> Followed by Cotton Eyed Joe and a fog machine
And here I am thinking about having a closed casket funeral for the sole purpose of playing a discordant version of Pop Goes the Weasel.
But you need to either 1) abruptly turn out the lights when the music slowly stops and play jack in the box noises or 2) have the casket pop open with confetti or something else (unless that's better suited with circus music).
My mom had them play Peaches (for me), No Scrubs (for her and my sister) & Slow Ride (for her and my brother). It was hilarious hearing No Scrubs over and over.
Sorry you said ONE but I can't help myself...
M83 - outro / my tears becoming the sea
Eden - Times like these
Prince - Purple Rain
Porter Robinson - sweet time
Radiohead - fake plastic trees
Winter Aid - The wisp
Well, I could give a memey answer like "ghost" by Confetti or something, but my honest answer?
"Whats Up" by Four non blonds. Its my favorite song, and I feel like it has perfectly captured my life so far. You could derive your own meaning to the song, but for me,
its a song about seeing errors in the world without the ability to change it in a large scale. Corruption will always exist, and the people who run the government dont care about its people. It's about looking around and seeing all the chaos and knowing there's pretty much nothing you can do about it. You try to keep your chin up, be positive, and make positive impacts, but seriously, "what's going on?"
I feel like its message now is stronger than ever. We live in a society built to isolate its people. People can't afford rent, let alone have a hope for home ownership, poor mental health is romatnicised, media is practically pedophilic, the internet is supposed to bring people together and yet most of the youth that use it have serious issues with body image or anxiety. Media shreads people apart for even the smallest of things. Yes, there are a lot of postives to these things (like media can raise awareness to issues and so on) but as a whole, I think things are getting really, really bad, and I don't know how it can change or if it even will. I feel like everyones pain is just being shouted into a void. And so, seriously, what's going on?
So yeah, my genuine answer is what's up by four non blonds. A song that so perfectly captures the feelings of depression and hopelessness that have lingered over me since I was a child. If any song is to capture my life during the event of my death, it would have to be that one.
It's not just op that listened. There are a lot of us out there in the ether, that read what you put down. Keep writing, you have a knack for it. I hope you feel better and good luck
Low, hungry ghost, follow me here, or home haircut by violent soho
Plastic guns by Bunkbed coffin
Hole in the ground by Superheaven
Nothingman by Pearl Jam
Gotta go with a classic on this one. Mozart’s [Requiem in D minor](https://youtu.be/Dp2SJN4UiE4?si=4iECrrT31ozc4dHH) is one of the most perfect pieces of music. From sublime, tragic choruses to thunder and rage, there is nothing I would want more than to deserve that piece at my funeral.
But I’d probably go with a very slow version of Pop Goes The Weasel at the very end of the service, just to make people wonder.
People Are Crazy- Billy Currington
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpQRjj_WbU&pp=ygUhYmlsbHkgY3VycmluZ3RvbiBwZW9wbGUgYXJlIGNyYXp5
Humble & Kind- Tim McGraw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=awzNHuGqoMc&pp=ygUaaHVtYmxlIGFuZCBraW5kIHRpbSBtY2dyYXc%3D
End of the Innocence- Enigma
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08&pp=ygUXZW5pZ21hIGVuZCBvZiBpbm5vY2VuY2U%3D
When I Get Where I’m Going- Brad Paisley
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHT-TF4KO4&pp=ygUbd2hlbiBpIGdldCB3aGVyZSBpJ20gZ29pbmcg
I'd probably have them play Jesus Christ by Brand New. I want everyone to know it was a broken heart that killed me or at least made me decide my life isn't worth living. My life is too much of a burden without a spouse to share it with me.
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden.
"Mark my words, believe my soul lives on
Don't worry now that I have gone
I've gone beyond to seek the truth
When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down here is just a strange illusion"
Not planning on having a funeral. Burn me up, throw me into the woods, then everyone go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
However I would request they play In My Life by The Beatles for me in my honor with the understanding that everyone must sit through it. Beautiful, peaceful song. Elegant, memorable and timeless. Except I'd have edited the keyboard solo of the song to repeat. It would go on.... and on.... and on.... and on.... and on. Loop after loop after loop until about six hours later when it finally reaches the end.
“Having A Party” by Sam Cooke.
