Songs predicting the end of the world?

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'It's the end of the world as we know it/ And i feel fine' by REM is not quite what I'm after here (though I do feel fine). Assuming that the world is spiralling its way to Armageddon, then, what kind of tunes out will be saying 'I told you so'?

― mick hall (mick hall), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Blackened - Metallica
Set the World Afire - Megadeth
Fight Fire With Fire - Metallica
The Four Horsemen - Metallica
Chemical Warfare/Ghosts of War - Slayer

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

A Fine Day to Die - Bathory

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Da Art Of Storytellin' Part 2 - Outkast

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird Al Yankovic: Christmas At Ground Zero
Captain Sensible: Glad It's All Over
Nik Kershaw: I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

'1999'. Too bad it didn't work out like that, the world could've gone out on a high

― dave q, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

"First We Take Manhatten" - Leonard Cohen
"London Calling" - The Clash

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Reich - "It's Gonna Rain"

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

from their otherwise socially irresponsible and pretty damn awful (but guiltily pleasurable) megadeth impersonation period, dr. know's "lake of fire":

"fish choking on molten dust
raining fire for a hundred months
dying sun that's dripping death
still waters caked with flesh"

yeah! that's some fuckin' apocalypse!

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"5 Years," by Bowie. A great tune.

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rubicon", "The Wait", "Chop Chop", "Exit", "Butcher", "Sun Goes Down", "Until the Ends of the Earth", "The Calling", "Obsession", "Outside the Gate", "Turn to Red", "Pandemonium", "Millenium", etc. etc. etc. etc. by KILLING JOKE

"White Coats" and "I Love the World" by New Model Army

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Brandon is right. 'Five Years' owns this thread.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Earth Dies Screaming" - Tom Waits. Supa-apocalyptical!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Home is Where the Heart Is" by the Chameleons, sort of -- it's more a feeling of dread than a direct portrayal. "Up the Down Escalator" is more direct but is more a call to arms to avert it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Pixies - "The Sad Punk"

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt made me think of 'Earth dies screaming' by UB40.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brandon and James are right. 'Five Years' owns this thread.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"I've Just Destroyed the World" Willie Nelson

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Dead Moon - Fire In The Western World (kinda - its no 5 Years - but it is great)

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Till the End of the World - Nick Cave
Until the End of the World - U2

Home of the Brave - The Nails (Apocalyptic BeBop)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Randy Newman- Political Science
Iron Maiden- Two Minutes to Midnight

It seems like that Joy Division should be on a such a list, but I can't think of a song that directly is about the end of the world.

― earlnash, Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ashes to Ashes", Steve Earle.

― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Waiting For The End Of The World - Elvis Costello

― Davlo (Davlo), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

comet gain - asleep in the snow

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"This World Over" by XTC

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 March 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

REM - I Remember California
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (?)

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 28 March 2003 03:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Dance Electric" by Andre Cymone.. the intro in particular

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 28 March 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Time Zone's "World Destruction" seems quite prophetic right about now. Bambaataa & Lydon even foresaw some of the details of our demise.

Plus, that song prominently features a cowbell, if memory serves, and that's always a plus.

― EC, Friday, 28 March 2003 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Just as the cowbell clanks along in steady repetition, so will I use the word "plus."

― EC, Friday, 28 March 2003 06:45 (twenty-three years ago)

'1999'. Too bad it didn't work out like that, the world could've gone out on a high '

why did this make me smile??
awlright i'll take the gimme's.
the end- the doors
and
pert of VU's heroin, where's he talking about all the dead bodies piled up in mounds and everybody putting everybody else down and all the politicians makin busy sounds...i think i fuct that up.

― eedd, Friday, 28 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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