What song you choose for your funeral?

Fureys and Davey Arthur: 'when you were sweet sixteen '
Queen: 'love of my life"
Both for my wife.

That Hank Locklin better be good. I'm about to spend a dollar on it 'sound-unseen '

If I had to choose a non-Queen song. It'll have to be Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part IX. It's tempo seems appropriate for funerals.

Don't know why, but my idea of having Procession, Track 13 and Races outro for my funeral got me opening Audacity right now. I'm attempting a mashup of these three songs, just to know how it sounds like.

Last Horizon

In My Life is a great pick Brenski.

khe73: my condolence to your family.


My funeral will open with Highway to Hell, and close with Stairway to Heaven
(not sure which one of these 2 places I'll end up in).

In between those 2 songs, I'll cram some Queen in.
What a better oppotunity to promote Queen to my friends, none of them would likely like Queen in my living life.
Doing All Right, Nevermore, Long Away, Dead on Time, Leaving Home Ain't Easy.

Let It Be somewhere in the playlist.

By the way, I'll try swallow some corn nuts before my hour, and tell people to cremate me.
Then tell them to play Don't Stop Me Now right when the first popcorn blooms. Joy guaranteed for everyone.
(And popcorn with barbecue flavour.)

matt z wrote:That Hank Locklin better be good. I'm about to spend a dollar on it 'sound-unseen '

you can easily find it as a free download - it's long out of copyright.
as for the tune - you may not like it...but lyrically, it captures the essence of the "Ireland of Old" - and it was a tune i grew up hearing older relatives playing - esp my dad (so it holds special memories)

master marathon runner wrote:Fureys and Davey Arthur: 'when you were sweet sixteen '.

nice tune - another of my dad's favourites

Oscar J wrote:In My Life is a great pick Brenski.

thanks. i think it one of (if not) the finest songs ever written

White Queen

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RT2nHD6CQ

(Largo only)

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I was thinking of Man on fire at my cremation ??

and if we're aiming for a humour-themed alternative (to send em away smiling)

depending on how you're being "disposed of"

for the "spade-worthy"
Status Quo - Down Down
The Jam - Going Underground
The Beatles - Fixing A Hole
The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down
Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love

or for the  "cookers"
Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire
Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Bangles - Eternal Flame
Glen Frey - The Heat Is On
Boston - Smokin'

http://whatculture.com/offbeat/10-totally-inappropriate-songs-play-funeral.php/3

yup, good ol' Freddy

On topic, WWTLF, Barcelona, and Dream Theater's 'The Spirit Carries On' (changing the 'Victoria' lyric to 'Victory)

To recycle an old joke from a similar thread ...

I would like to be cremated so Instrumental Inferno would be appropriate. But if it turns out there was a mistake and I'm not actually dead, I would like to hear both Save Me and Put Out the Fire :)

Holly2003 wrote:

But if it turns out there was a mistake and I'm not actually dead, I would like to hear both Save Me and Put Out the Fire :)

This may not be Queen, but let's throw in Ring Of Fire as well.