MINI: Funeral Songs

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

While the team are away we're looking back at some of our favourite bits!

Death is inevitable, but your funeral playlist doesn't have to be.

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.3	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:18.7	Yesterday, my wife and I were talking.
0:26.2	My wife said, you know, sometimes I've been asked by my youngest daughter if I could make a playlist yesterday.
0:28.0	She's got a big exam today.
0:29.2	She said, Dad, can you make me a playlist?
0:31.1	I need some new energy and some new vibes.
0:33.4	This is my favourite request from anybody.
0:35.3	You know I love a playlist. You do.
0:35.8	You do.
0:36.1	It is my canvas, me paint and a masterpiece so anyway my wife
0:39.8	goes the joy i had putting this playlist like every joy uh playlist my wife goes i'm really worried
0:45.6	that if anything happened to you i wouldn't know exactly what song should want the funeral and i actually
0:50.4	thinking you know what she wouldn't and she goes like, oh, what Springsteen song would be?
0:55.4	You should know by now.
0:57.4	And then I was actually worried like, they can't screw that up.
1:00.7	And I really would be so annoyed if it wasn't the right songs.
1:04.6	And then they just put like, Googled, oh, generic.
1:07.0	Suddenly Ed Shearin's there.
1:08.3	And I'm like, this is not what i wanted guys and then i'll come
1:11.7	back and haunt them so he's really upset so it's like that that that final playlist for me
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