songs about the End of the World

[Whisp]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/

Sometimes-muddled road movie-turns-sci fi. Hurt plays a man who is traveling the world taking pictures with a special camera that will enable the blind to see (specifically, his blind mother). He meets up with Dommartin on the way, and they predictably hit it off. Set in 1999, a subplot about a nuclear satellite that has fallen to earth and presumably destroyed civilization only adds to the confusion.

The awesome soundtrack:

Graeme Revell: "Opening Titles" (Revell) (Solo cello performed by David Darling) – 1:59
Talking Heads: "Sax and Violins" (David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) – 5:18
Julee Cruise: "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" (Jack Lloyd, Ben Weisman, Fred Wise) – 2:37
Neneh Cherry: "Move With Me (Dub)" (Cherry, Cameron McVey) – 2:58
Crime and the City Solution: "The Adversary" (Bronwyn Adams, Simon Bonney, Chris Haas, Alexander Hacke, Mick Harvey, Thomas Stern) – 5:32
Lou Reed: "What's Good" (Reed) – 5:07
Can: "Last Night Sleep" (Malcolm Mooney, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt) – 3:35
R.E.M.: "Fretless" (Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and featuring Kate Pierson) – 4:49
Elvis Costello: "Days" (Ray Davies) – 4:49
Graeme Revell: "Claire's Theme" (Revell) (Solo cello performed by David Darling) – 0:51
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: &quot I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" (Nick Cave) – 4:38
Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith: "It Takes Time" (Smith, Smith) – 5:00
Depeche Mode: "Death's Door" (Martin Gore) – 3:53
Graeme Revell: "Love Theme" (Revell) (Solo cello performed by David Darling) – 0:45
Jane Siberry and k.d. lang: "Calling All Angels" (Siberry) – 5:11
T-Bone Burnett: "Humans from Earth" (Burnett) – 3:07
Daniel Lanois: "Sleeping in the Devil's Bed" (Lanois) – 3:50
U2: "Until the End of the World" (Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.) – 4:33
Graeme Revell: "Finale" (Revell) (Solo cello performed by David Darling) – 0:58

http://vimeo.com/29047635

[whistler162]

1. Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

[Whisp]

2. It's the End of the World as We Know It

[polly7]

6. So good it needs to be here twice

with lyrics - I'm going out drunk and singing.

Great Big Sea! -

[In_The_Wind]

3. Until The End of the World

[NightWatcher]

4. Chris Cornell's Preaching The End Of The World

[BlueJazz]

5. I believe there is a song called "End of the world" by Skeeter Davis

[Iggo]

9. Saddest song I ever heard, even before I saw "Girl, Interrupted".

[Whisp]

10. Yes, I am hearing that on one of the cable channels that does End of the World stuff lately.

[Whisp]

7. The Doors The End

[csziggy]

8. In the interest of togetherness!

[Aristus]

11. "Transmission Ends" by Chris De Burgh.

[bench scientist]

12. I will have to check out that film Whisp. I'm always looking for a new films to watch

Calamity Song The Decemberists

I also like old school punk, "Don't open til Doomsday" the Misfits

[Whisp]

16. thanks, bench. That Calamity song is wonderful. n/t

[bench scientist]

20. tis'

I got to see the The Decemberists when they came through Athens a couple years ago. They were awesome
Hope you survive the end of the world tomorrow

Have a wonderful holiday and joyous New Year, Whisp, love your avatar!

[myrna minx]

13. Wim Wender's films are wonderful and that soundtrack is transcendent!

(As is the Far Away, So Close Soundtrack.)

I'm a huge Nick Cave and Birthday Party fan, so considering already he's represented, as are the others on the Until the End of the World's Soundtrack, I'll add:

The The and Matt Johnson. His work is timeless - this song is nearly 25 years old. Same as it ever was...
Armageddon Days Are Here Again

They're 5 miles high as the crow flies
leavin' vapour trails against a blood red sky
Movin' in from the East toward the West
with Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!

But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming
Honey you've got another thing coming
If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name
He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

Islam is rising
The Christians mobilising
The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

It's war, she cried, It's war, she cried, this is war
Drop your possessions, all you simple folk
You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes
You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack
You'll watch the ships sail out of harbour
and the bodies come floating back

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart
But God didn't build himself that throne
God doesn't live in Israel or Rome
God doesn’t belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn't even go to church
And God won't send us down to Allah to burn
No, God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds
Armageddon days are here again


World Destruction by TIME ZONE: Afrika Bambaataa and Johnny Lydon in 1984. How am I the first to post this - it's the cold war classic! ***Warning*** Contemporaneous Ronald Reagan speech segment contained herein->

I'll add another The The song: Heartland. In 1986, Johnson feared that globalism would make the UK an economic appendage of the USA, but his lyrics about the loss in the heartland are germaine to all of us. Johnson's prescient concerns nearly (gulp) 30 years ago are our's today considering our trade policies, the WTO and the current economic crisis:

and the antidote for all the meta madness :
Under Pressure: Freddie Mercury and David Bowie.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

14. Here's a few no one's mentioned yet

Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Def Leppard - When The Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Fixx - Red Skies

The Fixx - Stand or Fall

Voivod - Killing Technology

Iron Maiden- Die With Your Boots On

Nina - 99 Red Balloons

Men at Work - It´s a Mistake

(Not obvious til you watch the video)

[struggle4progress]

15. Christmas At Ground Zero

[Whisp]

17. The Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits

Rudy's on the midway
And Jacob's in the hole
THe monkey's on the ladder
The devil shovels coal
With crows as big as airplanes
The lion has three heads
And someone will eat the skind that he sheds
ANd the earth died screaming
The earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you

Well hell doesn't want you
And heaven is full
Bring me some water
Put it in this skull
I walk between the raindrops
Wait in Bug House Square
And the army ants
They leave nothin' but the bones
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you

There was thunder
There was lightning
Then the stars went out
And the moon fell from the sky
It rained mackerel
It rained trout
And the great day of wrath has come
And here's mud in your big red eye
The poker's in the fire
And the locusts take the sky
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you

[lastlib]

18. Zager & Evans - "In the Year 2525"

"In the Year 9595,
I'm gonna wonder if Man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give,
And he ain't put back nothin'......

Now it's been ten thousand years,
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night,
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away,
Maybe it's only yesterday........"

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. And on the inevitable lighter note...

The Dead Milkmen - Epic Tales of Adventure

[Arugula Latte]

21. More Elvis -- "Waiting for the End of the World"

[Whisp]

22. ends make beginnings...

there are many opinion of when the Age of Aquarius starts, some say it's like, hmm, tomorrow!

[ashling]

23. IF - Bread