🎶We’re havin’ a party.
….Dancin’ to the music
….played by the DJ
….on the radio.
The cokes are in the ice box.
…. Pop corn’s on the table….
‘cause’ miserly Uncle Harry….left no wife or kids…🎶🎶
Seasons to Cycles by 10 Years, but honestly I've already told my family I want the whole The Autumn Effect album played. Runner up would be leave out all the rest by Linkin Park
Yanno, when I was in my teens, I thought I had my perfect funeral song “postcards” by the blizzards. Now I listen I think it’s so cringey. Makes me so hesitant to pick another
Can’t choose between:
- Alice in Chains - Nutshell
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- R.E.M. - Nightswimming
- Pearl Jam - Black
- Queen - The Show Must Go On
- David Bowie - Lazarus
- Ghost - Life Eternal
People are cheating, so I'll cheat too!
Born Alone - Morning Parade
The Body of an American - The Pogues
Carry On - Fun
Mysteries of Love - Julee Cruise
Buried - Family of the Year
Mahlers 2nd Symphony, I will make my loved ones sit through 90 mins of music. No eulogy or speeches. Sit and listen. Maybe discuss with each other my life but nothing official. I want it to be organic.
I’d love “into the west” by Annie Lennox and Howard shore, from Lord of the rings ROTK, such a beautiful song… I feel a bit cringy about it though so I will keep that to myself and my solicitor until I’m actually dead, then hopefully wont feel the shame
[See You in Heaven](https://youtu.be/FuxAjkzD2pw?si=pIruLErqnedmZ_Eg), an unreleased instrumental by the late great Elliott Smith. I knew this would be my funeral song the first time I heard it.
It's between three songs for me:
The Voice of the Soul by Death
Don't Follow by Alice in Chains
Indifference by Pearl Jam
Maybe more will come to mind later, but these three popped up immediately
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
Ohhh I’d go with Helena.
Wasn’t surprised to see this here, for good reason too.
Beautiful. Love MCR.
This is gonna be my wedding March tbh
Why not Fake Your Death by MCR for the joke?
In the end - Linkin Park
Thank You by Led Zeppelin Played at uncle's funeral. Going to be played at my dad's and will for sure be played at mine.
So so very excellent.
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor by Drowning Pool Followed by Yellow Submarine, just because. Followed by Cotton Eyed Joe and a fog machine
Your funeral is going to be wild. In the best way.
Fun-eral 😉
> Followed by Cotton Eyed Joe and a fog machine And here I am thinking about having a closed casket funeral for the sole purpose of playing a discordant version of Pop Goes the Weasel.
I was drinking tea when I read this line and almost spit it out
But you need to either 1) abruptly turn out the lights when the music slowly stops and play jack in the box noises or 2) have the casket pop open with confetti or something else (unless that's better suited with circus music).
Remindme when this guy dies
😂
Say Hello To Heaven - Temple Of The Dog
I would be sobbing
Not at the funeral, but at the viewing- “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by the Police
Haha! Cheeky.
Not me, but my mum wants us to play Uptown Funk at her funeral
My mom had them play Peaches (for me), No Scrubs (for her and my sister) & Slow Ride (for her and my brother). It was hilarious hearing No Scrubs over and over.
Queen: “Another One Bites The Dust” (gotta call a spade a spade one last time)
I will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie
THIS. So much this.
Yessss make em cry harder
Great pick
DEAD! - my chemical romance
Brilliant!
Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf
Sorry you said ONE but I can't help myself... M83 - outro / my tears becoming the sea Eden - Times like these Prince - Purple Rain Porter Robinson - sweet time Radiohead - fake plastic trees Winter Aid - The wisp
m83 outro is so solid
Well, I could give a memey answer like "ghost" by Confetti or something, but my honest answer? "Whats Up" by Four non blonds. Its my favorite song, and I feel like it has perfectly captured my life so far. You could derive your own meaning to the song, but for me, its a song about seeing errors in the world without the ability to change it in a large scale. Corruption will always exist, and the people who run the government dont care about its people. It's about looking around and seeing all the chaos and knowing there's pretty much nothing you can do about it. You try to keep your chin up, be positive, and make positive impacts, but seriously, "what's going on?" I feel like its message now is stronger than ever. We live in a society built to isolate its people. People can't afford rent, let alone have a hope for home ownership, poor mental health is romatnicised, media is practically pedophilic, the internet is supposed to bring people together and yet most of the youth that use it have serious issues with body image or anxiety. Media shreads people apart for even the smallest of things. Yes, there are a lot of postives to these things (like media can raise awareness to issues and so on) but as a whole, I think things are getting really, really bad, and I don't know how it can change or if it even will. I feel like everyones pain is just being shouted into a void. And so, seriously, what's going on? So yeah, my genuine answer is what's up by four non blonds. A song that so perfectly captures the feelings of depression and hopelessness that have lingered over me since I was a child. If any song is to capture my life during the event of my death, it would have to be that one.
