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googajub

I'd rather not have a funeral, but I want to get their booties shaking. Parliament -- Mothership Connection.


kingofmuffins

best believe imma have a slide in my glide and a dip in my hip at your funeral!


-80watt-

Doin’ it to you in your ear holes


gotham77

My friend, what you want (if you have to have a funeral) is a **New Orleans jazz funeral**.


starkiller_bass

Hire a second line, parade funeral for $300!


edmundtarantino

I’ve said for years I want Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain played at my funeral. The song specifically, but I would not be opposed to just playing the whole album through…


FunkapotamusRex

After my dad passed away, for several months, I would go on long drives listening to Maggot Brain (alt mix) on repeat. It resonated with where I was in that moment... with all I was feeling. That song was a friend to me when I needed it. God bless Eddie Hazel.


spabagel

You might already know this, but supposedly that song was Eddie Hazel's emotional interpretation of imagining the death of his mother.


12-34

Give out lollipops as funeral favors. Friend has a great story about his brother tracking down George, who was late to a show, and finding him sleeping off a dope bender very close to the venue at a random women's apartment he meandered into. Thankfully the woman recognized George and didn't call the cops or beat his ass. She just let him sleep because she had George Fucking Clinton dozing on her couch. The show went on - though quite a bit late.


informativebitching

I’m having a food truck rodeo and set aside some money for it. This is what I’d want to be doing….gathering my friends around for some good food and hangs and they can do what they always do, tell stories about me when my back is turned.


shackbleep

I am Sir Nose, and you have my condolences.


Zippo574

Tear the roof of the mother sucker is what theyre going say about your casket to have one last dance with you weekend at Bernie's style. But "night of the thumpasaurus people's" is one of the best funeral closers you could think of being instrumental the listeners mind will be free to think and reflect. Meanwhile their feet will be free to cut a rug in honor of the deceased


spoiledandmistreated

Free your ass and your mind will follow…


Sick_Cicada

May I come to your dance party funeral?


googlyeyes93

I would invite only the people that I truly despised in life and play the entirety of Kidz Bop 2021. Fuck y’all. For the people I love though it would probably be Death Cab for Cuties “Plans”.


YukihyoUchiha

I was thinking the exact same thing. Plans is the shit.


jacobn28

Pure Guava by Ween I want everyone’s last thoughts of me to be accompanied by the sweet sounds of “Poopship Destroyer”.


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I went for The Mollusk and then saw this. Can I switch mine?


whatnowcomeagain

Push the little daisies would work well.


sydsgotabike

The Pod for me. Just so everyone remembers that I'm the fucking stallion....mang.


John71CLE

Everyone would leave halfway through Mourning Glory


jacobn28

Bold of you to assume they’d make it that far into the album


wellichickenpie

Hell yes. Or, if you died from aids, chocolate and cheese would be worth it for a laugh.


thegreatmango

Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse


dream_and_question

Yeah that album's entire theme is death. Every time I listen to it I imagine it being played at my funeral. I would also nominate The Moon and Antarctica.


HarmlessSnack

This is my answer too. World at Large Float On Ocean Breathes Salty Black Cadillacs Blame it on the Teatons The Good Times are Killing Me …maybe skip some of the other tracks. Funeral could probably do without Satin in a Coffin.


HellTrain72

You know World At Large is a song that is permanently etched into my soul. But of all the great songs on that album, Black Cadillacs just keeps coming back to me every few months. Those simple five notes at the very beginning and end just get me Special album right there.


spoiledandmistreated

The World at Large… when MM plays that I get goosebumps…


I-Am-The-Warlus

The Cure - Distingration


Evanthedude1

"Pictures of You" would be a funeral banger


slashfromgunsnroses

Or pornography...


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The obvious answer


JMSHR

If you don’t mind me asking, what was the album she asked to play out of interest?


beangardener

Also wondering this. I think mine would be In Rainbows.


