Which song would you like to have played at your funeral and why?

oooh .. i've had this picked out for ages .. i know i'm a bit morbid. :)

Treasure by The Cure (from Wild Mood Swings)

She whispers
"please remember me
When I am gone from here"
She whispers
"please remember me
But not with tears...
Remember I was always true
Remember that I always tried
Remember I loved only you
Remember me and smile...
For it's better to forget
Than to remember me
And cry"

"remember I was always true
Remember that I always tried
Remember I loved only you
Remember me and smile...
For it's better to forget
Than to remember me
And cry... "


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH6-HtIbZY if you want to hear it :)

oh .. forgot the why bit.

i think it's rather evident in the lyrics though.
:)

Little bit enthusiastic there Danielle:tongue:

Little bit enthusiastic there Danielle:tongue:hey, it's something i've thought about quite alot :leaving:

but um, well it's just weird that you post something so entirely random and i actually have an answer.

i'd picked that song out back in 1997 or sometime around then.
i've been sure to tell my husband even.

and you should know by now ... i'm strange. :tongue:


.... edit ....

oh, and now you know when the frog kills me what to be sure is played afterwards :lol:

either highway to hell,- or dead or alive. :D

jimi hendrix little wing jus cos its cool
some marley aswell

Happy songs idealy. I'd rather whoever turned out for it would be reminded of good times as opposed to hearing sader tunes and getting all teary.

Don't know what yet though. I'd like a dance number to be played. Maybe 'The Sunshine Underground' by The Chemical Brothers or some Aphex Twin.

The Beatles and Pink Floyd would probably have to feature too.
I guess it would be better to draw up a setlist for the wake afterwards!

the groundation-one more day

I picked mines out when i was a little girl watching the wizard of oz

Ding dong the witch is dead

id rather people cried with laughter at my funeral than out of sadness

I thought The End, the Doors tune, but it's pretty depressing for people who don't love the music i guess. Still, i think I'm hoping that all the people who don't listen to my kind of music who're at my funeral might pay attention to it, and then understand its beauty. Least they can do really. I definitely need an album though, actually, I'll make an mp3 cd for the night of the wake and funeral.

Sorry to go off topic, but Danielle (I used your real name, I feel incredibly risque, power of language and all that), do you really believe that it's better to forget than to remember and cry. Because obviously that's not necessarily your point of view, but you picked it for your funeral, so you must agree with the lyrics at some level. It's only that I've always been very interested by that question. Would I rather not know of all the shitty stuff going on in the world, and thereby be in ignorant bliss, or keep knowledge paramount, despite the adverse effects. I usually think of it on a more global scale, rather than remembering the dead, because i guess I think there is something to be said for remembering those who have died, nevermind the above issue. But in terms of society etc, if I were a sheep (metaphorically), I wouldn't know I was, so I'd be just as happy, in fact maybe more so because I wouldn't be questioning or fighting against large sections of society. Basically is truth or happiness more important, in a bit of a simplistic dichotomy. Sorry for warping your thread Lithium.

I would have "fire" by Arthur Brown. Just for the comical value for the cremation. I will be laughing hysterically for eternity in the afterlife http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Then maybe something serious. But i haven't decided yet. I might leave that up to the family and what reminds them of me.

As I'm a bit older than most of you it's regretably a bit more relevent!
Going in I'll have Carry Me by the Levellers and the coffin will go into the furnace to Alive by Pearl Jam.

Run like hell,Floyd and Get it while you can,Janis

Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead
Just for the "OMG" looks on people's faces...

comfortably numb.

Dunno but i would have done (if my friend had not got there first) : Always look on the bright side of life from The life of Brian... Cant believe no ones said that...

Having trouble picking just one, but I'd like these :-

Fame (I'm Gonna Live Forever) - Irene Cara
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Fate - New Model Army
Not A Day Goes By - Leatherface
Gone Away - The Offspring
Nobody's Hero - Stiff Little Fingers
You Will Lose Faith - NOFX
Good Riddance - Green Day

Asleep by The Smiths

Yesterday - Paul Mc

(yesterday.... all my troubles seemed so far away....)

Flying In A Blue Dream by Joe Satriani

It's an instrumental, but a beautiful piece of music.

A mate of mine picked Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb for his.

oooh .. i've had this picked out for ages .. i know i'm a bit morbid. :)

Treasure by The Cure (from Wild Mood Swings)

[ ... ]

For it's better to forget
Than to remember me
And cry"
hmm, obviously influenced by Christina Rossetti's Remember me when I am gone away:

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad. Me, I'd have the Ying Tong Song by the Goons.

Sorry to go off topic, but Danielle (I used your real name, I feel incredibly risque, power of language and all that), do you really believe that it's better to forget than to remember and cry. Because obviously that's not necessarily your point of view, but you picked it for your funeral, so you must agree with the lyrics at some level. It's only that I've always been very interested by that question. Would I rather not know of all the shitty stuff going on in the world, and thereby be in ignorant bliss, or keep knowledge paramount, despite the adverse effects. I usually think of it on a more global scale, rather than remembering the dead, because i guess I think there is something to be said for remembering those who have died, nevermind the above issue. But in terms of society etc, if I were a sheep (metaphorically), I wouldn't know I was, so I'd be just as happy, in fact maybe more so because I wouldn't be questioning or fighting against large sections of society. Basically is truth or happiness more important, in a bit of a simplistic dichotomy. Sorry for warping your thread Lithium.i believe a certain sense of mourning (and thus crying) is fine. however, i know there are many who obsess about a death and allow it to take over their lives.