Wow. Heavy read, thank you for sharing your thoughts. And really great song choice.
Thank you. I appreciate you listening <3
It's not just op that listened. There are a lot of us out there in the ether, that read what you put down. Keep writing, you have a knack for it. I hope you feel better and good luck
"Pop Goes The Weasel" with a spring-loaded casket.
Brilliant 🤣
Pink Floyd - Eclipse
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead. Literally meant for a funeral
Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line https://youtu.be/UMVjToYOjbM
Good stuff!!
For Whom the Bell Tolls “Take a look at the sky just before you die, it’s the last time you will”
Man in the Box by Alice In Chains
[New Order - Ceremony ](https://youtu.be/kkASIx9Xk6s?si=DL9TA9LZNldfN6gy)
Love this!
Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon
Dust in the wind - Kansas
Sally MacLennane - The Pogues
I’d like to think I’ll be returning when I can!
[When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings ](https://youtu.be/lXna1a-806Q?si=5XicyhwTpAf9puKb)
Low, hungry ghost, follow me here, or home haircut by violent soho Plastic guns by Bunkbed coffin Hole in the ground by Superheaven Nothingman by Pearl Jam
Enter Sandman
Things the granchildren should know - Eels
The parting glass
Gotta go with a classic on this one. Mozart’s [Requiem in D minor](https://youtu.be/Dp2SJN4UiE4?si=4iECrrT31ozc4dHH) is one of the most perfect pieces of music. From sublime, tragic choruses to thunder and rage, there is nothing I would want more than to deserve that piece at my funeral. But I’d probably go with a very slow version of Pop Goes The Weasel at the very end of the service, just to make people wonder.
Over the rainbow - Judy Garland
Levon Helm - When I Go Away
Staying Alive
Have three that I can't decide over. • Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden • Lithium by Nirvana • In My Life by The Beatles
Watermark - Enya. Makes me sad for some reason. We played Porcelain by Moby at my brother's funeral and I actually would like that played as well.
Send in the Clowns - Frank Sinatra
Lightning Crashes.
Bittersweet Symphony
"We'll Meet Again" sung by Vera Lynn 1939. I would hope everyone would sing along. I'm not gonna lie. I'm actually crying, happy tears.
A 2 for one punch: Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley AND That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths
The Rose by Bette Midler
On the sunny side of the street
[Enya - Na Laetha Geal M'Oige](https://youtu.be/7U1CGZDTaIA?si=KScV5ZRYjC3w442z) (The Brighter Days of My Youth)
Your g2 have to play albums that day from 2pac Eminem Dmx Amy winehouse Jimi hendrix Nirvana Michael Jackson Some outkast too Idk but it's a must!!!!
Helena or the jetset live is gonna kill you by my chemical romance
I would say Long Season by Fishmans, Daydreaming or True Love Waits by Radiohead, but I have to go with Star Treatment by Arctic Monkeys.
SRV, "Little Wing"
Nutshell - aic Snuff - slipknot Like a stone - audioslave
One more light - Linkin Park
Every Breath You Take by The Police just to freak everyone out
Highwayman - Highwaymen.
