# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/21 "2018-03-16T15:39:57Z")
“Eve of Destruction” and “The End of the World as We Know It” need places in there somewhere. So does “Knee Deep in the Big Muddy”. Possibly “Nowhere Man”. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/22 "2018-03-16T15:42:38Z")
I love this project! Cool idea. Under the environment section, maybe “Big Yellow Taxi”. Under the Apocalypse section, “99 Red Balloons” could be a good start, and maybe work in “Hell Broke Luce” by Tom Waits. And to end with some black humor, “Christmas at Ground Zero” by Weird Al. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/23 "2018-03-16T15:57:55Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > **[Destroying the Enviroment]** Roger McGuinn “The Trees Are All Gone” ---
**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, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/24 "2018-03-16T16:59:39Z")
They Might Be Giants - “Your Racist Friend” (“My head can’t tolerate this bobbing and pretending/Listen to some bullet-head and the madness that he’s saying” The fragmentation of the GOP over how it’s a White Nationalist identity politics party.) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/25 "2018-03-16T17:32:49Z")
Renaissance, “Midas Man”: \*I’ll take from the blind and I’ll get up ahead I’ll sneak up behind and I’ll steal I’ll take all that you have And then all that you’ve concealed I’ll take anything I can get - I’ll make you I’ll break you and I’ll make you sweat Nothing is worth nothing unless it’s Made for Midas Man - Nightwish, “Master Passion Greed”: \*“Hello. How are you? Let me explain one thing. All for her and more for me Why is it so hard to see? I see no sense in doing this Not enough for me I fuck up everything but let me explain” Some day you shall flee, Panting and weak Greed, your master passion I Feed the mouth that bites me Mammon, opiate of the masses The reek of your lies draws flies\* Pink Floyd, “Pigs (Three Different Ones)”: _Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are. You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are. And when your hand is on your heart, You’re nearly a good laugh, almost a joker, With your head down in the pig bin, Saying, " Keep on digging", pig stain on your fat chin. What do you hope to find, when you’re down in the pig mine? You’re nearly a laugh, you’re nearly a laugh, But you’re really a cry._ Psychelic Furs, “Highwire Days”: \*Yeah, they tore up our kisses and ran On tomorrow’s pages And the lions have eaten the lamb On tomorrow’s pages There’s a day of your life in your hands Full of people you don’t understand In my highwire days I can see all the way I see through the games you play In my highwire days\* ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/26 "2018-03-16T17:40:11Z")
The Sisters of Mercy, “This Corrosion”: \*Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll’d Gimme something that I missed (Gimme the ring) A hand to hold, wild and what it seems (Gimme the ring) Kill the king, when love is the law, And the wheel turn round… (Gimme the ring) Gimme dream child And do you hear me call? (Gimme the ring) On the loan and on the level Still on the floor (Gimme the ring) Sing dream child And do you hear at all? (Sing) (Sing) Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me Hey now, hey now now\* King Crimson, “Epitaph”: - Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl a cracked and broken path If we make it we can all sit back and laugh, But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying, Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying Between the iron gates of fate, The seeds of time were sown, And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known; Knowledge is a deadly friend If no one sets the rules The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools\* [Court of the Crimson King is also a contender if you like, the puppets dance…] Wall…Echo and the Bunnymen’s Over the Wall? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/27 "2018-03-16T17:45:11Z")
_Little Tin God_ - Don Henley _Russians_ - Sting ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/28 "2018-03-16T17:51:59Z")
Best I can do for firing cabinet members is “Firing the Surgeon General” by The Foremen. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/29 "2018-03-16T18:18:23Z")
I can’t be the first person the suggest Cult of Personality by Living Colour, can I? ---
**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:** [March 16, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/30 "2018-03-16T19:14:47Z")
“Apocalypso” and “Party At the End of the World” by Jimmy Buffett. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/31 "2018-03-16T19:30:27Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > **[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”)” Golden Gate Quartet “[Atom and Evil](https://archive.org/details/78_atom-and-evil_golden-gate-quartet-singer-zaret_gbia0001102a)”: [We’re sitting on the edge of doom (doom) (doom) (doom) doom!](http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Gate_Quartet:Atom_And_Evil) ---
**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, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/32 "2018-03-16T19:38:45Z")
How about BYOB from System of a Down? _Barbarisms by barbaras With pointed heels Victorious victorious kneel For brand new spankin’ deals Marching forward hypocritic and Hypnotic computers_ \*You depend on our protection Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine \* _Kneeling roses disappearing into Moses’ dry mouth Breaking into fort knox stealing Our intentions Hangers sitting dripped in oil Crying freedom_ _Handed to obsoletion Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth_ Plus the riff in the chorus is fucking bitching. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/33 "2018-03-16T19:42:10Z")
Don’t forget [Tom Lehrer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI)! ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/34 "2018-03-16T19:56:01Z")
Black Sabbath “Electric Funeral” and Ozzy Osbourne “Revelation (Mother Earth)” both fit into apocalyptic visions and environmental destruction. For the cabinet firings, how about Judas Priest “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”… or “Off With Their Heads” from the Broadway production of Wonderland. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/35 "2018-03-16T20:00:25Z")
BTO’s “Takin’ Care of Business” seems on point. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/36 "2018-03-16T20:16:16Z")
For all the Teabag-lovin’ Trump-ites who now regret their mistake… “Won’t Get Fooled Again” - the Who I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again, no, no… ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/37 "2018-03-16T21:19:42Z")
W/ “Behind Blue Eyes” as the B-side. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/38 "2018-03-16T21:32:32Z")
Tom Waits - “Looks Like I’m up Shit Creek Again” ought to fit 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, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/39 "2018-03-16T22:31:08Z")
You guys are amazing, it’s gonna take me all weekend to listen to all these songs I haven’t heard before. Muchos Thanks! And just to demonstrate how silly this playlist can get, here’s a snippet I just put together (I probably won’t keep the Phil Collins song): Marillion “Assassing” Def Leppard “Photograph” Rage Against the Machine “Take the Power Back” Peter Gabriel “Family Snapshot” Phil Collins “I Missed Again” Pink Floyd “In the Flesh/Run Like Hell” ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645/40 "2018-03-16T22:38:26Z")
[Lowdown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d69NAdakdMU) by Chicago was my earworm for at least a month after the election… _Oh my Life has passed me by The country I was brought up in Fell apart and died_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-flesh-out-my-trumpocalypse-playlist/810645.md?page=3)