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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Tergon on 09 Sep 2006, 21:05
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This following an RL conversation with a group of my friends...
What would be the most inappropriate (for whatever reason) song you could have played at your own, or someone else's, funeral? Some of the best we could come up with included:
Zombie - The Cranberries
Mmm-Bop - Hanson
La La for Engerland - T & H Hegarty (for a soccer player from any other country)
Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy
Pretty much anything by They Might Be Giants
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"Kids Who Wanna Play With The Dead"--Lordi
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The Divinyls - I Touch Myself
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I keep thinking "Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood", for no particular reason but the title. I will go through my records and find a more fitting song for this.
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Bike- Pink Floyd
We Are Not Going to Make It- The Presidents of the USA
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Heard a story about a funeral where the deceased's request was that a tape of a hymn be played at the wedding, but the preacher didn't bother taping over the rest of the side so the hymn cut out and in came:
If you want my body
And you think I'm sexy
Come on sugar let me know...
Said preacher was reportedly very embarrassed. (I read this in the Bathroom Reader so it may be suspect.)
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Stuff that wasn't found on my iPod at my time of death. I dont want to hear anything relgious, cause that's not me. Nothing sad either. So nothing else then Belle & Sebastian.
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Immolation - "Into the Everlasting Fire" would be pretty inappropriate as would Slayer - "Hell Awaits"
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Heard a story about a funeral where the deceased's request was that a tape of a hymn be played at the wedding, but the preacher didn't bother taping over the rest of the side so the hymn cut out and in came:
If you want my body
And you think I'm sexy
Come on sugar let me know...
Said preacher was reportedly very embarrassed. (I read this in the Bathroom Reader so it may be suspect.)
You get huge points for Uncle John's. Which book was this in? I've been meaning to update my collection.
ON TOPIC: "Black Cadillacs" by Modest Mouse would be awesome at a funeral.
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The Divinyls - I Touch Myself
I would play that Scala choir version but let's not nitpick.
Songs perfect for a funeral:
Shakira - Whereever, Whenever
lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains
Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca/She Bangs
Jennifer Lopez - Jenny from the Block
Juanes - La Camisa Negra
La macarena!!!
Basically a lot of latino pop.
Sugarcubes - Motorcrash(for someone who was killed in a car accident obviously)
Queen - We Are the Champions, Fat Bottomed Girls
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
Oingo Boingo - Heard Somebody Cry
It isn't true! I am not a ghost without a soul/Come! listen to my heart - you feel the beat?
A lot of Xiu Xiu and of course the entire output of Zombina and the Skeletones. Even though I will insist that they play Nobody Likes You at my funeral. I demand it.
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everything ever writen by George Michael or Wham. On the other hand if everyone thinks the dead person was gay after the funeral its not such a problem for the dead guy. It may be for everyone else if the diseaseds previous lovers start coming forward, then its just really wierd for everyone.
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I want Highway To Hell played if I'm getting cremated or Going Underground if I'm buried.
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I used to want 'Biggest and the Best' by Clawfinger at my funeral, think I want 'Get Miles' by Gomez now tho
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what about 'breathe, don't stop' by the jungle brothers?
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The Benny Hill theme tune.
'I Will Survive'
'Alive' - Nekromantix
'Dead Girls Don't Cry' - Nekromantix
'Curse Of The Coffin' - Nekromantix
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I don't know about innapropriate, but I'm not sure how many of the tunes I've considered as appropriate in my more morbid moments (Of which I don't have many, surprisingly) would be allowed to be played in a place with any mainstream religious pretensions. I refer to songs like Cryptic Wintermoon - When Daylight Dies, Xasthur - The Funeral of Being, Coil - Tainted Love, Sol Invictus - Come Join the Dance, Inkubus Sukkubus - Leveller, Burzum - Tomhet, Ewigkeit - Journey to Ixtlan, etc. etc.
Some psychobilly would be awesome at a funeral, but I'd probably go for some Coffinshakers ballads.
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I want to play Tom Jones' version of "Ain't Gonna Bump no More."
I am a sick sick man.
