Blogging time is over — I’ll be finger fucking for the rest of the day, because tomorrow is the end of the world as we know it.
It seems like the 80’s was a key decade in end-times music, but perhaps you have some other suggestions in this open thread.
Hawes
Does Thriller count for the zombie apocalypse?
And of course the Celine Dion oeuvre made me wish the world was ending.
gex
Bleg here reposted from another thread:
My friend is trying to win some supplies for their school. It’s a worthy effort because this is a dual language school, teaching extremely white Lutheran Minnesotans all their courses in Spanish.
A vote for Richfield Dual Language school will create a bunch of multilingual Americans to annoy the right with.
http://www.sodahead.com/fun/vote-for-your-favorite-school/question-1803629/
Thanks in advance for any votes you throw our way.
Bobby Thomson
My goals are to find a cure for irony and make a fool out of God.
dpCapt
Except tomorrow is already today in some parts of the world. Has anything happened yet?
El Tiburon
Should we not be in favor of the Rapture? Doesn’t this mean all the goody-goody types will be magically lifted and taken away? That would leave just us atheists, fornicators, pagans and lezbos!!
Yum yum gitcha sum!
wobblybits
@gex: Commented in the original thread but i voted and posted it to my Orkut and FB accounts. Boa Sorte to the school!
JGabriel
Well, if the world’s ending, it’s time for a drink.
And even if you’re in the arms of someone’e baby now, I drink a great big whiskey to ya anyway.
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gex
@wobblybits: Yay! Too bad I don’t know what you said at the end there. Time for the Google machine.
@JGabriel: You can never go wrong with the Mats.
gex
@gex: Oh, and in case it isn’t apparent, the reason for the dual language school is noble, it isn’t only to piss of conservatives. That’s just a bonus. Very unlike burning $70 of gas in your SUV on Earth Day.
Nomad
Knockin on Heaven’s Door? Since we’re in 80s mode, I’ll go with the GnR.
stuckinred
The Eastern World
It is Explodin
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
fishbone
wobblybits
@gex: Boa sorte = good luck :)
JGabriel
If we’re all gonna die, maybe Mozart’s Requiem would be appropriate?
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wobblybits
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: I remember my brother loved these guys! I’m totally playing this at the rapture party tomorrow.
stuckinred
Wave goodbye to America
Say hello to the garden
You know I see – I see the way you feel
And I know that your life is real
Pioneer searcher refugee
I follow you and you follow me
stuckinred
Dandy Don Meredith
Dave
This, if only because Jesus is in the title and it is sung by CAKE.
Chris
I can’t imagine why.
Litlebritdifrnt
On my way to work this morning the marquee outside the Baptist Church read:
“Coming soon, live and in person – Jesus Christ”
it looks like its congregations homes are the first places that I should start looting. Yippee!
Dave
The best part of the Rapture is that it will solve pretty much every problem we have. Unemployment, oil scarcity, water availability, food supply…this is win-win.
Jay in Oregon
Courtesy of Fred Clark’s Songs for an Apocalypse:
Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
This song was used to great effect in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7TVNY0RBiQ
stuckinred
The Doors
Complete with nape and willie peter
Cat Lady
Goodbye To You
Valdivia
Saw this at Sulli’s (I know) thought it was great
http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2015432697d48970c-550wi
stuckinred
I’ll Melt With YOU!
Linda Featheringill
@Nomad:
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Excellent!
imonlylurking
I’m at work so I can’t post the link, but:
Go to youtube
Look up ‘songs to wear pants to’
Select “Zombie Ninjas”
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
because someone has to, and it really should be in a discussion of 80s end of the world songs, even for all the wrong reasons
4tehlulz
It all returns to nothing.
It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.
/weaboo
Trinity
How about some Soundgarden?
TooManyPaulWs
Here’s an awesome fanvid to Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66dBpSWyZdw
dbwhite
Husker Du – Deadly Skies or Newest Industry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56mwXgaQaes
alwhite
As something of a ‘jail house lawyer’ on things biblical I’d like to point out that, according to Revelations, there ain’t that many people gonna fly away at the Rapture.
Depending on which biblical scholar you believe the total number of people will either be 144 or 144,000 (12 being a magical number in the Bible so 12 12’s is super magical). Those people will become the princes ruling earth after the return.
