# Help me make up a Judgement Day playlist **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [May 19, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/21 "2011-05-19T21:18:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [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] I’m going by what the loonie-- er, I mean…Faithful & Devout in Times Square are saying. And they’re calling it “Judgement Day.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/22 "2011-05-19T21:22:01Z")
What, 20 posts and no mention of Dies Irae? That’s exactly what it’s written for! Besides, no apocalypse could possibly be complete without ominous Latin chanting. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/23 "2011-05-19T21:26:40Z")
We also need _Ride of the Valkyries_…and choppers…with loudspeakers and machine guns and rocket launchers… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/24 "2011-05-19T21:28:19Z")
Speaking of Lain – Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo Bonum) - Anberlin. Sort of like an epic apocalypse song but light on violent imagery. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/25 "2011-05-19T21:35:40Z")
Closing Time-- Leonard Cohen ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/26 "2011-05-19T22:03:31Z")
I think the obvious choice, be it the ‘good folks’ being pulled into heaven or some sort of nuclear armageddon… Walking on sunshine - Katrina and the waves. ---
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/27 "2011-05-19T22:12:03Z")
“Five Years” - David Bowie “Hell Awaits” - Slayer “Paint It, Black” - the Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/28 "2011-05-19T22:18:47Z")
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf Bodies - Drowning Pool ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/29 "2011-05-19T22:23:00Z")
Ode to Billy Jack _Won’t be any trumpets blowing Come the Judgement Day. On the bloody morning after One tin soldier rides away._ ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/30 "2011-05-19T22:29:17Z")
SLAYER!!! Play all of Reign In Blood, followed by any Maiden with sprinkles of Metallca in between. Chill, serves many. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/31 "2011-05-19T22:40:17Z")
“The Earth Died Screaming” - Tom Waits “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” - Bob Dylan “Black Hole Sun” - Soundgarden ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/32 "2011-05-19T23:07:27Z")
“Gimme Shelter” - Rolling Stones It always struck me as “Apocalypse Rock”. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/33 "2011-05-20T00:31:20Z")
“Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/34 "2011-05-20T00:44:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What, 20 posts and no mention of Dies Irae? That’s exactly what it’s written for! Besides, no apocalypse could possibly be complete without ominous Latin chanting. OMG, I think this one wins the thread! How could I have forgotten? You want it in Latin, or one of the English translations? I know Latin would sound cooler, but if you can’t understand what you are in for it doesn’t mean as much. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/35 "2011-05-20T14:43:29Z")
“When the Saints Go Marching In” (Pick a version. Nothing like an uptempo jazz song about the end of the world to celebrate the end of the world.) “I Melt With You” – Modern English (Well, okay this song is about having sex when the nuclear apocalypse starts, but most 1980’s songs that dealt with (or metioned in passing) end of the world scenarios were about nuclear war (99 Red Baloons/Luftbalons; 1999; Wild Wild West, etc.)) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/36 "2011-05-20T14:53:00Z")
Another good post-apocalyptic song is “Future Legend/Diamond Dogs” by Bowie. “God Save the Queen” by the Sex Pistols ends with “No future, no future, no future for you/No future, no future, no future for me.” You could also include “Let’s Live for Today” by the Grass Roots and “Forget Domani” by Connie Francis or Frank Sinatra or Perry Como or any of a variety of others. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/37 "2011-05-20T15:42:51Z")
The classic-rock station here in Chicago, WDRV, has a regular feature, “10 at 10”; normally, at 10am on weekdays, they play 10 songs from the same year. Occasionally, they do a special theme for the show – today’s theme was “the end of the world” (the final song of the 10 just played). The list for today’s show: Babe I’m Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys Armageddon It - Def Leppard Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel I Know I’m Losing You - Temptations Elevation - U2 2000 Light Years From Home - Rolling Stones Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door - Bob Dylan It’s the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/38 "2011-05-20T15:58:03Z")
Two U2 mentions without “Until the End of the World”? Also: Tool - Aenima Def Leppard - Armegeddon it Linkin Park - In the End Fade to Black - Metallica (I thought Creeping Death, but that’s really more about Passover) Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) Rush - Red Tide Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix - Along the Watchtower Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (also The Prophecy) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/39 "2011-05-21T05:55:39Z")
I’m in the process of listening to the following while I do the dishes: Jimi Hendrix: 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) Chris Cornell: Preaching the End of the World Nirvana: Lithium [cult-related, not Doomsday in particular] Bad Religion: Fuck Armageddon… This is Hell Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows > [@Musky\_Moon](#): > > There’s a song by Johnny Cash that’s called something like “When the Man Comes to Town”. It’s perfect for this. When the Man Comes Around. You’re right about that, so I’ll listen to that, and, what the hell, his version of God’s Gonna Cut You Down. > [@msmith537](#): > > Tool - Aenima] Or the Bill Hicks bit that inspired it, “Goodbye You Lizard Scum” (the leadoff track from the Arizona Bay album). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451/40 "2011-05-21T06:14:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > When the Man Comes Around. Actually just “The Man Comes Around.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-up-a-judgement-day-playlist/582451.md?page=3)