as examples, my mother for instance, had a stillborn child a few years after I was born, and it took her many years to move on from that death and it caused loads of marital problems between her and my father and thus problems for me as well as i was quite young and didn't understand what was going on.

my mother-in-law lost her brother (who was only about 40 at the time) and her sister a few years later (she was in her late-30's), a few years after that her mother died due to a stroke. it's been 3 1/2 years now since her mother's death and she has yet to really move on from the tragedy of it.

so yes, if i were to die, and my death was to be such a source of pain for someone, say my husband for instance, that he would suffer for years of grief because he lost me at whatever age, then yes, i would rather he forget me and move on than to slowly lose his own life mourning the loss of mine.


and sorry for the late response, i somehow missed your post. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2hNKt25Lx0


and after that song..get stoned...and forget..
Tiger

Dunno but i would have done (if my friend had not got there first) : Always look on the bright side of life from The life of Brian... Cant believe no ones said that...I just realised that the whole song is about death, why am I always the last to catch on?! lol

I love the line:
"life's a piece of shit... when you look at it"

Dunno but i would have done (if my friend had not got there first) : Always look on the bright side of life from The life of Brian... Cant believe no ones said that...
My friend left with that tune playing, made me cry.

I think I'd fancy Ripple by The Grateful Dead.

I'm not sure, dont want to think about it right now. I know my friendsdad is gonna have starwars, just imagine it with a flying coffin and that underside shot from a new hope. :)

My girlfriend's would be Elton John's Sacrifice. Mine would be Cat in the Cradle.

Adagio for strings - barber

I have posted before something about the Alice In Chains. But they have something hopeful and hopeless in their music, also Leonard Cohen. Let's hope for the best babes.

For me -Killed by Death,Motorhead[obvious reasons.lol] and possibly A Tout Le Monde,Megadeath.I love Alice in chains -Would, It's haunting and evocative - but not for my funeral.

If i die a teen then maybe Teenagers by MCR... Not sure - i tend not to think about my funeral... Of course mine wont definitely have music.


Or we apologise for nothing by fightstar.

My Way by Sid Vicious and Going Underground by The Jam for obvious reasonshttp://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif

argh this is such a difficult question...i've been to too many funerals recently. my sister told me years ago that she wanted jimmy cliff's "i can see clearly now"...which i thought was a beautiful pick. i think i would like either JGB's "my brothers and sisters", grateful dead's "day's between" or the wailers "pass it on"

and then drift me out on the ocean on a raft...light me on fire...and have a raging drum circle...bang those drums til it rains!!!!

My mother had 'I can see clearly now' played at her funeral. She loved that song.

My mate died a couple of weeks ago and had 'You'll never walk alone' by Gerry & the Pacemakers played.
Not a dry eye in the house!

Air on a G string - violins

maybe stairway to heaven by led zeppelin or tears in heaven.

Always look on the bright side of life, clearly....

anything involving death bloodshed or pain for me

It's generational thing obviously. Just silence and buried on the ground. Old fashioned but yeah.

Hi,
I'd like to have Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler played at my funeral because that's how I've felt for many years.

Malfunc

otherside by pearl jam probably. just for the line 'death ain't the same without you, dear'

or maybe american wedding by gogol bordello. just to confuse things a bit.

Which song would you like to have played at your funeral and why?

Smash by Offspring! aka the last trakc on the 1994 album with the same name.. that ought to liven things up :)

one way - levellers


no mans land, celtic legend, and sidecar - jackie McAuley and the poor mouth long since deleted but i have it on vinyl

Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum

"Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
that's where Im gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
gonna go to the place that's the best"

Sounds like a good enough song for a funeral to me!! Plust its got a killer groove to it...I want people to dance at my funeral

oooh I've known this for a while. I have a feeling I'm gonna die young, so one must plan these things :D

At first when everyone is gonna be like 'oh noes' and they're burning my body and everything is a little sad, they're gonna play 'In my time of dying' by Led Zeppeilin.

Then after that everyones gonna get good and pissed and have a good time to lots of Queen (that's the band everyone associates me with lol. Every time 'I want to break free' comes on all my mates think of me ^_^).

I want there to be laughter and smiles at my funeral. I'm a happy person, so my funeral should be a celebration of my life :D

love lies bleeding/funeral for a friend by elton john...................had it picked ot for over 35 years

A song I heard on an episode of Stargate Atlantis called Beyond The Night (http://handa1984.googlepages.com/BeyondTheNight.mp3):

Beyond the night, a rising sun
Beyond the night, the battle's won
The battle is won.

Fear and shame now in the past
Pain and sorrow gone at last
Gone at last.

Circle renewed, peace will be found
Beyond the night on sacred ground.

River flows led by the wind
First new breath, our journey begins
Our journey begins.

Gotta hear it to understand why I chose it.

Edit: Just found a video exceprt from Stargate Atlantis on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JWdpthP1qk

changed my mind - tonight we fly by the divine comedy. it's pretty and emotional and has nice lyrics.

and when we die
oh, will we be that disappointed
or sad
if heaven doesn't exist
what will we have missed?
this life is the best we've ever had

Put a banana in your ear
"I know what can make that pain go away, just put a banana in your ear... put a banana right into your favourite ear..."