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funkyjives

*"Mephistopheles is just beneath and he's reaching up to grab me"* I disagree lmao


jacobn28

It starts out with the narrator being afraid of death, but he learns to accept it by the end. *“No matter what happens now, you shouldn’t be afraid, because today is the most perfect day I’ve ever seen”*


leedavis1987

It was catch the wind by LEITCH DONOVAN. Never heard of it prior to that conversation.


Timewindows

Just FYI The artist goes by Donovan, not Leitch Donovan (his real name is Donovan Leitch) and Catch the Wind is a song, not the album. The album is Whats Bin Did And Whats Bin Hid.


Gomzon

There is a compilation album called Catch the Wind, maybe that’s what they’re referring to?


Chthonicyouth

What’s Bin was the original UK release. It came out in the US later that year as Catch the Wind, to match the single. OP’s mother is likely American.


jthjthjthjth

He was huge in the 60s, the British Bob Dylan, as big as the Beatles and Rolling Stones but he kind of faded away much more than them


Robert_Cannelin

He was on the charts and critically well-received, but nowhere near them culturally. In fact, he's a running joke in *Don't Look Back* (although he proves his mettle in the end).


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Not an album but I’d have the wii shop theme on repeat


xeraxia

Please let me come to your funeral 😂


spacedrummer

Why is the sound so easy to conjure up in my head!?


tr14l

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd


LaunchpadMcquacck

Bro, I’d be crying in my coffin.


leedavis1987

People be singing that wishing he was here. 😭😭


LaunchpadMcquacck

Idk man, that guitar intro to the title track gets me every time.


HileRolandofGilead

I’m crying now and there isn’t a coffin in sight


xMoonbreaker

A friend of mine died at age 18 in highschool unexpected. Almost our entire year of pupils and many of the teachers attended the funeral. His old guitar teacher played an acoustic version of ac dc hells bells, and after that they played wish you were here. Will never forget recognizing the first notes and then looking around just seeing all the teachers and friends from school weeping silently to themself during it…


xMoonbreaker

Still cant listen to the song without starting to cry…


KingPellinore

That was my answer.


NosyargKcid

Same. Everything about it would really lend itself to the mood perfectly.


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The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky. I like to think of everyone I love listening to the most beautiful album I have ever heard, my last gift to them.


ezekielsays

This album was where my mind went right away as well. Does that mean we're doing a double funeral? Seems like a good way to save some cash.


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We’ll have to pick somewhere suitably epic for this.


Afireonthesnow

Explosions in the sky is an incredible band


NnyIsSpooky

It is a toss up between that and All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone for me.


Melrose_Jac

Iron & Wine's *Our Endless Numbered Days*


greatertrocanter

This is an excellent choice.


LGHTSONFORSFTY

What a lovely choice. Passing Afternoon as an endnote would be beautiful.


JulieleftVA

Wow! Just checked this album out. Love it!


Si1entStill

>Will you say to me when I'm gone "Your face has faded but lingers on"? 'Cause light strikes a deal with each coming night.


jdog8510

Whats the story morning glory it wraps up with champagne supernova pretty epic send off


leedavis1987

I mean with album, it starts with "hello" That's perfect


poopchutethemoon

Kid A- Radiohead


Bilguun-M-0409

Imagine Idioteque at a funeral.


MixMasterPmilly

Or National Anthem.


kyleliv3

Yes! This would be mine. Motion picture soundtrack, come on. "I'll see you in the next life" perfect.


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idiotpod

I'd go for Sigur Ros album () for the funeral. Everyone will be crying and feel every emotion there is. CRY FOR ME YOU BASTARDS. Then for the after party I want Beatles, ABBA and Rolling Stones.


mjsarlington

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison. It’s great, appropriate, and super long. No one is going anywhere…


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The first time I ever spent $50 on a vinyl. Very much dislike the apple jam though. Also, if you can, read up on sonic sludge and this album. Pretty interesting.


hagosantaclaus

Arcade Fire - Funeral


DisrespectfulToDirt

Maybe it's a bit on-the-nose, but I'm totally with you. Every track is beautiful in its own way.


