Songs to play at your funeral.

[dannyshenanigan]

I was coming up with a playlist for my wake; which, will hopefully be a long ways away. Nonetheless I can't help but think how fun it would be to leave this playlist in my will. It almost makes me look foward to my death a little bit.
Most of these songs may have a little irony in them but it can be songs you really like.

Alive-Pearl Jam
Electric Funeral- Black Sabbath
I Touch Myself- The Divinyls
Deththeme- Dethklok
The Final Countdown-Europe
Do You Realize??- The Flaming Lips
Knocking on Heaven's Door- Guns N' Roses
Hallowed be Thy Name- Iron Maiden
Eulogy- Tool
Last Goodbye- Jeff Buckley
How to Disappear Completely- Radiohead
Epitaph- King Crimson
Wake up Dead- Megadeth
A Song for the Dead- Queens of the Stone Age
Wake Up- Rage Against the Machine
The Show Must Go On- Queen
Oh Yeah- Yello
Your Love- The Outfield
Great Gig in the Sky- Pink Floyd
Collapse the Light into Earth- Porcupine Tree

 

[Stevenpfo]

Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. No question.

 

[sirdanilot]

Mega Mindy Tijd - Mega Mindy

No seriously, maybe some song from Evita? I don't know.

But wouldn't it be weird to play songs from like 50 years before your dead? Why not something new?

edit: If anyone would play 'Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend' from James Blunt on my funeral, I'd reincarnate into Godzilla and crush them personally.

 

[Jawz II]

Pantera - . .. .. .. .ing Hostile

 

[WerBackIII]

AC/DC - Ride On
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Wolfmother - Vagabond
Supergrass - Road to Rouen
HHGG - So long and thanks for al the fish
AC/DC - Back In Black

 

[Turkish_Aries]

Requiem for a dream for sure

 

[Cu Chulainn]

Monty Python - Always look on the Bright Side of Life

 

[Mirc]

Requiem by Mozart.
5th symphony by Tchaikovsky.

First is an amazing piece of music destined exactly for this purpose, and the last composition of Mozart, and the second one is an incredibly complex and beautiful symphony which is IMHO the best constructed of all I've ever heard, and the way its theme comes back in the last part gloriously after the mysterious, dark sounding over the rest of the piece is exactly what I would like people to hear on my funeral.

 

[silver 2039]

Something outrageous and shocking preferably. Like Date Rape or Menstrual Rag. Ah the reactions....pity I'll be dead and won''t see it. But still....

 

[Mise]

Candle in the Wind

 

[Arwon]

Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral

 

[Kozmos]

Monthy Python...

 

[WerBackIII]

Also adding Sex Pistols' and Frank Sinatra's My Way.

 

[bhsup]

I honestly don't want any. If I even hint that I do, I know a few family members who will insist on throwing in some others, and I'd just as soon not have that, so no songs. Just chuck me in a hole and go have a beer on my insurance.

 

[Zardnaar]

A Tu Le Monde by Megadeth.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose

 

[Stormrage]

Monty Python - Always look on the Bright Side of Life

Same here.

 

[EconomistBR]

If I die, which I doubt I will.

Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio in SOL minore (to get people crying)
AC-DC- Highway to Hell (to get people laughing)

 

[Pieman]

Ditto for the Monty Python. Or perhaps Highway to Hell.

 

[Brighteye]

I know some good poems. But if they have to be songs, Paranoid by Black Sabbath is one I'd want.
Things have Changed by Bob Dylan too.