Playlist: Music For The End Of The World

Might as well score the end of the world ... a soundtrack of bottomless sorrow, relentless cosmic despair, rage exploding like a supernova, a trembling tender regret at our fragility, and a perverse sinking feeling of approaching cataclysm that says "This is what we get."

Let's start the soundtrack with "Ethnicolor" from Jean Michel Jarre's incredible album "Zoolook." This track features samples of Laurie Anderson among many other spoken word sections. It is an appropriate way to kick things off, right from the first howling, screaming moments.


https://jeanmicheljarre.com/
https://laurieanderson.com/



...within the realm of a dying sun.

https://www.deadcandance.com/


"I am everything
Why listen to me
I'm just a voice inside your head
I can't help you
Help yourself"


https://www.plastikman.com/


https://londonsinfonietta.org.uk/


https://ilovem83.com/


If heaven had a house band, it would be Sigur Ros.

https://sigurros.com/



"Stop the world
Take it any where
It's just that
Living here is more
Than I can bear

Stop the world
Just pack it in
Well we've reached the point
Where no one ever wins"

https://www.eurythmics.com/




https://philipglass.com/
https://kronosquartet.org/


"Here we go again."

https://www.instagram.com/noxvahn


https://www.nin.com/


"If you could do it all again
Big deal, so what?
Please let me know
When you've had enough
It's the last chance
O.K. Corral
If you could do it all again
This time with style"


https://wasteheadquarters.com/links/thom-yorke


https://www.arvopart.ee/en/arvo-part/


https://www.petermurphy.info/




Music for the end of the world ... not with a bang ... entropy...

https://rickieleejones.com/


Hello, Earth
Hello, Earth
Watching storms start to form
Over America
Can't do anything
Just watch them swing with the wind out to sea

All you sailors (Get out of the waves, get out of the water)
All life-savers (Get out of the waves, get out of the water)
All you cruisers (Get out of the waves, get out of the water)
All you fishermen, head for home
Go to sleep, little Earth


https://www.katebush.com/

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