Songs to play at your funeral

[RampageSword]

Here's a few I'd have playing :

Apocalyptica - "Epilogue"; "Conclusion"; "Farewell"; "Faraway" (the more I think about it, i'd just have these guys play live at my funeral...)
Mozart - His whole Requiem (the Lacrimosa will make everyone cry)
Bach - Suite No.3 in D major
Mendelssohn - "Venezianisches Gondellied"
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
and while I'm into the classical...
Chopin : Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor "Marche Funèbre"

Now for the metal stuff :

Dark Tranquillity - "The Mind's I"; "Lethe"
In Flames - "Everlost pt.II"; "Acoustic Medley"
Metallica - "Nothing Else Matters"
Iced Earth - "Melancholy(Holy Martyr)"
Opeth - "Dirge For November"; "To Bid You Farewell"

...and maybe "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas....but that would just be plain corny.

 

[skeptik]

Raindrops Are Falling On My Head, followed by C Is For Cookie.

 

[Birkenau]

Burzum - Erblicket Die Tochter Des Firmaments

Then Burzum - Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität to put everyone to sleep.

 

[CF87]

Iced Earth's instrumental 'The Funeral' would be a great song for a funeral in the winter. Pretty sure funeral's are only held in the summer since the ground is to cold to dig up.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Well, if I commit suicide, Skyclad's "Helium" would be perfect!

"Fly like a rock
from the roof to the basement,
the last thing to go through my mind
was the pavement!"

 

[Edgecrusher]

Iced Earth's instrumental 'The Funeral' would be a great song for a funeral in the winter. Pretty sure funeral's are only held in the summer since the ground is to cold to dig up.

....so if you die when it's cold out, you're S.O.L. as far as being buried?

 

[Trylakos]

Burzum - Erblicket Die Tochter Des Firmaments

Then Burzum - Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität to put everyone to sleep.

sleep... for eternity! muhahahahhaha

Probobly some Agalloch song or something for me:\

 

[abrasiverock]

Twisted Sister-You're going to burn in hell.

 

[Majesty]

Falkenbach - Into The Ardent Awaited Land
Bound for Glory - Hymn of the Conqeurors
Infernö - Rot in Hell

 

[T.I.E.]

Monty Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

OR

John Fogerty's You Rascal You

Now I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you, uh-huh.
I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you, oh yeah.
Well I let into my home, you gonna leave my woman alone,
I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you.

Now I’ll be glad when you die, you rascal you, uh-huh.
I’ll be glad, oh I’ll be tickled to death when you leave this earth it’s true, oh yeah.
When you’re lyin’ down six feet deep, no more fried chicken will you eat.
I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you, oh yeah.

Ah, you just ain’t no good! oh, you dog!

Now listen here, I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you, uh-huh.
I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you, oh yeah.
I’ll be standin’ on the corner high, when they drag your body by,
I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you know I’m gonna be so happy when you’re gone you dog!
I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you

 

[ninniperkele]

Thy Serpent-Only Dust Moves

 

[slayerrrrrr]

I can't believe no one has said Overkill - Nice Day for a Funeral or Slayer - Postmortem.

Doug

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

Victorious March by Amon Amarth, i decided this many years ago

 

[Edgecrusher]

Either: Agalloch- "...and the Great Cold Death of the Earth" or "A Desolation Song"

 

[D-KOM]

Nokturnal Mortum : Hail the hereos

 

[Mercy/Severity]

Opeth - Epilogue
Bathory - Song to Hall Up High

 

[CF87]

....so if you die when it's cold out, you're S.O.L. as far as being buried?

Funeral's are discouraged in the winter. If you want to have a funeral in the winter it's free. I'm assuming just the funeral cost to hold one is free.

...... their is a big local cemetary up the road I visit often out of bordemn along with an church nearby. I sit down relaxing in the "trinity holy garden" on a cool day .

 

[Hammer of Might]

I'd want Iron Maiden's 'Infinite Dreams' in there somewhere, for:

"there's got to be just more to it than this
or tell my why do we exist?
I'd like to think that when I die
I'll get a chance, another time
and to return and live again
reincarnate, play the game
and again, and again, and again, and agaaaaaaaaaaain....

YEAH!

then probably some choir singing 'I vow to thee my country' or something