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Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Rizzo on 03 Feb 2006, 02:08
Every forum seems to have one of these topics but QC doesn't seem to yet.
Which songs would you have played at your funeral and why?

I'd have;
Type O Negative-Everyone I love is dead
To make everyone feel really bad, no one I like is alive any more.

Turbonegro-All my friends are dead
Just to reinforce the point

The Flaming Lips-Do you realise?
Make everyone feel really morbid and terrible

AFI-Synesthesia
To make sure everyone got the message once and for all. (The chorus is "Heartbreak incarnate, I'm nothing if not your memory")

The Cure-Just like heaven
Not only is it one of my favourite Cure tracks, it seems particularly poignant at this time

And finish on
Sisters of Mercy-No time to cry

I would possibly chuck in Please kill me by Amen.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Duchess Tapioca on 03 Feb 2006, 02:15
Arrogant Worms - Carrot Juice is Murder, so people will be able to solve the mystery of my unexplained skydiving accident.


Also Mahna mahna,incase anyone is sad at all.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: sketchyjoe on 03 Feb 2006, 02:33
Propagandhi - March of the Crabs
Mischief Brew - Roll Me Through the Gates of Hell
Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Evan Greer - The Ballad of the Last Six Months of My Life
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
World/Inferno Friendship Society - Tattoo's Fade
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer - Redemption Song
The Clash - Death or Glory
Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Bouncing Souls - True Believers

They all mean something to me.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 03 Feb 2006, 05:35
I want either the Cream live version of "Crossroads" or "Bombtrack" by Rage Against The Machine, expressly for the "Burn, burn, yes you're gonna BURN!" part. I am putting that in my final wishes. I shit you not.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: almost thursday on 03 Feb 2006, 07:19
december - host
pixies - monkey gone to heaven
iggy pop - passenger
my bloody valentine - when you sleep
arcade fire - in the backseat
deftones - be quiet and drive
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Mikendher on 03 Feb 2006, 07:44
Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
Iron & Wine - Upward Over The Mountain
Devendra Banhart - At The Hop
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
Earlimart - Heaven Adores You
Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone



wow, that's got to be the saddest mix ever
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Thrillho on 03 Feb 2006, 08:15
Necrophiliac by Slayer.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: zutonna on 03 Feb 2006, 08:27
How about Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life"?
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: almost thursday on 03 Feb 2006, 09:02
Quote from: DynamiteKid
Necrophiliac by Slayer.


man, you are so invited to my birthday party.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: blanketarms on 03 Feb 2006, 09:19
iron&wine - naked as we came

and i want my ashes to be scattered on the Tory Sound. while this happens, i've always imagined an auld man would play "the fields of athenry" on the uillean pipes.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: pat101 on 03 Feb 2006, 10:25
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Come on, someone had to do it.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Der Golem on 03 Feb 2006, 10:36
These two come to mind;

Sigurrós - Dánarfregnir og jarðarfarir
Opeth - For Absent Friends
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: almost thursday on 03 Feb 2006, 11:14
vomit toad - only faggots die
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: rive gauche on 03 Feb 2006, 11:43
Bahahahaha! That would be amazing.

I would have New Pornographers played at my funeral that way people would not allowed to be sad!
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Lt. Cpt. Pootis Jenkins on 03 Feb 2006, 12:14
Patrick Bruel - Casser La Voix


probably the most beautiful song ever written
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: wigfried on 03 Feb 2006, 12:22
whoa its pootis
hi pootis
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: surefunk on 03 Feb 2006, 13:59
definitely smog's "dress sexy at my funeral", perhaps "this is not what you had planned" by the wrens, and maybe just for fun "my life is starting over again" by daniel johnston.  i do hope they let me play dj at my own get-gone.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: ayePod on 03 Feb 2006, 14:21
Lattermans entire first full length. That would be awesome.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 03 Feb 2006, 14:31
The day I turn 80, I am going to die by jumping off of a tall building. And at my funeral, I want them to play "Jump" by Van Halen.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: nescience on 03 Feb 2006, 15:43
Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: StrikeThePostman on 03 Feb 2006, 15:58
Quote from: Mikendher
Devendra Banhart - At The Hop


Yes please.

Also:
 
Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version) by The Flaming Lips
Checking Out by Langhorne Slim
Fact of Life by Poi Dog Pondering
Tables and Chairs by Andrew Bird
Graceland by Paul Simon

and then I've Seen the Land Beyond by Beck, to digust all funeral goers before someone drags out a grand piano/symphony orchestra and has the musicians play Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition at an incredibly loud volume.

