The Apocalypse - Dec 21, 2012 |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 1. 'The End' - The Doors This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end... The Doors' ominious harbinger of impending doom made for one of cinema's most terrifyingly beautiful scenes during the scorched earth scenario in "Apocalypse Now." It's only fitting that when the Armageddon comes, Mr. Jim Morrison will lead the way. |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 2. 'Apocalypse Please' - Muse it's time we saw a miracle come on it's time for something biblical to pull us through and pull us through and this is the end this is the end of the world |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 3. 'Don't Fear the Reaper' - Blue Oyster Cult All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are Blue Oyster Cult imagines love at the end of the world, with maximum cheesiness possible. Their vision is basically a romance novel cover, but the song itself is an apocalypse classic. It does need a little more cowbell. |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 4. 'Black Hole Sun' - Soundgarden In my eyes, indisposed In disguise as no one knows Hides the face, lies the snake The sun in my disgrace Boiling heat, summer stench 'Neath the black the sky looks dead Call my name through the cream And I'll hear you scream again In the 90's, grunge was all about angst for the sweater set. Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" captured the self-loathing epidemic inherent in the grunge milleu, but the iconic video portrayed the end of the world as a psychedelic mess that would be awesome to witness. |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 5. 'It's The End Of The World' - R.E.M. What list about the end of the world could not include this song? |
6. '1999' - Prince Party like it's 19...hold up it is! time for Obama to finish off what the Y2K bug couldn't. | |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 7. 'London Calling' - The Clash Surprised? There you were just swinging to the beat, never aware that words like nuclear error refers to Three Mile Island. But that's okay, just keep singing along. And watch this. |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 8. 'Four Horsemen of 2012' - Klaxons Theres a half-man, half-horse, who still pollutes my thoughts as he rides on a flame in the sky He comes through the centuries with me on his engines. The kids and the cats watch him fly. Please catch that half-horse as he murders my thoughts with fragments of flames anyway Half-man, half-horse as he still pollutes my thoughts he rides on a flame in the sky Four Horsemen twenty-twelve... Klaxons not centaurs! |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 9. '99 Luftballoons' - Nena Probably the most fun you'll have dancing to a song about nuclear war. Didn't know that? That's okay, being the song was originally in German. There is the English version that might clear up some of the confusion, but frankly, it's more fun to dance to the unknown when facing the unknown, right? |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 10. 'The Man Comes Around' - Johnny Cash And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse. There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around. The Man in Black spent most of his career investigating death and what was on the other side. Johnny Cash wrote many songs about dying, but few lay out the plans for Judgment Day like "When the Man Comes Around." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 11. 'Earth Died Screaming' - Tom Waits 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 And the poker's in the fire and the locusts take the sky Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming When Terry Gilliam was looking for a song to epitomize the post-apocalyptic vision of his film "12 Monkeys," he turned to the great growler Tom Waits. "The Earth Died Screaming" isn't the most comforting idea for the world's ultimate conclusion, but Waits' imagination is always an enjoyable place to visit. |