Apologies to anyone recently going through a bereavement. Even the mention of death and funerals can tweak emotions.

I'm sure you've all thought about what you'd like played at your funeral. I know I have since I was a moody young kid. When I was 14/15 I would have wanted either Nirvana's 'Something in the Way' or Marilyn Manson's 'Man that you Fear'. How things have changed. Without sounding like I'm being patronizing to anyone still listening to that music but I'm just glad I'm long past that stage of my life.

But funerals don't have to be all morbid. Especially not mine. I'm approaching mine with an angle. How about Elton Johns 'I'm Still Standing'? Or Madness's 'One Step Beyond'?

Sinatra's 'That's Life' also deserves an honourable mention. Mind you I've promised everyone I know I've got to sing it at a kareoke before I die.

Here's your time to shine people, what are yours. Be truthful, creative, funny whatever. I'll still give you a hug and rub your little shiny faces.

I've given this a lot of thought. Why? I don't know.

I'd like to have, of course, my favorite song, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan played.

Other songs I'd like to have played are "My Back Pages" by Dylan, "Instant Karma" by John Lennon, and the Unplugged version of "Helpless" by Neil Young.

The Doc

P.S. Sinatra's "My Way" would be great too.

Don't want a ceremony, but if there is going to be one I wish for the The Requiem Mass to be played. That pretty much runs the people I don't like off.

I assume most people have. Even though your dead it's your last impression you can make. To me that's important.

My dad has chose a good one. Cat Stevens' 'Morning has Broken'.

But you are not in charge of anything, so the outcome is not exactly your impression. I don't much care for funerals. I wish people would've cared for each other when they were alive, but unfortunately we are better at caring for people after they die.

But you are not in charge of anything, so the outcome is not exactly your impression. I don't much care for funerals. I wish people would've cared for each other when they were alive, but unfortunately we are better at caring for people after they die. [/b][/quote]That's because we're guilty we never saw them as much as we should have done or we've bitched about them whilst they were alive.

That's my point. A funeral is not for the deceased, it is for the rest of people. So in general, I don't care for it, unless I care for those who have lost someone.

Nice one, yours shouldn't be too expensive then. I'll roll you up in a carpet and throw you in the dump. :p

I will listen to your choice of Mozart though.

Incinerate, dump or bury my body, however you want. But please give me a kiss before I die. Mozart is always nice to listen to as well.

Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven", for sure. I also would want my daughter to sing "Amazing Grace". She sang it for a state competition last year and she was so lovely that it blew me away.

As for the actual funeral, I want TONS of flowers and lots of Kleenex being used, and everyone had better wear black.

SB we can have your funerals together. They can play "Tears in heaven" for you and "highway to hell" for me

Something beautiful, not too sad

either

Goodnight by The Beatles

or

Your Move by Yes

Pietro Mascagni`s Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo. Every mafioso would like that, and so would I.

I would like to hear:

"Sitting on the dock of the bay..." Otis Redding

and

"Dreamer" Ozzy Osbourne

I assume most people have. Even though your dead it's your last impression you can make. To me that's important.
[/b][/quote]I don't want a funeral. I want some public display though. I would prefer a Viking burial by having my body put on a boat and have a flaming arrow sent to the boat and watching it sink. With Tambourine Man playing that would be surreal. Perhaps to burn me and shoot my remains into the eye of a hurricaine would be best. I'd really like that.

Other songs to consider:

~Sad Eyed Lad of the Lowlands - Dylan
~One More Cup of Coffee - Dylan
~Forever Young - Dylan
~Ripple - The Grateful Dead
~Keep Me In Your Heart - Warren Zevon

and of course: Knocking on Heaven's Door - Dylan (or Warren Zevon)

The Doc

Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
The Great Gig in The Sky - Pink Floyd
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Straight To Hell - The Clash
Little Ol' Wine Drinker Me - Dean Martin
King of the Road - Roger Miller

In my Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin

Hard thought. Mostly I I seem to be thinking of music that has a funereal feeling rather then the actual meaning.

Led Zeppelin - "In My Time of Dying"
Black Label Society - "Just Killing Time" or "Rust"
Neil Young - "When God Made Me"
The Beatles - In My Life
Nirvana or The Vaselines - "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam"
The Doors - "End of the Night" or "The End"
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
The Velvet Underground - "Venus in Furs" (I know it's far from funereal, but still I find it to be one of the most relaxing songs ever)
Tangerine Dream - Confrontation ('Thief' end score)

2Pac - I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto
2Pac - Life Goes On
2Pac - The Good Die Young
2Pac - Until the End of Time
A.F.I. - ...But Home Is Nowhere
Akon - Lonely
Blink 182 - Adam's Song
Boston - A Man I'll Never Be
Breaking Benjamin - Forget It
Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free
Bright Eyes - First Day of my Life
Eminem - Sing For the Moment
Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn (Where is your Boy?)
Giorgio Moroder - Tony Montana's Theme
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Howie Day - Collide
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Watching the Wheels
The Killers - Everything Will Be Alright
The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
Matchbook Romance - The Greatest Fall (of All Time)
Nirvana - Something in the Way
Relient K - Who I Am Hates Who I've Been
Senses Fail - Rum Is For Drinking, Not For Burning (Acoustic)
Simple Plan - Untitled
Staind - Outside
System of a Down - Lonely Day
The Used - All That I've Got
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Weezer - Island in the Sun
Weezer - Only In Dreams

Hey you, don't watch that,
Watch this!
This is the heavy heavy monster sound,
The nuttiest sound around.
So if you've come in off the street,
And you're beginning to feel the heat,
Well listen, buster,
You better start, to move your feet,
To the rockiest, rock-steady beat,
Of Madness.

