# APOCALYPSO: I need songs about the end of the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533 "2005-09-01T01:44:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/21 "2005-09-01T06:43:32Z")
**Danzig** has some tunes highly appropriate to this theme. _Bringer of Death_ -This would make a great opener because of its own opening klaxons and gunfire. _End of Time_ -Probably my favorite **Danzig** song. It really is a great song all around, if only slightly disturbing. Great use of the dreaded death metal Triangle (The musical instrument…seriously.) _Apokalips_- doesn’t really have much to do with the apocalypse…it’s sexual innuendo. _1000 Devils Reign_- Pretty good, classic apocalyptica. _Do You Wear The Mark?_- again, classic apocalyptica. _How the Gods Kill_- Another one of my favorites…beautiful song. _Dirty Black Summer_- Timely. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/22 "2005-09-01T06:48:10Z")
**Fourth of July** by Soundgarden **Preaching the End of the World** by Chris Cornell ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/23 "2005-09-01T07:04:01Z")
“All Fall Down” - Kevin Gilbert “The Merry Minuet” - Sheldon Harnick (best known is Kingston Trio version) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/24 "2005-09-01T07:46:58Z")
Simon & Garfunkel: The Sun is Burning ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/25 "2005-09-01T09:27:36Z")
oooh oohh! I remembered an old 80’s favorite of mine. **Peter Schilling** - _The Noah Plan_ This song is great! Geekariffic. It’s a narrative song of mankind taking flight from the doomed earth to the stars in giant spaceships. Catchy tune, too. Hell, that reminds me the whole album this song was on had an apocalyptic theme. Here it is, **Peter Schilling’s** [_The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)_](http://www.reviewpricesave.com/The_Different_Story_(World_of_Lust_and_Crime)-B000002H78.html?ASIN=B000002H78). Ummm… there seems to be a prophetic track on here as well, _Hurricane (Hammers on the Shore)_. I don’t remember hearing this song but the reviews sound good- I guess it is a ballad. Man, between Nena and Peter Schilling we (USA) sure did inspire some understandable Angst in the Germans and Austrians during the late 80’s haydays of the Cold War. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/26 "2005-09-01T09:51:59Z")
Isn’t there an apocalyptic song by **Rush**? It’s driving me crazy, I can’t think of it… maybe I’m mistaken? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/27 "2005-09-01T10:07:42Z")
How could this list be complete without _In the Year 2525_ by Zager and Evans? And just in case the world ends by fire, I nominate _Volcano_ by Jimmy Buffett ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/28 "2005-09-01T11:53:53Z")
_Sole Survivor_ by Blue Oyster Cult. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/29 "2005-09-01T12:06:28Z")
“Five Years” - David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/30 "2005-09-01T12:09:01Z")
**Flight Of The Valkyries** by Wagner. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/31 "2005-09-01T12:11:45Z")
**Bad Moon Rising** - Creedence ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/32 "2005-09-01T13:12:53Z")
Armageddon it - Def Leppard ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/33 "2005-09-01T14:02:34Z")
“Armageddon Rag” - Nazgul ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/34 "2005-09-01T14:07:28Z")
First of all, let me compliment the OP on a great thread title. I love it! And for my contribution: “Wooden Ships” - Crosby, Stills, and Nash. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/35 "2005-09-01T14:07:32Z")
“ **Share The End** ” by **Carly Simon** And it is available for listening here: [http://www.carlysimon.com/askcarly/archives/archive-022003.htm](http://www.carlysimon.com/askcarly/archives/archive-022003.htm) If nothing else, you’ve got to listen to that scream near the end of the song. **The End** - **the Doors** Not specifically about Armageddon (I think) but gloomy enough to be in this category. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/36 "2005-09-01T14:15:42Z")
\*\*Wooden Ships \*\* - Crosby, Stills, and Nash \*\*Morning Dew \*\* - Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/37 "2005-09-01T14:20:55Z")
Unfortunately…“City of New Orleans” - Steve Goodman. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/38 "2005-09-01T14:41:37Z")
Thank you for all of these contributions. I didn’t realize what some of those songs were about. Wow, I’m going to have the most morbid CD ever! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/39 "2005-09-01T15:34:41Z")
Siegfried’s Funeral March in Wagner’s Gotterdammerung Six-Six-Six by the Cowsills (I’m not kidding at all) After the Gold Rush by Neil Young Seven by Prince Vangelis in “Aphrodite’s Child” did a Revelation-based album “666” I’ve never heard it & totally regret passing it up when I saw it in the last 70s- early 80s in a used-record store. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533/40 "2005-09-01T15:45:08Z")
Well I think you should end your cd compilation with a few tracks by GodSpeedYouBlackEmperor - focus more on the first few albums (SlowRiotForNewZeroKanada, F#A#Inifinty, Lift your Skinny Fists like Antenna to the Sky)… Their music is more music to describe the world after the apocalyps my fav is The Dead Flag Blues from F#A#Infinity which starts off like this… the car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides and a dark wind blows the government is corrupt and we’re on so many drugs with the radio on and the curtains drawn we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death the sun has fallen down and the billboards are all leering and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles it went like this: the buildings tumbled in on themselves mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair the skyline was beautiful on fire all twisted metal stretching upwards everything washed in a thin orange haze i said: “kiss me, you’re beautiful - these are truly the last days” you grabbed my hand and we fell into it like a daydream or a fever we woke up one morning and fell a little further down - for sure it’s the valley of death [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypso-i-need-songs-about-the-end-of-the-world/319533.md?page=3)