A song for your funeral

Which song would you like to have played at your funeral and why?

 

oooh .. i've had this picked out for ages .. i know i'm a bit morbid.

Treasure by The Cure (from Wild Mood Swings)

She whispers
"please remember me
When I am gone from here"
She whispers
"please remember me
But not with tears...
Remember I was always true
Remember that I always tried
Remember I loved only you
Remember me and smile...
For it's better to forget
Than to remember me
And cry"

"remember I was always true
Remember that I always tried
Remember I loved only you
Remember me and smile...
For it's better to forget
Than to remember me
And cry... "


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH6-HtIbZY if you want to hear it

 

oh .. forgot the why bit.

i think it's rather evident in the lyrics though.

 

Little bit enthusiastic there Danielle:tongue:

 

hey, it's something i've thought about quite alot :leaving:

but um, well it's just weird that you post something so entirely random and i actually have an answer.

i'd picked that song out back in 1997 or sometime around then.
i've been sure to tell my husband even.

and you should know by now ... i'm strange. :tongue:


.... edit ....

oh, and now you know when the frog kills me what to be sure is played afterwards :lol:

 

either highway to hell,- or dead or alive.

 

jimi hendrix little wing jus cos its cool
some marley aswell

 

Happy songs idealy. I'd rather whoever turned out for it would be reminded of good times as opposed to hearing sader tunes and getting all teary.

Don't know what yet though. I'd like a dance number to be played. Maybe 'The Sunshine Underground' by The Chemical Brothers or some Aphex Twin.

The Beatles and Pink Floyd would probably have to feature too.
I guess it would be better to draw up a setlist for the wake afterwards!

 

the groundation-one more day

 

I picked mines out when i was a little girl watching the wizard of oz

Ding dong the witch is dead

id rather people cried with laughter at my funeral than out of sadness

 

I thought The End, the Doors tune, but it's pretty depressing for people who don't love the music i guess. Still, i think I'm hoping that all the people who don't listen to my kind of music who're at my funeral might pay attention to it, and then understand its beauty. Least they can do really. I definitely need an album though, actually, I'll make an mp3 cd for the night of the wake and funeral.

Sorry to go off topic, but Danielle (I used your real name, I feel incredibly risque, power of language and all that), do you really believe that it's better to forget than to remember and cry. Because obviously that's not necessarily your point of view, but you picked it for your funeral, so you must agree with the lyrics at some level. It's only that I've always been very interested by that question. Would I rather not know of all the shitty stuff going on in the world, and thereby be in ignorant bliss, or keep knowledge paramount, despite the adverse effects. I usually think of it on a more global scale, rather than remembering the dead, because i guess I think there is something to be said for remembering those who have died, nevermind the above issue. But in terms of society etc, if I were a sheep (metaphorically), I wouldn't know I was, so I'd be just as happy, in fact maybe more so because I wouldn't be questioning or fighting against large sections of society. Basically is truth or happiness more important, in a bit of a simplistic dichotomy. Sorry for warping your thread Lithium.

 

I would have "fire" by Arthur Brown. Just for the comical value for the cremation. I will be laughing hysterically for eternity in the afterlife

Then maybe something serious. But i haven't decided yet. I might leave that up to the family and what reminds them of me.

 

As I'm a bit older than most of you it's regretably a bit more relevent!
Going in I'll have Carry Me by the Levellers and the coffin will go into the furnace to Alive by Pearl Jam.

 

Run like hell,Floyd and Get it while you can,Janis

 

Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead
Just for the "OMG" looks on people's faces...

 

comfortably numb.

 

Dunno but i would have done (if my friend had not got there first) : Always look on the bright side of life from The life of Brian... Cant believe no ones said that...

 

Having trouble picking just one, but I'd like these :-

Fame (I'm Gonna Live Forever) - Irene Cara
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Fate - New Model Army
Not A Day Goes By - Leatherface
Gone Away - The Offspring
Nobody's Hero - Stiff Little Fingers
You Will Lose Faith - NOFX
Good Riddance - Green Day

 

Asleep by The Smiths

 

Yesterday - Paul Mc

(yesterday.... all my troubles seemed so far away....)