h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This thread could be renamed what do you want played at your funeral??

This list will undoubtedly change cast and characters as I think of other songs, but some core toons:

Pachelbel's Canon
Eroica
Lizt's Hungarian Rhapsodies
Bankrobber, Armagiddeon Time, I Fought the Law - The Clash
Goodnight Irene, Black Girl - Leadbelly
Gardening at Night - REM
Anything by Powderfinger
Just about anything by Neil Young
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols
My Way - Sid Vicious
Stranded - The Saints
Roadrunner - Johnathan Richman
Sharky's Song (?) - Teenage Fanclub
Hard Rain - Either Bryan Ferry or Bob Dylan
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Anything by Robyn Hitchcock esp. Egyptian Cream, Bells of Rymmney (?), I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl, He's a Reptile ...
Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

My favourite song, ever, ever, ever is:

'Paradise City' by Guns N Roses

Everyday - Slade

Imagine - John Lennon

Ahhhh!!! So many to choose but here goes
infected by the the
in my life, rain, she's leaving home the beatles
move on up curtis mayfeild
tales from the river bank , down in a tube station at midnight, liza radley the jam
hot fuss the killers(I know it's a cop out but there isn't a duff track on the album)
fix you cold play
sub rosa subway klaatu
aurora, monkey wrench, everlong foo fighters
no bravery james blunt
that's it for now it'll probably change by tomorrow

Jumpin' Jack Flash and Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
The Tourist - Radiohead
Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye

more tomorrow no doubt..

Ok, my most favourite songs ever, at least for the next five minutes are:

Runaway by Del Shannon with the wonderful stylaphone solo in the middle.
Atomic by Blondie. Visions of Deborah in just a shirt, just play it and not be moved.
The Day Before You Came - Abba The most underated and underplayed record in the history of popular music.
You Really Got Me - The Kinks. Punk before Punk.

Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols

Forget that previous crap I posted, here's some other stuff:- (oh the fickle nature of popular culture)

The whole of Beethoven's ninth symphony
Will You? Hazel O'Conner
My Funny Valentine -Billie Holliday
Down by the river - Neil Young
Deep Blue Day - Brian Eno
Good Rockin' tonight - Elvis Presley

S.P.O.C.K - Take Me To The Stars

Friggin in the Riggin - sex pistols

Penny Lane-Beatles
There She Goes-La's
Elevation of Love-Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Blue in Green-Miles Davis
Strawberry Fields-Beatles
Always the Sun-Stranglers
Egyptian Reggae-Jonathan Richman

These songs are now my most favourite songs ever:

Halucinating Light - Roy Harper
Life and Life Only - Al Stewart
All or Nothing - Small Faces
Whiskey Woman - Flamin' Groovies
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
It's a Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bob

Vendetta Red - Shatterday
Alkaline Tio - Smoke
CKY - Close yet far
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Tool - Aenima

Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes

How could I forget, Vienna by Ultravox - that raises the hairs on the back of my neck. A classic tune.

Or Visage. Fade to Grey. Unforgettable

Ultravox? Visage? This is more like favourite synth-tunes!
-Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime-Korgi's
-Human-Human League
-The Model-Kraftwerk
-When You See a Chance-Steve Winwood (part synth, part piano, part glorious Hammond B3)

Nothin but a g thang by dr dre and snoop dogg

Will you still love me Tomorrow, The Shirelles, Come With Me, The Idle Race, Bronco Bill's Lament, Don McLean, Driftwood, The Moody Blues, Things We Said Today, The Beatles, Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles, When the Blue of the Night, Bing Crosby, Reet Petite, Jackie Wilson, Uncle John's Band, The Grateful Dead, My Creole Belle, Doc Watson, Tender is the Night, Blur, I Can't Let Maggie Go, Honeybus, Don't Turn Your Back on Me, Jackie de Shannon, Answer to Everything, Del Shannon, Walk Right Back, The Everly Brothers, Rave On, Buddy Holly, Don't Ever Change, the Crickets, I Don't Want to, go on Without You, The Drifters, Somewhere Along the Way, Nat King Cole, Got a lot of Living to do, Elvis, too many more to mention! Oh, Mythical Kings and Iguanas, Dory Previn, (She created more beauty in this one song than her old man did in a lifetime of pompous classical conducting!)