I’m sure this question has been posted before, I just feel slightly morbid and it’s what has come to mind. Mine are Dylan’s ‘Every Grain of Sand’ and the Pogues version of ‘The Parting Glass’ By the way, I haven’t posted here but have enjoyed the hell out of these boards. Some of you guys/gals are funny funny people. Thanks …
I suppose “Girlfriend in a Coma” would be in bad taste. OK,
I know the answer! It’s “Time Has Told Me” by Nick Drake.
And for quiet background music, something by Ralph Vaughn Williams. Or Beck. Hmmmm, let’s just have a party instead.
hmmmmmmmm …
- The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
- Corrs “Leave Me Breathless”
hehehe sorry…couldn’t resist 
Anything by Carcass or Six Feet Under would suffice.
JET
“Everybody knows he was just a gigolo! Life goes on without him! And IIIIIIIIIIIII ain’t got no BOOOOOOODY! (nobody!) Nobody! (nobody!) Nobody!” etc.
I have a list!!
- "Weird Al Yankovic: “I’ll be mellow when I’m dead”
- Dave Brubeck: “Take Five”
- Steelers Wheels: “Stuck in the middle with you”
There are more but the list is with my Funeral Director.
One important point, no way, no how “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes. Any other 'pipe music, just not that
Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, except sung by one of my best friend’s, Chris Benton.
Bad company… (till the day I die).
By Bad company.
nuff said.
Hmmm. I wlll second Weird Al’s “I’ll Be Mellow When I’m Dead”. I wouldn’t really want anything terribly weepy or dirgeish.
I do know lines that I want in my eulogy, dammit, or will probably use should I ever be called on to write someone else’s. From Kahlil Gibran’s “the Prophet” (possibly mungled thru memory):
Always remember that I will come back to you.
A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for a new body;
A little while, a moment of rest on the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
Guess on my personal preference of eschatology. 
Dude, Carcass? Nah, to loud for a funeral. All though last time I saw them, you’d have thought the place was a funeral. The crowd was dead at least.
Ouch, that was bad, huh?
Anyway, I would probably want some Sinatra playing. You know, some nice conversational music while everyone walked around the funeral home trying to figure out what to say to relatives you haven’t seen in 25 years.
From the hearse to the grave, something with bagpipes. If I can find someone who can play Carcass on bagpipes.
Nighttime funeral. Someone with a good set of pipes singing Bach-Ground’s Ave while I’m set off in my burning canoe onto Superior.
Exquisite Dead Guy by They Might Be Giants
When The Music’s Over.
'Nuff said.
I remember reading that Peter Sellers was cremated to the starins of “In the Mood” by Glenn Miller.
So the casket was solemnly sent on its way down the conveyor belt towards the velvet curtains - accompanied by the rousing brass of the great wartime bandleader (ba da da dat da da da derdaddada! )
Not a dry eye in the house…
Dancing Queen by Abba. I just think it would be fun.
Of course, I have also requested a faris wheel for my funeral.
Well… anything by the Grateful Dead would be just lovely.
Chopin’s “Nocturne” would be nice for the solemn bits. Then with just family and friends, I’d like Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”, substituting “kayeby” for “baby”.
“Yes, We Have No Bananas.” Carl Reiner and Ingmar Bergman can’t be both wrong.
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Another Time, Another Place by Sandi Patti and Wayne Watson.
Dust in the Wind by Kansas.
How Beautiful by Twila Paris.
By the time those three songs are sung, there won’t be a dry eye in the room.
And in my concept of Heaven, God gives me a house on the beach, a Waverunner®, a PlayStationII®, and a Cessna®. So while everybody down on earth is crying their eyes out, I’ll be enjoying my new toys.
I have to think about songs for a tick, but I would like someone to be moved to reading aloud the poem (I forget the title and author) that was read durring the funeral scene in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. I love that part of the movie.
~t