# Music to rock the Apocalypse by **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995 "2019-07-13T02:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/41 "2019-07-18T17:28:02Z")
Louis Armstrong - _What a Wonderful World_ I’m going out with a beer and some irony. Unless you are going out with a detrmined, yet fatalistic suicide stand. Then you want Led Zepplin - _Immigrant Song_ for the scream ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/42 "2019-07-18T18:01:23Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > “One eight seven seven Kars four Kids…” You go to Hell. You go to Hell RIGHT NOW. FFS it’s in my head now. You come back and go to Hell AGAIN. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/43 "2019-07-18T18:15:38Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > You go to Hell. You go to Hell RIGHT NOW. > FFS it’s in my head now. You come back and go to Hell AGAIN. LOL, see it’s perfect! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/44 "2019-07-18T18:59:56Z")
Louis Armstrong - _What a Wonderful World_ I’m going out with a beer and some irony. Unless you are going out with a detrmined, yet fatalistic suicide stand. Then you want Led Zepplin - _Immigrant Song_ for the scream ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/45 "2019-07-18T20:23:42Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > So what background music do you envision all this happening to? I nominate VanHalen’s “Running With the Devil”. Black Sabbath’s “Crazy Train”. Because I think Ozzie’s maniacal laughing would fit in just perfecting with it all. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/46 "2019-07-18T21:47:27Z")
Molly Hatchet, flirting with disaster Monty Python, always look on the bright side of life Peggy Lee, is that all there is. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/47 "2019-07-19T00:24:14Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Black Sabbath’s “Crazy Train”. Because I think Ozzie’s maniacal laughing would fit in just perfecting with it all. :eek:😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/48 "2019-07-19T00:43:59Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I mean, it’s quite a bit on the nose, but… [HAIL THE APOCALYPSE](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjR0e6AsLjjAhX1DmMBHXYgCAcQyCkwAHoECA0QBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzKe8jze56Vg&usg=AOvVaw3goUr0UoBgwJTnIIXa5Bpp). HA. Exactly what I came in to say. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/49 "2019-07-19T01:43:26Z")
\*\*\*For me a mix CD. \*\*\* Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin The End - The Doors What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong Don’t Fear the Reaper - BOC Enter Sandman - Metallica End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys Till the End of the Day - The Kinks Party at the End of the World - Jimmy Buffett The Final Cut - Pink Floyd In the End - Rush Brain Damage & Eclipse- Pink Floyd Goodnight Irene - Pete Seeger Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin the End - The Beatles _… Pause for dramatic effect …_ So long and thanks for all the fish - Hitchhiker’s Guide Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric Idle ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/50 "2019-07-19T04:09:20Z")
“Fuck the World” by the Insane Clown Posse. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/51 "2019-07-19T04:19:04Z")
It’s always one hell of a party when ragnarok roll around! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9Q-CVYIjUOA/hqdefault.jpg "GWAR - RagNaRok - 1996") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q-CVYIjUOA) > [@](#): > > …Welcome to the slaughter, what are going to do? > What will be your epitaph, when we get done with you? > Are you gonna cry for your momma, are you gonna have a good time? > Are you gonna be a bohab, when it’s your turn to die? > It all gets pretty crazy, bedlam all around > Anarchy, chaos rule the street, it’s a RagNaRok party town! > Your head it is a turnin’, your brain it is a burnin’ > As your sanity slips away > The final hour’s here, now grab yourself a beer > You’re only king for one day > Go on and get a gun, we’re gonna have some fun > Snuffin’ out some fools, and breakin’ all the rules > The only rule is winnin’, that means a lot of sinnin’ > Sinnin’ feels so fine, you’re running out of time! > It’s always one hell of a party, when RagNaRok rolls around > RagNaRok N Roll, RagNaRok N Roll… Also, every metalocalypse album, but especially doomstar requiem soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/52 "2019-07-19T05:35:27Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ‘Imagine’–john lennon I assure you, hippy platitudes will be on ones mind watching the apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/53 "2019-07-24T11:38:19Z")
“King Nothing” Metallica And for the rest of us: “Marching to Mars” Sammy Hagar ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/54 "2019-07-24T14:48:39Z")
Riding the back of a bomb heading for the Apocalypse? [Vera Lynn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VlruVG81w) for your tune. Crashing out of the safe zone into the zombie apocalypse? [The Beatles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/55 "2019-07-24T17:26:04Z")
I’m going to add Prince’s **1999** ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/56 "2019-07-24T18:32:13Z")
Bit of change in tone. [John Fullbright “Gawd Above”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjl2axlvmE). [“Satan & St. Paul”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5teMqHsThI) is pretty good too. Album version is better, I think. ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/57 "2019-07-24T18:37:08Z")
And of course, [Nina Simone, Sinnerman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx41Jpl4). Might be a bit on the nose, though. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/58 "2019-07-24T20:06:26Z")
Tom Lehrer - We will all go together when we go [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/frAEmhqdLFs/hqdefault.jpg "Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs) ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/59 "2019-07-24T22:40:24Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > “One eight seven seven Kars four Kids…” If we’re going this route, my suggestion is Baby Shark 😛 ---
**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:** [July 25, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995/60 "2019-07-25T05:06:06Z")
> [@pmwgreen](#): > > And of course, [Nina Simone, Sinnerman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx41Jpl4). Might be a bit on the nose, though. So’s this one but I’m linking to it anyway. [(Don’t Worry) If There Is a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzsmciMNAGU) - Curtis Mayfield (Possibly NSFW because Curtis drops the n-bomb.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-rock-the-apocalypse-by/836995.md?page=2)