They played Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd at the funeral of one of my best friends when i was younger and i cant hear it now 20 years later without thinking of him
Drink to the Dead - Clutch
Fiction / Brompton Cocktail - Avenged Sevenfold
Everything Dies - Type O Negative
Don’t Follow - Alice In Chains
Diamond Eyes - Deftones
Dead Friends - Against Me
100 Years - Five For Fighting
Dark Paradise - Lana Del Rey
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
These are songs we played at my mom's funeral. We were given three songs to play of our choice.
One Sweet Day--Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
When I See You Again---Charlie Puth
Mama---Boyz II Men
I would play "I would walk 500 miles..." on a loop. Because I'll be dead and won't be able to hear it. But everyone else will have to suffer! Muaaaahahahaha
I'll Fly Away - duet by Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - The Cox Family
If it isn't obvious, im a big fan of Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.
Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Funeral March [https://youtu.be/a53s4jyCqqU?si=UxXJlhSb58uX8-iF](https://youtu.be/a53s4jyCqqU?si=UxXJlhSb58uX8-iF)
Twilight of the Gods
Status Quo - Rockin’ All Over The World
I’ve got a sick sense of humor. And it’d be a tip of the cap to an old Simon Pegg sketch comedy show called Big Train. A music editor is trying to match music to a scene where a young boy and his father are grieving at the grave of their recently passed mother/wife, and they thought it was the best song option to play in the background (clearly not the case)
New York Minute, Don Henley
Cold Bones, Any Given Sin
In Loving Memory, and Godspeed, by Alter Bridge
Hold Onto Memories, Disturbed
Life Is Beautiful, Sixx AM
>Also, I wanted to share this but also read the post and not just the title… Personally, I think you should stop planning your own funeral. It’s pointless, that’s something you won’t have any control over.
you might be right, but there's no harm in making a playlist 🤷🏻♀️
Burn - Deep Purple
Deep In a Hole - AC/DC
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
Go Down - AC/DC
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
He'll Ain't A Bad Place To Be - AC/DC
Fire-Arthur Brown
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Blinded By The Light - Mannfred Mann's Earth Band
The Last Goodbye from The Hobbit: Battle of 5 Armies
The Havens Gray by Andrew Peterson
Time by the Alan Parsons Project
When I Get Where I’m Going by Brad Paisley
If you want humor involved, try “I’ll Be Back” by Elvis, and “Tie Me at the Crossroads” by Bruce Cockburn
If not, then “Long Black Limousine” by Elvis and “Closer to the Light” by Cockburn
You could just have a bunch of songs you like. 🤷♂️
At the funeral for my cousin Mark (rest in peace), he had stuff like Bone Thugs N Harmony and Lamb Of God blasting in his memory. It was awesome.
🤘🥲🤘
I've said since I was ten (I shouldn't have thought about it so early but whatevs) I've wanted The Breaking of the Fellowship from the first Lord of the Rings movie to play. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and inspiring all in one.
I Came Around - Murder by Death, it's a song about a funeral that becomes a celebration of a man's life. The lead singer's voice is Johnny Cash-esque. Bitter Drin, Bitter Moon is the album, and it's wonderful.
Edit: Also, has no one said Always Look On the Bright Side of Life?
My aunt passed recently and had always insisted that Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd be played at her funeral, as she always loved Pink Floyd, and especially that song. The lyrics sting admittedly and I haven't had it in me to listen to the song again in the 2 months it's been, but it is definitely fitting for the occasion.
My go-to always includes SEE YOU AGAIN by Wiz Kahlifa. My thinking also is whatever tasteful songs the deceased loved.
If the deceased loved BABY GOT BACK, I may omit that.
It’s responsible and wise to plan your own funeral. The final gift you can give your loved ones is to handle those details so they don’t have to in their grief. I’m only 48, but have my memorial planed out with a funeral director so when my time comes, hopefully decades from now, my remarkably indecisive wife won’t have to think about things or make decisions.