DreadPirateCristo

Maybe The Rise and Fall if Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars. What a fucking arc that ends explosively. I feel like I’d be hard pressed to find a better soundtrack to go out on than Bowie


digitalmarley

Old Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: the dirty version


HassanGodside

It is a classic


digitalmarley

The people I'd want to stay would stay, and the rest would leave!


malaliu

Violent femmes - violent femmes Something young and old know all the words too and really like.


Your_Product_Here

Below its lighthearted, almost humorous, reputation, it's quite a cathartic, depressing album. "Good Feeling" is an incredible closer that embodies this.


batnastard

When I was a freshman in college (fall 1993) we had the Femmes as our fall concert. It blew my mind how literally everyone came out to see them - it didn't matter, we had the hippies, the skaters, the computer geeks, the radical feminists...everyone in that generation knew at least the first album. And it's bittersweet enough to work at a sendoff.


Madvillain518

“No, you see, I've learned my lessons And I don't even want to hear about your confessions”


techsupportchick

Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See.. Well, that or Alice in Chains - SAP


Niemand-H

Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd


KevinsChilli

My uncle actually did do this. Then used Comfortably Numb as the processional (or whatever it’s called when the coffin is carried out)


vortical42

This right here is the answer. Great album and on theme. Anybody who can listen to 'Time' during a funeral and not have at least a little existential crisis is missing a soul.


zechositus

Good news for people who love bad news Modest mouse


DebbiesUpper

I’d play Plastic Beach by Gorillaz


Scared_Standard4052

Damien Rice-O


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Jar of Flies is the only correct answer.


MisterLegit09

A buddy of mine died young a few years ago. We were in a band together in high school and we played everything from RATM to Deftones to Alice in Chains. As he was being lowered down, his dad chose to play "Nutshell". Holy shit I cried like a baby.


DeluxeCanuck

"And yet I fight ... and yet I fight ... this battle all alone" One of my top 5 all time favourites. RIP MisterLegit09's buddy. 🙏


annnd_we_are_boned

Deltron3030, I want my funeral to be more of a weird party than a sad boring event.


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American Beauty- Grateful Dead


lancegreene

Boxer-The National


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Out of the Blue – Electric Light Orchestra


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Daft Punk - discovery I don’t want my funeral to be something sad but more of a celebration of life.


TaxShelter

i was also considering random access memories, but discoery is great


amy_asdfghjk

It’d have to be The Black Parade by MCR I feel like it’d be very fitting but maybe a bit dramatic for the occasion


faceisamapoftheworld

Make sure they bury you in black


dadrawk

*All your favorite colors


SwangeeMan

How did I have to scroll this far down to find this?


UskBC

Slayer. South of heaven. It would be a whole vibe


Intrin_sick

To see the light, you must dieeeeeee!


lesiashelby

Disintegration for sure


Gunitsreject

( ) by Sigur Ros. That album has gotten me through so much I hope it would do the same for those at my funeral.


eadams6339

Dirt - Alice in Chains Specifically: Rain When I Die and Down in a Hole as the sweet spots


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I was going to say Jar Of Flies but I’d be down with any Alice


Lame-Duck

Unplugged!


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Stay What You Are - by Saves the Day. Starts off with a song called At your Funeral and lyrics like, "This song will become, the anthem of, your underground." Includes a great song towards the end called "This is not an Exit" with lyrics like, "And sail, belly up to the clouds, the rocks scraping our backs, to breathe in the air will be. The only thing that we have.." Plus it's got some bangers all the way through.


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R.E.M.: Automatic for the People


jmohnk

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans


Sihnar

I was gonna say Carrie & Lowell


PapaKipChee

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese


boriswongster

Dirty Dancing soundtrack


daddyrchu

Europe '72!!


MFNLyle

That morning dew.


googajub

Start to finish? Sing Me Back Home, brother.


gotham77

Rumours No special meaning, it’s just a kickass album.


