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21 Mar 20 - 07:01 PM (#4041208) Subject: Songs etc for the impending apocalypse From: Helen I've been thinking of songs, books, movies etc relating to the end of the world or the apocalypse etc. Don't know why. Is there not anything else happening in the world apart from the COVID 19 pandemic!!?? So to start the list: REM - The End Of The World As We Know It Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction Mental As Anything - Apocalypso Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright or even the now deceased Kenny Rogers - The Gambler "You've got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away and know when to run" Then of course there are movies and/or books like Pratchett & Gaiman's Good Omens (with a happy ending), Margaret Atwood's books like the MaddAdam series or The Heart Goes Last, John Crowley's book Engine Summer. And then we have all those apocalyptic movies designed to send us into a death spiral of horror and fear. I have to admit I don't watch those so I'm relying on other people to list them, if you want. Uplifting songs etc would be very nice. Some spirituals about being raised up to heaven, for example. Basically anything you can think of which is relevant to the world as it is right now in the throes of this pandemic, or as it will be or even as it should be, like being a strong community and working together to overcome hardship. |
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21 Mar 20 - 08:19 PM (#4041216) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Thomas Stern Tom Lehrer - we'll All Go together when We Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI Thomas. |
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21 Mar 20 - 08:26 PM (#4041218) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: oldhippie Danny Howe "The Last War" |
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21 Mar 20 - 08:38 PM (#4041219) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: mg the hour that the ship comes in |
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21 Mar 20 - 08:39 PM (#4041220) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw Bollocks to all this. Let's go life-affirming. Try Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364. Or Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Or Beethoven 7. Or Dvorak's Scherzo Capriccioso. In a dark time, the eye begins to see... |
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22 Mar 20 - 01:13 AM (#4041230) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Gerry Steve Shaw, there's already a thread for comforting songs, let's keep this thread for doom & destruction. So Long, Mom (I'm off to drop The Bomb), another Tom Lehrer goody. |
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22 Mar 20 - 02:21 AM (#4041233) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen No Gerry, I just opened up the thread for any music, book or movie which appears relevant to the current times. If it is just doom and gloom then no one will want to read it. We need some light relief. |
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22 Mar 20 - 04:01 AM (#4041242) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Hagman Arthur Brown's "Fire" springs to mind... There's also the compilation album "Doom and Gloom: Early Songs Of Angst And Disaster 1927-1945": Blind Willie Johnson God Moves On The Water Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans Wreck On The Highway Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers Baltimore Fire Big Bill Broonzy Southern Flood Blues Lulu Belle & Scotty That Crazy War William & Versey Smith When That Great Ship Went Down Karl & Harty When The Atom Bomb Fell G.B. Grayson/Henry Whitter He's Coming To Us Dead Bessie Smith Back Water Blues Joe Williams Providence Help The Poor People The Carter Family The Dying Solider Cofer Brothers The Great Ship Went Down Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie When The Levee Breaks Blind Alfred Reed Explosion In The Fairmont Mines Charley Patton High Water Everywhere Dixon Brothers, The School House Fire Dixon Brothers, The, with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen The Wreck Of The Old Southern Old '97 Casey Bill Weldon Flood Water Blues The Allen Brothers Jake Walk Blues Richard "Rabbit" Brown Sinking Of The Titanic Carolina Twins Off To War I'm Going Cauley Family Lumberton Wreck Asa Martin & James Roberts Rycove Cyclone Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground |
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22 Mar 20 - 04:17 AM (#4041246) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Wow Hagman, that's an impressive list! Wow! That's all I can say. |
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22 Mar 20 - 05:02 AM (#4041251) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,henryp The Deluge - Jackson Browne Some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the future With the energy of the innocent They were gathering the tools They would need to make their journey back to nature While the sand slipped through the opening And their hands reached for the golden ring With their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge In the troubled years that came before the deluge Let the music keep our spirits high Let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky |
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22 Mar 20 - 05:08 AM (#4041252) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Hagman That's "BEFORE the Deluge" - even more apposite! |
