ve got mine…” 😃 I haven’t heard the Pixies version, tho! And a hearty congrats to Bobotheoptimist’s JETHRO TULL selections! Now for mine- three non-negotiable are… The Alan Parsons Project’s “Old and Wise” (I’m hoping I die in both conditions 😃 ) The Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin” “How Great Thou Art” (kinda my family’s official funeral hymn) “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” (a favorite hymn and one of my favorite classical pieces, Beethoven’s 9th- the Chorale) Possiblies: - Selections from Wagner’s RING, excluding “Ride of the Valkyrie” (YES to “Entrance to Valhalla”, “Magic Fire Music”, “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” and “Siegfried’s Funeral March” and ending again with “Entrance to Valhalla”) - “Memory” from CATS, “Music of the Night” & “Think of Me” from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA", “John 19:whatever” from JC SUPERSTAR… and juuuuust maybe “Oh, What A Circus” from EVITA. - “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life” if my survivors would do it. \_ the hymn “God Leads Us Along” (chorus- “Some through the waters, Some through the flood, Some through the fi-ire, but All through the Blood…”) I need to check my list of favorite hymns for more… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/38 "2006-07-14T14:27:13Z")
**Jackalope** writes: > [@](#): > > The Pixies’ cover of “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song).” ?? I gotta get out more. My knowledge of modern popular music is negligible. Did somebody really base a song on David Lynch’s movie **Eraserhead**? That’s what it sounds like. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/39 "2006-07-14T15:59:53Z")
Talking Heads - “Heaven” Tom Waits - “Take It With Me” Warren Zevon - “Keep Me In Your Heart For A While” “Reel Ten” (last song on the “Repo Man” soundtrack) And yeah, “Bright Side of Life” (whistles…) ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419/40 "2006-07-14T16:04:56Z")
No Star Wars Imperial March? > [@](#): > > Fly Me to the Moon by Sinatra Nice. Classy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-your-funeral/364419.md?page=3)