It's your funeral (boogie on down)

[kazzi]

I have just heard on the radio that Amanda Holden actually has it in her will that she would like Abba's dancing queen played at her funeral and wants everyone to dance to it.Got me thinking just for fun what song would mumsnetters have played at theirs which best discribes their personality.

Also my Dh's nan had the carpenters 'we've only just begun' which I thought was very strange.I still blubed though anything by the carpenters has the same effect on me aviod their music when pregnant/pre menstral if you know what I mean.):

Another crap attempt to do a smilie here goes

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oh I give up

kazzi use the o instead of 0

thankyou whymummy I feel all clever now.

no problem kazzi,it took me ages as well

Would have to be Freiheits 'Keeping the dream alive' or Mike and the Mechanics 'Living Years' or possibly Meatloafs 'Bat out of hell'.

I would love great music at my funeral, I agree with Megg on She by Elvis Costello. I love the idea of Ding Dong the Witch is dead!! That creases me up Naughtnoonoo.

I reckon SH has a mullet!

I'm with hmb on "don't fear the reaper", but I'd also like "What a Wonderful World" - corneee

'what a wonderful world' - no way - really dire for a funeral or otherwise

common people - pulp reminds me of reading fest 1992. Anything by radiohead just to make people cry because most probably won't be.

Anything sung by maria callas - fantastic.

simonhoward

that is dreadful - Mike and the mechanics - I bet you've got all the dire straits albums nestling next to your Kate Bush.

Love your bat out of hell choice though - with you on that

KS directed me to this thread....

I quite like the idea of being cremated to See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have, that song from Destry Rides Again ('and tell them I sighed/and tell them I cried/and tell them I died of the same'. Or inflicting some really, really cheesy C&W on everyone because it's MY funeral.

And then as people are filing out I want Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.

Right then, I'd have 'Distant Sun' by Crowded House as it's my song and I want to be cremated.

But then......I want to become a diamond

A company called (I think) 'Life Gems' will use your cremated remains to create diamonds, and I then have them given to my kids to keep/set into a pendant whatever. This is 100% what I want to do.

my sister had Fame (I want to live forever, la la la) played at the end of her funeral. Very dramatic

Have already told dh I want Baby can I hold you tonight by Tracey Chapman just because I love it and it makes me cry! But mention of Crowded House makes me think about Always take the weather with you which could be entertaining, esp, if being cremated and ashes scattered...

What? Nobody want's the mumsnet rhapsody?

Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes? at the crem.
At the Church: In Paradisum from the Faure Requiem.
I don't want anyone smiling! I want hankies wrung out, dammit.

I haven't really thought about this but my dh wants Tubthumping by Chumbawumba.

my grandad had 'bring me sunshine' by morecambe and wise at his funeral
bless him
can't listen to it anymore

I'm Pink Floyding it out of here
Learning to Fly or Shine on You Crazy Diamond

We had Danny Boy at my Dads funeral
never can relax going into an Irish pub again, blame my mother for that faux pas!!! Choose carefully, you may ruin peoples social lives, having family in tears everytime they pop into a disco or attend a wedding... Foolishly I chose an Irish DH as well...

Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5?

My mum had Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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I think I'd have Fairytale of New York by Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues.