What Song Would You Like Played At Your Funeral?

[zipzap]

Atmosphere by Joy Division - the ultimate funeral song!

Hi Zip Zap have you seen that Documentary on Foxtel about Joy Division/New Order.. is really good and well worth a watch.. think it was on the history/biography channel.. not too sure was going through the guide a couple of weeks back and IQ'd it

No, well maybe. I don't have pay TV but I have a doco called Neworderstory which probably was it. I'd like to find out though. They're making a movie about Joy Division as we speak (Anton Corbijn directing - he made the video for Atmosphere).

[CK]

This is bumping a very old thread - apologies if that breaks any rules - but rather than start a new thread, it's one I've pondered over the years.

Just Like Paradise - David Lee Roth
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison
Hercules - Midnight Oil

Yep, mine will be a rocking, party funeral - always said I don't want a sad one with everyone sitting around morose. Want people to have lots of laughs, lots of fun and the like.

I've told my relatives before, that if anyone puts Amazing Grace on, I swear, somehow, I will knock on the coffin lid. Could not think of a worse one to go out on.

Also do NOT want Tears In Heaven - I like the song, and love Eric Clapton, but simply don't want it on that day.

[HH3]

Do you party? by The Amity Affliction

[MatteeG]

A couple off of Alice in Chains "Jar of Flies":

Whale and Wasp (instrumental)

Dont Follow

Then "Just a Gigolo" when the house lights come back on....

[The Real Number 3]

Most people i know - billy thorpe

hurt - either nine inch nails or johnny cash version

[gadj1976]

wake me up before you go go......not cos I like the song, but just for the 'pun' factor.

I heard a story years ago that a guy wanted "smoke gets in your eyes" at his cremation.

[gadj1976]

North Adelaide footy club theme and something that would make people laugh, perhaps Dancing Queen or the YMCA.
Throw in an Angels song too and I'd be happy, perhaps Mr Damage, perhaps a Neil Diamond song too.
As far as lyrics go I'd have to think further about that one.

No J'OK stuff Wegs?

[Q.]

Propagandhi's 'Without Love'

All in nature ends in tragedy
and I was the first to finally fade away
from my grandfather’s memories.
How long ‘til the day my memories of him finally fade away?
Dissolving into gray.

Is breathing just the ticking of an unwinding clock?
Counting down the time it takes for you to comprehend the sheer magnitude of
every single precious breath you’ve ever wasted?

I did everything I could.
I bargained with the universe to take my life instead of hers.
But no amount of money, drugs or tears could keep her here.
What purpose did her suffering serve?

Is breathing just the ticking of an unwinding clock?
Counting down the time it takes for you to comprehend the sheer magnitude of
every single precious breath you’ve ever wasted?

So much misery.
So much indifference
to so much suffering.
We can become tempted by appeals to hatred.
But this world ain’t nothing more than what we make of it.

Revenge ain’t no solution to the inevitable pain
every single one of us must face in losing the kindred spirits in our lives.
Lives so brief, so disappointing, so confusing.

As Cronie slipped away I held her in my arms, reduced to
“Please don’t leave me. What will I do?”
this cosmic sadness, just here to remind you
that without love, breathing is just the ticking of...

[mal]

Somewhere over the rainbow
By Billy Thorpe

[Hazbeen]

These Days - Powderfinger

went to a friends memorial service recently who died in a heli mustering accident where they played Kid Rock's - Born Free which if you listen to the first verse is very poigant

[Dogwatcher]

They played These Days a funeral of an old mate of mine.
Whenever I hear that song I think of him and tear up at the thought of him.
It was only two years after his death that I'd been able to delete his number of my phone - after hearing Powderfinger play it live.

They also played The Bad Touch at his funeral.

[CK]

They played These Days a funeral of an old mate of mine.
Whenever I hear that song I think of him and tear up at the thought of him.
It was only two years after his death that I'd been able to delete his number of my phone - after hearing Powderfinger play it live.

They also played The Bad Touch at his funeral.

It might sound strange, but I still have my father's mobile number in my phone after four years....don't want to delete it. Silly, I know. To this day, can't hear Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" or the Carlton club song without thinking of him - both were played at his funeral.

[mickey]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

You'll Never Walk Alone - either the Gerry & the Pacemakers version or if I can hold of a good live version by the kop

Into The Fire - Bryan Adams

[MagicKiwi]

Avalon, Roxy Music

[OnSong]

They played These Days a funeral of an old mate of mine.
Whenever I hear that song I think of him and tear up at the thought of him.
It was only two years after his death that I'd been able to delete his number of my phone - after hearing Powderfinger play it live.
They also played The Bad Touch at his funeral.

Quite a combo there! Not often you would hear those two back to back.

I've been to a few (too many) funerals for mates who were taken before their time.

Newton Faulker's "If This Is It" and Chris Brown's "Forever" were used at one.

Interesting the way a funeral sort of "hijacks" that song, so every time you hear it, it reminds you of that person.

[Dogwatcher]

OS, he was a great bloke and it suited him perfectly.
You've heard me talk about him many times, I'm sure.

But yes - certainly doesw hijack your thoughts when you hear a song at a funeral.

I cannot, ever, under any circumstances listen to Live as a result of one song being played at a mate's funeral - he was murdered around 14 years ago and it still just kills me inside to hear anything by that band.

[once_were_warriors]

Caught by the Fuzz - Supergrass

[Dirko]

Carlton club song without thinking of him - both were played at his funeral.

Your old man must of been a top bloke.

[godoubleblues]

at a mates funeral a couple of years ago, they played "we will rock you" by queen as they lowered to coffin into the grave

it was one of his fave songs and it was quite a touching moment

[hearts on fire]

Rain - Dragon