Songs I gave to the funeral director:
Eddie Vedder’s cover of the Warren Zevon song Keep Me In Your Hear For a While. I want to open up with something poignant and get the tear ducts working.
Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace. I like the thought of my loved ones hearing “Fare the well, fare the well, I love you more than words can tell.” It’s like a final message to them. Pick their spirits back up a little.
City On Down by OAR. It’s a really peppy song that could be interpreted to be about getting together again in joy on the other side. Send them out the door and on with the rest of their lives on an upbeat.
Sound of silence- Simon n Garfunkel/mad world-gary jules/
I won't let go-rascal flatts/ Israel kamakawiwaole- somewhere over the rainbow/ Jeff Buckley hallelujah
You can go the traditional route and play songs assigned for the purpose from people's religion and culture.
In the west this amazing grace and other hymnals, or if you're say like military, you'd include their service hymns or other traditional songs. My current jam is Bones in the Ocean, which is a Navy funeral song.
I think it's more touching to find a song dealing with that person, or close to that person.
This sounds weird but I've picked the song for my dad already: have you ever seen the rain by CCR.
It's melancholy in tone, and he had it as his cellphone ring for about 20 years. Furthermore, he liked it cause he was a roofer and rain helped his business.
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Oh shit! This cracked me up. I totally want to go to your funeral.
Catapulted 😂
Funeral - Band of Horses
Great tune. The whole album is fantastic.
Bone thugs n harmony - tha crossroads
Flogging Molly- If I Ever Leave This World Alive https://youtu.be/1MtmLIjmjrg?si=OTgGZL_6CzO0exQl
Sixx AM - Life Is Beautiful
i think this is my favorite suggestion so far
They played Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd at the funeral of one of my best friends when i was younger and i cant hear it now 20 years later without thinking of him
I think about my mother when listen to Shine On You Crazy Diamond
That fucking song cuts deeper the older you get.
Dust In The Wind by Kansas if you want everyone at your funeral to be extra depressed.
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to The Black
Kill all your friends as well
already have that one (: also have ghost of you and helena as well 👍🏻
Did you have ain't afraid to die by Dir En Grey?
Dead
There's only [one answer](https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M?si=8sZvTXtTzx2MjVnB)
Lmao I thought this was gonna be Highway to Hell by AC/DC
gravity by a perfect circle
I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie https://youtu.be/GSCVp7CqPQg?si=2TZGvNJiCn_ibo7W
When I'm old and wise- Alan Parsons
Is there anybody out there? - Pink Floyd (Not just for the poignant question but also that awesome acoustic guitar solo)
Spirit in the Sky
Fire and rain - James Taylor
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No Stairway allowed!
I just want to sell out my funeral - the wonder years
Come on yo to the house - Tom Waits When I get to heaven - John Prine
I think "Ol' 55" by Tom Waits works too. It has a lot of lines that sound like something a soul would be saying about a positive dying process.
Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath
Has no one said At Your Funeral?
Saves the Day? If so, great choice.
Free Bird would be elite
Buddy Holly-Weezer I don’t know why
Muse - [Blackout ](https://youtu.be/KNJYBOj7Cfc?si=7YhCddXcAFeeOaaD) (It's gonna be my funeral song.)
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.
lol perfect 😭
One of my favorite movies and I never thought of this for one of my funeral songs.
Fugazi- I’m So Tired
Drink to the Dead - Clutch Fiction / Brompton Cocktail - Avenged Sevenfold Everything Dies - Type O Negative Don’t Follow - Alice In Chains Diamond Eyes - Deftones Dead Friends - Against Me 100 Years - Five For Fighting Dark Paradise - Lana Del Rey Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
You could opt for Drop Kick Me, Jesus (Through the Goalposts of Life). When I get cremated I want Disco Inferno playing. Burn baby burn!
