A song people chose
The Funeral
by Band of Horses
115 people have chosen this as their last tune
Alternative · 2006 · Everything All the Time
Why they chose it
"I want people to feel the riff in their chest."
"This is, in a way, my closing statement."
"It's the song I'd want stuck in everyone's head afterwards."
"It's the song that taught me grief and love are the same thing, really."
"I used to play this on repeat during the hardest year of my life. It helped."
"I've played this more than any other song, and that says everything."
"This is the song I'd want playing when I arrive, wherever that is."
"It's the song that got me through by sheer force."
"This song says more about who I was than I ever could."
"This song is defiance set to music, and that's how I want to be remembered."
"This is the one song I'd never get tired of."
"It's angry and cathartic and exactly what I needed when I found it."
"Because it's honest. No pretending. Just the truth."
"It's raw and unpolished and that's exactly the point."
"This is, in a way, my closing statement."
"This song is as close to a self-portrait as I'll ever get."
"It's the truest thing I know how to share."
"I'd rather be remembered through this than through a eulogy."
"This is the song I scream along to when I need to let something out."
"It just feels true, every single time."