One step beyond!

Mine would be "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby.

"Unchained Melody" - The Righteous Brothers
"Hurt" - Johnny Cash
"With A Little Help From My Friends" - Joe Cocker
"Drive" - The Cars
"Spirit in the Sky" - Norman Greenbaum

There are so many. "Imagine" (Lennon) would be especially nice, among countless others, such as Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb".

Now that you have brought this subject up, I'll have to remember to write a life-soundtrack into my will. :p

Imagine - John Lennon
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Requiem Mass - Mozart
9th symphony - Beethoven

Lost of An ancient breen by Desmond Child. A truly emotional song, id recomend it to anyone.(My sig. is A line from that song)

L.Fanucci

If I was to choose soundtracks, I'd choose these:
-Breaking of the Fellowship, Samwise the Brave, The Black Gate Opens or Forth Eorlingas by Howard Shore
-The Birth of the Twins, Anakin vs Obi Wan or Star Wars End Title
-The Godfather Part II End Title or The Immigrant

As for the others:
-The Scientist by Coldplay
-Beautiful Day by U2
-Just Like Heaven by The Cure or Boys Don't Cry
If I wanted a really deppressing funeral, I'd go for "This year's love" by David Grey.

The Crying Game- Culture Club
Forgiveness- Don Henley

i'd definatly have to say do you realize by the flaming lips

oddly enough, i've actually had discussions about this quite recently more a few times, & i've decided i would like "in my time of need" by ryan adams played - which is a country-tinged song by one of alt. country's (& music in general's) greatest artists. it's a somber, but quite beautiful, song about staying with someone through hard times & until death, & since i doubt anyone here really listens to ryan adams, i'm going to go ahead & post an excerpt:

cause it ain't like it was back in those days
when everyone would offer up a hand
these old bones are worn, i've grown tired some
& i know my time is surely gonna come

lord, we married young & stayed where we came from
& gave those children everything we had
will you stay with me in my time of need
though it seems we had such little time for us

will you say to me "a little rain's gonna come"
when the sky can't offer none to me
cause i will come for you when my days are through
& i'll let your smile just off & carry me

Alot of people have listed Sinatra' interpretation of that gret Paul Anka lyric, "My Way" but I look alot deepper in Sinatra's repetoir to find a song of the calibur that I'd really want played at my funeral: Either "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" which is indeed Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's masterpiece of a song or a Jerry Lieber-Mike Stoller collaboration that Sinatra would record later in his days called, "The Girls I've Never Kissed". Just read the lyrics:

The old wolf sniffs the summer breeze, and dreams about his youth,
For the sight of skirts above the knees turns his hardboiled brain to tears.
And the scent of honey in the tree whets an old sweet tooth.

The pretty girls go strolling by, I smile at them, and heave a sigh.
And think of all the things I've missed, and all the pretty girls I've never kissed.

They smile from field of daffodils, they wave from high and windy hills,
In secret places by the sea, the girls I've never kissed still wait for me.

All the girls whose names I can't recall, their faces haunt me still,
All the pretty girls I've never kissed and never will.

The girls of spring, the girls of fall, the girls of summer most of all,
If only time did not exist, if only I could catch that boat I always missed,
I'd go back and kiss all the pretty girls I've never kissed.


Lyrics to, "One for My Baby":

It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place except you and me.
So, set 'em up, Joe, I got a little story I think you should know
We're drinkin', my friend, to the end of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby and one more for the road

I got the routine, so drop another nickel in the machine
I'm feelin' so bad, can't you make the music easy and sad
I Could tell you a lot, but you've got to be true to your code
So, make it one for my baby and one more for the road



You'd never know it but buddy, I'm a kind of poet
And I got a lot of things to say
And when I'm gloomy, won't you listen to me
Till it's all talked away...

Well that's how it goes and Joe, I know your gettin' anxious to close
So, thanks for the cheer, I hope you didn't mind my bendin' your ear
This torch that I found must be drowned or it soon might explode
So, make it one for my baby and one more for the road
That long, long road

I'd like them to play Cesar Franck's organ Chorales: Nos. 1 and 2. Just the right mood: somewhat funereal, but with exquisite keyboard work and an overall Art Nouveau theme. After that, they'll all be saying, "Turnbull is [was] a good man for having introduced me to those works."