Have you picked out music?

I'm sitting here thinking about what i would want played at my wake/funeral. I'm a child of the '70s (if somehow, magically, I could go back there, I'd do it in a heartbeat), so the music is mostly from that era. Some songs would reflect my emotions when i died, and some that brought back good memories.

It's a pretty eclectic group. Anyone wanna give me any opinions on whether I should delete any songs from the list? Note that this is not the play list, I'll be shuffling the order of the songs.


BEAUTY_AND_THE_BEAST_Main_Title_Theme.mp3
Alan Parson's Project_-_Voyager.mp3
Alan_Parsons Project_-_Don't Answer Me.mp3
America_-_Lonely People.mp3
Barbara Streisand_-_The Way We Were.mp3
Crosby__Stills___Nash_-_Just A Song Before I Go.mp3
Eagles_-_Desparado.mp3
Eagles_-_Hole in the World.wav
Elton John_-_ Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.mp3
Elton John_-_Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding).mp3
Elton John_-_Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.mp3
Eric Clapton_-_Tears In Heaven.mp3
Henry_Mancini_-_Moon River.mp3
Hollies_-_He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother.mp3
James Taylor_-_ Fire And Rain.mp3
John Lennon_-_Imagine.mp3
Kansas_-_Dust In the Wind.mp3
Simon & Garfunkel - I Am A Rock.mp3
Simon and Garfunkel_-_Bridge Over Troubled Water.mp3
The Carpenters_-_Goodbye to Love.mp3
The Carpenters_-_Yesterday Once More.mp3
Three Dog_ Night_-_'Till The World Ends.mp3

 

Your list is pretty good
Theres one song I would want played at my funeral.
Unwritten law - Before I go.

It basically says just remember the good times, and forget the bad times.
Fire and rain by James taylor is a pretty good one.

 

Rain- Breaking Benjamin
This Afternoon- Nickleback

 

As another child of the 70's here, I have to say I think the list is really good.

The Carpenters songs have been on my mental list for a while, as well as some of the others. I also added Rainy Days & Mondays, though. Then again, Carpenters remind me of my mom and if I think about my mom any more than I already am right now, the heartbreak will drive me even crazier.

My list also includes:

Commodores - Easy Like Sunday Morning (played at a friend's funeral many years ago)

Dream Theater - Wait For Sleep

3 Doors Down - Away From The Sun

There are more, including a Josh Groban song and a Casting Crowns song I played at my best friend's funeral... she'd want them played at mine too.

 

If I were to have a funeral, it would be an actual celebration instead of something brooding and dark.

Here's my music:

AC/DC- "For Those About to Rock"
Billy Idol- "Shock to the System"
Crush 40- "I Am (All of Me)"
Guns N' Roses- "Out Ta Get Me"
Anything by Judas Priest and/or Megadeth

I'd list more, but that's all I can name off the top of my head...

 

I've never given this much thought before, but here's a few artists I picked out:

Elliott Smith definitely comes to mind when making a playlist like this. He experienced alot of depression and drug abuse, which is shown throughout his heart wrenching lyrics. Between the bars (1997) tends to be a fan (and my personal) favorite.

Slowdive is alot like other shoegaze-type bands from the early 90's, and it never really caught my attention until I heard one particular track. Machine Gun (1993), by my standards, is practically perfect.

Heres some others:

The Big Ship by Brian Eno (1975)
An Ending (Ascent) by Brian Eno (1983)
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country by Boards of Canada (2000)

 

black flag, damaged 1 that live version on YT. :smile: i'm going to have NO-ONE at my funeral with that playing , just how i like it. because i don't want anyone there. but i can't control it can i? that's why i don't want to die, all that will be taken out of my hands and they'll put on their pretty music and cry and soothe each other and feel sorry for themselves that they 'lost' me. i feel angry just thinking about it.

 

ha i always though songs at funerals were so corny, but if theres a sound system near when i'm in my box,
i'd like them to play 'to zanarkand' from FFX.
; ] or the pokemon theme tune!
okeball:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DTil6dDQ

im so evil muahahh.

 

I really don't want a funeral. My body to be engraved into earth? Doesn't make sense. I want out of earth.

Song to be played at my end? Sound of burning bodies.

 

I've got a couple:

If I ever leave this world alive- Flogging Molly
Miles from nowhere- Cat Stevens
Forever Young- Bob Dylan

and I played "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd at my friend's wake.

 

The End - The Doors

Time of your life - Green Day

GoodBye my lover - James Blunt

Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin

Lake of Fire - Nirvana

 

'Sing' Glen campbell version not travis. was thinking about this today.

 

subject to change but right now

November Rain by Guns n Roses

 

I'm not having a funeral ..so just one song at the crematorium...
AWAKE MY SOUL by Mumford and Sons..

 

I would request ''Les Étoiles Filantes'' from the Cowboys Fringants (a quebec group), fallowed by ''Remèdes'' from Mass Hysteria (a heavy-rock group from France) and ''T.S'' from Diam's, a french rapper that sings about the reasons for committing suicide.

 

Even though I wouldn't want this song to be played a my funeral, the song I can think of that would best describe my death is "stan" by eminem.

 

solitaire by the carpenters comes to mind
war on drugs by barenaked ladies

i'm to tired to think of others right now.

 

I have but I don't really want to post it because if someone that knows me reads this forum they will recognise me.

I like the idea of a rocking funeral though.

 

I have a couple that I would like played
O Fortuna by Carl Orff always liked this one and
Time to Say Goodbye by Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli