If music be the food of love, can we delete the master tapes?

[davywavy]

A question for you lot today:
When I snuff it, I would rather like 'Just a gigolo' by Dave Lee Roth played at my (state) funeral. What song would you like?

Comments

[conorh.livejournal.com]

it's a toss-up between "Another One Bites The Dust" and "Stairway To Heaven" though I can't decide between the Dolly Parton or Hayseed Dixie bluegrass versions

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

Sympathy - the Marillion version though

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

No one ever seems to be able to hear songs played at funerals again without getting flashbacks and getting upset. Therefore I'd have Angels by Robbie Williams as it is already played at lots of other funerals and it saves people having another song that they can't listen to.

Failing that maybe I'd go for my mum's choice of I want to break free by Queen

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

"Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead..."

Or do you mean at my funeral?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

For you I was thinking perhaps "Zip-pe-de-doo-dah!", or possibly a slight reworking of Thank you Very Much! from the funeral in Scrooge!

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Garth Brooks - I got friends in low places.

I would expect people to sing along.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

I would so be up for that.

Listened to it this morning (on 'not quiet' volume) before heading out :)

"I saw the suprise, and the fear in his eyes, when i took his glass of champagne..."

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Nah - If Tomorrow Never Comes is more of a funeral song.

I suppose "Feel Like Making Love" (Bad Company) would be rather bad taste?

Mind you, I want Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, because I'm a great big goth :) And if I ever get married, I want to walk in to O Fortuna from Carmina Burana (or possibly Ride of the Valkyries).

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

"For he is an Englishman" by Gilbert and Sullivan. Baby.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

"Duffy's song" by the whitlams

[mooncadet.livejournal.com]

Mozart's Requiem merging into All the Ducks are swimming in the water by Lemon Jelly

[godzuki.livejournal.com]

Id go for "May the Circle be Unbroken" the Spacemen 3 version.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

The ENTIRE Ring Cycle.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'll get you for this, you know.

[ukmonty.livejournal.com]

havent so far

[hiromasaki.livejournal.com]

Funeral songs, eh?

"I Love You, Goodbye" by Thomas Dolby.

Barring that, (It's about losing a girlfriend in New Orleans, and involves a Hurricane, so it's probably on peoples' list already.) "King of Spain" by Moxy Fruvous. It's become almost a personal theme song and is too upbeat to be ruined by something so frivoulous as a funeral.

[tzel.livejournal.com]

I'm not having a funeral. I'm going to be cremated and go straight to the wake. I expect them to play Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and get piss drunk. My ashes will reside in a giant salt shaker.

[applez.livejournal.com]

For lack of imagination, I would throw in "Eroica," Beethoven's 3rd Symphony in E Flat Major.

(for my equal failure in conquering the world! ;-) ).

P.S. Especially since someone else already grabbed 'Another One Bites the Dust'

Your opinion please...

[applez.livejournal.com]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1590846,00.html

Re: Your opinion please...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Superb!

Although he misses out a number of other great Yorkshiremen, such as Socrates, Tesla, Einstein and Newton, who history has unfairly acknowledged to other, lesser peoples.