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Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Johnny C on 20 Sep 2006, 12:26
I think at my funeral I want "Reconstruction Site (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858489193)," the title track off of the Weakerthans' most recent album. That or "(Past-Due) (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=144570)".
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Johnny C on 20 Sep 2006, 12:56
Your funeral is going to be the social event of the season, Tommy. Biggest party ever.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: KharBevNor on 20 Sep 2006, 13:02
Blood Axis - The Ride/The Gospel of Inhumanity
Blut Aus Nord - The Last Journey of Ringhorn/Procession of the Dead Clowns
Burzum - Tomhet/My Journey to the Stars
Coil - Tainted Love
Current 93 - Black Flowers Please/A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
Death in June - Lifebooks
Inkubus Sukkubus - The Leveller
Nortt - Dod Och Borte
Sigh - Requiem/Nostalgia
Skyclad - Great Blow for a Day Job*
Sol Invictus - December Song/Black Dawn/The Silver Swan
Xasthur - Bleak Necrotic Paleness



* this one is, in fact, obligatory, because it is where the quote I will have placed on my grave stone will come from: "I'll party on in Acheron"
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: E. Spaceman on 20 Sep 2006, 13:47
(http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/images/152.jpg)

This song never fails to cheer me up, it should do the same for those attending my funeral.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Thrillho on 20 Sep 2006, 15:34
My dad is going to have 'Promised Land' by Chuck Berry played. He's a Christian, it's pretty appropriate.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Maedros on 20 Sep 2006, 16:30
I'm going to have Entrance of Gods into Valhalla played at my funeral, of course.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: GamerMunkie on 20 Sep 2006, 18:38
I want "Hymn" by Bond, "Adios Ayer" by Jose Padilla, or "Do You Realise" by The Flaming Lips
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: nuisance on 20 Sep 2006, 18:50
Dead Can Dance's 'Host of the Seraphim' would be ridiculously appropriate at a funeral, I reckon...  Probably too much.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 20 Sep 2006, 19:22
I kind of want P.S. You Rock My World by the eels played at my funeral.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: IronOxide on 20 Sep 2006, 19:45
The entire album Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine. That'd get people crying good and hard. Also, that's JUST for the wake, I want a traditional funeral service at a Catholic church.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Johnny C on 20 Sep 2006, 19:48
Or maybe "Each Coming Night" by Iron & Wine.

Quote
Will you say when I'm gone away
"My lover came to me and we'd lay
In rooms unfamiliar but until now"

Will you say to them when I'm gone away
"I loved your son for his sturdy arms
We both learned to cradle then live without"

Will you say when I'm gone away
"Your father's body was judgement day
We both dove and rose to the riverside"

Will you say to me when I'm gone
"Your face has faded but lingers on
Because light strikes a deal with each coming night"
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: oscard on 20 Sep 2006, 21:47
The Helio Sequence's - Looks Good (but you looked away)

Followed by the whole ( ) by Sigur Ros, or visa versa.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Will on 20 Sep 2006, 21:50
William Elliot Whitmore - "The Day The End Finally Came"
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: sAm_vdP on 21 Sep 2006, 07:22
Amplifire - "Perfect Goodbye"

or Eminem's "Still don't give a fuck", if only for the chorus
Quote
For all the weed that I've smoked - yo this blunt's for you
To all the people I've offended - yeah fuck you too!
To all the friends I used to have - yo I miss my past
But the rest of you assholes can KISS MY ASS
For all the drugs that I've done - yo I'm still gon' do
To all the people I've offended - yeah fuck you too!
For everytime I reminisce - yo I miss my past
But I still don't give a fuck, y'all can KISS MY ASS

(drugs part isn't really fitting, but I love the rest :))
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Post by: Azathoth on 21 Sep 2006, 09:08
Spacemen 3 - That's Just Fine or It's Gonna Be Alright or Hey Man

Skywave - Cool Breeze

Fugazi - I'm So Tired.  Actually, that's the one to leave on repeat when you kill yourself.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Cartilage Head on 21 Sep 2006, 12:04
Goddamn you, Ironoxide! I was going to say that.

 I would have Our Endless numbered days WITH a few other select Iron and Wine songs, such as Promising Light and Muddy Hymnal from The Creek Drank The Cradle.

 To lighten the mood a little I might have "Funeral" by the Arcade Fire jammed.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Misereatur on 21 Sep 2006, 13:16
I'm guessing Boris's Ano Onna No Onryou from Akuma No Uta.
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Johnny C on 21 Sep 2006, 13:23
Will earplugs be handed out at the door?
Title: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Misereatur on 21 Sep 2006, 13:36
I'm dead, fuck em'.
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: ComfortEagle on 01 Oct 2006, 00:18
Im going to say...(checks collection)... Cradle and All - Ani DiFranco.
It seems like the perfect song for the ending of a movie that didn't end the way everyone wanted it to.
Thats how I picture the end of my life.
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Toba on 01 Oct 2006, 01:24
'Ha Ha You're Dead' by Green Day.
'Dead to the World' by Nightwish.
'Dead Things' by Emiliana Torrini.

Also, Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone while everyone does the dance (the whole 'dead' theme needs to go).
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: amok on 04 Oct 2006, 09:45
Something victorious. I'm thinking 'And Then There Was Silence' by Blind Guardian  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Mogman on 04 Oct 2006, 09:57
It's a mother fucker By the Eels...

It's a mother fucker being here without you, just sitting away watching the days go past...
(Eh, true family would object as every second word is fuck, but eh, boys got to have a laugh)
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Stan on 04 Oct 2006, 12:54
Jeff Buckley - "Eternal Life"

Which is coincidentally what I'm listening to right now.
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Misguider on 04 Oct 2006, 16:04
Jawbreaker-Accident Prone
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists-Me and Mia
Built to Spill- Stab
Death Cab For Cutie-I will Follow You Into The Dark
Then To Cheer people up
The Suicide Machines- Permanent Holiday
End the funeral with SKA!
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: IndieRawk on 04 Oct 2006, 19:25
How about anything off of that Arcade Fire album.



LOL GET IT CUZ THAT ALBUMZ CALED FUNERAL LAWL
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Beautiful Maladies on 04 Oct 2006, 20:22
i've always wanted "Innocent When You Dream" by Tom Waits at my funeral.

also, anything by the Polyphonic Spree would cheer the crowd up.

(assuming you could actually find the gigantic choir of hippies.)
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: soak on 04 Oct 2006, 20:34
My lady and I both agree that we want For Martha by the Smashing Pumpkins played at our respective funerals. We decided this before we decided upon out song.
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: NERO on 04 Oct 2006, 20:56
Impression that I get-The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
It fits so well. Or possibly
The Rebal Alliance Theme from Star Wars. You know the one they play at the end of A New Hope, during the medal sequence.
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: morca007 on 04 Oct 2006, 21:12
Impression that I get-The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
*Sniff* Me too, or I want "Crazy on you" By heart to be played at my funeral
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: Rebourne on 04 Oct 2006, 21:56
Not that it is original by any means but I've heard Free Bird at funerals a lot.
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: mberan42 on 05 Oct 2006, 13:56
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
The Doobie Brothers - Jesus Is Just Alright
Title: Re: Totally Appropriate Funeral Music
Post by: jimib on 05 Oct 2006, 15:46
the beatles - in my life

i think its such a beautiful song and id want it played at my funeral