C'mon, the use of the Pogues' "Body of an American" was one of the most appropriate uses of music on any tv show I've seen.

I'm partial to "The Beast In Me" on The Sopranos. Northern Exposure had some great, and unusual musical cues too.

Well, duh, Corwood. But that was a wake, right?(And a truly beautiful tribute to one of the creators that died.Sniff.) Not just day to day. And consider this an advance directive...I want that funeral. Complete with Bitches in corsets telling each other I was a giant pain in the ass. My actually being laid out in leather pants on the pool table can be left to bullshit consensus, okay, bunk? I'm sort of the Cole of the Bitches, I think. Comic relief...foil, you know, "Queen of the Dunkers" "The Beast in Me" was perfect, too, Hec.

OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form. Good to know. I'm new around here, sort of. Still, don't skip the bagpipes.

OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.

No way. I wouldn't mind "Body of An American" played at my funeral, though I've been leaning towards another Pogues song, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" in recent years.

Then maybe all the different takes of "Loose" off the Stooges box set played end to end.

That was one of the best funeral scenes I've ever seen, and I'm not just being "Baltimore likes carrots!" here, because I'd not seen too much of the show when I watched it the first time and it still got to me. Now that I've got my full dose of "Colesberry's dead, and yet Cheney lives!" from watching all the seasons, I expect to be wrung out like a rag and have my family look at me like I'm having a 'sode again for crying for a fake dead guy. Sort of. But not. Because brilliant producer Robert Colesberry played putz detective Ray Cole, who sort of couldn't find his ass with both hands and a road map. But RC had a real-life sudden heart attack, so they both got a funeral on the show...and sorry for the "blah, blah, Ginger..." nature of this post for non-Wireheads.

Songs about/mentioning NOLA:

No one has mentioned "Mr. Bojangles" at all?

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.

It's sad that Steve Goodman is barely remembered nowadays, despite writing this song, "City of New Orleans," and possibly the greatest baseball song ever, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."

OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.

Can we play "Leaving on a Jet Plane?" Also: "Highway to Hell," "Stairway to Heaven" (just to balance things out), and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone."

well, I'm planning to play a couple of TISM songs at my funeral--unless I die before my folks, in which case NSM. Not sure how they'd react to, "I'm On The Drug That Killed River Phoenix" but I know they wouldn't be happy to hear, "I Might Be A Cunt But At Least I'm Not A Fucking Cunt".

OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.

My grandmother always wanted me to sing her favorite hymn ("Just As I Am") at her funeral. She died when I was 17.

Didn't sing. I was too broken up. Wanted to, but my parents put their feet down.

Fats Domino alive and OK and airlifted out of NO.