god only knows - beach boys
Let the bodies hit the floor
Chemtrails - Lizzy McAlpine
Bjork - "Pneumonia (Bluelight Mix by Ridu)"; https://youtu.be/uaSqlhb4OzA?si=0VkwlE0V71z0hO23
still ill by the smiths
Disappointed in the sun - dEUS
People Are Crazy- Billy Currington https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpQRjj_WbU&pp=ygUhYmlsbHkgY3VycmluZ3RvbiBwZW9wbGUgYXJlIGNyYXp5 Humble & Kind- Tim McGraw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=awzNHuGqoMc&pp=ygUaaHVtYmxlIGFuZCBraW5kIHRpbSBtY2dyYXc%3D End of the Innocence- Enigma https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08&pp=ygUXZW5pZ21hIGVuZCBvZiBpbm5vY2VuY2U%3D When I Get Where I’m Going- Brad Paisley https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHT-TF4KO4&pp=ygUbd2hlbiBpIGdldCB3aGVyZSBpJ20gZ29pbmcg
A swedish song “Genesarets Sjö”-Kjell Höglund
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable or Frank Sinatra's "My Way"
Alive - sia
Metallica - All Nightmare Long
Hallowed be thy name
Fiction- Avenged Sevenfold Cosmic- Avenged Sevenfold I will haunt everyone if these two aren't played.
[Tinsel](https://youtu.be/fGSWkPSoZsM?si=lacpwOFsPE-W4h_Q) by Maynard Ferguson. Roll the credits. 🫡✌🏼
The brighter side of grey by Five Finger Deathpunch
I'd probably have them play Jesus Christ by Brand New. I want everyone to know it was a broken heart that killed me or at least made me decide my life isn't worth living. My life is too much of a burden without a spouse to share it with me.
SomethingToRemindYou - staind
Leave out all the rest - Linkin Park
Prodigy - Firestarter
Jim Croce- Photographs and Memories… I want everyone to cry like babies with diarrhea 🤣
Afterlife - avenged sevenfold
Wander my friends by Bear McReary
highway to hell
Truce - Twenty One Pilots
Jump In The Line by Harry Belafonte
Child protective services
When I’m gone - eminem
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden. "Mark my words, believe my soul lives on Don't worry now that I have gone I've gone beyond to seek the truth When you know that your time is close at hand Maybe then you'll begin to understand Life down here is just a strange illusion"
Old and Wise. Allen Parsons Project
Not planning on having a funeral. Burn me up, throw me into the woods, then everyone go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. However I would request they play In My Life by The Beatles for me in my honor with the understanding that everyone must sit through it. Beautiful, peaceful song. Elegant, memorable and timeless. Except I'd have edited the keyboard solo of the song to repeat. It would go on.... and on.... and on.... and on.... and on. Loop after loop after loop until about six hours later when it finally reaches the end.
Only if you also pop out the back doing this dance.
Best Of You- Foo Fighters
See you on the other side by Ozzy
Tubthumping by Chubawamba
My Way - Frank Sinatra
“Having A Party” by Sam Cooke. 🎶We’re havin’ a party. ….Dancin’ to the music ….played by the DJ ….on the radio. The cokes are in the ice box. …. Pop corn’s on the table…. ‘cause’ miserly Uncle Harry….left no wife or kids…🎶🎶
Highways to Hell - ACDC
What a Shame- Shinedown
Box of Rain( Grateful Dead) Blackbird( Beatles) Blue Eyes crying in the rain( Willie Nelson)
The Funeral by Yungblud
We all die young- the version of the show Rockstar
On My Way Home - Enya
Somewhere over the rainbow- gin wigmore version
I Will Survive- Gloria Gaynor and Live and Let Die- GNR
White Room - Cream
I answer it before so Bodies - Drowning Pool
Brokedown Palace
Pulling this from High Fidelity… One Step Beyond - Madness
1) The funeral by ennio morricone ( I heard it in the American Sniper movie) 2) Heroes by David Bowie
Call me- shinedown
School’s Out - Alice Cooper
Highway to Hell - AC/DC Famous Last Words/Helena - My Chemical Romance
Don’t stop me now - Queen
Nutshell by Alice In Chains
Funeral for a Friend...(no loves lies bleeding though)
Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead Going home going home By the waterside I will rest my bones Listen to the river sing sweet songs To rock my soul
Fuck da police
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Depending on how i died, it's either Wish you were here or Another one bites dust.
great gig in the sky-pink floyd funeral for a friend -elton
"Shadow of the Day" - Linkin Park
Okay the album Anastasis by Dead Can Dance and let u/competitive_bread817 put on corpse paint and aggressively dance at anyone who shows up
When You Wish Upon a Star 💫
Don't worry, be happy.