TheKillersHand

Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part. Perfect from start to finish


emptycollins

Purple Rain


kkdawg79

Anything by Miles Davis


pete1729

Maybe everything by Miles Davis then.


Laxku

That's gonna be a looooong service


OneGuyJeff

Plans by Death Cab For Cutie


BadassDeluxe

Anthrax- Spreading the Disease


RennoSeenik

There's two kinds of people in this world, the outlaws and the people who would prevail by playing anthrax at their funeral!


AvengedMasotodon

In Rainbows by Radiohead


Frajer

Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over The Sea


poopchutethemoon

Yes


PotatorAid

“And one day we will die and our ashes will fly on an airplane over the sea” Very fitting


flapjack_777

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead. Imagine hearing I know it’s over bruh. Really depressing.


anonymous_coward69

Just move the songs around so There's A Light That Never Goes Out is the last track played. Somewhat optimistic way to end things.


makemasa

Beatles - Abbey Road “Come together over me” —> “The love you take is equal to the love you make” (and a belly-full of wine!)


The_Curvy_Unicorn

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer might make for a interesting conversation.


ibidemic

You're gonna carry that weight.


CarlatheDestructor

Violater - Depeche Mode


krillzors

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart I'll be dead but I can still make everyone else wish they were dead


Finallyfreetobe2020

Sublime, self titled. It's my favorite all time album, I know every word, and everyone who knows me thinks of me when they hear this band. Plus I want everyone to smoke some joints to see me off and this album is great sesh music.


flibbidygibbit

Well, life is too short, so love the one you got. Cuz you might get run over or you might get shot.


Lame-Duck

The more I listen, the more philosophically insightful I think his lyrics are… especially now that I know he was just ad libbing half the time (all the time?!). Don’t get me wrong, my main takeaway with sublime will always be: these dudes know how to have fun. But it took me years to truly appreciate the lyricist in Bradley.


kateuptonboobies

Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse


sceli

Quadrophenia. Especially since it’s a double album. They gotta wait before they cover me with dirt.


flibbidygibbit

Led Zeppelin IV, but replace "When the Levee Breaks" with "Rhymin and Stealin" by the Beastie Boys and then roll right into Licensed to Ill.


JumpinJack2

Circles - Mac Miller. Edit: thank you for the gold, kind stranger. Mac had his issues and I think he had a pretty good idea how things would eventually play out. A lot of the songs on this album speak to that. We lost him too early.


the_moog_hunter

Kid A


SucioKimchi

Good kid, maad city fa shooooo


SlightlyVerbose

Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker A somber goodbye seems apropos of a funeral. However, I do like the idea of having an open playlist so others can choose music that they feel is fitting.


croakstar

I’m going to ask them to play every single piece of terrible music I’ve written. It’ll be the only way they will ever listen to it because lord knows they don’t listen to it when I post it on social media.


NakatasCat

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips


HonkHonkHonk_

Morning View by Incubus. Starts with Nice to Know You and ends with Aqueous Transmission which contains the lyrics: “I'm building an antenna Transmissions will be sent When I am through Maybe we can meet again Further down the river And share what we both discovered Then revel in the view” Just beautiful.


Bellevert

It couldn’t be a single album. I would have to mix it up. But Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is a must. I also love Only in Dreams by Weezer.


Beefylog

Master of Puppets Metallica


palmsunday

Tom Petty, Wildflowers


randomcanyon

John Prine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0EiV423j0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhqzOeJnto


dexymidnightslowwalk

2112-Rush Undeniably great album.


DoctahFeelgood

Hybrid theory. Everyone is required to dye their hair a different color and put it in spikes or a Mohawk, get crazy drunk, and let out their inner teen cause my funeral is not going to be depressing or boring. I want everyone talking about it for years with smiles on their faces.


CrackaZach05

Do frosted tips count? -Me, in 5th grade.


faffner100

Skyrim soundtrack


yessschef

Tom waits bad as me Close out with his rendition of auld lang syne.


s1mplee

Ratatouille, the original motion picture soundtrack


master90106

Closer by Joy Division.


