Songs not to play at a funeral

[MikeRafone]

Another one bites the dust - Queen
Staying alive bee gees
Smoke gets in my eyes the platters

It’s this thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5488191-tried-it-once-never-again?page=1

A very entertaining thread and tbh, there wasn’t a lot of mention of sex, that’s just me being silly!

My lovely uncle had us walk in to Que Sera Sera, he also had a blues band with a guitar solo though. Class act

I Want the Motörhead version of Sympathy for the Devil

I didn’t know they’d done a version of that! Going to have a listen.

'Living In A Box' by Living In A Box.
Knock On Wood.
Dead Puppies.

Ring of fire - Johnny Cash

Zombie

Alive by Pearl Jam

i think the refrain “whoa! I’m still alive” would cause some consternation

I’ve always fancied Is That All There is by Peggy Lee at my funeral.

Kasabian - I’m on fire

My friends mum's had this at her funeral (she literally went through the cremation curtains to it). To be fair she had been a big fan of The Loaf in life and it was played at her request. But it also raised a smile on an otherwise terrible day.

Sorry if already mentioned - Smoke gets in your eyes!

first post..lol

It is a truly beautiful song and I very much disagree that it's inappropriate.

It's not saying that we'll be alive forever at all; but rather that we will have (or have had) plenty of time together for love and for the things that matter. It isn't promising that we'll be able to wander aimlessly around Bicester Village for the next thousand years

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I kind of agree with you but if the deceased had expressed their wishes then I feel they should be respected as much as possible.

My uncle requested (and had) the Test Match Special theme to go out to and it made us all smile as it was completely fitting. Equally we choose a favourite but hardly played song for my dad because we couldn't face hearing it regularly and unexpectedly.

A friend of mine had Gace Jones Pull up to the Bumper (in your long black limousine)
It was typically amusing like she was 🤣 🙏

A friend had it at his...in a church. The poor vicar didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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A dear friend of mine had the leaving music as "living in a box" it wasn't written on the order of service though - just "leaving music" so when it started playing and a few bars in it dawned on us - everyone started laughing - he always liked the last laugh..

Ghost in my house would be inappropriate

Greatest Day - Take That

DH has already told me he wants 'Who Wants to Live Forever" by Queen.

I don't know if it still the case, but for years this was the most played song at funerals!

My father had to speak to the organist at the crematorium he managed as it dawned on him that the “Russian folk tune” she had been playing as mourners exited the chapel was “The Carnival is Over” 😳 The tune was adapted from a Russian folk song, but I can’t imagine that was what the people hearing it thought!

Lily Allen, F You would be truly inappropriate(!)

The first time I heard a Green Day song was on ER, where the child is dying of cancer and they play ‘Good Riddence’. What a song

My mum told me to play that! Need a humour emoji mumsnet