Best 21st Century Songs About End Of The World/Doomsday/Apocalypse/Future Fear/Millenarianism/We're All Gonna Die

It's a subject matter near and dear to my heart. Who captures the creeping death the best in a century that has been oh so full of creeping death in its short 16 year history!

Thinking about this after checking out the new track by fellow Greenfield, MA dad Lou Barlow. I like this a lot. But I'll bet you guys can come up with some more good ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZ9wkiLWXk

Father John Misty, "Fun Times in Babylon" and "Now I'm Learning to Love the War."

Scout Niblett - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death, which I know from Jens Lekman's cover. We're all gonna die, we're a-a-all gonna die. We don't know how, and we don't know when.

As an aside, there may be a little bit of overlap in affect, if not manifest content, with some of the stuff in this thread: pop ozymandias syndrome

Tanya Tagaq's new song "Cold" gets into the mathematics of melting ice caps.

Roisin murphy, dear miami: climate change disaster you can dance to

Dear Miami, you're the first to go
Disappearing under melting snow
Each and everyone turn your critical eye
On the burning sun and try not to cry…

Well I may as well be the first one to mention Britney's til the world ends

i wrote an end of the world blog post that year partially inspired by britney:

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2011/12/till-world-ends-top-ten-albums-of-2011.html

1998 but w/e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwGVmEZnHo

that's from 1998.

but w/e

thinking plague - decline and fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFxVmRi-ZQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlEl8SAEsRc

[fka "Future War Blues"]

I made a very very long youtube playlist of songs about nuclear war. If anyone wants to listen I'll dig up the link.

it's interesting - it'd be silly to say there's no overlap at all between the thread premise and 1990s songs about mayan calendars and Y2K and stuff - as noted on Things that don't get rapped about anymore this was a pretty fertile area for busta rhymes in particular - but nonetheless i feel like 21st century, and maybe especially post 2008 (or at least post katrina) versions are shaded very differently. between economic collapse and the rapid acceleration of climate change, etc. etc. it feels like someone writing a song like this now really feels like day to day they are living in the end times, and that present-day revelry is basically "eat drink and be merry..." type stuff. clock is winding down on the life we've come to expect, but not towards some specific apocalypse necessarily. i dunno might just be me though.

The Lou Barlow song is interesting. It's more about the appeal of apocalyptic thinking than an exercise in it.

Bob Dylan - Ain't Talkin