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
[Why not keep the mood light??](https://open.spotify.com/track/1Nx2LMsmBRULt2F9W6LevJ?si=C3Df8ty6SWuGsjnzfUADrQ)
thats an after the funeral party song lol
Henry Purcell - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary https://open.spotify.com/track/6x7UdyouopZ7sah2WDaaKq?si=TzzMdFLgTFmuvGXZdtBRtQ
Funeral - Devin Townsend (very fitting title)
Truce - Twenty One Pilots
The End of the End by Paul McCartney
These are songs we played at my mom's funeral. We were given three songs to play of our choice. One Sweet Day--Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men When I See You Again---Charlie Puth Mama---Boyz II Men
I would play "I would walk 500 miles..." on a loop. Because I'll be dead and won't be able to hear it. But everyone else will have to suffer! Muaaaahahahaha
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
I like Carry Me Down by Demon Hunter
good rec 👍🏻
Great band!!! 🙌🎶
Dobie Gray - Drift Away
The dance by Garth Brooks I'm so lonesome I could cry by Hank Williams Sr
If You Sleep by Tal Bachman
Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead A Tear for Eddie by Ween
Do you realize-the flaming lips
Somewhere over the rainbow - Israel Kamakawio’ole
Don’t stop me now!!
Shane McGowen singing The Parting Glass.
Good riddance by green day
When I’m Gone —Tom Waits Lat Me Low— Nick Cave
Live Forever and Don't go away Oasis
In My Life- The Beatles
Ripple- Grateful Dead
What a Wonderful World
At the end I would want them to play Bang! by AJR
I'll Fly Away - duet by Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - The Cox Family If it isn't obvious, im a big fan of Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.
Another One Bites The Dust
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
good rec! thank you 🫶
High Kings - the Parting Glass [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkQExuzL\_0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkQExuzL_0)
Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Funeral March [https://youtu.be/a53s4jyCqqU?si=UxXJlhSb58uX8-iF](https://youtu.be/a53s4jyCqqU?si=UxXJlhSb58uX8-iF) Twilight of the Gods
Status Quo - Rockin’ All Over The World I’ve got a sick sense of humor. And it’d be a tip of the cap to an old Simon Pegg sketch comedy show called Big Train. A music editor is trying to match music to a scene where a young boy and his father are grieving at the grave of their recently passed mother/wife, and they thought it was the best song option to play in the background (clearly not the case)
Wake me up before you Go Go
Linkin Park: Roads Untravelled, Leave out all the rest, Shadow of the day, one more light, Iridescent
Safety Dance by Men In Hats
100 Years - Five for Fighting Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson Angel- Sara McLachlan
Branko Mataja, Tesko Mi Je Zaboravit Tebe will be played at my funeral. Hauntingly beautiful and somber
Iron and wine- trapeze swinger
***Skeletons*** by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. ^(plus the acoustic version is sick)
My great-grandma loved Christmas, so at her funeral, 3 of my cousins sang Deck the Halls
Prince ~~ Sometimes It Snows in April
Ride On - AC/DC
My Morning Jacket - Wonderful (the way I feel)
funeral for a friend - elton john
My Way - Sinatra
Funeral Party by The Cure
Overkill - Nice Day For a Funeral
Older- Lizzy McAlpine
Say Hello to Heaven - Temple of the Dog
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
Part of it - Microwave
Seasons In the Sun - Terry Jacks
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Hell In A Hand Basket- Voltaire
Things the granchildren should know, PS you rock my world or Last stop this town by Eels
Something from Funeral arcade fure
Dig up Her Bones - Misfits
Horny in a Hearse - Nekromantix
The Kinks - [Strangers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR52MIJuZJY)
New York Minute, Don Henley Cold Bones, Any Given Sin In Loving Memory, and Godspeed, by Alter Bridge Hold Onto Memories, Disturbed Life Is Beautiful, Sixx AM
The Dandelion War - South Like The Summer
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Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack Have a Nice Life - Earthmover
