in the car not so long ago and Frank Sinatra (I did it my way) came on the radio, well I wacked the volume right up and started singing to it! I then told my wife that I want this one played at my funeral or cremation whatever its going to be, and carried on singing. I turned and looked at her with a big grin on my face only to see the poor girl crying her eyes out

I apoligised for my singing but she said it had nothing to do with it, she just does not want to talk about my death!

Anyway, what would you want played at your funeral wake?

For the guests arriving - Welcome to the Cheap Seats, Wonder Stuff.

Going in to the smoker - Fire, Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

If Burial - Going Underground, The Jam.

Hmm, not sure

Well, of course, I'd want everyone to cry and feel melancholy so I reckon this one first

This Iggy Pop tune reminds me of my youth and good times with great friends and the title is kind of ironic to be played at a funeral so I reckon I'd like that to be played at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTq37pUU6c&feature=related

Anything they want, it's not like I'm going to be singing along is it?

First : Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd.

As they light the gas : Hurry up harry, Sham 69, Lyrics:-

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

We're going down the pub

Now listen here Harry

If we're going down the pub

You'd better tell your mum and dad

And finish up your grub

I wish you'd listen to me

No, I don't want a cup of tea

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

We're going down the pub

You're telling me to grow up

But Harry don't you see

If I tried to act my age

I wouldn't be me

We never do anything

So now's the time to begin

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

We're going down the pub

You don't have to tell me

That the thing's I do are wrong

But everything I do in life

Is with us right or wrong

Now I think I understand

How to have some fun

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

as I sincerely hope they will be going down the pub.

hahahaha

Anything they want, it's not like I'm going to be singing along is it?

First : Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd.

As they light the gas : Hurry up harry, Sham 69, Lyrics:-

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

We're going down the pub

Now listen here Harry

If we're going down the pub

You'd better tell your mum and dad

And finish up your grub

I wish you'd listen to me

No, I don't want a cup of tea

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

We're going down the pub

You're telling me to grow up

But Harry don't you see

If I tried to act my age

I wouldn't be me

We never do anything

So now's the time to begin

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

We're going down the pub

You don't have to tell me

That the thing's I do are wrong

But everything I do in life

Is with us right or wrong

Now I think I understand

How to have some fun

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

Come on come on

Hurry up Harry come on

We're going down the pub

as I sincerely hope they will be going down the pub.

this one ????

Edited October 15, 201015 yr by bangkokcitylimits

I'd have two.....

As they arrive,

Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side of Life' (as sung at the end of the film Life of Brian).

Later (and in complete contrast).......

'To Build A Home' by The Cinematic Orchestra

And as they all leave.........

Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor

As they light the gas : Hurry up harry, Sham 69, Lyrics:-

Now you're talking; remember 'When the Kids Are United'????

My song will be Delilah but the stokie version not Tom Jones lol,just hope the thais dont understand it

Anything they want, it's not like I'm going to be singing along is it?

agree.. it should be 'ask the audience' what they feel best fits

and with that in mind.. this one would be kinda sad, but cool too in an honest type way - would be surreal to hear this one played..

hauntingly beautiful ode to some that choose to go.. (albeit in a very specific way )

.

as for me, don't really mind what the clan revs up.. but something like this would be ok..

What about Karaoke?

Someone can't refrain to be an annoyance even after passing away....

Someone can't refrain to be an annoyance even after passing away....

'Joey Boy'......Van Morrison......

Skunk Anansie - You'll Follow Me Down.

Edited October 16, 201015 yr by johntou

I certainly want : " I did it my way" !

Rocking All Over The World - Status Quo

for the commemorative service in the US (for I shall surely die and be cremated in Thailand) I want the funeral hall to resound with howls of grief and cries of despair and for this purpose select the adagio from one of the Bach violin conciertos; maybe the one in A flat whatever, those that know these conciertos know which one I'm talking about...sounds like a dirge but with tender passages and you expect the sun to come out and to shine on the casket/urn or whatever...a guaranteed tear jerker...

when I buried me mum many years ago in Bolivia there was no music so I whistled the adagio in the limo on the way to the cementario general...the local relatives in the car were startled and disapproving...I looked back with a glare that said: 'she was my mum and I'm the oldest son and I'll whistle whatever the <deleted> I want, goddamit...'

stinkin' 'evangelical Christians' think that music comes from the devil...

Edited October 16, 201015 yr by tutsiwarrior

If those I leave behind can manage to get the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge to perform Eia, Mater from Dvorak - Stabat Mater and Mozart's Requiem Ave Verum Corpus, that would do nicely.

I could care less what music they play after I am dead.

There are some great tracks here that will bring some smiles and some tears. I dont agree with letting the "guests" choose the music as I reckon the music played should represent the dead person in a way the dead person wants to be remembered.

I would choose I did it my way because I am a selfish fecker and think the people who were close to me would get that. so I think it suits me to a tee!

I actually began telling those close to me many years ago, when I was still a teenager, that I wanted Somebody (Depeche Mode) played @ the funeral...

Pretty much sums it all up for me!

Doubt if any of those concerned will respect my wish list but here it is..

El Paso, accompanied by multiple shot aerial bombs

Thunder road,

Dixie as the grand final.

Kite .... U2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrdAcJEPb4o&feature=related

Considering I'm a lot closer to passing on then the rest of you here I'lm like Ulysses. They can play anything they dam_n well feel like.

How about... "I'm glad to see you've gone cause I just won't miss your snoring"

How about these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnt4LBsZ-I

Where dreams are born

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U51lO2H0Yzk&p=F592F43A4E177469&playnext=1&index=90

23rd Psalm from Merry Xmas Mr Lawrence

followed by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWjsT_SJNI&feature=related

(to add a little Asian flavour)

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsKE64xA0Rc

Time to say goodbye

.................. Anyway - as Marty Feldman once sang: "I'd just die, if I died .."

When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease - Roy Harper.

It's funny you should ask that because when I heard

, my first thought was "That's what I want to be listening to when I'm on my death bed." So I suppose it would be just as suitable for my funeral.

Happy New Year !

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