Inappropriate tunes for a funeral

I've told my nearest and dearest, when the time comes, highway to hell.....

My condolences fella.
Love to you all.

Pete & Sue.

Sorry to hear that chap

A friend of mine who died from bad lifestyle of booze and fags had:

Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Cigarettes and alcohol - Oasis

Watching everyone trying not to s**** was well funny

Condolences Harry. Don't underestimate your mum though, maybe she wanted to slip a bit of levity into the occasion!

Sound of the underground?

And condolences, natch.

Sorry to hear of your loss Harry, mums are irreplaceable 😟

I once attended a funeral in a church which had been quite sombre up to the point that the coffin arrived, then suddenly, blaring very loudly from the speakers, came "Come On Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners.

It came as quite a surprise despite the fact that of course her name had been Eileen. It was rather nice though.

Many year ago, while watching telly with my then girlfriend, there was something on a news report about funeral music. So she asked me what I would play at the funeral if she was to die, without even a moments hesitation I suggested "ding dong the witch is dead". Soon after she dumped me.

An elderly relative of mine passed way sat in her favourite spot on her farm last year, so it seemed only right to spread her ashes in that field - cue all the sheep bounding over for feeding time 😬

Sorry for your loss. 🙁

My cousin was a massive motor racing fan - when he passed, his mum wanted The Chain, but entrusted the honours to an old lady who played the rather melancholy tune six on Rumours by accident, the one before The Chain. Not a tune I hear often, but I think of Alan whenever I hear it, he would have found it very funny. 🙂

Condolences..  🙁

AC/DC Back in Black

Sorry that you have lost your mother.

We chose my dads favourite song to go into the chapel with ‘Sound of Silence’ by Simon & Garfunkel. Probably a bit inappropriate as the first line is: “Hello darkness, my old friend…”. That and ‘The House of The Rising Sun’ as the second track being largely about a brothel…

Possibly not one for a tune for those that die tragically in a plane crash...

Tom Petty "Learning To Fly."

On the way into my grandfather’s funeral there was supposed to be some sort of aria. Except instead there was lots of drumming, and ‘ha!’ ‘Hoo-ha!’ noises. It turned out that the woman conducting the ceremony had had the cd’s out at home preparing for the funeral, and her son had inadvertently tidied up and put Ian Dury and the Blockheads into the opera case. Luckily my grandfather was fairly unimpressed at having to have a funeral - he thought a coffin was a waste of good timber - so it all went down pretty well with the relatives.

A young lad I used to work with sadly took his own life. His soundtrack as they fired up the pizza oven and set the rollers going was Tight Fit's 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.

Condolonces about your mum but I keep telling my mrs if she goes before me it will be Burn the witch by Radiohead

Sorry for your loss, condolences to you and the family.

A friends brother passed away recently, the entry song to the crem was enter sandman and exit song was I should be so lucky. Completely different ends of the scale as far as music tastes go but were his favourites.

I've always said I want to be cremated, everyone has to turn up in shorts and I want firestarter by the prodigy playing at the end

I went to a funeral at a crematorium two weeks ago and the final song was elvis singing burning love. The first line is ‘I can feel my temperature rising’. Everyone walked out to the reception laughing which was a wonderful experience. Sorry about your mother.

Sorry for your loss

My dad specified Highland Cathedral for the playout music, which is a lovely song obviously but it turned out he did it as part of a 30 year old joke with his sister to make her cry

I want Do You Realise by the Flaming Lips, and Hope for an Angel by Biffy Clyro. The first is just lovely and joyous and uplifting but still appropriate, the second purely because it's gentle and quiet til it suddenly Biffys out of nowhere and then it's all power drumming and AAAAAH aaaaaahhhh AAARARGH AARARGHGh

Tight Fit’s ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’.

To be fair, the urge to play that is always just a whim away.

Condolences Harry.
My uncle had Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here.
Not sure who chose that one, him or my aunt!

Commiserations.

And on a more sombre note:

To be fair, the urge to play that is always just a whim away.

Paradiddle dot gif.
👏

On Monday the curtains closed on .y uncle to Hawaii 5-0 theme tune.

Family joke at his request.

Made everyone smile.

Sorry for your loss.

I don't have any song to suggest other than perhaps organise the songs that resembled her life.

Condolences

Another One Bites The Dust may not be appropriate.

I want If You Don't Know Me By Now by Simply Red.
Sorry for your loss.

Mate of mine died a few years ago. He had the full Imperial March from Star Wars for his final curtain. Made us all smile.

Condolences on your loss.

Condolences.