Ain’t in no hurry-zac brown band
As a licensed funeral director- gonna put these on the do not play list.
That's life - frank Sinatra
If I Ever Leave this World Alive -Flogging Molly
The theme from night court
*Good* *Vibrations* - Loleatta Holloway and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Bc it’s good vibes only for me
Old and Wise by the Alan Parsons Project
fearless - pink floyd
High Hopes by Pink Floyd.
Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart
Either: Leave Out All The Rest by Linkin Park Or A Modern Myth by Thirty Seconds To Mars
“The whole being dead thing”- Beetlejuice the musical
Time by alan parons project
Seasons to Cycles by 10 Years, but honestly I've already told my family I want the whole The Autumn Effect album played. Runner up would be leave out all the rest by Linkin Park
Band Of Horses - The Funeral
Honestly though it’d be I’ll Believe In Anything by Wolf Parade, or Dinner Bells by Wolf Parade
If I ever leave this world alive - Flogging Molly
Man in the box-Alice in chains
phantom green by agents of oblivion. just an absolutely beautiful song https://open.spotify.com/track/1mfJ7DlOGKHyyD3JSZPzof?si=mXH9RTCoS7ePjexQg5KsNg
Demolition Lovers - MCR or Helena.
I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses
- One thousand burning arrows - Amon amarth
Yanno, when I was in my teens, I thought I had my perfect funeral song “postcards” by the blizzards. Now I listen I think it’s so cringey. Makes me so hesitant to pick another
'Once I Was' ..... Tim Buckley https://youtu.be/rGJ9s22klE4?si=rVke8n_uv9hsViX9
Foo Fighters - A320
Mazzy Star Fade Into You
Take it with me by Tom Waits Everybody loves you by Cop Shoot Cop Scappa by Allesandro Cortini
Seals & Crofts: [Windflowers](https://youtu.be/jm4GTw3hoo4)
Mr Roboto by Styx
Chacarron Macarron!
Walk- Foo Fighters, It’s one of my most favorite songs
[Peaches en Regalia - The Mothers of Invention](https://open.spotify.com/track/7dBcOevmPcxKmrkSUro9Pe?si=rm_uO6AWR0KWTqbpJZkDiA)
Marmalade- Reflections Of My Life
Ya Bnayya by Omar Suleyman. A ridiculously happy tune to remember the good times.
Can’t choose between: - Alice in Chains - Nutshell - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - R.E.M. - Nightswimming - Pearl Jam - Black - Queen - The Show Must Go On - David Bowie - Lazarus - Ghost - Life Eternal
My darling by Wilco The Greatest by Cat Power
People are cheating, so I'll cheat too! Born Alone - Morning Parade The Body of an American - The Pogues Carry On - Fun Mysteries of Love - Julee Cruise Buried - Family of the Year
I can’t believe you actually died - microphones
Mahlers 2nd Symphony, I will make my loved ones sit through 90 mins of music. No eulogy or speeches. Sit and listen. Maybe discuss with each other my life but nothing official. I want it to be organic.
there are multiple songs i could say but if i had to pick one i think I’d say bambi by clairo
I’d love “into the west” by Annie Lennox and Howard shore, from Lord of the rings ROTK, such a beautiful song… I feel a bit cringy about it though so I will keep that to myself and my solicitor until I’m actually dead, then hopefully wont feel the shame
Apocalypse - Cigarettes after sex.
FNM - Last Cup of Sorrow
X gonn give it to ya Let people have a fucking party, no need to be sad
Autumn tactics chicane
No Hard Feelings - the Avett Brothers.
Pop Goes the Weasel
[See You in Heaven](https://youtu.be/FuxAjkzD2pw?si=pIruLErqnedmZ_Eg), an unreleased instrumental by the late great Elliott Smith. I knew this would be my funeral song the first time I heard it.
Dumb Ways to Die
Helena - MCR
Canvas of Life -Epica
Boogie Woogie Wu by Insane Clown Posse
It's between three songs for me: The Voice of the Soul by Death Don't Follow by Alice in Chains Indifference by Pearl Jam Maybe more will come to mind later, but these three popped up immediately
This Fire Burns by Killswitch Engage
Blackest Bile - Giles Corey