If my family insists on a funeral I demand they play Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers.
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.
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.
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.
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
(I thought we just had a thread on this.)
Why Me? by Johnny Cash.
The MSU Spartan Fight Song!
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.::
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 
Judy Collins verson of In My Life.
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”
Goodbye World (old foot-stompin’, rafter-rattlin’ gospel hymn)
I’m thinking of opening with “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley and ending with “Seasons Of Love” from RENT.
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.
Grieg’s Funeral March.
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.
“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:
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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.
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“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…
Jackalope writes:
?? 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.
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…)
No Star Wars Imperial March?
Nice. Classy.