# Help me make up a Judgement Day playlist
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 19, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451 "2011-05-19T15:25:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/1 "2011-05-19T15:25:10Z")
As some of you might be aware, May 21st - this coming Saturday - has been declared [Judgement Day](http://www.realtruth.org/articles/110514-001-prophecy.html?s_kwcid=TC-18682-6807472450-e-729417995), the end of the world, by some of the more true believers (and less rational thinkers.)
I hope you have all made your peace with the Lord!
And since, nothing you do in your daily life will matter after Saturday, why not help me put together a playlist of “end of the world” songs to celebrate the upcoming event?
Obviously _It’s the End of the World As We Know It_ by **REM** is first song on the list. What else should I include?
And do hurry up with your suggestions, folks. I am working under a deadline here!
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### Author:  [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/2 "2011-05-19T15:26:06Z")
“If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Gonna Go” by Curtis Mayfield
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/3 "2011-05-19T15:29:15Z")
Tom Lehrer - “We Will All Go Together When We Go”
Barry McGuire - “Eve of Destruction”
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/4 "2011-05-19T15:31:04Z")
“[Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCU5hTCynkQ)”, by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
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### Author:  [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/5 "2011-05-19T15:33:48Z")
There’s a song by Johnny Cash that’s called something like “When the Man Comes to Town”. It’s perfect for this.
Morrisey’s “Every Day is Like Sunday”
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/6 "2011-05-19T15:35:11Z")
Seeing that May 21 is also the 31st anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, I recommend the Imperial March.
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### Author:  [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/7 "2011-05-19T15:38:34Z")
One more…Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Red Right Hand”
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/8 "2011-05-19T15:42:07Z")
_Rapture_, Blondie.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/9 "2011-05-19T15:45:13Z")
_Hell’s Bells_–AC/DC
_Flirting with Disaster_-Molly Hatchet
and of course, the immortal _Free Bird_ 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/10 "2011-05-19T15:50:31Z")
“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” Warren Zevon version.
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### Author:  [@Pridely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pridely)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/11 "2011-05-19T18:09:45Z")
The other Lenin.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/12 "2011-05-19T18:11:38Z")
In the year 2525.
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/13 "2011-05-19T18:29:15Z")
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
The Hives - Tick Tick Boom
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World
Midnight Oil - Dreamworld
Nickelback - Burn It To The Ground
R.E.M - Fall On Me
Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire (or the Johnny Cash version)
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/14 "2011-05-19T18:33:09Z")
“Waiting for the End of the World” by Elvis Costello
“Ever Since the World Ended” by Mose Allison
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” by Dylan
“The End of the World” by Skeeter Davis
“Time is Tight” by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/15 "2011-05-19T19:02:29Z")
Two Suns in the Sunset-- Pink Floyd
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/16 "2011-05-19T19:38:20Z")
_The End_
Both the Doors song and the Beatles one.
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/17 "2011-05-19T20:16:01Z")
“King of the World”, by Steely Dan, is sort of a general post-apocalypse song. (“If I stay inside/I might live till Saturday…”)
“Nostradamus”, by Al Stewart, is about the titular loony’s predictions of the End Times, but it might be a bit non-obvious.
There must be a lot of gospel songs and spirituals that deal with the Judgment Day. Speaking of which – “Get Happy”; I’d probably go with the Ella Fitzgerald version.
A few tunes that aren’t really about the end of the world but have appropriate titles:
Out of Time (Rolling Stones)
No Time (Guess Who)
It Ends Tonight (All American Rejects)
And maybe you could finish your set with a tune from _Porgy & Bess:_
“It Ain’t Necessarily So”!!!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/18 "2011-05-19T20:21:08Z")
[nitpick]Technically isn’t this just the Rapture, not Judgement Day? The two terms are not synonymous. If the nutballs can’t even keep that straight…[/nitpick]
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/19 "2011-05-19T20:23:05Z")
“Judgment Night” - Biohazard and Onyx, from the soundtrack to the film of the same name.
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### Author:  [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/20 "2011-05-19T20:46:54Z")
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
R.E.M. - It’s The End of the World as we Know it.
Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody
1999…I mean 2011 remix by Prince.
**I was psychotic as I spoke this, forgive me if I go astray
But when I woke this morning, it was the 20th of May…**
They say Two Thousand Eleven party over, but it’s ok.
Cuz tonight I’m gonna party like tomorrow’s Judgement Day
P.S. See you all Monday Morning…Harold Camping…LOSING…
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