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[apocalypsos]

A couple of these were more for personal reasons than anything else, but I did get a few suggestions from you guys that I really liked.

1. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
2. A Perfect Circle - Judith, Renholder Mix
3. Reel Big Fish - It's the End of the World as We Know It (Yay for the bouncy pop apocalypse! Okay, so maybe this is a little too poppy, but ... uh, bite me.)
4. Dave Matthews Band - When the World Ends (I wanted the slower version that was at the end of Reloaded and ended up getting the jazzier version, which it turns out I like better. I like my apocalypses peppy.)
5. Aimee Allen - I'd Start a Revolution (Okay, so it's not about the end of the world. But it makes me think post-apocalyptic, so it stays.)
6. Johnny Cash - When the Man Comes Around (After seeing "Dawn of the Dead", with this set to the credits, how could I *not* put this on the album?)
7. Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Shut up.)
8. 30 Seconds to Mars - Welcome to the Universe
9. Muse - Apocalypse Please
10. Lounge Against the Machine - Down With the Sickness (Well, come on! It was there! I had to use it.)
11. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down
12. Cibo Matto - King of Silence
13. Evanscence - Imaginary (Again, shut up. I like this song bunches and bunches.)
14. Johnette Napolitano - Suicide Note
15. Renholder - Death Dealer's Descent - Underworld Soundtrack (It's short, but I liked it.)
16. Dashboard Prophets - Ballad for Dead Friends
17. Jump Little Children - Close Your Eyes (I don't know. This is apparently where the apocalypse gets depressing.)
18. Saint Saens - Danse Macabre (I like the orchestral version better, but I was thinking about it yesterday and the piano version sounds lonelier.

EDIT: Volume 2 needs Pennywise's "Fight Till You Die". I can't believe I didn't put any punk on the first CD, and this one so counts.

EDIT: OMG, Chumbawumba did a updated-for-Iraq version of the Fixin' to Die Rag. *mind boggles* (Did I mention that they play kazoos?! It's sick that I think I love this song, really. Because of the kazoos and all.)

Comments

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

what, no 'we will all go together when we go' by tom lehrer?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, I can only fit so many songs on this CD. Maybe I'll make a volume 2 ...

[octopedingenue]

I love these songs, and I vote for a volume 2, definitely. :D On it you could add Coldplay's Don't Panic or A Rush of Blood to the Head (though all of the Rush of the Blood to the Head album is my personal Apocalypse soundtrack, really) and perhaps Rufus Wainwright's 11:11...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really should raid some Coldplay songs for Volume 2. Rush of Blood to the Head is one of my favorite albums ever, ever, ever.

[sagejupiter.livejournal.com]

Ah, toad the wet sproket....

*thinks of so many of their songs that are numbingly depressing enough for something like the end of the world*

aw shit. there went my day =_=

[unanon.livejournal.com]

Heh.. they do tend to be a little down sometimes. I actually was thinking that 'Silo Lullaby' was their most Apocalyptic song... *shrug*

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

why Reel Big Fish instead of REM for "It's The End Of The World"?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, everybody does REM, and I kind of like that cover. It's all twangy and stuff. I don't know, it makes me picture a ragtag street band performing while everybody else races past lugging their belongings, fiddling while Rome burns and all hat crap.

[cacklebang.livejournal.com]

The fact that you have JLC on the mix delights me to no end. (/fangirl)
Have you considered Basement Jaxx's "Red Alert"?

punk rawk

[impulsiveone.livejournal.com]

bad religion does a song called 'i wanna conquer the world'. somewhat apocolyptic in its content. NoFX also does an a song called 'just the flu' about everyone dying from influenza.

i can't believe you didn't put Tool's: Aenema on there. thats an apocalypic song if i ever heard one. in the same vein, a perfect circle has a new album called 'the thirteenth step, out with a song there that has an apocalyptic tone to it called pet.

[livejamie.livejournal.com]

i would have had gary jules - mad world.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Polaris'"Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete" has a song called "Waiting for October", which is about God coming down, packing up the bits He wants to keep around, then tearing down the world and starting over. It ends with the lovely sound of a hydrogen bomb going off. I love every song on the entire CD, but especially this one.

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

If you want a little more classical, try "Dies Irae" from Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem." It's like "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana" only not as overused.