what song do you want played at your funeral?

In My Humble Opinion
41

hate to be a “master of the obvious” here but…how could you guys forget Another One Bites The Dust by Queen???

42

I’ve already told my husband, should I take the old dirt nap before he does (and the odds are for it, considering the early grave he’s driving me to) that I want the song “I’m Going Home” from the original Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack played at my funeral.

Then after everybody gets through boo-hooing (or screamlaughing, whichever) they can get up and do “The Time Warp” right afterwards.

I think in my case it’d be a fitting send-off. :slight_smile:

43

What? No Dead Parrot Sketch? :smiley:

44

If I’m gonna die, I’ll at least make my funeralgoers suffer through my bizzare musical tastes. We’ll start off easy with Pie Jesu'' from Andrew Lloyd Webber's *Requiem*, then hit them with Tom Waits' Dirt in the Ground’’ and finish with ``The Diamond Sea’’ by Sonic Youth, the album version. 20 minutes of guitar noise, muahaha.

45

Hey welcome to the board strangecurrencies

I would chose ‘Where ever I Lay My Head’ by Tom Waits
or
‘You Only Live Twice’ by Nancy Sinatra
or
‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ by The WHO
I love the Pogues, but if they were played I would want to be there for a good wake

46

Speaking of the Pogues reminds me of the Ireland concert which reminds me of ** Chris DeBurgh** and “Don’t Pay the Ferryman”, the wonderful live version from that concert where the audience sings along. Not a bad way to go

47

Mine would have to be dependant upon the circumstances of my death. Some of them would have to be:

Sympathy for the Devil - Stones

Sober - Tool

Wherever I May Roam - Metallica

Fade Into You - Mazzy Starr

The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin

Fade to Black - Metallica

Nutshell - Alice in Chains

48

Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. For several reasons:

  1. I will not have to hear them.
  2. All those people who in life professed to care about me will be required to prove their friendship by listening.
  3. If I have not been embalmed properly and am in fact alive but in a deep coma or apopleptic state, the sound of bagpipes, much like the sound of someone trying to murder a pig by inserting it into a live cat will surely awaken me. I will rise from my coffin, look at the group of men wearing dresses, performing what looks suspiciosly like a conjugal act with an octopus, and tell them to cut the &)(#@ racket.

-b

49

Something funny, from Weird Al maybe. That’s what I always want at funerals I attend, something to break up all the sobbing.

50

“Enjoy Yourself, It’s Later Than You Think” by Louis Prima.

definitely.

51

The theme song from the Benny Hill show.

52

  1. I know it’s trite, but Amazing Grace (as performed by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards) would be cool. Followed by…

  2. “Worthy is the Lamb/Amen” from Handel’s Messiah. Appropriate, and if it gets the mourners thinking of me singing in the heavenly choir, so much the better.

  3. Then, “Siegfried’s Funeral March” from Wagner’s Gotterdammerung. Appropriate, and if it gets the mourners thinking of me kickin’ in the doors to Valhalla, so much the better.

  4. Finally, “Fight for California”. Nothing like a good college fight song to get everbody up. :slight_smile:

53

“Old and Wise” by the Alan Parsons Project.