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What song(s) would people play at their funeral?

I personally don't want sad dirges, etc... I'd rather it be a happy/funny occasion. I always wanted Another One Bites the Dust (Yeah yeah, the commercial, but still...)

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

something really unlistenable. perhaps V/Vm's version of "the queen is dead"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Shake You Coconuts by Junior Senior.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"psychedelic warlords disappear in smoke" by hawkwind, "auf weidersehn" by cheap trick, "wake me when it's over" by the dream syndicate...i might start making a C-90 for this right now cause who knows when it'll happen

― duane, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

we do this every week, it seems. my answer is "you're gonna miss me."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

we do this every week, it seems

what, die?

― duane, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

that is morbin, duane.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it is morbid too!

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"People Who Died"

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"who says (it's good to be alive)" by richard hell

― duane, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Death and Music -
What song would play at your funeral?
funeral music
The Ultimate Conceptul Art Statement trivializing both life and death?

"Because I Would Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson, sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"

― Clay, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fast Food Rockers - and that would just be the start of an evening's torture. Hahaha! They could not leave!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"

Yeah, that movie was on Comedy Central again tonight.

My answer: Bowie - "Rock and Roll Suicide"
or if I somehow die of old age: Them - "It's All OVer Now, Baby Blue"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Terry Jacks - "Seasons in the Sun".

Predictable, yes, but what a great song.

― Clay, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Born to Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That is the greatest disco song ever. And the most profound lyric ever.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I want the Kubla Khan sung to the tune of the Alan Parsons Project's I, Robot.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(the whole thing)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Beginning to See the Light ---> I'm Set Free

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I see a darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy

― neil, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll settle for a steel band playing and a pineapple on my coffin.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Atmosphere - Joy Division
Gobbing On Life - Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias
Happy Talk - Captain Sensible

I have also requested that the only eulogy is to take the form of a limeric beginning with the line "There was a fat bastard called Stewart".

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ouija board, ouija board by Morrissey.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"

Good song but Sitting Here in Limbo would have been my choice.

― Smallie Biggs, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Goodbye. Especially if it's a cremation, it'll be playing as I head through the curtain.

― mms (mms), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Total Fucking Asshole - Silverfish

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Creeping Death" by Metallica, just for the - die, die - bridge

― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" KinKs

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

or maybe "Surprise your dead" by FNM

― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm kinda thinking Beck's "Ramshackle" would be really good. "We will go...nowhere we know...we don't have to...talk at all..."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, maybe the entire Face to Face album (the reissue with the bonus tracks incl. "This Is Where I Belong") by the Kinks.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

monkey gone to heaven - pixies

― smudger (smudger), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Bruce Springsteen: I'm Going Down

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck -- Loser

Sooooyyyyyyyyy...

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Undertaker's Burial" by Crystallites, mayhaps.
(no, not really ;)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Juno - The Sea Looked Like Lead ("...that's how you win...")

― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music. On vinyl, so somebody has to get up to flip it over and change discs, thus making the mourners complicit in their own torment. Plus, there's a lock groove at the end of Side Four, to give an idea of what eternal damnation sounds like.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jackie by Scott Walker, Llorando from Mulholland Drive, Acperience by Hardfloor.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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