James Blunt Tops Funeral Music Lists
James Blunt has topped the list of the most popular funeral tunes in the UK. Said a spokesman for the Associated Union of Morticians and Mortuary Workers: ‘Our customers tell us that by choosing to play James Blunt songs during the actual funeral service, they are sending a message to their newly departed loved ones that they’re going to a much better place. A much much better place where they don’t have to listen to James Blunt’s music…’
In related news, psychics have been reporting a huge drop in the number of contacts they’ve made with the ‘other side’. Since 2005 and the release of ‘You’re Beautiful‘, there have been over 93% less seances reporting actual contact with the spiritual realm. ‘For some reason, they’re afraid to contact the mortal world,’ said Mrs. Iris Bent, a medium of twenty years experience. ‘It’s like there’s some force that’s keeping them away…A force of such terror that even the fiercest poltergeists have been known to go screaming back into the light whenever they come across it.’
Second in the list was ‘We Will Rock You’ by Queen.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Goodness, really?
For the record, and in the hypothetical event that the blue transit that nearly killed me in Fulham yesterday had been going just that little bit faster, no James Blunt for me, please. Something by AC/DC ought to hit the spot.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I suppose we should really be grateful. Only a few years ago it was popular to use the theme music from Titanic.
I can still see coffins being lowered into the grave with one prow sticking up before it finally disappears beneath the earth… [Okay, cue the Celine Dion]