If it helps my dad wanted Isn't It Grand Boys by The Clancey Brothers. He got it, so did everyone else.

Im going to have the pixies ‘here comes your man’ playing when I pop through the furnace

Sorry for your loss

I want "Should I Stay or Should I Go" played at mine.

I want to have ‘I am the resurrection’ by the stone roses

Condolences. I want M.E. by Underworld at mine (“It’s a beautiful destination
For what it’s worth, It’s a beautiful destination, Goodbye Mother Earth”).

I lost a friend to Motor Neurons he had planned his funeral so his Parting song was Always Look on the bright side of life fair lightened the mood

Condolences.
Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers.

Alicia Keys - This Girl is on Fire.

I’m being burnt to the Bloodhound Gang singing the Roof Is On Fire! Hopefully will raise a smile.

Sorry to hear about your mum.

Sorry for your loss🥲
I’ve told wife & kids that if they bury me I want “Living in a box” by Living in a box & if I’m cremated “Hot in here” by Nelly.

sorry to hear that HtS

Sorry to hear about your Mum – my best wishes to you and yours.

The funeral service for my partner was in the university chapel – it was great to hear the organ belting out the Star Wars main theme as we filed out. He would have loved it, and it made me smile on a challenging day.

For mine - Good Riddance by Greenday. 🙂 I came close to playing it at someone's retirement party but wimped out.

Sorry to hear that OP.

I quite fancy Where is my mind by Pixies.

Or Wake up by Nuclear Assault.

we sent Stef on his way last March with "this monkeys gone to heaven"

Me= "Ain't goin out like that" Cypress hill.

Sorry about your mum mate.

This'll do cor me..

Love a bit of planet caravan though i prefer laguna sunrise.

Keeping the Sabbath vive hole in the sky from sabotage?

Crazy world of arthur brown though it's a bit obvious.

So I'd say the theme from MASH

My wife, who's a Steve Harley fan, insists she wants " come up and see me" at her funeral. I've agreed.

Sorry for your lossds.

I have said to my family they can play what they want but as the coffin is popped in the toaster I want "Ace of Spades" played at high volume, specifically the part "Gambling's for fools, I know I'm going to lose, that's the way I like it baby I don't want to live forever" and then I want "Always look on the bright side of life" to cheer people up as they leave.

Some of these are wonderful suggestions, and I suspect reflect people's personalities much better than some dry old hymns.

If I can make people smile at my funeral, I'll go happy (once the bastards have finished doing cartwheels on the news of demise!)

Can you dig it

Going underground

Living in a box

Think I'Ll go for Buju Bantons buried alive

To Harry: sorry for your loss.

I want Do You Realise by the Flaming Lips, and Hope for an Angel by Biffy Clyro. The first is just lovely and joyous and uplifting but still appropriate, the second purely because it’s gentle and quiet til it suddenly Biffys out of nowhere and then it’s all power drumming and AAAAAH aaaaaahhhh AAARARGH AARARGHGh

@Northwind I'd had a tough day recently and stumbled across the acoustic version of Semi-mental... "you shone a light on my life". That got me good!

For fully inappropriate though

My dad was a big “Trekkie”, so it was only natural to have the full original theme tune, including narration.

Depending on the circumstances of someone’s death, a bit of light hearted music at the end seems to have become quite the thing. I like it; i don’t think it is disrespectful and just goes along with the idea of celebrating someone’s life, and not solely mourning their death.

I'm sorry for your loss, I hope that despite the sadness you have time to remember that she will always be with you

And why not add Disco Inferno to the playlist

I've requested Tiger Feet, with actions.

I wasn't allowed it at our wedding, so it'll have to be my funeral instead.

Sorry for your loss.

I’m going to let my wife know I want to be cremated to The Prodigy’s Firestarter.

Doors. “Light my fire”. Followed by “Break on through to the other side”.

Condolences. We played Rod Steward for my mother. I think he died on stage tonight.

I was actually asked what I wanted played at my funeral the other day by one of my daughters pals (11yo I think).

Anyway, my personal choices are Into The Void (another Sabbath track) for the coffin getting tossed and then Drink To The Dead by Clutch for the wake.

Doors "Break on through to the other side" mixed mash-up style with Frank Sinatra's "Fly me to the moon"

It works, I promise.

Children of the grave again another Sabbath track....

Sorry to hear of your loss.

My cousins husband died of MND at about 32 (unlucky sod) The funeral finished as the coffin dropped, with Robby Williams. Let me entertain You. “I’m a burning effigy of everything I used to be” etc etc. it was brilliant!

Sincere condolences.

