Songs to die for...

boneless

I tried this before in After Hours with interesting results...

What songs would you like to be played at your funeral?

Me... "Hey! You! Get Off of My Cloud" and "Sympathy for the Devil".


*Hedges bets on where he will end up... typical atheist...*

Lust4Life

George Benson doing "Down Here On The Ground"!

DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND

Down here in the ground
It ain't no place for living
Down here on the ground
Watching the sparrows fly high
I watch the birds
As they make their wings
Flying solid free
How I wish it were me
But I'm down here on the ground
And I'm wanting something better
I'm down here on the ground
Wanting something more

*One morning soon
I will find
Some wings on my mind
To take me high
So if you hear a sound
From down here on the ground
My friends
It's only me
Trying to fly
Trying to fly
I would love to fly
Because I'm tired of being
Down here on the ground
I'm tired of being
Down here on the ground

(Repeat *)


Oh, I can just see teh tears in all their eyes!

boneless

You're makin' me think of a Moscow night again....

John Mason

stone roses - I am the resurrection

Lust4Life

Well, memories and funerals go together now, don't they?:p

Vegeta

Prodigy- Smack my bitch up

or Johnny Cash ring of fire if i am being cremated(sp?)

spacecoyote

"Sunshine" from the album ...so hows your girl by Handsome Boy Modelling School

Lust4Life

Ooh! Ooh! Boneless! I've got one for you!!!!
The Grateful Dead's Hell in a Bucket!!!!

Hell in a Bucket

Well I was drinkin last night with a biker
And I showed him a picture of you
I said, pal get to know her, youll like her
Seemed like the least I could do.
Cause when hes chargin his chopper
Up and down your carpeted halls
You will think I am dressed up quite proper
Never mind how I stumble and fall.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride.

Cause youre a sweet little softcore pretender
Somehow, babe, it got as hot as it gets
With her black leather and gold spike suspenders
And your chain, your black whip and pets.

Well we know youre the reincarnation
Of the infamous catherine the great
And we know how you love the ovation
And the scene that it seems to create.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride.

You analyze me, tend to despise me
You laugh when I stumble and fall
There may come a say when Ill dance on your grave
Unable to dance Ill still crawl across it
Unable to dance Ill still crawl
Unable to dance Ill still crawl
Unable to dance Ill crawl.

You must really consider the circus
It just might be your kind of zoo
I cant think of a place thats more perfect
For a person as perfect as you.

And its not like Im leaving you lonely
Cause I wouldnt know where to begin
Well I know you wake up here only
When the snakes come marching in.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride.
Ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride
At least Ill enjoy the ride.
At least Ill enjoy the ride.
At least Ill enjoy the ride.

LadyJ

"Neunundneunzig Luft Ballons"

The Bollox

Hells Bells

Merrick

I'm going for inappropriatness (is that even a word? ...it nis now.) all the way.

Salva Mea - Faithless. All 10 minutes of it.
Or Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd. All 20 or so minutes of it.

scojones

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

Either of those two.

Dirk Gently

My Funeral would be a non-religious event with kegs of Bulmer’s and replays of great Liverpool matches played on a big screen. Songs played would be my way, you'll never walk alone, jeremy, black, alive, Folsom Prison Blues, get rythem, hurt,boy named sue, moddy blue, November rain, ace of spades, national express and of course..........

monster mash

I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise


He did the mash
He did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
He did the mash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash


From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes


They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monster mash


The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
Dracula and his son


The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"


They played the mash
They played the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They played the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
They played the monster mash


Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"


It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in a flash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash


Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you


Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you can mash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash

takola

You wouldn't mind if I missed that would ya Clown?? It's just I've put up with ya in real life , But I'm not sure I could handle having to watch liverpool even with drink in me... Unless of course you wanted to play them getting beaten of course? Then I'd go no bother!

Ruu_Old

Ah I would probably have something to get a bit of an auld jam going.
Wild Cherry-Play that Funky Music.

Black Swan

Napoleon and the Overture of 1812?

boneless

Lust4Life wrote:

Ooh! Ooh! Boneless! I've got one for you!!!!
The Grateful Dead's Hell in a Bucket!!!!

Hell in a Bucket

Well I was drinkin last night with a biker
And I showed him a picture of you
I said, pal get to know her, youll like her
Seemed like the least I could do.
Cause when hes chargin his chopper
Up and down your carpeted halls
You will think I am dressed up quite proper
Never mind how I stumble and fall.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride.

Cause youre a sweet little softcore pretender
Somehow, babe, it got as hot as it gets
With her black leather and gold spike suspenders
And your chain, your black whip and pets.

Well we know youre the reincarnation
Of the infamous catherine the great
And we know how you love the ovation
And the scene that it seems to create.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride.

You analyze me, tend to despise me
You laugh when I stumble and fall
There may come a say when Ill dance on your grave
Unable to dance Ill still crawl across it
Unable to dance Ill still crawl
Unable to dance Ill still crawl
Unable to dance Ill crawl.

You must really consider the circus
It just might be your kind of zoo
I cant think of a place thats more perfect
For a person as perfect as you.

And its not like Im leaving you lonely
Cause I wouldnt know where to begin
Well I know you wake up here only
When the snakes come marching in.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride.
Ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride
Ride, ride, ride
At least Ill enjoy the ride.
At least Ill enjoy the ride.
At least Ill enjoy the ride.

I still miss Gerry... the world got heavy when he popped the clogs...

I am writing my will at the moment... I will be putting my funeral arrangements in it with the two songs I mentioned above. I also want the Scots lament "Battle of the Somme" played by a lone piper as I am going into the flames.

amp

Prodigy - Climatise

It's the soundtrack to my life.

FlutterinBantam

Headless Chicken Blues... .... J.W. Simpson...(the live track of course)

from the old Fillmore East

Lust4Life

Oh yeah! And let's not forget Southern Culture On The Skids doing SOUL CITY!
Hell they're not doing nothing these days, maybe they'd show up in their Little Debbie Treays Van with some KFC and play a whole set?

Chad ghostal

Bob Dylan - not dark yet
Good ol' bob

Mrs. MacGyver

Being a Cork yolk, i always have to have things my way so its just typical of me to want it at my funeral.

' my way' Frank Sinatra.

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.

Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, Ive had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!


One top funeral song!!!

IceHawk

Radiohead - Bullet proof (I wish I was)

or

AC/DC - Highway to hell

delta_bravo

elliot goldenthal - funeral coda (quiet apt i believe;) )

its the track from the end of micheal collins film where they show actual footbage of his funeral. quiet moving and beautiful

daiixi

Come to daddy - Aphex Twin although my family would never allow it.