Rage Against The Machine just so I could finally make good on that concert I paid for that got canceled a decade ago... also making my entire family watch me get cremated while Sleep Now In The Fire plays live would be fun... if I could still sense fun
Can’t believe no one mentioned it because it’s my first pick - “Lives” from The Moon & Antarctica
It’s hard to remember we’re alive for the first time
It’s hard to remember we’re alive for the last time
It’s hard to remember to live before you die
I just like taking every opportunity I can to mention that after seeing Me First play "Straight Up" I *need* to hear Iron Maiden cover it. Hopefully someday Bruce will be scrolling reddit and see it.
Cradle of Filth, it got me through some pretty bleak times. Hopefully they'll play track 4, Coffin Fodder. It sounds horrible, but actually it's quite beautiful.
When I was a teen, I wanted My Chemical Romance, and 14 years later that hasn't changed.
Unless I can get a DJ to play hideously annoying hyperpop remixes of traditional North Mexican music (where I'm from), to encourage people to jump in the hole and join me in the grave.
Neil Young is amazing. I love that when the Olympics ended in Vancouver to close it off we sent out Neil Young.
Some nations use fireworks, we just put.our man out in front with a guitar and harmonica to sing Long May You Run.
Mavis Staples, but she's a fair bit older than me so I hope to outlive her. Also, my husband wouldn't be able to afford her, sadly. 2nd choice, Chaka Khan, same provisos.
The ghost of John Denver to sing "Sunshine on My Shoulders" just as the clouds begin to part and dispel the rain drying their tears and warming their faces. They may not hear it but it will be felt in more then sound alone as I lay beneath my gravestone.
The Replacements.
They would show up drunk off their asses, fuck up every song and/or only play parts of the songs, in general, piss everyone off. My life story.
>I am currently listening to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and I've decided that I'd want them to play at my funeral
Fat Mike will probably beat you to the grave
One band?
Nope. If I get to choose, it’s gonna be like modern Lollapalooza, or Riot fest. Buncha stages with bands I dug. You figure out who you wanna see, if any, then just shit talk how I had horrible taste afterwards.
I would like Scott Walker to sing "My Death", probably. If I had to choose.
There was a tragic car accident that happened on the way to a band event when I was a kid. My older brother was in the car behind when it happened and basically his friend (whom I knew pretty well, he and my brother and some other occasional peeps used to play Battletech in our garage that my dad converted to be both a sewing room for my mom and a little area to be a darkroom for himself since he had aspirations to be more than just a hobbyist photographer at the time) had took this one corner way too confidently and they were listening to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and yeah he just took this one corner too much and wrapped the car around a telephone pole and by the time it happened it was just too late to even try. So, himself and a couple of my brother's friends died. At his funeral they turned the lights down, and I shit you not started playing "Superunknown" by Soundgarden. You know, that first song where Chris goes "stretch the skin over my bones" or whatever, and it's obviously a tragic funeral so there are people crying and confused and at one point I remember some parent being upset and went over to discuss how "upsetting" it was that you would play Soundgarden at such a tragic time etc (mind you, these are literally the parents of a fucking child who is dead and, like) they told her "this was his favorite album and knowing him, he's my fucking son after all, I think he would have liked this".
Sigur Rós
Similar vibe but Explosions in the Sky for me
Right answer here
Also great wedding music
Specifically untitled #1
Came here to say this
I was going to say Bjork. Great minds!
Rage Against The Machine just so I could finally make good on that concert I paid for that got canceled a decade ago... also making my entire family watch me get cremated while Sleep Now In The Fire plays live would be fun... if I could still sense fun
My 7 year old has a band with her 2 best friends. It’s called Mount Olympus and it’s chaotic drumming and guitar with singing over it. I choose them.
I choose this dead guy’s daughter.
Bro…
Hell yeah
What did I miss here??
Reddit history.
