Apocalypse Now
by 
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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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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Apocalypse Now composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 2 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1990s | 3 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 4 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 25% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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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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