Hmm.  My funeral sounds like a fun time.  Maybe I should consider attending.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: zutonna on 03 Feb 2006, 16:01
But you will be attending silly! ;)
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: E. Spaceman on 03 Feb 2006, 16:19
At my funeral Metal Machine Music and the whole SYR series will be played at earsplitting levels (Anagramma will in fact be played twice) and just after it ends i will segue into...
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
and More than a Feeling by Boston.


And as a special bonus: FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: RUMBLEMOOSE on 03 Feb 2006, 16:19
If at all possible, I would like the Flying Luttenbachers to improvise a set to accompany my funeral. Not the wake or anything, but the funeral itself, the actual mass part. I would like the attending priest or whoever is in charge of it to have to shout to be heard over the Flying Luttenbachers.

And on my tombstone they can write "jazz is appropriate for any occasion," or possibly just "motherfuckers."
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2006, 17:39
WHY MUST YOU STEAL ALL THE THRADS FROM LASTR FM!?
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 03 Feb 2006, 18:20
Here's a song I'll have on repeat while on my deathbed: "In My Time of Dying" by Led Zeppelin.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Rizzo on 03 Feb 2006, 20:23
Quote from: KharBevNor
WHY MUST YOU STEAL ALL THE THRADS FROM LASTR FM!?

Shut up you junkie bastard :D. I got this from Club Bizarre, a local ALT forum.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: IronOxide on 03 Feb 2006, 21:03
For funny ones:
Deerhoof - "Twin Killers" Get it? Because I'd be a dead twin? Or perhaps Cold as Ice by Foreigner

A good depressing one would be "Blue" off of the Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: La Creme on 03 Feb 2006, 21:07
I would definately just want "P.S. You Rock My World" and that's it.

You people all suck cause you didn't say that first.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Dara on 04 Feb 2006, 00:22
Daedelus and Hrishikesh Hirway - Thanatopsis

and Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 04 Feb 2006, 01:27
Bonnie 'prince' Billy - Death to Everyone
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Cartilage Head on 04 Feb 2006, 01:49
Possibly Opeth's "To Bid You Farewell",but it would most likely be Iron and Wine's entire album, "Our Endless Numbered Days".
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: eternie on 04 Feb 2006, 02:52
The Calling - Wherever You Will Go.

I don't know why. It's always struck me as a funeral song. Bizarre. My dad wants 'Comfortably Numb' by Pink Floyd and now I can't listen to that without thinking about it damnit.

Everybody Hurts by REM would be nice purely to fuel my REM obsession.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: ASturge on 04 Feb 2006, 03:10
Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Kai on 04 Feb 2006, 05:06
I actually already have this planned out. I'd basically play the entirety of the John Cage and Sun Ra record I have really loud, and then afterwards, karaoke to King Diamond.


EDIT: Also, to whoever said Metal Machine Music, this could easily be substituted for John Cage and Sun Ra. Other possibilities include some Bill Laswell Project (Preferably his thing with MJ Harris, SOmnific Flux) Buckethead stuff (His more... ambient esque works, preferably), Death Cube K stuff, Dead Can Dance, Ephel Duath, Fantomas' Delirium Cordia, That one album I have that has the Dalai Lama on it, Frank Zappa's compositions (Read: NOt his guitar rock band esque music, the weird freak out stuff like Civilization: Phase II and Burnt Weeny Sandwhich), and various John Zorn stuff.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 04 Feb 2006, 05:08
Any and all rap songs about killing people. Fuck yes.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: KharBevNor on 04 Feb 2006, 05:32
Current 93 - Intro/Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil [live at the Union Chapel]
Inkubus Sukkubus - Pagan Born
Tiamat - Planets
Amoprhis - Black Winters Day
Nortt - Dod Och Borte
Mortiis - Everyone Leaves
Marillion - Ocean Cloud
Burzum - Tomhet
Ulver - A Capella (Sielens Sang)

I'd probably make a mix-tape.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Kai on 04 Feb 2006, 05:38
Oh, Current 93 would be great funeral music.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: TrueNeutral on 04 Feb 2006, 05:40
Modest Mouse - Please Bury Me With It

You know, kinda like a 'we had good times' thing.

My dad wants 'Dust In The Wind' by Kansas.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Kai on 04 Feb 2006, 05:59
Your dad is almost awesome. Too bad Kansas is weak man's quasi prog.



But I just hate Kansas.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Thrillho on 04 Feb 2006, 10:13
Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart?

OH the ironing!
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: a pack of wolves on 04 Feb 2006, 17:11
Quote from: RUMBLEMOOSE
If at all possible, I would like the Flying Luttenbachers to improvise a set to accompany my funeral. Not the wake or anything, but the funeral itself, the actual mass part. I would like the attending priest or whoever is in charge of it to have to shout to be heard over the Flying Luttenbachers.

