Funeral Stomp

"Funeral Stomp" is a song by English singer Robert Lloyd, released in 1990 as the lead single from his debut solo studio album Me and My Mouth.

"[6] Upon its release, Terry Staunton of NME called "Funeral Stomp" "perhaps the jolliest miserable record you'll ever hear, dealing as it does with the inevitability that mortal man will one day be dust".

[7] Everett True of Melody Maker commented that Lloyd had made an "intelligent, intriguing, blackly humorous, sexy record" and continued, "It's got a bass-joggled dance groove and that's not all!

"[8] Johnny Dee of Record Mirror considered it as "a synthy pop, black humour sing-a-long with a lopsided grin" and "a breezy way to spend four minutes of anyone's life".

He noted that the "Christmasy, jingly keyboards sound like they've been sampled off" Jona Lewie's 1980 song "Stop the Cavalry" and Lloyd's vocals have a "similar tone" to Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory.

"[13] Andrew Hirst of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner called it "the most morbid pop song of the year, laced with such jolly lines as 'tax and death and belly-aches are things to savour'" and continued, "He may be a witty, sarcastic songsmith of no mean stature, but Bob sure doesn't reap in the rewards for the intelligence he pumps out.