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.

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👏

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.