And on my tombstone they can write "jazz is appropriate for any occasion," or possibly just "motherfuckers."


Now that would be a truly spectacular funeral.

For myself, people would enter the funeral to Tom Waits - Whistle Down The Wind. Red Right Hand would then play for an hour while everyone stares grimmly ahead, followed by my burial to Fugazi - Long Distance Runner.

The wake would of course begin with Back In Black.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: jcknbl on 04 Feb 2006, 19:57
I don't see a problem with just playing all of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and a whole lot of the Cure. Hmmmmm...




The Unicorns-I Don't Want to Die?
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Storm Rider on 04 Feb 2006, 20:05
I would make a playlist entirely of Testament and Death.

Just so they don't get too comfortable.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Rizzo on 04 Feb 2006, 20:07
Wait til everyone gets inside and the bolt the doors. Put on the entire Man O War back catalogue. :D
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Luke on 04 Feb 2006, 21:16
Hit the road, Jack
And don't you come back
No more, no more
No more, no more!
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 04 Feb 2006, 21:34
Team America theme. This thread has been won.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: La Creme on 04 Feb 2006, 22:18
^No it has not.

I just realized that the Zelda theme does kind of work. It's sort of triumphant.

Also, I think "Flower's Grave" would work better than "Whistle Down The Wind", but still, good call.

New vote is for "Epic" by Faith No More.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 04 Feb 2006, 23:39
On Tom Waits Underground could work or maybe Everything Goes to Hell.
Hell I would probably just play Time and be done with it...
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: my infernal affairs on 05 Feb 2006, 00:27
Flaming Lips - Do You Realise
Sigur Rós - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

I think a lot of Flaming Lips songs are good funereal songs, their music seem happy and optimistic most of the time but I always get a sense of melancholy in the music.

Fight Test seems like a good choice too.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Storm Rider on 05 Feb 2006, 01:52
Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum
Hell I would probably just play Time and be done with it...


I thought you said that album was background noise...

Also, RAR HAIL SATAN!!!!

Inverted crosses, necromancy, slaughtering virgins, all that good stuff.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 05 Feb 2006, 04:54
my internal affairs, I am SO with you on "Viðrar vel til loftárása." That song is just asplodey with awesome. OR "Starálfur" would work too. But I dont' want people to cry at my funeral, I'd rather they be like "HAHA THIS SONG TOTALLY FITS HIM 'CAUSE HE WAS A DICK." So pick the most offensive Tenacious D song you can find and put it on repeat.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: eternie on 05 Feb 2006, 05:59
Ready to Die by the Unicorns would be great too.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 05 Feb 2006, 07:07
Quote
I thought you said that album was background noise...


I was talking about the Tom Waits song called Time which is indefinitely better than the Pink Floyd one.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: ayePod on 05 Feb 2006, 07:47
Quote from: La Creme

I just realized that the Zelda theme does kind of work. It's sort of triumphant.


It's probably the most triumphant song in existence.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: TrueNeutral on 05 Feb 2006, 10:39
Quote from: Kai
Your dad is almost awesome. Too bad Kansas is weak man's quasi prog.



But I just hate Kansas.


I think it's a pretty inspired choice for someone who doesn't know or care about music.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: sandocho on 05 Feb 2006, 11:31
Captain Beefheart - Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee

I mean, that last fuckin' verse,
God, please fuck my mind for good
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
Oh fuck that thing... fuck that poem...eyes crawl out with maggots
White cloth bones pile up light thrown blades
Rags 'n' skull... scoops soil cracks... drain screams... please
Take my hand 'n' join me... too soon its clutches gleams
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
Death be damned... life!

How is that not awesome?
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Potted Plant on 05 Feb 2006, 12:00
My funeral will be in a church, and "Rainin' Men" will be playing as I'm lowered form the rafters into my coffin.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 05 Feb 2006, 13:59
Potted Plant, that would only work if you're cremated and you have your ashes tossed from a plane flying at 10,000 feet.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Potted Plant on 05 Feb 2006, 14:25
Wow, that would be pretty cool, but I need some pyrotechnics! And strobes.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 05 Feb 2006, 14:45
Just stick explosives in the urn, light the fuse and chuck the thing out the window. That will be the only pyrotechnic material you need. Ever.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Kai on 05 Feb 2006, 15:14
Quote from: sandocho
Captain Beefheart - Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee

I mean, that last fuckin' verse,
God, please fuck my mind for good
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
Oh fuck that thing... fuck that poem...eyes crawl out with maggots
White cloth bones pile up light thrown blades
Rags 'n' skull... scoops soil cracks... drain screams... please
Take my hand 'n' join me... too soon its clutches gleams
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
Death be damned... life!