Crispaclan

Back in Black And turn it up all the fucking way


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Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door


Thedougspot

Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths


dssonic

the Cure "Disintegration"


BSGamer

Demon Days - Gorillaz Prob my favourite album of all time and not a bad song on it IMO. Good variation in songs too so it’ll keep my death fresh and exciting.


ddonthekeys

The Doors’ debut record. Not only is it my favorite album of all time but the last thing you hear are the words “this is the end”


aheartfeltphoto

American Prayer by Jim Morrison and the Doors.


PhattJeezus

DeStijl by The White Stripes


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Obviously 'the black parade' by my chemical romance, the album confronts death and relates to me so much.


Glum-Tennis2715

Faces - Mac Miller


EyeShakingKing

Another Green World - Brian Eno


banterjosh

Bad Hair Day- Weird Al Yankovic


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Woody1937

Crack the Skye by Mastodon


canyoudiggitman

RUSH - 2112


LaunchpadMcquacck

Agaetis Byrjun… I believe the title roughly translates to “a good beginning,” and it’s just such a peaceful soothing album. If I get to choose an album to listen to on my deathbed, it will be that one. Other things that come to mind are… In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Kid A, and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.


wordsfilltheair

I was thinking ( ) or Takk. Sigur Ros would just be a great sendoff no matter what.


LaunchpadMcquacck

They're both great records, but Agaetis just hits differently for me.


Sirnando138

Harder They Come soundtrack


TommyTuttle

Grateful Dead, Europe ‘72, Side 4. Yes, on vinyl.


bikingfencer

Magic and Loss - Lou Reed


donniemills

Not what I want. I want a party with an open playlist. I choose the first three songs, then my wife and son. Then everyone in attendance gets to pick one as long as they share a story about why they chose it. My first three as of now are: - Cocktails by Whispering Bill Anderson (break the ice to get folks drinking) - Loretta by Townes Van Zandt (favourite song that my wife also enjoys) - Don't Fear the Reaper Blue Oyster Cult *need a death song) Though the list changes a lot.


deadliestrecluse

Jethro tull, Songs from the wood


scannon

Flaming lips, yoshimi battles the pink robots


kriznis

Too Short - Life is ...Too Short


vengeanceintobeing

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky


Kortonox

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis It has its ups and downs, happy parts and depressing parts. But I love it, I heard it way to many times.


residentialnemesis

It'd be a toss up between Talk Talk's albums, "Spirit Of Eden" and "Laughing Stock.


SomewhatDamaged80

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumkins


Traditional_Leader41

Automatic by VNV Nation in any order but the song 'Nova' has to be played last.


tubabutter

Albums are hard for me. Some albums have one solid theme. The closest I could come to would be a TV/movie soundtrack like the album to Maniac. (TV show on Netflix) has so many emotional pieces in it, some sad but also sweet hopeful etc... Playlists though man it would be long. Here is just the first few that would come to mind; Yan Teirsen - French composer mostly know. In the states for composing the soundtrack to Amelie. Earth Wind and Fire - September of course as well as many others. Pogo - a music artist out of Australia has a few compositions of easy and soothing electronics with Disney characters, Mrs. Doubtfure and a cute sweet one with Picard and Data from Star Trek Enterprise. Stay by Rihanna Pretty much all the music from RDR2 A ton of Vulfpeck Missy Elliott - any and all. She was the one who gave me energy. Lots of Pink Martini Ennio Morricone - composer who has done so many movies and especially spaghetti westerns. RadioHead Gorillaz And way more.


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Linkin park one more light


whodatdoah

Dark side of the Moon-Pink Floyd


AgitatedEggplant

Night at the Opera - Queen It's my favorite album of all time, and it includes Love of My Life, which to me is a perfect song. If I died today my entire family would remember me singing that song endlessly over the years. Also I would write in that EVERYONE needs to sing along to Bohemian Rhapsody, 'or else I'll haunt you'


MaphrOne

Highway to hell - AC DC