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"I'm too sexy" by Right Said Fred. That's way inappropriate. unless there are necropheliacs there.
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How abouts Baby Got Back?
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Cute, happy, fluffy J-Pop?
Unless the deceased is a japanese girl, i guess.
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Scissors Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
That being said, I wouldn't mind if my funeral was held in a night club (a la Something Positive) with waitresses in skimpy goth outfits and my favorite tunez on the stereo system, so I can't really think of something inappropriate for me.
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Pedro The Lion - "Priests/Paramedics" just 'cause of the lines
You're gonna die, you're all gonna die
Could be twenty years, could be tonight
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Another One Bites the Dust? As awesome as it may be, somebody would be bound to get upset.
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I Hate Myself and I Want to Die - Nirvana
edit: What about the Safety Dance, for a builder who died on the job?
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The safety dance was actually created by construction workers to knock falling girders out of the way of their skulls. I bet you didn't know that, now did you?
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Bullet In The Head by RATM
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Hm.
Kung Fu Fighting.
Just because it's so preposterous.
Or maybe The Kinks "Death Of A Clown"
"Let's all laugh at the death of a clown".
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"Rainbows and Stuff" by Insane Clown Posse.
"Bestial Lust (Bitch)" the cover by Cradle Of Filth.
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ICP is always inappropriate.
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Another One Bites the Dust? As awesome as it may be, somebody would be bound to get upset.
Already in my will.
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John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland"..Techno remixed.
Machinehead, by Bush.
Liam Lynch's "United States of Whatever".
Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta"
"I'm a Slave 4 U"
"You had a bad day" by Daniel Powter
"Promiscuous Boy"
Cypress Hill..."Rock Superstar"
On shuffled loop, at the funeral of a small child who died in a war.
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Another One Bites the Dust? As awesome as it may be, somebody would be bound to get upset.
Already in my will.
And I'm not? I though we had something more special than that!
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Also!
Eaten, by Bloodbath.
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Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
Understanding In A Car Crash - Thursday
(only kind of works for one situation)
Ode To Joy - Beethoven
If I Told You This Was Killing Me Would You Stop - Julianna Theory
(guess not)
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Funeral by the Arcade Fire.
inappropriate because it sucks
HARDEEHARHAR
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Zing.
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BaZOW!
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how about "house of 1000 corpses" - rob zombie
"...I cut the flesh
And make it bleed
Fresh skin
Is what I need..."
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TSOL - Code Blue
I win.
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'Alive' - Nekromantix
'Dead Girls Don't Cry' - Nekromantix
'Curse Of The Coffin' - Nekromantix
I was under the impression that its never appropriate to listen to Nekromantix, on account of their crappiness.
Anyway, my choice would definitely be Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly doing "Let's Have A Party".
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How about the Paperchase - "Dying With Decent Music?"
woah...two posts in a row about this band....I should stop now.
/other post is in the Great Covers thread
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Appropriate:
Farewell Ride- Beck
Already Dead- Beck
Not appropriate:
Anything on Odelay.
I think I completely missed the point.
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Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
Understanding In A Car Crash - Thursday
(only kind of works for one situation)
Ode To Joy - Beethoven
If I Told You This Was Killing Me Would You Stop - Julianna Theory
(guess not)
i like your taste in music. :D
i want either "Play Crack The Sky" by Brand New or "These Ghosts, My Hopes, The Sand, The Sea" by Daphne Loves Derby
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something inappropriate: "Lord Gold Throneroom" by HORSE the Band (it's about a penthouse)
"Scavenger Type" by NOFX would work i guess. but not for everybody.
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TSOL - Code Blue
I win.
I can't see this this song going down well at any occaison....of course unless you were having sex with a dead girl
"And I don't even care how she died, I just like the smell of formaldehyde"
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The first thing I thought of, for some reason, was Swans' "Beautiful Child." "All Lined Up" would be pretty bad if the deceased was murdered, come to think of it.
Also, if the deceased was called Ed, Pixies' "Ed is Dead" would work.
Edit: I totally forgot the Ramones' "Glad to See You Go." Also, if the deceased was a child, the Dead Kennedys' "I Kill Children."