How is that not awesome?


I don't know exactly who you are but you totally win for the Beefheart.
Title: My funeral
Post by: jmrz on 05 Feb 2006, 23:48
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me (reason being the first time i listened to it properly i immediately thought of it being played at my funeral)

Snow Patrol - Run (Jacknife Lee Remix)

VAST - Touched
Title: Re: My funeral
Post by: nescience on 06 Feb 2006, 01:02
Quote from: PrincessofBlackness
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me (reason being the first time i listened to it properly i immediately thought of it being played at my funeral)


No offense, but you just gave me a good thread idea!
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 06 Feb 2006, 04:05
Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

Mmm gospel + Clapton. Which is funny 'cause he sold his soul to Satan.

Edit: Whoa I totally thought this was the "What are you listening to?" thread, and I was gonna delete this post but I realize, wow, I actually do want this played at my funeral.
Title: funeral
Post by: Azathoth on 06 Feb 2006, 05:26
Spacemen 3 - It's Alright, That's Just Fine

Skywave - Cool Breeze
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Skataflow on 06 Feb 2006, 05:31
Pearl Jam - Alive


Nearly got burried under hundreds of people during their Concert at Rock am Ring 2000 during that song....
from that day on i know this should be played at my funeral....
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Millerz on 06 Feb 2006, 05:44
The Trapeze Swinger - Iron and Wine
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: TrueNeutral on 06 Feb 2006, 06:30
Quote from: Skataflow
Pearl Jam - Alive


Nearly got burried under hundreds of people during their Concert at Rock am Ring 2000 during that song....
from that day on i know this should be played at my funeral....


I'm pretty sure you're not unique at that. Didn't a bunch of people DIE at Roskilde during that song?

Still, I wouldn't want a song about incest played at my funeral.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: amok on 06 Feb 2006, 07:26
M83 - Birds and Unrecorded

then like, the last 3 minutes of "Tunnel Of Love" by Dire Straits. I want to be lowered into the ground to a Knopfler solo.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 06 Feb 2006, 09:57
Amok: Give me a boombox playing "Sultans of Swing" as they trebuchet my body in the ocean to that final intense 16th-note solo.
Title: Re: My funeral
Post by: almost thursday on 06 Feb 2006, 10:18
Quote from: PrincessofBlackness
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me (reason being the first time i listened to it properly i immediately thought of it being played at my funeral)


that song makes me cry like a little girl.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Fabio on 06 Feb 2006, 11:24
For some reason i really want to have  the Bachalor and the bride by the decemberists played at my funeral =/
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: thedevilissix on 06 Feb 2006, 13:51
A great deal of the soundtrack from The Motorcycle Diaries would be played, to signify me setting off on another metaphysical journey on a rickety old motorbike (yeah yeah, smell da cheese :P)
Also RUN DMC's greatest hits, to inspire dancing and jollity in celebration of my life, not weeping at my passing.
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Snail of Doom on 06 Feb 2006, 17:07
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky (I'm not religeous, but it still sems like the perfect song)
R.E.M. - Bad Day
Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle (No, I don't have something against my dad)
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies, May The Living Be Dead (In Our Wake), The Ol' Beggars Bush, Death Valley Queen
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (The whole album)
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Hair (Soundtrack) - What A Piece Of Work Is Man
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
Rise Against - Like the Angel, Paper Wings
Rooney - If It Were Up To Me
Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere
Rent (Soundtrack) - La Vie Boheme (A & B)
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: amok on 07 Feb 2006, 06:01
Quote from: KimJongSick
Amok: Give me a boombox playing "Sultans of Swing" as they trebuchet my body in the ocean to that final intense 16th-note solo.


That's the spirit :D

You got/heard the "Alchemy" live album? There's 14-15 minute versions of both Tunnel and Sultans on there, the solos are stretched to ridiculous proportions \m/
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: Patrick on 07 Feb 2006, 08:07
Ooo, delicious, I'll be looking into that. Thanks!
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: S_g on 07 Feb 2006, 22:56
Pink floyd : wish you where here :P

as for the wake, knowing my friends,  they would turn into a beer fueled bogan singalong.

cold chisel, the who, nirvana, offspring ect
Title: Songs you'd like played at your funeral
Post by: edscoble on 08 Feb 2006, 07:01
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

why not? I don't like to be predictable, and I thought it'd be funny to see what happen, what the harm? I'll be dead, I have the pleasure of not being able to hear that song :P