Your funeral/ Your music? You're Dead
 

I don't even like it all that much, but ' expressway to your skull' would be apt for my funeral. It goes on forever.

SY's version of Steve Reich's Pendulum Music....just to piss everyone off so I could be buried in peace and quiet, without people blubbering all around me.

holes by mercury rev or some such other thing.

Borderline - Madonna

The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.

or

The Brotherhood of Man - Save All Your Kisses For Me.

i'd want something really depressing like early swans
something really harsh, e.g. merzbow or whitehouse
something really happy, like ymo or street dance by break machine
the first track from pathetique by fushitsusha
outer spaceways incorporated by sun ra
and shaking hell by SY because it is my favourite song.

blue skied n clear by slowdive.

They'd want to jump on your grave after the the death.:) :) :confused:

I'd have to have Electric Wizard play live. Only a band as loud as them could be heard over the legion of wailing women.

Or how about Liz Buckingham performing solo for you whilst at death's door?

"Arrows" by Nels Cline Trio

Dreamweapon by Spacemen 3.

All four sides of "Metal Machine Music" at the same time. Eulogy to be read by Sarramkrop, entitled, "Why Lou Reed is more scrumptious than Father Christmas". demonrail666 gets to be the DJ at the wake, playing Glen Campbell songs.

Radiohead - Street Spirit
Explosions in the Sky - Time stops

Nice, but don't you really want something by Avril Lavigne?

Hahaha I was wrong I want MMM, just to be a prick even in death.

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers "Swing The Mood"

Yes, but I thought we were talking about music.

something by swell maps!

She's married now, y'know.

Talking of inappropriate, how about Madonna's "Burning Up" whilst being cremated?

Going Underground - The Jam. Couldn't resist that one. sorry.

I think the whole album The Bends could work for a funeral.

I started listening to it every day when a friend of mine died almost two years ago. I made blog about what songs I wanted at my funeral, but I'm too lazy to go back and look. Or maybe I'm not...http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=12102063&b logID=42195199

For the goths - "Premature Burial" by Siouxsie And the Banshees.

I chose the music at my mum's funeral last week. 'Jigsaw Puzzle of Life' by Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and 'Carey' by Joni Mitchell, cos those are things she liked. Slight oversight that the second verse has loads of stuff about drinking wine to inebriation, and she died of drink. I picked it for the 'I really hate to leave you but it's really not my home' bit. Oh well, pissed off my stick-up-the-ass Roman Catholic relatives hopefully.
At my own funeral? I wanna be buried in the woods, so there won't be anywhere to plug music in. Maybe if someone brings an Iiiipod. 'Die in Terror' by the Residents.:p

I can't pick out funeral music right now. Maybe sometime later when I'm feeling melancholy.

Tom Waits-Come on up to the House. It should considered a hymn.

I think Sunset Rubdown's Us Ones in Between would be good too.

The Diamond Sea
Where did You Sleep Last Night-Nirvana Cover
Sympathy for the Strawberry
Love Can Destroy- The Raveonettes
Orphans- Teenage Jesus and The Jerks

I know this may sound stupid but I think The Doors- The End would be a cool song. Long, a bit melancholy, but also awesome to listen to.

There's an ancient Simpsons episode where Homer is singing this whilst preparing to jump off a building.

Just thought of another - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Your Funeral, My Trial". A genuinely wonderful song, and gloriously inappropriate.

Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking. Just to confuse everyone.

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 132, 3rd movement: "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart."

Performed live of course.

You shouldn't do things like that. It's creepy as fuck.

Probably not. Just feels weirder.

I could have Mr. Cave playing but I wouldn't want to ruin him like that, by thinking of any of his music as funeral music.

First something really sad (maybe some sixties' love song or something similar), then some bollywood stuff to shock and entertain people.

It would depend alot on how I actually died:

Natural Causes:
Philip Glass/John Cage- Metamorphosis 1 from Glass Cage.

Suicide:
I'll Be Your Mirror- VU&Nico (a haunting little fuck you)
or
Pissing in a River- Patti Smith.

Mouthus - What Knife Say

The B52's - Topaz

natural causes- all of the silver session followed by deerhoof's "holy night fever" and "the diamond sea".

or.. raw power.