Survivor- Burning Heart

My mother nearly got played out to “Shine on you crazy diamond” - which would have been appropriate for her, given some of the things she got up to in her twenties…
It wouldn’t have gone down so well with my dad, so it was lucky that the iPod actually came up with the adagio they had had at their wedding instead!

This, lyrically, is the one...

'Oooh ooh ooh, flames are now licking my body..'

Condolences, HtS...

Condolences for your loss op.

I’m having 2 queen tracks. Who wants to live forever followed by show must go on

Dunno what song I'd have, but thanks to all for setting me up for a disco Sunday afternoon 🙂

And of course: sorry for your loss harry 🙁

Black Lace, Gang Bang*.
It's what my mother half jokingly requested for when her when her time came.
So we did!
The looks on people's faces when the the song got going at the end of the service was priceless.
*She was a huge fan of the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

Some good suggestions there for the dearly departed.

Since Prodigy is rather popular here I would consider Narayan (Prodigy - The Fat of the Land) ...

Definition - What does Narayan mean?
Narayan is the name of a Vedic deity who is also believed to be the supreme Hindu god, Vishnu, particularly in Vaishnavism, one of the main traditions of Hinduism. The name is derived from the Sanskrit, nara, meaning “man” or “water,” and ayana, meaning “place of refuge” or “resting place.”

In the "Bhagavata Purana," Narayan is referred to as Para Brahman, or Supreme Lord. As such, he is the creator god, Brahma; the sustainer god, Vishnu; and the destroyer/purifier god, Shiva.

Condolences for your loss.

I’d happily pay the crematorium extra if they could stop and reverse the rollers in time to “Should I Stay, or Should I Go”.

Failing that it’s a choice between the aforementioned Disco Inferno, Monkey Gone To Heaven or Moving On Up by Primal Scream. Bit hesitant about the the last one as the gospel feel to it might give the wrong religious impression.

Have we had 'Bodies' by Drowning Pool yet?

Other choice, should I snuff it in the next few years, given my reputation amongst friends for smut & innuendo would be AC/DCs Big Balls

Harry, firstly so very sorry your mum has left you and secondly live a little bit of her ethos every day, mine left us 5 years ago and I ****ing miss her as she was the most powerful Yorkshire woman you could imagine!

Rona, The funeral service for my partner was in the university chapel – it was great to hear the organ belting out the Star Wars main theme as we filed out. He would have loved it, and it made me smile on a challenging day.

That's exactly what I felt as "Song to the siren" was played at Carolyn's funeral, I almost broke down but had a huge surge of power from the effect it seemed to have on everyone

Hokey Cokey.

“You put your whole self in
You put your whole self out
In out, in out
Shake it all about”

Picture the coffin doing the actions.

Or my other idea, the Hokey Cokey Coffin with flaps for the arms and legs to do the actions as well.

My wife’s friend’s family start every party with that song, so it’s only a matter of time before one of them does it.

That’s exactly what I felt as “Song to the siren” was played at Carolyn’s funeral, I almost broke down but had a huge surge of power from the effect it seemed to have on everyone

MrOvershoot – great song, and hopefully that positive feeling will be one of the first things you remember when you think of that day. When I think back, the first things I remember are the kindness and care of the people, and the feeling of strength and hope from that music – and also for me, the fun and light-heartedness and mischief of that music played on the organ in that solemn setting.

Thanks for making me smile.

Today is going to be tough. We're off to Bereavement Services to get things moving. Me, my dad and my sister have a had a rough weekend. Lots of laughing and a fair bit of crying.

A very good friend of mine passed away about 10 years ago. As we arrived for the service, it was Manama by the Muppets that was playing. Entirely appropriate for Andy.

We're doing 'Three Little Birds' (Bob Marley) and an Ed Sheeran song (not sure which)for MIL's funeral next week.

Much better than some god awful song she chose when her husband died - some obscure song from the 50's that I had to track down on the internet - it was terrible (but her choice).

My mate had the one of the Chanel 4 1980's TDF tunes when he died (wife's choice).

My step sister’s funeral a few weeks ago was interesting. Horse drawn carriage and traditional church set up. Coffin carried in to Born Slippy.
I was watching via YouTube so I couldn’t see the reaction but hopefully there was dancing.

I think I'll ask for

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMCl9eOBlsY

I am sorry for your loss, Harry.

My jokey request was always "Monkey Gone To Heaven" by Pixies, but I see it's been suggested already.

My actual request for myself is Yob's "Beauty in Falling Leaves". Although at 16+ minutes it may be inappropriate in it's own way.

My real actual request is whatever the people at the funeral want to help them through.