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22 Mar 20 - 07:03 PM (#4041414) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: allanwill I think Aussie country singer Kasey Chambers sums it up: "We're All Gonna Die Someday" We're all gonna die someday lord We're all gonna die someday Mama's on pills daddy's over the hill But we're all gonna die someday Well it hurts down here on Earth lord It hurts down here on Earth It hurts down here cause we're running out of beer But we're all gonna die someday We're all gonna die someday lord We're all gonna die someday Mama's on pills daddy's over the hill But we're all gonna die someday Well all of my friends are stoned lord All of my friends are stoned Janie got stoned cause she couldn't get boned But we're all gonna die someday We're all gonna die someday lord We're all gonna die someday Mama's on pills daddy's over the hill But we're all gonna die someday Well they can all kiss my ass lord They can all kiss my ass If they want to kiss my ass well they better make it fast 'Cos we're all gonna die someday We're all gonna die someday lord We're all gonna die someday Mama's on pills daddy's over the hill But we're all gonna die someday I say We're all gonna die someday lord We're all gonna die someday Mama's on pills daddy's over the hill But we're all gonna die someday |
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22 Mar 20 - 07:29 PM (#4041426) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Joe G I'v ementioned this before but Jon Boden's Songs from the Floodplain album is, from those that I have heard, the best album of the 21st century and proved to be so prescient Ultimately it is an optimistic set of songs though suggesting that songs will survive as we return to a simpler way of life. We are seeing this in the incredible sharing od music on the internet at the moment with virtual folk clubs, virtual festivals and so much more being set up There is hope even in the darkest of days |
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22 Mar 20 - 11:29 PM (#4041466) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: rich-joy I'm rather fond of this number from 1986 - both an underrated song and group : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyLEI9C4Z4o The Housemartins : Think for a Minute (slow version) Cheers, R-J |
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22 Mar 20 - 11:48 PM (#4041469) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Kasey Chambers - We're All Gonna Die Someday |
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23 Mar 20 - 05:25 AM (#4041498) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Rob 'Mad Jock' Wright Angie Wright. Cry of the World. |
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23 Mar 20 - 05:56 AM (#4041507) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Neil D LC: "Everybody Knows" Not only is there a line that says: everybody knows the plague is coming, everybody knows that it's moving fast; there's also this verse: Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died. How appropriate is that for us here in the U S where our "captain" has lied about this from the beginning. Just 3 weeks ago he said we would be down to zero cases in no time and now we're reporting over 300,000 and the worst yet to come. |
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23 Mar 20 - 11:19 AM (#4041575) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Neil D Oops. I added an extra 0 to that stat. Tha number of confirmed cases in the U S is now 35,000. |
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23 Mar 20 - 11:33 AM (#4041584) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Peter Laban When the man comes around - Johnny Cash |
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23 Mar 20 - 06:19 PM (#4041677) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: rich-joy Gary Joules and Michael Andrews' 2001 remake of Tears for Fears 1982 song "MAD WORLD" made a big impression on me after I heard it in the film "Donnie Darko" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 Cheers, R-J |
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23 Mar 20 - 07:08 PM (#4041689) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Felipa "Some little bug is going to find you someday" (in the Mudcat forum as "some little bug is going to get you someday" or maybe "gonna" instead of "going to") written in 1915. Lots of recordings can be found on youtube There should be some good songs written by the survivors of the pandemic … maybe we are too much in shock at the moment to be penning lyrics. Do you think Corona beer will need to be renamed, or will it surge in popularity with its current name? Which reminds me of another song, "Down in the Valley to Pray" aka Down to the River to pray - "who will wear the starry crown? Oh lord, show me the way." |
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24 Mar 20 - 11:25 AM (#4041819) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Joe MacGillivray The Man Cones Around: Written and Performed by Johnny Cash, mentioned above. I love that song too. There was a study on that song and apocalyptic songs in general and it reviewed this Man In Black masterpiece. It was considered to be in mainstream contemporary music the ultimate song pertaining to the apocalypse. It was inspired by a dream Johnny had and was bases mainly on Revelations and with later-on religious symbolism. |
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24 Mar 20 - 11:26 AM (#4041820) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Joe MacGillivray I saved the piece of journalism. I'll try to find it and share on here. |
