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MellySingsDoom 04.29.2007 01:02 PM

She's married now, y'know.

Talking of inappropriate, how about Madonna's "Burning Up" whilst being cremated?

demonrail666 04.29.2007 01:04 PM

Going Underground - The Jam. Couldn't resist that one. sorry.

StevOK 04.29.2007 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trasher02
Radiohead - Street Spirit


I think the whole album The Bends could work for a funeral.

I started listening to it every day when a friend of mine died almost two years ago. I made blog about what songs I wanted at my funeral, but I'm too lazy to go back and look. Or maybe I'm not...http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=12102063&b logID=42195199

MellySingsDoom 04.29.2007 01:12 PM

For the goths - "Premature Burial" by Siouxsie And the Banshees.

Smokers Gifts 04.29.2007 01:28 PM

I chose the music at my mum's funeral last week. 'Jigsaw Puzzle of Life' by Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and 'Carey' by Joni Mitchell, cos those are things she liked. Slight oversight that the second verse has loads of stuff about drinking wine to inebriation, and she died of drink. I picked it for the 'I really hate to leave you but it's really not my home' bit. Oh well, pissed off my stick-up-the-ass Roman Catholic relatives hopefully.
At my own funeral? I wanna be buried in the woods, so there won't be anywhere to plug music in. Maybe if someone brings an Iiiipod. 'Die in Terror' by the Residents.:p

luxinterior 04.29.2007 01:31 PM

I can't pick out funeral music right now. Maybe sometime later when I'm feeling melancholy.

Silent Dan Speaks 04.29.2007 02:04 PM

Tom Waits-Come on up to the House. It should considered a hymn.

I think Sunset Rubdown's Us Ones in Between would be good too.

SynthethicalY 04.29.2007 02:11 PM

The Diamond Sea
Where did You Sleep Last Night-Nirvana Cover
Sympathy for the Strawberry
Love Can Destroy- The Raveonettes
Orphans- Teenage Jesus and The Jerks

Bollocks_to_Pop 04.29.2007 02:18 PM

I know this may sound stupid but I think The Doors- The End would be a cool song. Long, a bit melancholy, but also awesome to listen to.

MellySingsDoom 04.29.2007 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bollocks_to_Pop
I know this may sound stupid but I think The Doors- The End would be a cool song. Long, a bit melancholy, but also awesome to listen to.


There's an ancient Simpsons episode where Homer is singing this whilst preparing to jump off a building.

Just thought of another - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Your Funeral, My Trial". A genuinely wonderful song, and gloriously inappropriate.

demonrail666 04.29.2007 02:26 PM

Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking. Just to confuse everyone.

noumenal 04.29.2007 02:29 PM

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 132, 3rd movement: "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart."

Performed live of course.

demonrail666 04.29.2007 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kegmama
The Diamond Sea most definitely.


 


You shouldn't do things like that. It's creepy as fuck.

demonrail666 04.29.2007 02:46 PM

Probably not. Just feels weirder.

luxinterior 04.29.2007 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kegmama
Oh come on, http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/.
That's not any more creepy then thinking about what song you will have play for your death.


 


I could have Mr. Cave playing but I wouldn't want to ruin him like that, by thinking of any of his music as funeral music.

nicfit 04.29.2007 03:07 PM

First something really sad (maybe some sixties' love song or something similar), then some bollywood stuff to shock and entertain people.

Bunbury 04.29.2007 03:12 PM

It would depend alot on how I actually died:

Natural Causes:
Philip Glass/John Cage- Metamorphosis 1 from Glass Cage.

Suicide:
I'll Be Your Mirror- VU&Nico (a haunting little fuck you)
or
Pissing in a River- Patti Smith.

SYRFox 04.29.2007 04:07 PM

Mouthus - What Knife Say

screamingskull 04.29.2007 04:38 PM

The B52's - Topaz

schizophrenicroom 04.29.2007 04:39 PM

natural causes- all of the silver session followed by deerhoof's "holy night fever" and "the diamond sea".

or.. raw power.


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