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songs I want played at my funeral:
"Shortest Story" by Harry Chapin
"Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Angel's Son" by Sevendust
"Mad World" by Gary Jules
"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats
"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
"We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn
"In My Life" by Johnny Cash
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A friend went to a funeral where 'New York, New York' was played as the casket was carried out. "Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today..."
Also heard of 'My Little Buttercup' being played.
I think 'I'm Coming Out' by Dianna Ross would be pretty odd.
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Burzum - Tomhet
If I was to depart anytime in the near future I'd want Tomhet to be played at my funeral, its a wonderfully emotional peice of music, heck the entire HLTO album would be nice. I couldn't see too many people having a problem with it either...
I suppose it is a bit depressing, very suited to a funeral though.
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Ik leef niet meer voor jou - Marco Borsato.
I don't live for you anymore ... a song about a guy who has stopped living just for his relationship and has gotten himself some new goals kicking tha bitch out .... but just that opening sentence ...
Anything by Cannibal Corpse might be fun too ... thirteen autumns and a widow by COF ... Benzin by Rammstein in case of a cremation ... The roof is on fire - the bloodhound gang ...
Stuff like that. Would make me smile.
If I wasn't, you know, dead, in a casket.
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I'd totally have;
All my friends are dead-Turbonegro
followed by;
Everyone I love is dead-Type O Negative
and then;
Too dead for me-Atari Teenage Riot
and finally;
Dead-The Fanatics.
The audience would feel terrible by the end of it.
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If it was going to be any Cradle of Filth, it would be Queen of Winter, Throned, and everyone would have to hold up candles during it.
People would only stay for the food after that.
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I forgot Marduk-The Funeral Seemed to be Endless
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Where the Wild Roses grow would go down well for a girl who was killed by a Serial Killer...
Though it has to be Don't Stop til You get Enough for when I've finally had enough
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I'd totally have Britney Spears' "Lucky" at my funeral. Followed by Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For", "Hollaback Girl", and, to top off the irony, "Cool".
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After re-reading the Slayer thread, I was inspired to add the obvious: Angel Of Death.
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"Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers.
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Here's a song i would want to be played on my funeral:
Bathory - The Ravens
"Steadily on jagged wings.
Feathers black against the burning sky.
Spread your wings and ride the wind.
Gaze down on me with blackest eyes.
Fly my Ravens, fly ahead.
Over the mountains and endless sky.
Fly my Ravens, over my head.
Let the wind carry you up high.
Fly my Ravens, it's time to fly.
And for me maybe to die.
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guys. come on.
Necrophilia by G.B.H.
duh.
"Make love to you your eyes are closed,
your body's rotting it's decomposed.
Your hair strangled in a spider's web ..
you're dead!
No remorse ..
screw the corpse.
Your clothes are in a state of decay,
just like you they're thrown away.
Your body's filled with larva flies,
why oh why did you have to die?
I come and see you every night,
unlike my girl you don't put up a fight.
I'm close to you, put flowers on your tomb ..
'cause I was born in your womb."
extra points if its your moms funeral.
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Zombie Nation. The Grendel remix with all the silly movie samples. :D
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I'm too tired to think right now, so I'll just mention the first song that popped into my head when I saw the title of this thread:
Green Day - Ha Ha, You're Dead
Might be back with more later, though.
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The Robot Hell Theme from Futurama would be pretty awesome.
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Boney M - Rasputin
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Anything by Marilyn Manson.
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Something along the lines of 'celebration' or 'dancin in the street'
But I'm partial to the classic pythonesque moment that 'always look on the bright side of life' would bring.
what about 'die alright' - the hives
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First thoughts were Depeche Mode: Just Can't Get Enough and The Cure's Friday I'm In Love.
Rammstein's Mein Teil would be a great one though. Coffins have always seemed so phallic to me.
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For an open casket funeral, Bruce Springsteen singing "Brilliant Disguise" .. live.
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Yakity Sax
Or, perhaps that's the most brilliant funeral music of all.
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guys. come on.
Necrophilia by G.B.H.
duh.
"Make love to you your eyes are closed,
your body's rotting it's decomposed.