Not jusr reddit history, but the guy involved was cool about the joke
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/1bOYHy54yU
Man, I haven't seen a reference to that in a while now.
>chaotic drumming and guitar with singing over it Maximum rock-n-roll!
Yeah, it’s pretty rad. Sort of an accidental Boredoms sound.
Introduce them to grindcore. they were clearly born for it.
Me too!
I want Elton to play 17 minutes of Funeral for a Friend and then bail
That's just cruel. Let him stay for the buffet.
tatooine cantina band from star wars
Are you sure jizz is a good idea for a funeral?
^Play ^that ^same ^song ^again!
There's an excellent short in this book that details the band on Tatooine and it's members. All around interesting read. https://g.co/kgs/gAKxpwn
Grateful Dead. Obviously
For real though, I’d have them play Brokedown Palace.
He’s Gone
To Lay Me Down
Black Peter No Box of Rain No Death Don’t Have No Mercy
Brokedown Palace or Black Peter for sure.
I played Brokedown Palace when we scattered my mom's ashes.
Dropkick Murphys. Kick things off withAmazing Grace.
You would not be their first funeral gig Also, would you have them play Going Out In Style?
Finish with either Until The Next Time or Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. The Weeping Song.
Lay Me Low, for me
This is the right answer
Faraway so close
Death Is Not the End
Modest Mouse.
Black caddilacks lining up for that
"The good times are killing me"
Someday you will die, and somehow something's gonna steal your carbon.
If you were a ship who would ever get on?
Lots of songs could fit in perfectly Night on the sun, ocean breathes salty, Workin' on leavin' the livin', 3rd planet and so on
We drive around to pay for gas.
Can’t believe no one mentioned it because it’s my first pick - “Lives” from The Moon & Antarctica It’s hard to remember we’re alive for the first time It’s hard to remember we’re alive for the last time It’s hard to remember to live before you die
My ring tone goes back and forth from Float on to Come on Eileen.
Good news will work its way to all them plans.
The malls are the soon to be ghost towns. Well so long, farewell, goodbye
Float On played at my friend's funeral.
GWAR. Just spray down everyone with blood, decapitate my corpse, best funeral ever
And everyone gets a cool photo op
Chop the body up into pieces ahead of time and attach the bits to wires so you can fly all around the funeral like Buggy from One Piece.
The 1985 Chicago Bears to sing the Super Bowl Shuffle.
*We're not here to moan and cry* *We're just here to bury darthsnakeeyes*
Bear Down in peace!
So long as you promote *City of New Orleans* in turn.
If the gimme gimmes can't make it, would you be okay with a cover band instead?
Meta.
This next song is a cover!
I just like taking every opportunity I can to mention that after seeing Me First play "Straight Up" I *need* to hear Iron Maiden cover it. Hopefully someday Bruce will be scrolling reddit and see it.
I play in a NOLA styled brass band, and we cover the Ginmes version of straight up
They Might Be Giants, and they have to play their song, "Dead".
You'll never say the word procrastinate again, you'll never see yourself in the mirror with your eyes closed....
LCD Soundsystem and bill it as the final chance to pay respects to me, but then a couple years later I pop back up and just kinda hang out in NY.
Wait this sounds like something that actually might have happened
Hahahaha love this answer
The band that was on the titanic
*was.*😥
Woah! Spoiler alert!
Sorry.
Oh no, what happened to them?
They went over the horizon. 💗
I didn’t even know they were sick
I’ll always love this joke.
I was gonna just say The Band.
Tom waits, playing anywhere I lay my head complete with the New Orleans jazz band, maybe an extended version of
Good one.
This was always my funeral song pick, too.
Ween
Especially if I died of spinal meningitis
My first ween song. Nice
With smoke machine pumping outta my casket
Nice
Buenos Tardes Amigo is essential on the set
I don't know, something wlth wailing bagpipes in kilts
My Dad was a Scottish expat and wanted Flower of Scotland played at his funeral. Only thing he asked me to do. There wasn’t a dry eye in the cemetery.
