Funeral Songs
Fri, 2003-08-01 10:54
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Funeral Songs
Oooh nice topic...
was talking to a friend last night, and he asked if i would take care of burying him when the time comes (he has no family at all)... I suggested that he should have Joe Strummer's 'Cool N' Out' played, as it would be so apt for him.
sounds like a much heavier conversation than it was, honest... what would you lot have played to see you off?
Liana
Lol...
I'll have sarah maclachlans "blue" as opposed to your lucinda williams one Martin.. the lyrics go;
"everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go, well I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though"
david floyd
Wasn't that by Joni Mitchell?
Liana
Yes originally (well spotted). But I prefer this one...
Rachel
At a friend's funeral we played "Can you feel the force" at top volume. He'd have approved!
Grec
"Bye bye bad man" by the Stone Roses.
stuart
'The more I gripe the more the white boys love me' by Boz Scaggs.
sabelle
I'd choose something like "I'm gonna live til I die" then followed by Neli's "It's gettin hot in here"
Grec
Ooh, I know what would go down well: what was that haunty last track on the first eponymously titiled Suede album?
Go on, someone google it for me.
The next life?
Grec
I think I'll have MY bathroom tit-tiled.
Spack
Something really inappropriate. Like if I hang myself then play 'on a rope' by Rocket From The Crypt.
Spack
Oh yeah, and can someone tell me what funereal means? I've always wondered...
Ralph
'Broken Stones' by Paul Weller for me.
marchioness
www.dictionary.com
Tony Cook
Funereal is funeral-like. Simple really.
I've got in in my will already - 'Let's Make The Water Turn Black' by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
"Wait 'till the fire turns green..."
martin_t
blue by lucinda williams, cos you'd all be really sad to see me go....
and then as i slowly move down the conveyor belt towards to furnace,...
whack on teenage kicks by the undertones.....
to get you all in the mood for the wake....
d.beswetherick
Damaged by Plummet.
Mark Brown
Going Underground - The Jam
stuart
'Old, tired, redundant and talentless' by Boz Scaggs.
Vicky
Well I'm leaving my body to science so I don't know if I'm gonna get a funeral but asuming I DO...
mmmm
'Message in a bottle' by The Police maybe
Skeeter
Wake me up before you go go
or maybe
The Letter, by Macy Gray. Or anything by Sade.
Flash
Funeral Pyre by the Jam
Grec
I like Spack's idea. Very funny.
If I die in a car accident: Crash, by the Primitives.
If I'm strangled to death: Take my breath away, by Berlin.
If I'm decapitated: Where is my Mind? by the Pixies.
I'm sure I can think of more...
stuart
'I'd give my left testicle to be black for just one day' by Boz Scaggs.
Grec
If I take my own life:
(Get a DJ to do mix on these...)
Suicide Blonde by INXS
Crazy by Patsy Cline
No More Lonely Nights by Paul McCartney
anything by The Grateful Dead
Tony Martin
Cat Stevens - 'I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun'
david floyd
Some girls are bigger than others - The Smiths
skeeter
I'd kill myself if they played anything by Paul McCartney at my funeral
Liana
hahahahha
sabelle
My kids would probably vote for "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"