Not everyone "loves to see things blow up."
There are millions who hate this.
I think it is damaging to our national psyche.

Apocalypso by 80's new wave band Monochrome Set
and a different
Apocalypso by ska band Bim Skala Bim

"A Strange Day" by The Cure could be considered an end-of-the-world song. At least that's one possible interpretation. Their entire album, "Pornography" has an apocalyptic tone... sort of the Revelations of rock albums.

Also, Prince's 1999 is a classic end-of-the-world song, even if it didn't really happen. Prince has quite a few of them, actually, from "Annie Christian" to "Sign of the Times."

What about Scythian Empires by Andrew Bird
"their halluburton attache cases are uselss"

beautiful song

There is Massien's Quartet for the End of Time

Zager and evans. 2525. From the 1970s

I saw "The Road" last night and LOVED what Hillcoat did with the soundtrack.

It was hopelessly, painfully, beautiful. It felt like a breakup soundtrack - one is dying inside while the other is being born.

Also - Lisa, I do NOT want to see "The Apocalypse."

In greek apocalypse means 'lifting of the shroud or veil' to reveal whats underneath or hidden. The book of Reveal-ations was written in Greece on the isand of Patmos. The apocalypse isnt going to be what everyone thinks it is. Its going to be something different. something wonderful.

Mad Max---> Tina Turner Song

Wasn't there a song like "In the year 2525". Pretty dark as humans devolve into toothless eyeless blobs.

XTC - This World Over.

Vera Lynn, We'll Meet Again, the end music in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

Lyrics:

"Two Suns In The Sunset"

in my rear view mirror the sun is going down
sinking behind bridges in the road
and i think of all the good things
that we have left undone
and i suffer premonitions
confirm suspicions
of the holocaust to come
the rusty wire that holds the cork
that keeps the anger in
gives way
and suddenly it's day again
the sun is in the east
even though the day is done
two suns in the sunset
hmmmmmmmmm
could be the human race is run
like the moment when your brakes lock
and you slide toward the big truck
and stretch the frozen moments with your fear
and you'll never hear their voices
and you'll never see their faces
you have no recourse to the law anymore
and as the windshield melts
my tears evaporate
leaving only charcoal to defend
finally i understand
the feelings of the few
ashes and diamonds
foe and friend
we were all equal in the end

My favorite end of the world scenario is a giant bugs bunny coming up on the horizon saying "That's all folks".

This is somewhat speculative, but perhaps our fixation with the end of the world has something to do with the fact that we're now living in arguably the most heavily atheistic era of human history. Maybe the apocalyptic paradigm is a way of confronting and dealing with the notion that there really is no wonderful and glorious afterlife - that, in the end, everything just dies.

Check out 'Two Suns In The Sunset' from Pink Floyd's THE FINAL CUT. It's the last song on the album (and the last Roger Waters song to appear on a Floyd album) An utterly brilliant song about nuclear holocaust.

"World Destruction" by Time Zone.

don't forget willie nelson's great "i've just destroyed the world" from "crazy" and "teatro"!

Waiting for the End of the World by Elvis Costello. "Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're comin' 'cause you really started something"

I really love the song "Dead Flag Blues" with its ominous spoken introduction and haunting notes. It's by Godspeed You! Black Emperor from their album F#a#oo. Here are the lyrics from the opening, taken from an unfinished film:

the car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows

the government is corrupt
and we're on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn

we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death

the sun has fallen down
and the billboards are all leering
and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

it went like this:

the buildings tumbled in on themselves
mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
and pulled out their hair

the skyline was beautiful on fire
all twisted metal stretching upwards
everything washed in a thin orange haze

i said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
these are truly the last days"

you grabbed my hand and we fell into it
like a daydream or a fever

we woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
for sure it's the valley of death

i open up my wallet
and it's full of blood

"World Destruction" by Time Zone is a classic..

Everyone secretly wants to see the Apocalypse. It would be so visually exciting.

Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al. Timely!

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