Songs which say "we're all fucked"

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To counter the optimism of the other thread ( Songs about survival (and hope) in our society ) let's have the opposite. "We're doomed!"

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

To start with:

1. Curtis Mayfield - If there's hell below (we're all gonna go)

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Scott Walker, "Til the Band Comes In"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm. For some reason I keep thinking of Alex Chilton's "No Sex" - "pretty soon we're all gonna get it, it's time to buy some stuff on credit..."

― Kate Dornan, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie's 'Five Years'
"News guy wept and told us / Earth was really dying"

― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Desaparecidos "Hole In One"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Slayer "Raining Blood"

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The whole Diamond Dogs LP would really fit here.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's Over" Lisa Loeb

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Morning Dew" - Tim Rose
"Five to One" - The Doors
"Seven and Seven is" - Love

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ, I guess if you're listening to Lisa Loeb it really is too late.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Black Sabbath, "Into the Void"
Jefferson Airplane, "Have You Seen the Saucers"
Devo, "Shrivel Up"

― dave q, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Willie Williams, The Clash--"Armagideon Time"

― Oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

all of Mike Ladd's Easy Listening for Armageddon.

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"We Will Fall" - The Stooges. more the music than the lyrics, tho

― Poppy (poppy), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

dimemberment plan, '8 1/2 minutes'

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Killing Joke - "The Wait," "Rubicon," "Unto the Ends of the Earth," "Outside the Gate," "Wardance," "The Hum," "Turn to Red," "Unspeakable," "Sun Goes Down", "Millenium", etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

New Model Army - "I Love the World," "White Coats," "Here Comes the War"

XTC - "Living Through Another Cuba"

Cop Shoot Cop - "All the Clocks Are Broken," "Surprise, Surprise", "Drop the Bombs"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The entirety of Talking Heads' Fear of Music, which, incidentally, was the first album I listened to after nearly a week of musical silence after September 11.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

disco inferno - "the last dance"/any disco inferno song

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Political Science"-Randy Newman and "Mother"-Pink Floyd

― Clayton Grisso, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Time Zone - "World Destruction".

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Noble Experiment - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink Floyd - "Two Suns in the Sunset"; Low - "Soon"; Jefferson Airplane - "The House at Pooneil Corners".

― Phil (phil), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

barry mcguire - "eve of destruction".

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan - "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"

Can't believe I forgot that one..

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

And don't forget "Black Diamond Bay."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

XTC "Complicated Game"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

XTC "This World Over"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Buzzcocks "I Believe"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The The "Sweet Bird of Truth," "Good Morning Beautiful," "Armageddon Days (are Here Again)"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Mose Allison - "I Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing ('Cause I Know Nothing's Gonna Be Alright)"

― Kenan Hebert, Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:57 (twenty-three years ago)

This might be the only one including all of the above that actually contains *the words* "We're all fucked":

Chris T-T's "Sellotape"

I give up, we're all fucked
a pile of bodies for the dustbin man
it was a party where the truth spilled out
and people woke up with a different plan
a skinny hippy, in the kitchen
doing magic - turning water into wine
it looked dodgy but it tasted fine...

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"One Hundred Years" by The Cure. In fact most of the "Pornography" album.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The song itself is full of hope, but after 'Dr Strangelove' I always associate 'We'll meet again' with Armageddon.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

li'l louis - BLACKOUT, y'rockists.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

underground sound of lisbon - so get up.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

If everyone in the world listened to Quasi's Featuring "Birds" at the same time I am convinced the resulting collective disgust would destroy the known universe.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"We All Want Out" by Ghosts of Modern Man, features the great line "yeah we all want out, so we can all get out and be the CEOs of our disgusting town"

worth looking for

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh. Quasi. yes. "California" is brilliantly twisted.
"Life is dull, life is grey, at it's best it's just OK, but I'm happy to report... life is also SHORT"

How about the Gothic Archies, esp "The Abandoned Castle Of My Soul", too? Tho that's more "I'M doomed"...

― Kate Dornan, Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Man Afraid, "Cemetary Ridge"
Reversal of Man, "Butterflies" "Hills Have Eyes" "What The Thunder Said"
Converge, "Color Me Blood Red"
Orchid, "Epilogue To A Car Crash" "NJ Vs. Valhalla" "...And The Cat Turned To Smoke"
Assfactor 4, "Hair Heart" "Forty'd Out And Feeling Gay" "Leave It To The Jeaz" "Don't Fall In Love With A Drummer" "Sometimes I Suck" "Life of Ten Thumbs" "Smoked Out" "Dorothy"

― Ian Johnson, Friday, 7 February 2003 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"We're Only Gonna Die" - Bad Religion

― dan fitz, Friday, 7 February 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"The World's a Mess It's in My Kiss" - X

― dan fitz (danfitz), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to submit "Pink Cigarette" by Mr Bungle.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 7 February 2003 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie:
Derranged & No Control off of Outside

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 7 February 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

everythings fucked by dirty three. kinda.

― racing_the_tide (racing_the_tide), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

twelve years pass...

RIP PF Sloan, songwriter of "Eve of Destruction"...from cancer

http://www.serendipitypr.co.uk/news/2015/11/16/media-statement-about-p-f-sloan/

― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:18 (ten years ago)

Leonard Cohen: Who By Fire

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:33 (ten years ago)

Wrote some other incredible songs: the Searchers' "Take Me for What I'm Worth," Herman's Hermits' "Must to Avoid," the Turtles' "Can I Get to Know You Better," others.

(For the thread, I'd add Husker Du's "Everything Falls Apart" as being definitive: "Everything is so fucked up/I guess we like it that way.")

― clemenza, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:33 (ten years ago)

(xpost--was talking about P.F. Sloan)

― clemenza, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:34 (ten years ago)

Oh geez I didn't see the PF Sloan thing. RIP

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:34 (ten years ago)

As I noted elsewhere, I just saw PF Sloan interviewed at the Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans a little while back; and he played acoustic and sung at the interview; and did a set with a band later that night at the Stomp

That’s Cool, That’s Trash
Featuring P.F. Sloan and moderator Todd Abramson
Presented by Shout Factory
Los Angeles singer, songwriter, and guitarist P.F. Sloan recounts his unsung journey through rock ‘n’ roll history as a member of the Wrecking Crew and his role in helping create 1960s classics such as “Secret Agent Man,” “Eve of Destruction,” and “California Dreamin’.” Sloan is interviewed by WFMU disc jockey Todd Abramson, the former talent booker at Maxwell’s, the famed Hoboken, N.J., nightclub.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:40 (ten years ago)

thought this revive was gonna be about "Pumping On Your Stereo"

― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:05 (ten years ago)

Didn't think Sloan had a hand in the writing, so I looked up "California Dreamin'": Wikipedia says he played the opening guitar bit.

― clemenza, Monday, 16 November 2015 22:51 (ten years ago)

Sloan was a little nuts, but he was also very ripped off, and probably wrote a little bit more than he got credit for.

― Three Word Username, Monday, 16 November 2015 23:17 (ten years ago)

also inspired a Jimmy Webb song I'm fond of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_W9HLWZfOo

― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:48 (ten years ago)

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