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24 Mar 20 - 01:27 PM (#4041846) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Donuel From: Donuel - PM Date: 24 Mar 20 - 08:21 AM (the heart goes on) Every night on TV I see it, I hear it That's how I know Covid goes on Far across the distance And spaces between us You have come to show you go on Here, there, wherever you are I believe that the virus goes on Once more you open the door And you're here in my nose And my cough will go on and on Covid can touch us one time And last for a lifetime And never let go 'til we're gone Once more…you open the door... Subject: RE: BS: Sweet Caroline From: Donuel - PM Date: 24 Mar 20 - 08:01 AM Where it began, I can't begin to knowing But then I know it's growing strong Was in the spring And spring became the summer Who'd have believed it would come along Hands, not touching hands Reaching out, not touching me, not touching you Sweet Quarantine Good times never seemed so bad I've been inclined To believe we never could But now I Look at the night and it don't seem so lonely We filled it up with only two And when I hurt Hurting runs off my shoulders How can I hurt without holding you One, not touching one Reaching out, not touching me, not touching you… Sweet Quarantine Good times never felt so bad... |
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24 Mar 20 - 04:34 PM (#4041883) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Very clever, Donuel. Sweet Quarantine! Leo Sayer - When I Need You Miles and miles of empty space in between us The telephone can't take the place of your smile But you know I won't be travelin' forever It's cold out but hold out and do I like I do When I need you I just close my eyes and I'm with you And all that I so want to give you babe It's only a heartbeat away |
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24 Mar 20 - 04:39 PM (#4041884) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen "What'll I Do?" The Nat King Cole Trio |
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25 Mar 20 - 11:49 AM (#4042014) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw Well I'm not having this apocalypse malarkey. It's bad but it's not going to be an apocalypse (I tell myself). Driving back from my mum's care home this afternoon (I haven't been allowed in for two weeks and she's too deaf for the telephone, so I dropped in a bottle of Bailey's and a nice letter), I put Sgt Pepper on and was singing my head off, "Yes I admit it's getting better (it can't get no worse...)" and made meself laugh when I sang that line. Right now I'm sitting outside my house (I have no neighbours within a quarter of a mile) in lovely spring sunshine. The robins and wrens and a chiffchaff are singing away and I have Beethoven's Pastoral playing on YouTube. Make sure you google the Carlos Kleiber version... Plenty of negatives to come to belabour us but let's grab the occasional positive too... So my apocalypse song is the Beatles singing Getting Better, even though it CAN get worse... [Thus spake the smug bugger with a sufficiency of bumwipe I hear you say...] |
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25 Mar 20 - 12:05 PM (#4042019) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw And don't stop the Beethoven until you've heard the applause... |
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25 Mar 20 - 03:05 PM (#4042065) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra's Virtual Beethoven 9th But where was the choir? |
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25 Mar 20 - 04:23 PM (#4042080) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw That was utterly lovely. Life-affirming. Just what the world needs to stave off apocalypses! |
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25 Mar 20 - 04:33 PM (#4042083) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw ...And they were all doing it in self-isolation from their bedrooms! |
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25 Mar 20 - 04:34 PM (#4042084) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Ebbie We might as well have a chuckle at the same time. So, I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive, Hank Williams; and Shel Silverstein's You're Still Gonna Die. Oh, dear- I just remembered Roy Acuff's When the Pale Horse and His Rider Goes By. Not too many chuckles in that one. |
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25 Mar 20 - 04:34 PM (#4042085) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Yes but where was the choir hiding? |
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25 Mar 20 - 04:40 PM (#4042086) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: gillymor Wherever they were I hope they were all standing at least 6 feet apart. Nice link. |
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25 Mar 20 - 04:47 PM (#4042088) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen There was another one for over 1000 singers world wide but now I've been infected with the EWV-20 - EarWorm Virus 2020). I don't like that song at all but it doesn't stop my brain from injecting into my ears, Grrr!! Couch Choir - (They Long To Be) Close To You |
