# Help me flesh out my Trumpocalypse playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645 "2018-03-16T06:47:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/1 "2018-03-16T06:47:33Z")
Last year I started working on a music playlist about Donald Trump, in the form of a story which wasn’t _specifically_ Trump, but about a Trump-like character who appears out of nowhere, creates his own cult of personality, gets elected President, and then proceeds to totally fuck shit up and potentially bring about the Apocalypse – very much like my Sarah Palin playlist from years back, with enough poetic license to make it more flexible & interesting. The project eventually got away from me and stalled, for reasons including the fact that I just don’t listen to that much political music. But lately I’m thinking of trying to start up the project again. Here’s most of the songs I’ve included so far, broken down into “chapters” of the story: **[Backstory]** 1. Led Zeppelin “The Song Remains the Same” 2. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” 3. Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” 4. U2 “Bullet the Blue Sky” 5. Kim Wilde “Kids in America” 6. Triumph “American Girls” 7. John Cougar Mellencamp “Pink Houses” \*\* [The Candidate]\*\* 8. ZZ Top “Sharp Dressed Man” 9. Don Henley “Dirty Laundry” 10. Anthrax “The Enemy” 11. Stone Temple Pilots “Sex Type Thing” 12. Soundgarden “Hands All Over” 13. Porcupine Tree “Hatesong” 14. Iron Maiden “The Man Who Would Be King” 15. Motörhead “Orgasmatron” **[The Election]** 16. Arcadia “Election Day” 17. U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday” 18. Pain of Salvation “America” 19. Redemption “The Death of Faith and Reason” 20. Blue Oyster Cult “Madness to the Method” 21. Grateful Dead “Hell in a Bucket” **[Hey Look, A Wall]** Genesis “Illegal Alien” America “The Border” Pink Floyd “The Wall (side one, minus “Mother”)” John Cougar Mellencamp “Crumblin’ Down” The Firm “Tear Down the Walls” Loudness “Black Wall” Testament “Over the Wall” Willie Nelson “Hello Walls” The Call “The Walls Came Down” Pink Floyd “The Trial / Outside the Wall” [plus a bunch more songs about Walls…this is where it got away from me] **[Healthcare? What Healthcare?]** D.R.I. “Nursing Home Blues” UFO “Doctor Doctor” Humble Pie “I Don’t Need No Doctor (live)” **[Destroying the Enviroment]** Kansas “Death of Mother Nature Suite” **[Revolution, maybe?]** David Bowie “Look Back in Anger” Queensryche “Revolution Calling” Rage Against the Machine “Take the Power Back” **[Apocalypse…]** Pink Floyd “In the Flesh / Run Like Hell” Mastermind “The End of the World” The Doors “The End” The Beatles “Abbey Road Medley (incl. “The End”)” Remember this is semi-fictional and mostly metaphorical, so silly suggestions are fine. (In particular I’m looking for songs about the President randomly firing members of his Cabinet, but haven’t been able to find any.) Please, no R.E.M. songs. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/2 "2018-03-16T06:54:48Z")
You’ve got to be able to fit Megadeth’s “Countdown To Extinction” in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/3 "2018-03-16T07:08:55Z")
“Bonzo Goes to Bitburg” - the Ramones. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/4 "2018-03-16T07:29:02Z")
“You’re so vain” by Carly Simon. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/5 "2018-03-16T07:33:48Z")
Lessee… “Death on Two Legs” by Queen. “Sympathy For the Devil” by the Stones. “The Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden. “Two Minutes to Midnight” by Iron Maiden. “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC. At the very end, the third movement of Piano Sonata No. 2 by Chopin (aka the Funeral March). ETA: Listen to the lyrics of Death on Two Legs…I swear, Freddie and Brian May were prophets. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/6 "2018-03-16T07:47:01Z")
Radiohead - “Creep” (about the self-loathing nature of extremist politics, especially authoritarian/xenophobic extremism) R.E.M. - “First We Take Manhattan” (first person to tell me I should put Leonard Cohen here gets my hastily-rewritten version of “Creep”) Bruce Springsteen - “Born In The U.S.A.” (this wasn’t in your Backstory why wasn’t it in your Backstory already) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/7 "2018-03-16T07:52:11Z")
Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example. “I like to have a good time, and I don’t care who gets hurt.” Lawyers Guns and Money would work here too. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/8 "2018-03-16T08:31:55Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > You’ve got to be able to fit Megadeth’s “Countdown To Extinction” in there somewhere. Ooh, excellent choice! > [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > “The Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden. > “Two Minutes to Midnight” by Iron Maiden. TNOTB was on the Sarah Palin playlist; 2MTM should fit perfectly on this one. Still need more anti-environmental songs…anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/9 "2018-03-16T09:05:48Z")
Fleetwood Mac “Little Lies” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/10 "2018-03-16T09:17:12Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Still need more anti-environmental songs…anyone? “Blackened” by Metallica? ETA: Also “Fall On Me” by REM ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/11 "2018-03-16T09:53:42Z")
The Madden Brothers - [We Are Done](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc3LGzNEkL0) just has to be somewhere in that mix. And not just because the mondegreened version is my own private trumpy anthem (“_dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, he R dum_”) ETA: For the disappearing staffer section - Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/12 "2018-03-16T10:01:53Z")
Oh, and how could I forget … The Angels - [“Am I ever gonna see your face again”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_Ever_Gonna_See_Your_Face_Again) - the link explains why 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/13 "2018-03-16T10:50:22Z")
How do you not have CCR’s ‘Fortunate Son’ on the Backstory section? Not to mention, Living Color’s ‘Cult of Personality’? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/14 "2018-03-16T13:35:19Z")
Somewhere in your Backstory section you need Richard Thompson’s “Fergus Lang”. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/15 "2018-03-16T14:00:43Z")
_The Revolution Will Not be Televised._ Gil Scott Heron ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/16 "2018-03-16T14:00:47Z")
I’ve always thought that his inauguration song should have been “Do the Hustle.” ETA: “Land of Confusion” deserves to be in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/17 "2018-03-16T14:45:20Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > How do you not have CCR’s ‘Fortunate Son’ on the Backstory section? > > Not to mention, Living Color’s ‘Cult of Personality’? “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Fortunate Son” are too cynical for the backstory section, which I want to give a more idealized, romanticized image of America. But you’re totally right about “Cult of Personality”, though – how could I miss that? D’oh!! > [@Procrustus](#): > > _The Revolution Will Not be Televised._ Gil Scott Heron I’ve listened to this a few times and I’m having trouble getting into it. Thematically it’s perfect, so I’ll try and squeeze it in somehow. > [@Superdude](#): > > ETA: “Land of Confusion” deserves to be in there somewhere. Another great choice, and balances with “Illegal Alien”. Perfect! ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/18 "2018-03-16T14:58:06Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Lawyers Guns and Money would work here too. Absolutely ! For Jared: “…send lawyers, guns, and money. DAD get me out of this !” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/19 "2018-03-16T15:14:34Z")
“Goin’ Down Slow” - originally composed by St. Louis Jimmy Oden, but best known for the Howlin’ Wolf version. “The Thrill is Gone” - originally composed by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell, but best known for the B.B. King version. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_apocalyptic\_songs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_songs) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/20 "2018-03-16T15:29:19Z")
John Entwistle’s “Had Enough” should fit in there somewhere. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645.md?page=2)