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Songs For Funerals,Your favourite tune would be..

Badger
Badger Posts: 4,842
edited July 2008 in Not Sports Related
Following on from The top 5 albums of peoples lifetimes thread, what would be your favourite funeral tune.

What would you want played on the day.

I'll go for Sinead O'connor - nothing compares 2 u.
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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,761
    VFR
    The Waterboys: The whole of the moon.
  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    James - Tomorrow
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    Heaven from here - Robbie Williams
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,921
    For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,272
    A very morbid question but one that has been chattered about before.

    Nessum dorman was a popular choice, Time to say goodbye suprised me too from a couple of pals.

    Redemption Song - Bob Marley

    Cast No Shadow - Oasis

    LSF - Kasabian

    Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

    My one would probably be Good Riddance by Green day
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Amazing Grace would spring to mind and Blackbird by Mike Oldfield
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,449
    "Enjoy The Silence" - Depeche Mode
    "Host Of Seraphim" - Dead Can Dance
    "The Sun And The Rain - Madness
    "Last Goodbye" - Jeff Buckley
    "Come To Me" - Bjork
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,254
    Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

    Nearly brought a tear to my eye when I saw leonard cohen perform this on sunday.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,594
    funeral for a friend - elton john
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,898
    Abide with me and Danny Boy

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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,190
    Good byeeee - Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    This is not a piss take but I honestly want...

    Firestarter - The Prodigy

    Just before being cremated, my family and friends all know this. However as I get older I might change my mind and it would definitely be...

    Hellelujah - Jeff Buckley
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,106
    Elvis - Return To Sender
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    Hey Dude by The beatles
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,106
    edited July 2008
    [cite]Posted By: RedArmySE7[/cite]This is not a piss take but I honestly want...

    Firestarter - The Prodigy

    Just before being cremated, my family and friends all know this. However as I get older I might change my mind and it would definitely be...

    Hellelujah - Jeff Buckley

    Hellelujah! Planning on a trip SE7?
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    [cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: RedArmySE7[/cite]This is not a piss take but I honestly want...

    Firestarter - The Prodigy

    Just before being cremated, my family and friends all know this. However as I get older I might change my mind and it would definitely be...

    Hellelujah - Jeff Buckley

    Hellelujah! Planning on a trip SE7?

    Well I think you can tell by my first choice exactly which way I'll be going....:o)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,292
    FIre and Rain - James Taylor

    The Lark Ascending - Vaugham Williams
  • Nutmeg
    Nutmeg Posts: 8
    Stig, my brother in law actually had Firestarter at his funeral! After all the tears at the church it really 'lightened' the mood, as much as it could have been lightened....
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    At my brother's funeral I left the choice of music to his three young daughters - he was a big Queen fan so I told them they could choose any song on the Queen Best of CD except track #1 - Bohemian Rhapsody, partly because I can't stand it but mostly because you can't have "Mama I just killed a man..." booming out around a church at a funeral. Instead they went for "Don't stop me now"...
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,095
    American Trilogy - Elvis


    I remember big Duncan's funeral last year, at the end as everyone was walking out, suddenly Monty Python, Always look on the bright side of life piped out.
    Apparently it was always something he said to his family he wanted at his funeral just for a laugh, it did raise everyones spirits.

    God bless you D, RIP

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  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,095
    I know a popular one these days is Somewhere over the rainbow by the Hawaiin guy, Israel Kamakawiwo, from the TV advert, who ironically is dead now himself.
  • Duck-Killer Brown
    Duck-Killer Brown Posts: 477
    Always look on the bright side of life - that would lighten the mood at the end I think
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,995
    I know its over, The Smiths.

    Lighten the mood at my own funeral? I want the place flooded with tears.
  • Amos on the wing
    Amos on the wing Posts: 1,802
    I'm still standing- Elton John
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    Raindrops keep falling on my head - because anyone buried in blighty is likely to suffer from this (I have a real dislike of cremation), and it is just a fantastic tune.

    and

    These are Days - 10'000 maniacs
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,967
    edited July 2008
    Wasted Years by Iron Maiden

    or

    Charmer - Kings of Leon

    or

    Bridge over troubled water or the Boxer by Simon and Garfunkle.

    the Boxer always sends shivers down my spine...
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    Cannot stand all those 'funny' songs that people want.

    When I peg it I want everyone to be feeling totally miserable and weeping like big puffs.

    So you have to chuck in the weepy hymn 'Old Rugged Cross' in there and then probably followed by 'You'll Never Walk Alone' sung by Shirley Bassey, a real hairs on the back of your neck job that.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,240
    ah you beat me to it Falconwood... Old Rugged cross was going to be mine. Family Tradition.

    "How great thou art" probably too is one of my favourite hymns and Amazing Grace.
  • Charlton_Charlie
    Charlton_Charlie Posts: 1,428
    Have decided that I am going to have 'Stayin Alive' by the Bee Gees in an attempt to lighten the mood...

    My mate was wheeled behind the curtain to the theme from Star Wars which also raised a smile.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    [cite]Posted By: KieranBrown[/cite]Always look on the bright side of life - that would lighten the mood at the end I think
    This would be mine too!

    A mate at work once said he'd have Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkle. "I want floods of tears at my funeral, dammit"

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