Endings

[squirmelia]

It's the end of the world. Quick, how do you convey this sentiment in music to the surrounding populace? What song should be played?

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[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Maruta Kommand - Machinery Of Death

[toxicbunny.livejournal.com]

Depends on how I'm feeling when I hear the news.

No time to find anything interesting because I'm too busy looking for the can opener on my way down to the bunker: REM, It's The End of the World as We Know It

Grim semi-hysterical gallows humour: Divine Comedy, Here Comes The Flood (http://www.musicomh.com/thedivinecomedy/lyrics/herecomes.htm)

Good riddance to bad rubbish: Tool, Aenema (Mom's coming round to put it back the way it oughta be)

Wistful but resigned: Dubstar, Stars (http://www.sys3175.co.uk/lyrics.php?n=7)

(I want to make a compilation called "The Best Apocalypse In The World... Ever!" now.)

Oh, and I forgot:

[toxicbunny.livejournal.com]

Cut Rate Box - The End

making walls we turn ourselves into enemies escape by dying young like feathers in the wind tremble hard when the flames are licking we hold our hands encircling and sing along this is the end surrounding life in precious hands this is the end when love you give is breaking down this is the end brother lock the children away this is the end baby's breath a whisper in the chaos future looming dark and frightening the gun is loaded vision faith we only know if we question final days a resting place tomorrow's what we make it

[blueskycomplex.livejournal.com]

The first thing that jumped into my head was "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Just now I've also thought of "Goodbye" by hide, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings", and "Heart and Soul" from the Macross 7 soundtrack (no idea of the singers on that one).

Hard question. Depends on how fiery the apocalypse is.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Guantanamera, of course.

Still reckon you should look up Black Box Recorder's "It's Only The End Of The World".

[elethe.livejournal.com]

Not a song, but Schubert's Piano Trio in E Flat is the sort of wistful 'too bad we're all going to die' music you want playing in your last few minutes.

Songs - Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
Do You Realize - Flaming Lips
Anything by Pulp

[arachne.livejournal.com]

Something big and orchestral and climactic and can-canish so we can all die bouncing and dancing and smiling

[arachne.livejournal.com]

oooh, or maybe the Happy Hammond Goes Pop Country cover of Gentle On My Mind - by the end of it everyone would really be quite glad that there was no more world.

[watchingsitcoms.livejournal.com]

Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World (or the cover by Barcelona)

ps. Hi Jodi! I just found out about your lj from Jaime. In my previous life I was Tim B (wunderhorn1) on the old Coupland list. Cheers!

Coupland

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I had a look at your lj and figured you were a Coupie. :)

[darklily.livejournal.com]

Well, that really all depends on circumstance...
Wrath of God: Exterminating Angel ~ The Creatures
Nuclear War: Breathing ~ Kate Bush
Purification-via-Destruction type thingy: Burn the Earth ~ Puissance
An end with a lot of advance warning: Five Years ~ David Bowie
Any number of scenarios: Here Comes The Flood ~ Divine Comedy
There are probably others that I should have thought of...

I may as well spend it happy...

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest something punchy, and short. You don't want anything long and rambling, if only because it might get cut off halfway through.

The first track to spring to mind was "Rock and Roll All Nite", by KISS. Old, but good. And I heartily approve of the sentiment. Hopefully we would have a night in which it all won't matter...

However, the back-to-back playing of "Riot Act" and "Get The Fuck Out" by Skid Row seems far more appropriate.

[elethe.livejournal.com]

Got more -
Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
Zero Zero (Witness)
No Distance Left To Run (Blur)
No More I Love You's (Annie Lennox)
My Body May Die (Pulp vs The Swingle Sisters)
Dead Things (Emiliani Torrini)
Heaven (Psychedelic Furs)

Also US Roach (Gay Dad), New Born (Muse) and Electrolite (REM) - but I am not entirely sure why.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

The Smiths singing "if it's not love it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together".

Or just Goodnight or whatever it's called: "There is another world, there is a better world... well, there must be..."

for some reason

[jaimeee.livejournal.com]

i have had oliver's army in my head all day (elvis costello), but i don't think that would be representative of a good last song...

God's Comic (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/SongUnid/1905EF78943ECD29482568B000052BEE) would be much more apropos.

that or something by black box recorder.
her voice is almost haunting sometimes.

xxx
j

[ex-d2933.livejournal.com]

Anything by the Spice Girls. It only makes sense.