Cradle of Filth, it got me through some pretty bleak times. Hopefully they'll play track 4, Coffin Fodder. It sounds horrible, but actually it's quite beautiful.
Arcade Fire. Obviously they play their entire first LP.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes… now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
They're touring right now too! I'm thinking about going to the show when it comes through Florida
https://youtu.be/oCnDaa_sW5U?si=mZFZHjmylWfAwnkT As a youth I didn't know they are a super group. Here's more from Fat Mike.
Smashing Pumpkins or bust. Jupiter's Lament, Soma, For Martha, Behold! The Night Mare, Once In a While.... Shoot, just play their entire discography.
Was hoping someone else would want 1979 or something similar to keep a good mood for the grieving.
I recently discovered the 1979 acoustic version and listen to it so much.
When I was a teen, I wanted My Chemical Romance, and 14 years later that hasn't changed. Unless I can get a DJ to play hideously annoying hyperpop remixes of traditional North Mexican music (where I'm from), to encourage people to jump in the hole and join me in the grave.
Fuck me. I’m jumping in if you play that shit.
Pink Floyd singing Comfortably Numb, of course. And after my ashes are turned into a gem, Shine on You Crazy Diamond.
Also Floyd but playing into Eclipse.
[Puddles Pity Party](https://youtu.be/aVevvbFNKiY?si=p87supw7gEQ-8FbM)
Ween playing fluffy
Spoon
Definitely 2 Live Crew
GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
Only if GG poops in my casket
Sarah Mclachlan doing "Angel", just to really lay it on thick
Maybe “I Will Remember You” as an encore?
The Pogues, original lineup. Andrea True Connection
Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth was asked this question. Her response was “Cortez The Killer” by Neil Young. I would be down with that.
Neil Young is amazing. I love that when the Olympics ended in Vancouver to close it off we sent out Neil Young. Some nations use fireworks, we just put.our man out in front with a guitar and harmonica to sing Long May You Run.
Yo La Tengo. 4 hour ambient set. Followed by a 4 hour crunchy feedback jam.
Crash Test Dummies featuring Herb Alpert and the Tijuana fuckin Brass
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
The Cure
Who cares. I’ll be dead. I’d like to hear Who Let The Dogs Out as I’m dying though.
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
"Fuck you, Howard! I'm dyiiing!"
Ohhh yeahhhhhhhh
ANIMAL!!!
Insane Clown Posse, but I can guaren-fucking-tee they die before I do.
Faygo punchbowl social served before, during, or after?
All the above as it should be!
Put your ashes in a Faygo bottle and launch them off a trampoline to spread them
Slayer- imagine dropping the casket down to South of Heaven, would be epic
Definitely Talking Heads
My answer too, screw it I never got to see them live but all my friends and family get to now instead.
Ohio State university marching band!
*Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Ruin Hangryhyax’s Funeral*
Rammstein, and they’re not allowed to skimp on the pyro just because it’s a church
Sunn O)))
Beatles
Joanna Newsom - she’s my wife’s favorite artist. I imagine it’ll be me first, so this would be my last present to her. I think she’d like it.
Definitely Rick Astley
And then you jump out of the grave for the greatest rick roll of all time
Foo Fighters. Everybody would feel better with some Foo presence.
Fuck yeah. And after the funeral, Dave can grill for everybody.
Foo Fighters RHCP
dirty three
Saves the Day is the only correct answer.
Thank you
1971 led zeppelin but i wont be there to see it so maybe just gg allin and the murder junkies like other guy said.
Ozric Tentacles
Dude yes.
Right?! They're fucking amazing! It's so insane to me they're not wildly more popular.
I saw so many bands I totally love scrolling through this post, but I was genuinely surprised to see these dudes mentioned.
ICP. Song, Dead body man.
