Music for my funeral...

[Johnny Blue]

Forgive me if this has been done before, but seeing a post elsewhere on this forum reminded me: has any one else got a particular (and quirky?!) piece of music that they would like to be played at their funeral?

Mine is (and it has been for a long time) Ornette's trumpet solo on the 'Golden Number', on the eponymous LP by Charlie Haden: achingly beautiful to my ears, but would probably clear the crematorium chapel!

 

[Mescalito]

Box of Rain - Grateful Dead

 

[andrew]

Yes, it has been done before, but this allows me to repeat my hilarious suggestion of "Fire" by Arthur Brown for a cremation.

Almost as good would be the strains of "Down Down Deeper and Down" by Status Quo at a burial. Almost worth dying just for that.

 

[Markus S]

Smog, Dress sexy for my funeral, from the album Dongs of Sevotion

 

[zarniwoop]

Comfortably Numb/Pink Floyd

"I have become comfortably numb..."

 

[Anex]

Possibly a song by Ginger Baker which I don't know the title of, but it stops at regular intervals so he can shout cock and **** and so forth. I'd insist on it being a church service.

 

[Buddie]

easy getting carried up the aisle has to be "margate" chas n dave
then" sweetest feeling "by Jackie wilson as its just so happy and I want a laugh at my funeral

 

[The Captain]

as before: the bod themetune, quietly in background when Im slowly going down the isle.

then Just Like heaven (Dinosaur) when im rolled away off to the fire.

 

[nightcleaner]

my partner says Barber adigio for strings for me

i want cavalier rusticana for her

 

[MJS]

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Dusty Springfield and the Pet Shop Boys

 

[PigletsDad]

Theme for Lester Young (Goodbye Pork Pie Hat)

Charlie Mingus

Great, but will clear the crem faster than a fast thing.

I heard on the radio of funeral where they choose "We are the champions" by Queen, but mistimed how long things would take, and the player moved onto the next track - "Another one bites the dust"!

 

[JTC]

I quite like the idea of 'when the saints' but more appropriately would be AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell'...

 

[Markus S]

I heard on the radio of funeral where they choose "We are the champions" by Queen, but mistimed how long things would take, and the player moved onto the next track - "Another one bites the dust"!

 

[nightcleaner]

mcguinness flint song comes to mind "when I'm Dead and gone"

for anyone to young to remember it

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PizUw4GmCUo

 

[Bob McC]

Chris Rea
Road to Hell

 

[MichaelC]

Living in a Box by, err, Living in a Box.

I would certainly request Damnation Alley by Hawkwind.

 

[Johnny Blue]

I would certainly request Damnation Alley by Hawkwind.

Presumably, in advance?

 

[Martin D]

John Cage 4 minutes 33 seconds

 

[Azzy]

Always with me, always with you, Joe Satriani.
and one of the Dogs D'Amour tracks off the 'Graveyard of empty bottles' EP
going to be an Angel today - or somesuch

 

[johnnym]

Alice Cooper - I love the dead

Not that I like the song, but as it's about necrophilia so it might bring me some posthumous amusment.