Your hair strangled in a spider's web ..
you're dead!
No remorse ..
screw the corpse.
Your clothes are in a state of decay,
just like you they're thrown away.
Your body's filled with larva flies,
why oh why did you have to die?
I come and see you every night,
unlike my girl you don't put up a fight.
I'm close to you, put flowers on your tomb ..
'cause I was born in your womb."
extra points if its your moms funeral.
I wish you could see my face... It's twenty shades of disturbed right now!
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Well, I supose if it were a funeral for a stabbing victim I would have no choice but to break out with mack the knife.
"Oh the shark has... pretty teeth dear. And he shows them... Pearly white!"
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the gothic archies! nearly anything by them would be hilariously innappropriate, but I'd pick either "City of the Damned" or "Smile! No One Cares How You Feel"
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I was under the impression that its never appropriate to listen to Nekromantix, on account of their crappiness.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Rage Against The Machine - "Bombtrack"
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
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I went to a funeral once for a guy I knew. He was a little outside of the law (sold drugs), along with his brother-in-law, and like most non-redneck southern white guys who live a bit outside the law, they fancied 2pac in large amounts. However, this fellow's parents were pretty Christian, and so the funeral was in a church with lots of good Christian folk there. Nice funeral, etc. However, once the ceremony was over, his brother-in-law put on "Life Goes On" by 2pac. For those of you who don't know the song, it's one of his mellower songs, and it's about his fellow G's who had died. Well this goes over alright. Maybe some of the swear words made the Christian folks a bit uncomfortable, but it was a funeral, and that's what his brother-in-law wanted.
However.
The cd playing was 2pac's Greatest Hits album. On the first disc of this album, "Life Goes On", is the second to last track, the last track being "Hit Em Up". Soooooo. "Life Goes On" ends, and immediately afterwards 2pac comes out of the speakers, at a funeral, in a church filled with old white Christian folks: "That's why I fucked yo' bitch you fat muthafucka take money westside blah blah". Yyyyyeah. It was...."inappropriate". Kind of hilarious actually from an outside point of view though.
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GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN!
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The Robot Hell Theme from Futurama would be pretty awesome.
yes it would.
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The Queers-We'd have a riot doing Heroin
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqarKSQaNc)
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Bodies by Drowning Pool
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the.....fflllloooooooooooorrrrrrr
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Bodies by Drowning Pool
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the.....fflllloooooooooooorrrrrrr
That song is inappropriate no matter where you're at...
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hur hur hur.
Among The living - Anthrax
Live... From the funeral of God - zAo.
ode to joy - bethoven.
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I want Highway To Hell...
Damn, that's what I was gonna say.
How about 'Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west,' 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman, Motherfucker' by The Darkness, or 'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails.
I want one or more of the following:
Samuel Barber - Adagio for strings (theme from Platoon)
Pink Floyd - Shine On, You Crazy Diamond (out of interest, does anyone know if that was played at Syd's funeral)
Yes - Starship Trooper
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Oasis - Fade In-Out
Dresden Dolls - Coin Operated Boy
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
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Hmmm ...
'Six feet under´s not deep enough' by Angtoria. I like this band.
http://www.angtoria.com/sounds/Angtoria_doyou_sample.mp3
So, I get to have fun and plug a good song.
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Im to Sexy - Right Said Fred
Stayin' Alive - BeeGees
Carry On - Angra
pretty much anything by Children of Bodom
Harder Better Faster Strong - Daft Punk
Super Heroes - Daft Punk
Beating Heart Baby - Head Automatica
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That song from the South Park movie that wasn't on the soundtrack, from the part when Kenny was going to hell.
That, followed by the theme from Katamari Damacy (track 2 on the soundtrack if you have it).
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"Dead" by They Might Be Giants
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"Push The Little Daisies" by Ween
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Anything by MSI would be nice and horrible.
Furthermore CardinalDexrous - you are now instantly my friend for saying Dresden Dolls
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im going to have to say either
faggot by MSI
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Boogie Woogie Wu by icp
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Rock You Like a Hurricane.
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'Don't Stop', Fleetwood Mac