I've got a fever

/obligitory

I actually like "Don't Fear The Reaper" for reasons other than the cowbell.

Always makes me think of vampires, though.

A friend of mine's mother recently died, at at the end of the funeral service they played "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." Very fitting if you knew this lady.

janbednar: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."

Not the first - the Pythons sang it at Chapman's funeral (pops - song follows Cleese speech)

"Going Underground"?

James Blunt's "Goodbye My Lover" becomes most-requested funeral song in UK

Haven't these people suffered enough?

I've never been to a funeral that played a "funeral song." I'm missing out!

Is this a U.K. tradition or what?

Just remember... "You're Beautiful".

Bruce Dickinson and Gene Frenkle do not approve.

Reading the lyrics just makes this,..comedy GOLD!!

I told my wife the other day that when I die I want "Spirit in the Sky" played at my funeral. Strangely she had always wanted that too and we had no idea. Go figure.

I'd rather have a song that represents how I lived, not how I died.

"The Curse of Millhaven" by Nick Cave, maybe.

Dorf11: "The Curse of Millhaven" by Nick Cave, maybe.

Good call! Or Stagger Lee, perhaps?

"Every Breath You Take"? Whaaa? Why is a song about a stalker popular at funerals?

"Leave Them All Behind", by Ride. All 8 minutes of it. The living will suffer, oh yes.

What is the song that they played at Liam Neeson's wife's funeral in Love Actually? That was a good one, I think.

He looks like the gay prince on Braveheart and he sounds like a startled chicken. How I hate James Blunt.

/wants Dance of the Dead played at own funeral

If you don't know me by now, you will never ever ever know me...

this song is so incredibly off-key , it makes me want to violently vomit blood on every DJ who plays this shiat in the radio

Doooom: Good call! Or Stagger Lee, perhaps?

Yeah, that's probably better. I can't really pass for 'Loretta' or 'Lottie'. :)

...i just hope youi don't play it at your kid's funeral.
/paging pedo-cops!

anything by Werid-Al.


/like anyone would show up

A friend of mine died this summer, and he had a list of songs written up to be played at his viewing. And yes, one of them was "Don't Fear the Reaper".

A friend said it best when he summed up Stagger Lee: "I will never be old enough to listen to this song". Nick Cave kicks ass.

Subby... I think you inspired me.

I've told pretty much everyone who should still be alive once I kick off that I want William Shatner's "You'll Have Time" from his Has Been album You can listen to a snippet here and other songs from a surpringly good album

"Funeral song"?

/At my grandmother's funeral I asked my mom "What's all this Jesus crap? I thought we were sending grandma to Sto vo kh'or.

I'm a bit amused by the whole "Powerpoint Of The Dead" they do now, where they play stuff like some adult alternative artist like Blunt while everybody ooooohhhss & aaahhhhsss over baby, prom, vacation & wedding photos of the deceased

"Don't Fear the Reaper" has always been high on my list for funerary needs, also.

/or John Hartford's "The Lowest Pair"

I don't want to be buried, at a pet cemetery.
*Ramones

I hate james blunt so very very much.

And of course its only because he's dreamy.

2006-10-02 11:16:32 AM SuperCrackMonkey

I've never been to a funeral that played a "funeral song." I'm missing out!

Is this a U.K. tradition or what?

Hmm... it's not a tradition per se, but I've been to quite a few funerals where there is effectively an intro (often classical or suitably stirring), a middle piece bridging the service/ eulogies (often the deceased favourite song), then an outro as the bereavers start to leave.


And yes, 'Always look on the bright side of life' is on the cards for my funeral.

hippolaxative wins!

cowbell

/no effort from me today, it's monday

My grandmother had "Perfect Day" as her funeral song. Just reminded me of the scene in Trainspotting where Ewan McGregor falls through the fall.

Anyway- I want Hello (Turn the Radio On) by Shakespeares Sister

i'd say it would be a worry if your mother died, and you decided to play Goodbye my Lover...

My order :-

Track#2
Track#3
Track#1

Metallica nothing else matters

I've Had the Time of My Life??

I want "sittin' up with the dead", by Ray Stevens played at my funeral.

I don't want a funeral.

I want a wake.

ANYTHING ... i don't care if it's frigging Faure's Requiem ... sounds stupid and tacky and innane at a funeral if it's played on the sound system.

There will be live music over my dead body, if you will.

Only one song I want at my funeral: "Ha Ha You're Dead" - Green Day.

wh0mprat

"Funeral song"?

/At my grandmother's funeral I asked my mom "What's all this Jesus crap? I thought we were sending grandma to Sto vo kh'or.

I don't know what's more depressing::

A) You made that joke
B) I got that joke
C) First thought, Sound like one cool grandma

/the shame, the shame

For the Nick Cave suggestions, I would add "People Ain't No Good," for those who'd like to give that bitter last jab at their relatives. If I had to choose, I'd take it over any James Blunt song, hands down.

My partners cousin had “Bat out of Hell” played as the exit music for his funeral. I always liked that guy.

I'd rather have a banner stating:

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"

Give my stomach to Milwaukee,
if they run out of beer.
Throw my socks in a cedar box,
just get 'em outta here.
Venus de Milo can have my arms.
LOOK OUT! I've got your nose.
Send my heart to the junkman.
And give my love to Rose.

But please don't bury me ...

Or

Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore ...

Just play a bunch of John Prine.

BTW, who's the band that played:

We're having a funeral.
'Cause somebody died.
We're having a funeral.
Come out and help us cry.

Well don't he look natural?
Considerin' the way he went.
They picked him up in ten pieces.
And it didn't cost his family a cent.

??? - Cookies

"Fast Food Song" by the Fast Food Rockers?

BTW, in the face of those sick of "You're Beautiful", Blunt pointed out that the song continued to get him laid.

Yeah, I'd probably have done the same were I in his position, but I'm not and I hate that bloody song. So it would be a sad but hilarious irony if "Goodbye My Lover"'s use at funerals got him a following of horny zombie corpses that wouldn't take "no" for an answer.