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Best Funeral Songs
Posted by kgb on 5 March 2010 - 10:58pm.
Just got the Highwaymen CD (Cash, Nelson, Jennings) for £2.98 from Amazon.. Great price for a great record. its got a song on it called Jim I wore a tie today which is about friends attending Jim's funeral. It set me thinking as to what is the best funeral song. The other one I really like is Long Black Limousine by the Burritos. Any others?
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
best one for me
In A Flash by Ron Sexsmith
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone
In a flash
Perfect subject for a Friday evening. But then, what could we expect from KGB?
Peter Gabriel...
I Grieve... and Marvin,s Heard it through the Grapevine ever since i saw "The Big Chill" back in the Eighties.
My wife's uncle
was sent off to 'Take My Breath Away' by Berlin.
Which was nice.
Me? 'Cheese and Onions' by the Pre-Fab Four, please.
My mate
wants Queen: Another one bites the dust
The HJH's 'Free As A Bird'
has the right dirge-like, momento morish quality for the church, and 'Fire' by the Crazy World of Arthur Askey (look it's that thread again) for the crematorium.
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When I go...
It's Untitled #8 (aka "Poppalagið") – from ( ) by Sigur Ros.
Could cause a fair degree of trauma, but hey it's MY BIG MOMENT'
Mine is and
always will be "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now".
What,s The Criteria..
for a funeral song anyway? Do you pick one you like, or one you think the mourners will like, or do you just pick one that,ll annoy the hell out of them because you,re gone and they,re not!
Charlie Drake
My Boomerang Won't Come Back
I've always thought
it might be quite fun to have I'm On Fire by Van Halen played. As the assembled hordes are filing out of my cremation service, David Lee Roth would be hitting the final high pitched screams: "I'm on Fire, I'm On Fire!..."
might get a laugh from some of my beast friends
Always fancied
Fiesta by The Pogues or Birth,School,Work,Death by The Godfathers,but knowing the GLW it will most likely be Days by The Kinks.
Songs about Funerals?
Then surely either "Cemetary Polka" or "Dead And Lovely" by the fabulous Tom Waits. Or even more appropriately "Funeral Tango" by Jacques Brel / Scott Walker.
Not one I would choose but
One for the Crematorium. Arthur Brown's Fire.
NOTE: this could be the strangest video you will watch all weekend. Shown on Supersonic in 1975. Utterly bonkers. I'm off to find some more...
Napoleon XIV
"They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa" is the one for me as I slip through the curtains...
Isn't It Grand To Be Bloody Well Dead!
Has to be this
The FPO and I have been discussing this recently. This is mine.
Wasn't it Malcolm Hardee
who had "Return to Sender" played at his funeral? Good choice!
Personally - sidestepping the temptation to go for Rage Against The Machine's "Bombtrack", with it's chorus of "Burn, burn, yes you're gonna burn!" - I find myself strangely drawn to William Shatner's Ben Folds-assisted "You'll Have Time", with it's repeated chorus of "Live life like you're gonna die, because you're gonna". What better time to remind those you love to take advantage of the chances they've got in this life than when your own has ended?* The fact that the phrase "You're gonna die" crops up some 30-odd times in the song only adds to the appeal for me and my bent sense of humour.
*OK, yes, *before* your own has ended wouldn't be a bad idea, but still...
One For My Baby
is going to be my funeral song.
This has nothing to do with death,
the kind of person I tried to be in my life, or my hopes for the people I leave behind, but every time I close my eyes and imagine my funeral, this is the music I always here. I don't know why, and I can't make it stop, so I'll just have to go with it: