Apocalypse Now
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benpaco 
I'll likely revisit this and start doing more in depth analysis at some point.
1 album per artist so as to avoid this all being Swans and Muse.
Please message me or comment here with any more ideas you may have.
[Other note: Cellardoor gave me a great playlist of songs that I'll have to check out in context of the album to see if the whole album is apocalyptic or just that individual track. Other recs are also being listened to, albeit slowly]
- Chart updated: 09/16/2015 19:45
- (Created: 09/11/2015 16:11).
- Chart size: 12 albums.
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This album deals with the religious ideas of apocalypse throughout, though it is perhaps especially clear in "Rainbow Signs". The sheer number of references to apocalypse here is actually the reason that I've decided to refrain from listing lyrical references on albums thus far for the chart, but the ideas here range from the idea that God has died, references to Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, nuclear holocaust, concentration camps, etc.
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This album's dark tones would be enough to arguably qualify this as an "apocalyptic" work, but perhaps the real confirmation comes when seeing its use in 28 Days Later.
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1997
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There are the more obvious references to apocalypse here - the name of the album and cover of Bellamy standing in the rapture probably being the most noticeable - but there is more to this album than just what appears at a surface level. Track titles paint the picture of doom while the lyrics highlight apocalypse and thought of God. The religious undertones here are just that - more serving as a theological discussion on the nature of God than mewithoutYou's commentary of religion and the apocalypse, but this discussion still adds something to the lyrics. Underneath the religious references, there's an urgency to the album, which may be explained by it's inspiration - the beginning of the Iraq war.
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2003
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There's a scoff-able quality to this album. Less subtle than The Soft Bulletin, less complex than Clouds Taste Metalic, less a mature questioning of God or even a serious view of apocalypse than most other similar albums, and yet what you get is an intriguing project. The overall happy dream pop album's lyrics have a markedly odd contrast of childlike wonder, fantasy, and doom. My interpretation of this album is that it's a child watching the apocalypse unfold as robots begin to take over, and Yoshimi herself representing God or some other power that he thinks will stop them.
It's important to note that Wayne Coyne and the guys from West Wing are making a musical out of this, the premise of which will not be apocalyptic in a literal sense, rather focusing on Yoshimi dying of cancer while a boyfriend is transported into a world where Yoshimi is a warrior fighting these robots that represent her disease. Even if this is the case, one can view the alternate world as an illusion of apocalypse. [First added to this chart: 09/16/2015]
It's important to note that Wayne Coyne and the guys from West Wing are making a musical out of this, the premise of which will not be apocalyptic in a literal sense, rather focusing on Yoshimi dying of cancer while a boyfriend is transported into a world where Yoshimi is a warrior fighting these robots that represent her disease. Even if this is the case, one can view the alternate world as an illusion of apocalypse. [First added to this chart: 09/16/2015]
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2002
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Another odd album in contrast to some others. The synthpunk/synthpop blend of styles leads one to tune out the discord beneath and some of the lyrics (remember, this is the guy who made "Cars" - banality with an underlying stress and paranoia is kind of his thing). The album describes a variety of sci-fi apocalypses, even discussing alien invasion. However, the most overarching theme is the loss of differentiation between humans and robots/technology, leading to a largely robotic world. You know how Ghost in the Shell was The Matrix 4 years before The Matrix? This is Ghost in the Shell 16 years before Ghost in the Shell.
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1979
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For some time, this album was interpreted as "the end" of Blink-182. Or as "the end" of a relationship. In reality, the band has clarified that it is about "the end" - not just an end, but *the* end, the apocalypse. Similar to my interpretation of Yoshimi, it's about a child watching the apocalypse and what all happens.
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The only apocalyptic rap album I know of (if others want to point out others that would be cool thanks), discussing a technological take over. Thank you to DBZ.
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2002
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DBZ described this as "The divine Apocalypse", and while the sparse orchestral album could be interpreted as that, I'll take the more literal meaning as stated on the cover - a "Threnody [song of mourning] to the Victims of Hiroshima". This is a work about nuclear apocalypse as frightening and chaotic as it ought to be to cover a topic so frightening and chaotic.
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As craola put it best, "I suppose it depends on which interpretation of the album you prescribe to." Some quick googling later, I've discovered that this album has been interpreted to be about everything from split-personality to a child moving homes to Judgment Day. I can see certain merits to the arguments of each, so I'm including it here for at the very least the time being.
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1974
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An album I'm not a particular fan of musically, but which is an interesting project in terms of apocalypticism. I'm going to go ahead and quote Gowi here for this as I would never have picked up on this without him pointing it out:
"The names of the album's songs are based on the following science-fiction films or television shows:
"Down the Rabbit Hole" - Introductory Song/The Matrix (In allusion to Alice in Wonderland)
"Digital Rain" - The Matrix
"Earth That Was" - Firefly / Serenity
"Victim of the Modern Age" - A Clockwork Orange
"Human See, Human Do" - Planet of the Apes
"24 Hours" - Escape from New York
"Cassandra Complex" - 12 Monkeys
"It's Alive, She's Alive, We're Alive" - Children of Men
"It All Ends Here" - Blade Runner
"As the Crow Dies" - The Road
"Two Plus Two Equals Five" - Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Lastday" - Logan's Run
"Closer to the Stars" - Gattaca " [First added to this chart: 09/16/2015]
"The names of the album's songs are based on the following science-fiction films or television shows:
"Down the Rabbit Hole" - Introductory Song/The Matrix (In allusion to Alice in Wonderland)
"Digital Rain" - The Matrix
"Earth That Was" - Firefly / Serenity
"Victim of the Modern Age" - A Clockwork Orange
"Human See, Human Do" - Planet of the Apes
"24 Hours" - Escape from New York
"Cassandra Complex" - 12 Monkeys
"It's Alive, She's Alive, We're Alive" - Children of Men
"It All Ends Here" - Blade Runner
"As the Crow Dies" - The Road
"Two Plus Two Equals Five" - Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Lastday" - Logan's Run
"Closer to the Stars" - Gattaca " [First added to this chart: 09/16/2015]
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| 1990s | 3 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 4 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 25% | |
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| Muse | 1 | 8% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 1 | 8% | |
| Tubeway Army | 1 | 8% | |
| Box Car Racer | 1 | 8% | |
| El-P | 1 | 8% | |
| Krzysztof Penderecki / Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra / Krakow Philharmonic Chorus / Wanda Wiłkomirska | 1 | 8% | |
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From benpaco 09/12/2015 15:38 | #149579
benpaco 09/12/2015 15:38 | #149579
Great ideas @DBZ will have to check the rap, and in my own opinion Disintegration Loops can be seen in its own way as chronicling an apocalyptic event, maybe not the overall end of the world so much as the end of a lot of life (and frankly, what triggered wars and the end of more life).
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