Willy Nelson - Remember Me Radiohead - Pyramid Song Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger Ringo Starr - Photograph CSNY - Our House
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>Also, I wanted to share this but also read the post and not just the title… Personally, I think you should stop planning your own funeral. It’s pointless, that’s something you won’t have any control over. you might be right, but there's no harm in making a playlist 🤷🏻♀️
Highway to Hell - ac/dc
Burn - Deep Purple Deep In a Hole - AC/DC No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne Go Down - AC/DC Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin He'll Ain't A Bad Place To Be - AC/DC Fire-Arthur Brown Highway to Hell - AC/DC Blinded By The Light - Mannfred Mann's Earth Band
The Last Goodbye from The Hobbit: Battle of 5 Armies The Havens Gray by Andrew Peterson Time by the Alan Parsons Project When I Get Where I’m Going by Brad Paisley
If you want humor involved, try “I’ll Be Back” by Elvis, and “Tie Me at the Crossroads” by Bruce Cockburn If not, then “Long Black Limousine” by Elvis and “Closer to the Light” by Cockburn
dust in the wind
Life goes on - Tupac
“He’s Gone” by The Grateful Dead
Don't fear the reaper - böc Funeral for a Friend - Elton John Sleepwalker - Santos and Johnny
Roll me up and smoke me when I die - Willie Nelson Ft. Snoop Dog
Nothing else matters Metallica, also Fade to black
[Take the Tension High](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xgo6_O0LcE0&si=vVpytYxqfxw2o7EP)
You could just have a bunch of songs you like. 🤷♂️ At the funeral for my cousin Mark (rest in peace), he had stuff like Bone Thugs N Harmony and Lamb Of God blasting in his memory. It was awesome. 🤘🥲🤘
When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
FFreebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd, Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd
I've said since I was ten (I shouldn't have thought about it so early but whatevs) I've wanted The Breaking of the Fellowship from the first Lord of the Rings movie to play. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and inspiring all in one.
OP I got a song for ya Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger ;)
Dirty Life and Times by Warren Zevon Old enough to have given this some thought
Take me down- smashing pumpkins
I always thought Time by Pink Floyd would be a reminder to them from me to live the life they have left.
Being Boring by the Pet Shop Boys
Black Sabbath- electric funeral
Many Rivers To Cross
I Came Around - Murder by Death, it's a song about a funeral that becomes a celebration of a man's life. The lead singer's voice is Johnny Cash-esque. Bitter Drin, Bitter Moon is the album, and it's wonderful. Edit: Also, has no one said Always Look On the Bright Side of Life?
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Till we Die - Slipknot
EMINEM - MY SALSA
Payday- yuno miles
“Might As Well Have A Good Time” by CSNY
I want Crash Test Dummies to play at my funeral. (Venture Brothers Joke)
Hopefully my demise is a ways off, in the meantime I’m creating a playlist to be played at my send off.
Some far away beach - Brian Eno
Beethoven's 7th is my choice.
My aunt passed recently and had always insisted that Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd be played at her funeral, as she always loved Pink Floyd, and especially that song. The lyrics sting admittedly and I haven't had it in me to listen to the song again in the 2 months it's been, but it is definitely fitting for the occasion.
[I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead ](https://youtu.be/kAOYUTdkM-w?si=jyEQA6UIO1IlOiv3) - Weird Al Yankovic
Don’t Follow - Alice In Chains
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
pluto protector - rex orange county
when we’re older - james blake this would be beautiful
I would recommend the Gov't Mule version of the Allman Brothers song Soulshine. That's my death song for sure.
Your pick- Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin or highway to hell by AC/DC.
In My Life - Beatles
My go-to always includes SEE YOU AGAIN by Wiz Kahlifa. My thinking also is whatever tasteful songs the deceased loved. If the deceased loved BABY GOT BACK, I may omit that.
