Funeral music

[cuddly_tomato]

Everything Dies by Type O Negative.

It's a bit grim but it's good for funerals.

 

[God's Clown]

Spoiler

Has to be. Can be nothing else.

 

[Trifixion]

Sorry about the subtitles...this was the best audio version I could find out there.

Spoiler

Sure, it can be considered cheesy and emotionally manipulative arena rock - or just plain "sappy" - or even religiously preachy if you choose to interpret it that way.

But for some reason, it's also my favorite song and has been for the past 18 years or so since it was released.

And it's got a nice message for a funeral. So that would be my choice.

 

[TurtleBlob]

Spoiler: Watch the whole thing please, it kicks in at 1:05 or so.

Of course it would have to be properly timed to match the explosion...

Funny thing is this is the actual song they play on the radio (not the same version, of course) here in Iceland when they announce deaths and funerals.

 

[madcap2112]

Spoiler: This

Do I win the thread?

I suppose, although I think it would work better if it's played as you died. It could work as they carry your casket away, though.

Anything by Black Sabbath would be interesting to have playing.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Stairway to Heaven and Highway to Hell. It seems obvious.

 

[Nemu]

Always look on the Bright side of Life

Amusingly, I have drilled it into the heads of my family and closest friends that when I die, they MUST play, in it's entirety, the Monty Python Undertaker Sketch.


So that is the best "music" to play, imo.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

The Imperial March.

EDIT: Let It Be, Blackbird, Imagine, Here Comes the Sun, and Dear Prudence. Just because I love those songs

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Instant Karma by John lennon

because we all shine on

you are a silly person who will turn into a raging person if yu ever hear Tokio Hotel's version of instant karma. it makes me want to hit people, and i don't even LIKE that song. rawr

 

[MetalGenocide]

Ghost busters theme.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Instant Karma by John lennon

because we all shine on

you are a silly person who will turn into a raging person if yu ever hear Tokio Hotel's version of instant karma. it makes me want to hit people, and i don't even LIKE that song. rawr

For some reason people have been ruining the Beatles as of late... It makes me want to hit people as well.

 

[Wutaiflea]

<spoiler=Played as my coffin slides into the cremation oven><youtube=9vpMy14XiBw>

This is sheer unbridled awesome.

My brother's thought for when he goes into the oven is to have "Fire" by Arthur Brown.

Personally, I intend to have "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the Wizard of Oz.

 

[TraumaHound]

The most awesome Song/Music you can think of to have at a funeral.

The final countdown!

Karaoke stand for those who actually want to use it

With the timer and at the 0:00 point a massive BEEP and the coffin rockets off into a explosion behind the curtains!

With little sparks on the viewers side...

Taped and message to every religion with "How a funeral should be" on the front

I'm am so going to your funeral, put me on the guest list.

As for my own, I'd have the service at the crematorium where, yes, I'm to be cremated. My corpse is wearing black jeans, high-tops, and a black KISS shirt (preferably with the Love Gun cover art on it) and my D&D dicebag clutched firmly in my death-grip. As the opening notes trickle through the nearby stereo speakers the conveyor starts up.

Spoiler: The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

The doors to the furnace close, the fire flares up, and the burning begins.

My ashes I'll have contained in the hollowed out base of a Cthulhu statue (traditional to Lovecraft's design)

Spoiler: Something like this

for whichever of my children takes possession of it to pass on generation to generation, until, one day, the Great Old One comes to claim it.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Either the Funeral March by Chopin (Duhh)

OR, Darth Vader's theme from Star Wars

Or the extract from the terminator 'I'll be Back!'

 

[oppp7]

Hm... I'll go with Sports Montage from South Park. It would be inappropriate.

 

[ANImaniac89]

Room of Angels from Silent Hill 4 the Room

 

[Davrel]

Queen Mary's Funeral March by Henry Purcell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRcx9LHBJU

 

[Tonimata]

Life is beautiful, by Sixx A:M.
I don't want anyone to cry at my funeral

 

[SimplyTheWest]

The Pokemon theme tune!

Beat that and you are stupidly clever.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

these are the songs i want played at mine in order:

Murder Train A Comin - Dethklock (only if i am murdered though, to lighten the mood)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMFQIaVJs4

Runes Cut To My Memory - Amon Amarth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVWBJHVSrAE

Fade To Black - Metallica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMtvgsa96U

Simple Man - Lynard Skynard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs

A Question of Heaven - Iced Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiW82Lxcvo

there will be more songs after the service but these will be played during the service