# Soundtrack for the Apocalypse. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226 "2001-11-14T00:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/21 "2001-11-15T21:27:36Z")
I think some of the music from “The Ninth Gate” and “Star Wars Ep. 1: The Phantom Menace” would be appropriate. On the pop side, there’s XTC’s “This World Over,” and their old concert-staple “Living Through Another Cuba”/“Generals and Majors” medley… And of course, there’s always Tom Lehrer’s cheeky “We Will All Go Together (When We Go!),” which always cracks me up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/22 "2001-11-16T06:07:43Z")
Funny The last day on Earth and NO ONE thinks of “Its the End of the World as We know it” by REM I figure by the time the world goes up, a moment of clarity and EVERYONE will know the lyrics to that song. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/23 "2001-11-16T07:17:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > \*\*If not Tom, then maybe The Birthday Party, Nick Cave’s first band. Fire, chaos, California sliding into the ocean, all to the tune of “Big Jesus Trash Can.” > > \*\* The Birthday Party! Nobody ever mentions The Birthday Party. They were great. My first copy having been destroyed I have recently been trying to find “(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn” somewhere. Which, come to think of it, would be very appropriate for when the world ends and I shuffle off to my inevitable damnation. But my first thought was Foetus. "Anything (Viva!) or maybe “Satan Place”. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/24 "2001-11-17T07:16:38Z")
Has anybody suggested “The Earth Dies Screaming” by Tom Waits yet? ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/25 "2001-11-20T07:51:40Z")
I’d submit **godspeed you black emperor!**. Either [f#a# (infinity symbol)](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000007T2Z/qid=1006242396/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_3_2/103-0835086-6926241) or [Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I8NC/qid=1006242396/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_3_1/103-0835086-6926241). ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/26 "2001-11-20T13:18:43Z")
What Apocalypse would be complete without some Leonard Cohen? How about ‘The Future’? \*You don’t know me from the wind; Ya never will, ya never did— I’m the little Jew who wrote the Bible. I’ve seen the Nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all But love’s the only engine of survival. Your servant here, he has been told To say it clear, to say it cold: “It’s over, it aint goin’ any further.” And now the wheels of Heaven stop You feel the Devil’s riding crop. Get ready for the future; It is murder.\* ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226/27 "2001-11-20T20:57:41Z")
Bolt Thrower “Cenotaph” Heaviest song ever recorded, and certainly worthy of the end of the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-the-apocalypse/93226.md?page=1)