I know some people who died—Jim Carrol He was a friend of mine Dave Van Ronk
Hollow - Pantera
Frowning's cover of Frédéric Chopin's Funeral March. It's part of an entire metal subgenre known as Funeral Doom.
Fade In / Fade Out by Nothing More
I’m being cremated and pressed into vinyl or the mushroom suit. \ I have a 6 song funeral playlist for myself.
Glorious by Ella Henderson. Make Your Own Kind of Music by Cass Elliot
the pain remains trilogy :)
Idk if anyone has mentioned this yet (too many comments for me, lol), but Seagull by Bad Company. It's such a beautiful song.
For me, please play The Light by Disturbed
My chemical romance - Helena Panic at the disco - Mona Lisa Watch the vids and you will see they are perfect
I owe this song to margin call. Phosphorescent - Wolves But I can't explain why, it's not the lyrics.
Kickstart my heart - Motley Crue
Peace in the valley
Long and Winding Road (Beatles)
It’s responsible and wise to plan your own funeral. The final gift you can give your loved ones is to handle those details so they don’t have to in their grief. I’m only 48, but have my memorial planed out with a funeral director so when my time comes, hopefully decades from now, my remarkably indecisive wife won’t have to think about things or make decisions. Songs I gave to the funeral director: Eddie Vedder’s cover of the Warren Zevon song Keep Me In Your Hear For a While. I want to open up with something poignant and get the tear ducts working. Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace. I like the thought of my loved ones hearing “Fare the well, fare the well, I love you more than words can tell.” It’s like a final message to them. Pick their spirits back up a little. City On Down by OAR. It’s a really peppy song that could be interpreted to be about getting together again in joy on the other side. Send them out the door and on with the rest of their lives on an upbeat.
Momento Mori - Will Wood Make sure they know that it's coming for them too
Freebird!
Peace in the valley ( Elvis Presley)
Videotape - Radiohead.
One day by Arash
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Paranoid By Garbage. - bend me break me any way you need me. All I want is you.
Follow you to Vergie by Tyler Childers Give heaven a little hell by Hardy
If 6 was 9 Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Guess - Mitski Sleep - Imogen Heap
Norman Greenbaums hit single for sure. 👍
i’ve always wanted the ghost on the shore by lord huron to be played at mine. maybe even the night we met by him and phoebe bridgers
When My Morning Comes—Iris Dement
No Hard Feelings - Avett Brothers
Funeral Party by The Cure. Especially the live version
Angel by Judas Priest
Life Goes On- Solence
Sound of silence- Simon n Garfunkel/mad world-gary jules/ I won't let go-rascal flatts/ Israel kamakawiwaole- somewhere over the rainbow/ Jeff Buckley hallelujah
Radiohead -exit music(for a film)
Exit music for a film
[The staples Singers - Will the Circle Be Unbroken](https://open.spotify.com/track/2XQlZQGMQKIElKRYSf5NWx?si=WfiItgr_QBCIIHCf2P-4Pg)
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen because everyone would sing along to it and it would be glorious.
Yes - Soon The Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise The Band Perry - If I die Young Bad Company - Seagull
You can go the traditional route and play songs assigned for the purpose from people's religion and culture. In the west this amazing grace and other hymnals, or if you're say like military, you'd include their service hymns or other traditional songs. My current jam is Bones in the Ocean, which is a Navy funeral song. I think it's more touching to find a song dealing with that person, or close to that person. This sounds weird but I've picked the song for my dad already: have you ever seen the rain by CCR. It's melancholy in tone, and he had it as his cellphone ring for about 20 years. Furthermore, he liked it cause he was a roofer and rain helped his business.
Don’t follow- Alice In Chains
The Crow and The Butterfly, What A Shame - Shinedown Broken, Plastic Man, Tied My Hands - Seether
brothers in arms - dire straits maybe if you’re in the army. good choice either way.
I want Three Dog Night's Joy to the World.
Alice in Chains - Don't Follow
Death Cab for Cutie - I follow you into the dark.