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Coming Storm: Music for the Apocalypse
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lunatunes's theme was 'Apocalypse Songs'. Conveniently, I had been working on an Apocalypse Mix, off and on since the global economy collapsed last fall. Here, then, is what I've come up with (not exactly the same as what I posted to lunatunes, since I've been fiddling with it since then.):
Coming Storm
Type of Apocalyspe: The Inevitability of Mortality
1. Regina Spektor - Daniel Cowman
On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing
The world should have ended right then and there
At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing
The world should have ended
How could it go on?
Type of Apocalypse: General World-Endry
2. Rufus Wainwright - Everybody Knows
And everybody knows that the plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
3. Gnarls Barkley - Storm Coming
Run towards the hills to avoid the high flood
I can do a dance that'll make the sky cry blood
4. Sarah Mclachlan - Shelter
They close the doors and are letting nobody in
And only the strong will survive
5. The Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
For now we stand alone
The world is lost and blown
And we are flesh and blood disintegrate
With no more to hate
Type of Apocalypse: Nuclear Holocaust
6. The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes
Because the air outside will make
Our cells divide at an alarming rate
Until our shells simply cannot hold
All our insides in,
And that's when we'll explode
Type of Apocalypse: God's Wrath
7. Tori Amos - iieee (Lipgloss Arsonist Mix)
I know we're dying
And there's no sign of a parachute
We scream in cathedrals
Why can't it be beautiful
Why does there
Gotta be a sacrifice
8. Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Mondkopf Plus de Sommeil Remix)
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
9. Wintersleep - Dance Macabre
All my friends are skeletons
Dulcimers and chariots
Prayers to God, oh, prayers to God
10. Murder by Death - The Desert Is on Fire
You think you've suffered? Well you ain't seen shit yet.
The pain wont set in for a long, long time.
I've fought off angels with my hands behind my back
I've set the heavens all on fire
11. The Mountains Goats - Magpie
And when the cherries white with blossoms,
Be ready and be brave.
And remember what we had here,
When there was something left to save.
12. Bright Eyes - Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
Now I don't know when but day's gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
If I sold my soul, for a bag of gold to you
Which one of us would be the foolish one?
13. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
I saw a sign in the sky:
Seven horns, seven horns, seven horns.
I heard a voice in my mind:
I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord.
Type of Apocalypse: Government Dystopia
14. Anais Mitchell: The Song They Sang When Rome Fell
And in the end,
Did we watch it all on CNN?
What it is to be American?
15. Matthew Good Band - Advertising on Police Cars
One day you'll wake up and they'll be
Advertising on police cars
And your death will sell you out
As someone smart
16. Tom McRae - Hidden Camera Show
Hide from the world
It will come for you
You have no place in this time
17. Richard Shindell - You Stay Here
You stay here
And I'll go look for guns
I think I know
Where they've hidden some
18. A Perfect Circle - Let's Have a War
Let's have a war,
So you can go and die.
Let's have a war,
We could all use the money.
19. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bomb. Repeat. Bomb.
And when the crying starts, you won't have to see their bloodshot eyes turn red.
And when the dying starts, you won't have to know a thing about who's dead.
Type of Apocalypse: Zombies!
20. High Rankin - We're All Dead
Unburied human corpses are returning to life and feeding on the living
They seem to survive by eating human flesh
Everyone who dies will become one of them
If you are bitten you will just become one of them that much sooner
Zip here.
lunatunes's theme was 'Apocalypse Songs'. Conveniently, I had been working on an Apocalypse Mix, off and on since the global economy collapsed last fall. Here, then, is what I've come up with (not exactly the same as what I posted to lunatunes, since I've been fiddling with it since then.):Coming Storm
Type of Apocalyspe: The Inevitability of Mortality
1. Regina Spektor - Daniel Cowman
On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing
The world should have ended right then and there
At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing
The world should have ended
How could it go on?
Type of Apocalypse: General World-Endry
2. Rufus Wainwright - Everybody Knows
And everybody knows that the plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
3. Gnarls Barkley - Storm Coming
Run towards the hills to avoid the high flood
I can do a dance that'll make the sky cry blood
4. Sarah Mclachlan - Shelter
They close the doors and are letting nobody in
And only the strong will survive
5. The Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
For now we stand alone
The world is lost and blown
And we are flesh and blood disintegrate
With no more to hate
Type of Apocalypse: Nuclear Holocaust
6. The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes
Because the air outside will make
Our cells divide at an alarming rate
Until our shells simply cannot hold
All our insides in,
And that's when we'll explode
Type of Apocalypse: God's Wrath
7. Tori Amos - iieee (Lipgloss Arsonist Mix)
I know we're dying
And there's no sign of a parachute
We scream in cathedrals
Why can't it be beautiful
Why does there
Gotta be a sacrifice
8. Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Mondkopf Plus de Sommeil Remix)
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
9. Wintersleep - Dance Macabre
All my friends are skeletons
Dulcimers and chariots
Prayers to God, oh, prayers to God
10. Murder by Death - The Desert Is on Fire
You think you've suffered? Well you ain't seen shit yet.
The pain wont set in for a long, long time.
I've fought off angels with my hands behind my back
I've set the heavens all on fire
11. The Mountains Goats - Magpie
And when the cherries white with blossoms,
Be ready and be brave.
And remember what we had here,
When there was something left to save.
12. Bright Eyes - Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
Now I don't know when but day's gonna come
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun
If I sold my soul, for a bag of gold to you
Which one of us would be the foolish one?
13. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
I saw a sign in the sky:
Seven horns, seven horns, seven horns.
I heard a voice in my mind:
I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord.
Type of Apocalypse: Government Dystopia
14. Anais Mitchell: The Song They Sang When Rome Fell
And in the end,
Did we watch it all on CNN?
What it is to be American?
15. Matthew Good Band - Advertising on Police Cars
One day you'll wake up and they'll be
Advertising on police cars
And your death will sell you out
As someone smart
16. Tom McRae - Hidden Camera Show
Hide from the world
It will come for you
You have no place in this time
17. Richard Shindell - You Stay Here
You stay here
And I'll go look for guns
I think I know
Where they've hidden some
18. A Perfect Circle - Let's Have a War
Let's have a war,
So you can go and die.
Let's have a war,
We could all use the money.
19. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bomb. Repeat. Bomb.
And when the crying starts, you won't have to see their bloodshot eyes turn red.
And when the dying starts, you won't have to know a thing about who's dead.
Type of Apocalypse: Zombies!
20. High Rankin - We're All Dead
Unburied human corpses are returning to life and feeding on the living
They seem to survive by eating human flesh
Everyone who dies will become one of them
If you are bitten you will just become one of them that much sooner
Zip here.
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I want to write something about the apocalypse and zombies now.no subject
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By coincidence, I just made an apocalypse mix as well!
Mp3s here:
http://stenoknight.com/doom/
Notes here:
http://www.m14m.net/haberdash/bloglet-archive-2009016131451.php#2009048230900
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