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25 Mar 20 - 06:28 PM (#4042097) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Ok, some of my fave classical pieces: Adagio Appassionato for violin & orchestra, Op 57 by Max Bruch The first time I heard this I was in the car listening to the ABC Classic FM station. I stopped the car to go into a shop but I listened transfixed, tears streaming down my face. When I finally went into the shop the people must have thought someone in my family had died. When I hear it I think of those dreadful scenes when the Jewish people were discovered in the camps. But by the end of the piece it is uplifting. So, strength and resilience in times of trouble. Note: now I am listening to it as I type but I have to hear it to the end. I can't shut it off part way through. When I am anxious or stressed about something I will quite often play it over and over again. Vivaldi - Gloria RV589 Domine Deus, Rex Coelestis Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor For 2 Cellos, RV 531 - 2. Largo - Bobby McFerrin There are a heap more on my list but that will do for a start. |
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25 Mar 20 - 06:48 PM (#4042103) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw If you want another couch orchestra in those straitened times, there's the Toronto Symphony Orchestra doing Appalachian Spring from their bedrooms (google it yerself). An inspiring verse for these modern times: They cut me down and I leapt up high; I am the life that'll never, never die. I'll live in you if you'll live in me: I am the lord of the dance, said he. (I always had a big print of that verse on me classroom wall...) |
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25 Mar 20 - 06:50 PM (#4042104) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw Close To You is wonderful... |
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25 Mar 20 - 07:18 PM (#4042109) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die' Rag Country Joe Mcdonald at Woodstock |
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25 Mar 20 - 07:31 PM (#4042111) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw Whoopee! I love that and always have (though Jimi outdid him), but I'm trying to turn the tide here! :-) |
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25 Mar 20 - 07:40 PM (#4042113) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Steve Shaw If you want uplifting classical, try Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante K364. It's been in my desert island discs final eight for at least three decades. Or, if you're short of time, try the finale of Mozart's Jupiter symphony. It's a miracle I tell you... |
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25 Mar 20 - 07:57 PM (#4042115) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: allanwill Richard Thompson Keep Your Distance If I cross your path again, Who knows where, Who knows when On some morning without number, On some highway without end Don't grasp my hand and say "Fate has brought you here today" Oh fate is only fooling with us, friend Keep your distance, oh keep your distance When I feel you close to me what can I do but fall Keep your distance, keep your distance Ah with us it must be all or none at all It's a desperate game we play, Throw our souls, our lives, away Wounds that can't be mended And debts that can't be paid Oh I played and I got stung Now I'm biting back my tongue I'm sweeping out The footprints where I strayed Keep your distance, keep your distance When I feel you close to me what can I do but fall Keep your distance, oh keep your distance With us it must be all or none at all Keep your distance, oh keep your distance When I feel you close to me what can I do but fall Keep your distance, oh keep your distance With us it must be all or none at all With us it must be all or none at all With us it must be all or none at all |
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25 Mar 20 - 08:33 PM (#4042118) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Just found this while searching for the Richard Thompson song: Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006 with orchestra and chorus. Totally not relevant to the impending apocalypse, but a beautiful piece of music nonetheless. |
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25 Mar 20 - 08:41 PM (#4042120) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Gerry Chorus of My Gal: Well, I'll be there in the morning if I live. I will be there in the morning if I don't get killed. If I nevermore see you again Be sure to remember me... Not in the DT, at least, not under the name My Gal, but there was a discussion https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10523. |
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26 Mar 20 - 02:49 AM (#4042136) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Gerry Bukka White, High Fever Blues. I'm taken down with the fever, and it won't let me sleep I'm taken down with the fever, and it won't let me sleep It was about three o'clock, before he would let me be I wish somebody, would come and drive my fever away I wish somebody, come and drive my fever away This fever I'm havin', sho' weaves in my way The fever I'm havin', sho' is hard on a man The fever I'm havin', sho' is hard on a man They don't allow my lover, come and shake my hand I wonder what's the matter with the fever, sho' is hard on a man I want to know what's the matter, how come this fever hard on a man Doctor said "ain't the fever, that's your lover has another man" Doctor get your fever gauge, and put it under my tongue Doctor get your fever gauge, and put it under my tongue Doctor says "all you need, your lover in your arms" I wants my lover, come and drive my fever away I wants my lover, come and drive my fever away Doctor says she'll do me more good in a day, than he would in all of his days |