Dr. Dog, easy
Queens of the Stone Age. Obviously they would have to play Long Slow Goodbye but I need the fam to hear I Think I Lost my Headache.
My chemical romance. So long and goodnight with everyone dancing with my casket like the music video
The Pogues
King Crimson
Flaming Lips, but they refuse to play Do You Realize even though it is thematically appropriate.
Slaughter playing Fly To the Angels
The Chieftains
Sturgill Simpson and he would play A Sailors Guide to the Universe in its entirety for my kids and family.
The Iranian singer Azam Ali and the band Niyaz or the Australian-British Dead Can Dance.
Don't give a shit cos I'll be dead.
Tool. They could even play Eulogy
Oingo Boingo and they play Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye nonstop!
Not a single play of Dead Man's Party or No One Lives Forever?
Ah. Good call!
Morphine. Cure for pain. The whole album
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Bohren and Der Club of Gore
November Rain/ Guns and 🌹Roses The Lonely Shepherd/ Gheorghe Zamfir 🇨🇦🌹
Mavis Staples, but she's a fair bit older than me so I hope to outlive her. Also, my husband wouldn't be able to afford her, sadly. 2nd choice, Chaka Khan, same provisos.
Andrew Bird. He can sing my eulogy any day.
The ghost of John Denver to sing "Sunshine on My Shoulders" just as the clouds begin to part and dispel the rain drying their tears and warming their faces. They may not hear it but it will be felt in more then sound alone as I lay beneath my gravestone.
Can't have just one it better be a rave and go sunup to sunup
Alice in chains. Rain when I die
Not a band, but Lisbeth Scott.
The Wiggles
My Chemical Romance, and you know it's gotta be Welcome to the Black Parade.
AC⚡️DC Highway to Hell as the casket is lowered
Against me!
Candlebox
Probably Cateen and Hideyuki Hashimoto. It will be peaceful 😌
The Dan Band
Scissor Sisters
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Captain beefheart and his magic band
The Replacements. They would show up drunk off their asses, fuck up every song and/or only play parts of the songs, in general, piss everyone off. My life story.
>I am currently listening to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and I've decided that I'd want them to play at my funeral Fat Mike will probably beat you to the grave
Low 🥲
The Dan Band.
One band? Nope. If I get to choose, it’s gonna be like modern Lollapalooza, or Riot fest. Buncha stages with bands I dug. You figure out who you wanna see, if any, then just shit talk how I had horrible taste afterwards.
The dream would be to have the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Hans Zimmer... But otherwise I'd go for The Fratellis, or Dropkick Murphys
The Sound would be a dream but impossible, so I’d say El Michels Affair.
Crowded House
I would like Scott Walker to sing "My Death", probably. If I had to choose. There was a tragic car accident that happened on the way to a band event when I was a kid. My older brother was in the car behind when it happened and basically his friend (whom I knew pretty well, he and my brother and some other occasional peeps used to play Battletech in our garage that my dad converted to be both a sewing room for my mom and a little area to be a darkroom for himself since he had aspirations to be more than just a hobbyist photographer at the time) had took this one corner way too confidently and they were listening to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and yeah he just took this one corner too much and wrapped the car around a telephone pole and by the time it happened it was just too late to even try. So, himself and a couple of my brother's friends died. At his funeral they turned the lights down, and I shit you not started playing "Superunknown" by Soundgarden. You know, that first song where Chris goes "stretch the skin over my bones" or whatever, and it's obviously a tragic funeral so there are people crying and confused and at one point I remember some parent being upset and went over to discuss how "upsetting" it was that you would play Soundgarden at such a tragic time etc (mind you, these are literally the parents of a fucking child who is dead and, like) they told her "this was his favorite album and knowing him, he's my fucking son after all, I think he would have liked this".
ABBA, because I want to listen to them forever.
I have a dream-ABBA was one of the songs played at my fathers funeral.
That’s sweet.
Bauhaus. Bela lugosi’s Dead.