What Song Would You Like At Your Funeral?

[Buzz Hawk]

I think I have changed my mind on this.
As an Irish immigrant in the 80's this song sums it up and reduces me to tears everytime.
My family were migrants to our great country but we left some brothers and sisters in the soil.
This would be fitting.
Elvis Costello and The Chieftains.
The long Journey Home
Yes.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Best intro to a song I reckon I've ever heard.

Little known fact , Colin Hay is a funny bastard.

Long story short because I'm not Colin Hay and I cant type in a Scottish accent

Basically some drunk bloke came up to him one night and requested he play a song....and old favorite

The one about the goats

"Goats" said Colin? I didnt write any song about goats

Yes you did...the one where the goats appear and fade away.

(He also does a great funny into to Down Under when he discusses the backstage debacle at the Sydney Olympics)

 

[gopies1981]

Madonna - This use to be my playground

 

[gopies1981]

Madonna - nothing fails

 

[Schauermann]

"Home of Once Brave" or "From father to Son" from Bathory don't fit me (looks unlikely I will die in battle or father a son) it's probably "Bridge of Death" by Manowar.

But the Pogues did pretty well to discribe how the funeral should look like:

"And fifteen minutes later
We had our first taste of whiskey
---
The men all started telling jokes
And the women they got frisky
At five o'clock in the evening
Every bastard there was piskey"

 

[Fossie 32]

Last chance to inflict hippy bulls**t on the world so I would go with

Get Together by The Youngbloods
The Balance by The Moody Blues and
Across The Universe by The Beatles

So add Someday We'll Be Together - Supremes and That's The Way - Zep
Just trying to think of another good one I heard the other day .... And When I Die?
All You Need Is Love
maybe Strawberry Fields

 

[smasha]

 

[Present Not Past]

I'm having this played at my funeral. At the end of the service as my coffin disappears.

Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiY4LnS5NbkAhVd73MBHcRpAjUQwqsBMAJ6BAgIEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaGEw5B850a4&usg=AOvVaw1ShCCHi3WEl2NFKq5gpbMK

 

[Seeds]

You would be dead so why would you give a sh**? Some people really dont get what death is.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

I've got a new one which will offend everyone.

 

[Lyttelton Ranger]

A little pretentious perhaps, but I would love to hear Chopin's Nocturne in A minor followed by Corpus Christi Carol by Jeff Buckley

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[Macpotata]

One of these:

Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls
Something For Kate - Monsters
John Farnham - You're the Voice

Nine inch nails - Top, top pick. Playing it right now.

 

[Macpotata]

BRB Gonna go jump over buildings

 

[jaaack]

When I die I'm going straight to the 80s (heaven), even though I've never been there before. So with that in mind, this will be played at my funeral:

 

[Cold Sober]

Status Quo - Unspoken Words

Tom Waits - On a Nickel

 

[Pweter]

 

[SMSBF]

In 2060 we all will still want a song from before 1980.

 

[brutus76]

Ive been KISSTIFIED since i was 4

And this will **** off those relatives at my funeral who are still somewhat religious

 

[Cold Sober]

' I here you knocking; Dave Edmunds.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Elegy For Dunkirk by Jeff Beck and Olivia Safe. Guitar and vocal magic.

 

[Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever]

Goodbye Lullaby- Avril Lavigne

 

[OnTheRocks]

My mate had this played at his funeral

 

[MC Bad Genius]

My friend's dad Rick was pretty influential in my friend and I playing music together (for over two decades now!) and we were asked to play at his funeral a few weeks ago. It was a bit out of the box, but we did a slow, Chris Isaac-style cover or Viva Las Vegas. There was something oddly suitable about it.

 

[Seeds]

Do people get that you are dead at your funeral? Why the f*** would you care. Do we not understand what death is?