What song would you want played at your funeral and why?

MadYaker

What would you choose? I can't decide

TOEJOE

Ring of fire for obvious reasons.

Sarn

Highway to Hell. For obvious reasons.

NickNickleby

Hey Yahh! by Andre3000 (I think that's the title and artist. Love that video.

Why?

Cos I told my teenage kids at the time that I wanted that played at my funeral and that cracked them up.

NN

AndyBoBandy

The theme tune to M*A*S*H

Because in war, everyone loses

The_Valeyard

If I died in a Plane Crash, then 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'

If natural death,

Puff Daddy's 'Come with me'

The flying mouse

The earth beneath my wings.

marklazarcovic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXlLoqW3Xm0

RobertKK

If I am unfortunate and have a violent death: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder on the dance floor.
For all the closet necrophiliacs: Neiked - Sexual.

Then to really creep people out I would finish with the singing nun known as Soeur Sourire -Dominique. The song from the asylum in series 2 of American Horror Story.

In reality it is likely to be some hymns in the church...

thesultan

Go now moody blues. Great song

steveshort

Id want "wasted years" by Iron Maiden played at mine

Outlaw Pete

For Whom The Bell Tolls.... those bells ringing as my coffin catches fire would be nice and apt.

MadDog76

darlett

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

The theme tune to M*A*S*H

Because in war, everyone loses

And the line, "suicide is painless"? Charming!

You want to be joined by loved ones in the hereafter shortly thereafter?

Sue Pa Key Pa

Bruce & The E Street Band.....Should I fall behind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmUG1ffgKFw

It's the only one that gets me

Hellrazer

Highway to Hell--It would have to be more fun down there!!!

DontThankMe

frag420

Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces


...I got high
(What did you feel there?) well, I cried
(But why the tears there?) tell you why
It's all too beautiful, it's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful, it's all too beautiful

MetalDog

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

midnight city

This would do for me. Not very up beat but funerals aren't upbeat anyway i suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38vr-3RnkI4

Yester

Chumbawamba - I Get Knocked Down (But I get up again)
Just to be in denial.

bottlebrush

theme tune from Gladiator

Rubberlegs

I'd like Knockin on Heavens Door, the Guns n Roses cover of it.

holy guacamole

Don't you worry 'bout a thing by Stevie Wonder.

My reasons being:

1) He's my favourite artist, everyone knows he's my favourite artist and it would make people smile.

2) It's an uplifting tune and might lighten the mood.

3) The song is telling you not to worry which is what I'd like to tell people at my funeral.

Irish Guitarist

Some Son House would be nice

buckwheat

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely

Ted111

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vldh7oQD-a4

Stigura

This .....

For no other reason than I simply like it

Mr. FoggPatches

Don't forget you're shovel...

maudgonner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5YQmUIIjvs

Just for the craic like.

mansize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js

porsche boy

Brain damage & Elipse by Pink Floyd. There the last two tracks on Dark Side of the Moon and Brain Damage runs into Eclipse. I also want to get the lyrics from Eclipse tattood on me.

osmiumartist

The answer I ripped off from somewhere else is Elvis - Return to Sender.

osmiumartist

porsche boy wrote: »

Brain damage & Elipse by Pink Floyd. There the last two tracks on Dark Side of the Moon and Brain Damage runs into Eclipse. I also want to get the lyrics from Eclipse tattood on me.

I don't think they tattoo corpses but your mates might slip the undertaker a fifty...

dodderangler

At my mates funeral ( suicide at 14 years old ) he wanted stairway to heaven playing. Broke the whole church hearing it. Still cat listen to it without shedding a tear.
I'd want ennio Morricone. Ecstasy of gold.

OldMrBrennan83

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DrumSteve

Anything by Slayer.

Im not going to have any soppy crap played. Just play Hell Awaits as I'm being lowered in.

dodderangler

DrumSteve wrote: »

Anything by Slayer.

Im not going to have any soppy crap played. Just play Hell Awaits as I'm being lowered in.

Raining blood or seasons in the abyss? Bloodline perhaps?

DrumSteve

dodderangler wrote: »

Raining blood or seasons in the abyss? Bloodline perhaps?

Raining blood is only good for the intro, Seasons is decent, bloodline is one I've never really liked (In fact the only song I liked off GHUA is New Faith).

Hell Awaits just works cause of the backwards masking intro, the drums and general malevolent feel of the song.

osmiumartist

DrumSteve wrote: »

Raining blood is only good for the intro, Seasons is decent, bloodline is one I've never really liked (In fact the only song I liked off GHUA is New Faith).

Hell Awaits just works cause of the backwards masking intro, the drums and general malevolent feel of the song.

God Hates Us All.

antodeco

Cremated my father in law yesterday. His final song, as he was being lowered into the chamber was Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell!

Fleawuss

For my origins and the lyrics and the connection to Irish freedom "The West's Awake".

demanufactured

Slayer - Dead Skin Mask

McDermotX

RayM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

LordSutch

Somewhere over the rainbow + Autumn leaves.

Eva Cassidy versions.

Raven Runner

demanufactured

The Undertakers theme in WWE.

buried

"Wagon Wheel" Why? Because it will be the one time it will be played around my bodily presence and I won't be able, or even have to listen to the f**king lame piece of sonic muck.

Notsomindful

If it very your will - by Leonard Cohen.

Love the lyrics and the sentiment behind it.

Panthro

Slipknot's "Danger-Keep Away"