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26 Mar 20 - 09:37 AM (#4042197) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Starship HTCANM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jil_XT-NA4 |
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26 Mar 20 - 03:20 PM (#4042256) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen Excellent suggestion Starship. That song was in a song book when I was in year 6, so it has been a favourite of mine for most of my life. We have it on our session music list but we don't play it very often. We'll have to give it a run next week, IF we can hold our session that is. We are thinking of doing it out in a park instead of someone's house for social distancing reasons but also to share the music with other people. |
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26 Mar 20 - 03:43 PM (#4042261) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Starship Helen, the virus is quite contagious, so please be extra careful. Regarding the song, there is an excellent rendition done by Emmylou Harris which I'll go find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zdXr3CnBGs |
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26 Mar 20 - 03:50 PM (#4042262) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen I'll be negotiating with the group via email to look at our options. We might have to shut down the session group for the first time in 40 years. |
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26 Mar 20 - 03:56 PM (#4042264) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,Starship Probably a wise decision to cancel for now. I wish you well. |
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26 Mar 20 - 03:57 PM (#4042266) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Helen I'll send them the links to the De Dannan and the Emmylou Harris versions. That will inspire them to play it again. |
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27 Mar 20 - 10:41 AM (#4042412) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: GUEST,guest Ashes to ashes by John Kirkpatrick, then there's Don't fear the Reaper...The Doctor Calls by Ian Telfer.. |
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27 Mar 20 - 12:45 PM (#4042439) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Donuel Motzart and Barber Playing these live are amazing There is of course Pavarotti rndition of Nessun Dorme'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs&list=PLdQTzxTUnlsEnXE6kHyykOoxa2rwjSQtS&index=43 and my fav schindlers list |
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27 Mar 20 - 05:38 PM (#4042493) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: voyager Home on the Front Range lyrics written in the early '80s with doom-and-gloom all around. Check it out. voyager Stories and Songs |
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27 Mar 20 - 05:39 PM (#4042494) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: voyager repost HOME ON THE FRONT RANGE (c) -------------------------- Oh give me a home In the disarmament zone Where the Breeder Reactors don't prey Where seldom you see Radio-activity And the Ozone stays intact all day CHORUS ------ Home, safe from the Bomb A hearth that always stays warm With some person you're lovin' And no microwave oven Singing Tunes to move you along Oh give me some space Free of nuclear waste And the fallout that comes from the storm Where working makes sense You pay low-budget rents And the neighbors still party 'til dawn CHORUS New Verse (2010) Crossed the country by car With a Martin Guitar To make the Front Range our new home And now that we're settled Ma and Pa Kettle Can watch where the buffalo roam |
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29 Mar 20 - 04:05 PM (#4042943) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Mrrzy Hee hee https://youtube.com/watch?v=CsHRvaYCJ7E |
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01 Apr 20 - 10:18 AM (#4043576) Subject: RE: Songs for the impending apocalypse From: Neil D Weeping Early this morning I woke from my sleeping The damp of my cheeks let me know I'd been weeping Wide awake now, I can't get back to sleep I sit on the bed and continue to weep I weep for the aged and those who're infirm I weep for the children no longer able to learn I weep for the doctors, the nurses and such I weep for a world denied the comfort of touch I'm up and I'm dressed and having my coffee I sit down and turn on some news I watch for a minute to see how they spin it I turn it off now I'm crying the blues I weep for the stranded, desperate to get home And those who're not only dying but dying alone Those with no respirator who can't catch a breath And those for whom triage has chosen for Death It's lunchtime now and I better eat something I'll cook the food my son left on the stairs My wife the RN is now living at work I'm here with my dogs, but alone with my cares I weep for the families from whom a loved one was torn I weep for the young and those yet to me born I weep for New Yorkers who urgently asked But now doctors are dying for the want of a mask God damn it I wish I could stop all the crying But they're pitching tents in the park to house all the dying Its suppertime now but who feels like eating With humanity taking such a bloody ass beating I weep for our people whose leaders are senseless I weep for the poor, the weak, the defenseless I weep for those taken and those who are spared I weep for the lonely and those who are scared It's late at night and I take to my bed I scruff up the pillow under my head But my eyes defy me and continue to weep As I strive for the silence and the darkness of sleep Neil Devore |