[Music] Your funeral music

[Weststander]

A much loved cousin of mine succumbed to The Big C, young, about 4 years ago. He arranged for this, which brought mild laughter in the chapel. He’d have loved that.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

 

[Si Gull]

“Can’t get out of bed” - Charlatans
“Heaven knows I’m miserable now” - Smiths
And GOSBTS obviously

My dad had GOSBTS as his outro. For some reason he was never a huge football fan but he was a Lewes/Brighton boy so it was the brass band version not a recording of the North Stand in full voice, sadly

 

[burnee54]

It has to be this. And I'm determind to record it myself for the occasion.
If that doesn't get them nothing will.

Old and Wise - The Alan Parsons Project. (Colin Blunstone on vocals)

 

[Happy Exile]

I've always said to my family I'd like to be dropped in the ocean with concrete boots on somewhere far from land (when I'm dead first obvs). Any funeral service they might want around that is for them, not me really so I'll let them choose whatever music they associate with me and want to use.

It probably means I'll end with them choosing something from a musical I once said I liked just to be polite but actually can't stand, something misremembered in a way that'd boggle most minds as even being possible, and something awful from a camping holiday bingo club in Minehead in 1994 just because it'll bring back memories.

 

[zefarelly]

Would anything by the Grateful Dead or Stiff Little Fingers be considered inappropriate?

No.

Sus;pect device as the coffin enters an open fire would be a f***ing great way out ;-)

for balance, maybe start with Golden road by GD

 

[lawros left foot]

My Mother in Law had ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ by the Platters as the curtains closed around the coffin.
I was the only one who found it amusing.


I don’t really care if I get a funeral or not, I’d like my body to go to medical science or used by trainee surgeons , or something. They could use any bits that are worth saving, if they want.


If I do have the traditional funeral, What a wonderful world, by Louis Armstrong ( my Dad had the same song, can’t hear it now without a lump in my throat), it sums up my view of the world, and GOSBTS, obviously.

 

[Mancgull]

Enter- motor cycle emptiness.manic street preachers
Middle bit - un Bel di Velmedro - Madam butterfly
End- Highway to Hell AC/DC
Sorted.

 

[Cotton Socks]

This is a weird one because my mum has stated she doesn't want a service & basically just want's the wake. I was the one that said 'yay good plan' straight away & have told my kids I want the same. I'm beginning to think I don't like my Mum's plan anymore & probably will say to my kids it's up to them. I only want one song but I can't actually put it as it's very unusual & I think the kids lurk here! They know it though! I make such valuable contributions to threads!

 

[Taybha]

 

[PeterOut]

Intro - Mad World (tears for fears)
Middle - Let's Dance (Bowie)
Exit - Always look on the bright side of life (Monty Python)

 

[Blinkers]

Strangely, despite only being in my 50’s, I’ve just started a notepad file of possibilities. There’s only 1 entry so far. I’d like the songs to be upbeat and I’m fcuk’d if I pass in the summer months!

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Entrance


Middle bit


Exit

 

[5Ways Gull]

When Automatic For The People was first released, I read a review that said Try Not To Breathe would be a great song to play at a funeral. Always been one of my favourite REM songs, and sort of makes sense.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

When Automatic For The People was first released, I read a review that said Try Not To Breathe would be a great song to play at a funeral. Always been one of my favourite REM songs, and sort of makes sense.

Great song and I’d add At My Most Beautiful by them as well.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Going Underground by the Jam? Can I get away with it if cremated instead? Pretty undecided about any of it for now though.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Entrance


Middle


End

 

[DJ NOBO]

The plan was always Pantomime Horse by Suede.
But no one will know it so it could be a bit shit.
Might go for a crowd favourite like Live Forever.

 

[Official Old Man]

All my family know I want this