# Sarcastically Cheery Songs for the Apocalypse **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202 "2002-07-10T06:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/21 "2002-07-11T21:09:30Z")
- - - “Beautiful World” by DEVO. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/22 "2002-07-11T21:33:06Z")
_We’ve only just begun… to live. White lace and promises. A kiss for luck and we’re on our way…_ Sonic Youth had it right. They used to walk onstage with this blasting out of a jambox. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/23 "2002-07-11T22:58:54Z")
How about “I Can See Clearly Now, the Rain Is Gone” sung in the middle of a drought? ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/24 "2002-07-12T00:28:50Z")
“It’s A Mistake” by Men At Work. One of my suggestions from the other thread, but it’s actually about nuclear war. I just like the thought of a Men At Work song playing when the world ends. It seems appropriate. but for irony and incongruency’s sake: “Happy Happy, Joy Joy” from _Ren & Stempy_. Come on, you know it works. “A Spoonful Of Sugar” sung by Julie Andrews in _Mary Poppins_. We’ll all be taking our medicine then. “This Little Light Of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine”. Probably a little too obvious. “Spirit In the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum. Ditto. “Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night. If Joy=Death, I suppose. “We Are The World” by USA For Africa. I better stop, this is getting too easy… ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/25 "2002-07-12T00:40:09Z")
There is this really great Jazz Standard song that I believe Frank Sinatra sang, it’s called **The Best is yet to Come** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/26 "2002-07-12T00:48:14Z")
The song at the ending of Resevoir Dogs. Don’t know the title but I would assume it’s something to the nature of “Put the Lime in the Coconut.” The Sanford and Son theme is also pretty good… ---
**Author:** ![\_ceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9bd4f/32.png) [@\_ceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_ceQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/27 "2002-07-12T03:22:55Z")
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/28 "2002-07-12T04:20:16Z")
Love the suggestions! Makes me wish Napster was around (or its for-pay equivalent) so I could put together the Ultimate End-of-the-World CD. Anyway, I would suggest “Happy Trails.” You can’t go out better than with Roy and Dale singing _Happy trails to you Until we meeet aaaaagaaaaaain_ ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/29 "2002-07-12T05:49:15Z")
“When you walk through the storm, hold your head up high…” Whenever I think of this song (You’ll Never Walk Alone") I think of Eddie the shipboard computer singing it as the Heart of Gold is about to be destroyed in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/30 "2002-07-12T06:06:37Z")
“What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong I can think of two movies involving apocalypse that end with this song. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202/31 "2002-07-12T06:20:24Z")
I second the following: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” “Political Science” “What a Wonderful World” “Bad Moon Rising” I’d like to add the finale of the “1812 Overture”, Petula Clark’s “A Sign of the Times”, and Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again”. The last one is obvious, really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastically-cheery-songs-for-the-apocalypse/118202.md?page=1)