The Bereavement Register (what, you don’t subscribe?) tells us who’s rocking gravesites in the UK these days. (Via BBC via Rock Daily).
TOP POPULAR FUNERAL SONGS
1. Goodbye My Lover – James Blunt
2. Angels – Robbie Williams
3. I’ve Had the Time of My Life – Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
4. Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
5. Pie Jesu – Requiem
6. Candle in the Wind – Elton John
7. With or Without You – U2
8. Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton
9. Every Breath You Take – The Police
10. Unchained Melody – Righteous Brothers
Go ahead and make your James Blunt jokes, but how awesome would it be to have the theme to Dirty Dancing play at your funeral as a joke?
Seriously, though — has anyone given it any thought? What indie rock song do you want people to hear at your funeral? And what do you want on your tombstone? (Aside from a picture of Rick James?)
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not indie, but i always wanted tom waits singing ol’ 55 at my funeral
7. With or Without You – U2
Well, that’s a little fucked up.
“Every Breath You Take” – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
On my tombstone:
“Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld/
so I can sigh eternally”
Song: “Street Spirit” Radiohead or possibly my theme song “Baby Got Back”
Song: “Pyramid Song” by Radiohead
Tombstone: “Come one… does anyone really miss me?”
my funeral was totally lame. my friends didn’t even come. didn’t end up needing a gravestone though. get it? get it?
I would want Rilo Kiley’s “Better Daughter/son” to play at my funeral. It has that kind of Irish funeral dirge kind of vibe. But, it says the f-word a couple of times and I don’t think my family would care for that.
For my epitaph? I have it picked out already. “Beloved Co-worker, so-so Father.” That is, assuming that I have kids one day. Either that or the tagline for “A Fist Full of Dollars” which says “He is, perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived.”
The Rat by The Walkmen or
Johnstown, Illinois by Tom Waits
Though I’m not really sure why… they just make sense to me.
Heaven- Talking Heads
If my husband plays a James Blunt song at my funeral, I’m gonna come back and haunt his ass. That is the most idiotic thing I’ve seen all day.
Best tombstone request I’ve seen: “There is no such word as ‘snuck’.”
indie perhaps only in spirit, Tom Waits’ “Come on Up to the House” would be my first choice.
“Please Tell My Brother” by Golden Smog (Tweedy) wouldn’t be a bad choice, either.
probably ‘eat my dust you insensitive fuck’ by catherine wheel
song – “time” by David Bowie
tombstone -”brb”
Mine will be Asleep by The Smiths.
I was at a bar at the weekend when one of my friends said “man, I’ve been sat here so long I’m starting to chafe….. that is going on my tombstone!”
true story.
Tom Waits- Anywhere I Lay My Head
“Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night” by The Hold Steady and “Bastards of Young” by The Replacements.
I had an ongoing joke that my funeral would cosist only of people sitting in a room listening to “Road to Nowhere” by the talking heads.
I have three songs…
“Satisfied Mind” — Jeff Buckley version
“Faded” — Afghan Whigs
“In the Fade” — Queens of the Stone Age (Lanegan vocal, though)
maybe thriller. i just like the picture of someone sobbing while doing the thriller dance.
The Tucson Weekly does a survey each week of a different individual, asking the same music-related Nine Questions of each participant. One of the questions is “What song would you like to have played at your funeral?” Here’s a link, which leads to more links, and so on, and so on…
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/archives/index?searchPhrase=nine+questions&submit=Search+Now%21“>http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/archives/index?searchPhrase=nine+questions&submit=Search+Now%21
enjoy.
Positive K’s “I Gotta Man”.
After that, some booty bass.
I would like my corpse to be animatronicized so that my head may bob while the mourners encircle the coffin and grind away the pain.
“Where is my mind?” – Pixies
“Never gonna cry again” – The Eurythmics
“Someday Soon” – The Doors
I always thought it would be hilarious to have your funeral song be “Wang Chung Tonight”. At my brother’s funeral they played “There is a Light that Newver goes Out” by the Smiths, which was fitting since he was a bouncy, Smiths loving homo.
If anyone plays “Every Breath You Take” at my funeral, I’m gonna stalk their ass from the grave.
“It’s the End of the World as We Know It” – R.E.M.
Though it’s cliche, and no one quotes Semisonic these days, except high school yearbooks. Epitaph: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
That song always reminds of this time I was in a whorehouse with two mates. My Russian sex slave was playing classical music, which I thought was rather cool. Through the left wall, I could hear my mate’s chick playing Michael Jackson. But then, through the right wall, my other mate’s girl was playing “I’ve…. had…. the time of my liiiife… and I owe it all to youoooooo…”. I was laughing so fucking hard I almost couldn’t bust a nut. Completely true story.
We’re actually going to be scattering some ashes of a buddy (one who turned me on to Stereogum a while back actually) this weekend at one of his favorite camping spots.
We’re going to play Iron and Wine’s “Each Coming Night” and “Ab’s Song” on his iPod speakers as part of the ceremony.
He always listened to Sam Beam while camping, and it should be a nice touch.
Wagner – “Flight of the Valkyries”
Metallica – “Battery”
“ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space” by spiritualized
i think it makes sense, plus it’s beautiful enough to make everybody who’s still alive feel better
I’ll have Jessica Simpson’s version of Robbie Williams’s “Angels.” Why not? I won’t have to hear it.
I’d like my epitaph to read, “She was a really nice girl, but it just didn’t work out.”
what?no sarah mclachlan?
i choose akron – gone
Modest mouse – “Gravity rides everything” definitely at my funeral.
definitely that queen song “another one bites the dust”. i’ve actually requested it as my funeral song! its the coolest funeral song ever! also my tombstone will read “sticks and stones may break my bones but i’m jesus”. straight from cartman’s mouth.
pearl jam “alive” or “see you later aligator”
We’ll Meet Again, the Johnny Cash version.
Belle & Sebastian-get me away from here, I’m dying.
Weird Al – “Like a Surgeon”
when my friend thom died, we played iron maiden’s “run to the hills” at his house…
his wake had songs by karate and i forget who else…
my friend scott always jokes that he wants “ballroom blitz” played at his funeral.
I want Aqualung’s ‘Strange and Beautiful’ – I have since June 2002.
jah calling- bad brains
you can’t put your arms around a memory- johnny thunders
killed by death- motorhead
last chance for a slow dance- fugazi
It’s hard to follow-up frankie’s post but…
Lay Me Low by Nick Cave
The Twist by Chubby Checker
Funeral tune: Highway to Hell – AC/DC
Epitaph: “He lived as he died: Drunk”
Well either that or “Sometime thinker, problem drinker, we are richer for having lost him”
I’ve Gone Straightedge – Minor Threat
I don’t know about funeral songs, but when they spread my ashes, the song should be “Dust in the Wind”, by Kansas.
Its got to be ‘Ne me quitte pas’ by Nina Simone at the funeral. I ain’t gonna have me no stone coz I’m going to fertilize a tree.