Given that there are currently 6+ billion alive on Earth if He only decides to chose from the living & 144k is correct your odds are 24 in a million. But you have to assume He would select some number of already dead in this cadre so your odds would be something south of half of that. Your chance of hitting the lotto is much better if 144 (the actual number mentioned) is correct.
But you morons keep sending money in to these charlatans, they’ll be back with a new date shortly.
alwhite
By “you morons” I do want to note I was excluding BJ readers. Even the ‘worst’ of us is not that silly.
stuckinred
Damn, the world is coming to an end. I just found a round trip flight from ATL to Chicago for $128 round trip!
JGabriel
You know, it’s not just America, or English speakers, that’ll be wiped out by the rapture. I think we should hear from the Krauts too: 99 Luftballoons.
Valdivia
@stuckinred:
exactly1 cause they know you’ll never get to use it.
wobblybits
@Trinity: How about this Soundgarden song?
gex
Highway to Hell by AC/DC wouldn’t be appropriate for the raptured, but the rest of us can party to it when we’re left behind.
JGabriel
All of this eschatological talk is giving me: The Fear.
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Trinity
@wobblybits: Also, too! (I can never get too much Chris Cornell in the morning.)
merrinc
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
I still love Def Leppard even if the live appearances I’ve seen lately (Leno, George Lopez) made me cringe.
khead
1999
gex
There’s a Nada Surf song with the lyric: “Aw fuck it. I’m going to have a party.” I’ll be listening to that, I think. And having that party too.
JGabriel
Before the world ends, can we get an encore? Jay-Z & Pavement — In The Mouth An Encore.
Hova! Hova! Hova!
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Nic
Tool, Aenima
piratedan
@Cat Lady: tyvm… a morning with Patti Smyth in it, is always a good one…
@JGabriel: that one came to mind as well….
but I’m in a different mood today, so….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZSa3633E0
and sooooo let the day begin
JGabriel
@stuckinred:
Damn, the world is gonna end just when I found myself a Penthouse model with 160 IQ and a free supply of cocaine.
stuckinred
@JGabriel: But could you use pay pal? The Dude need an ATM!
JGabriel
When Jesus comes to take your hand, I won’t let go.
– New Order, Run Wild
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R-Jud
@gex:
When the Pope came to my neighborhood park in September, the guys setting up the sound system used that song to test it.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@merrinc:
i can’t say i was ever a major fan, but they define a time and place for me, and probably a lot of people.
Biff Longbotham
AAHHHH!!!! In the Blondie video a GOAT appears at 3:16. Yet annother sign of the impending apocalypse!!
gex
@R-Jud: Niiiiiice.
WaterGirl
@gex: Just voted, but it looks like you guys are the underdogs.
danimal
We ate the food, we drank the wine, everybody having a good time, except you. You were talking about the end of the world.
Dan
I’m all ready with my apocalypse mix and a bottle of bourbon
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@wobblybits:
soundgarden did excellent work in the apocalyptic sphere.
also, too.
jane’s addiction.
stop!
arguingwithsignposts
@alwhite:
alwhite, aren’t those just the Jews who will be rescued? Also, that doesn’t account for all the “dead in christ” who will rise. IIRC, that hambone radio preacher said something like 200 million people will be gone tomorrow.
eric
Alwhite…I am in court on bberry so targetted googling not possible, but – thought the 144000 number was the number of jews/israelites that get to join the Rapture.
JGabriel
Gosh, I feel like one of those dead-enders who are mocking the TRUE HEROES in a movie right before disaster arrives.
On the other hand, if 200 million fundies disappear tomorrow, I still won’t know whether to be scared or relieved.
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vawolf
Stairway to Heaven!
gex
@WaterGirl: We were at 230 last night, 4% of the total vote, and now we’re at 10% so hopefully we can close the gap. This is why I brought this bleg to the Juicers…
And thank you for your vote!
gex
According to BBC, Mr. Camping predicted the rapture once before. In 1994.
I think “the rapture” is code for “Newt Gingrich will be on TV way too much.”
Viva BrisVegas
Here in Oz it’s already the 21st, and nothing has happened yet. It’s all a load of malarky. As if we’d really suddenly disappear in mid sen
rm
The eighties, apocalyptic songs, and no one has yet mentioned Prince’s “1999”?? Is there a standard of taste or something?
Amir_Khalid
This song by Skeeter Davis used to depress the hell out of me when I was a kid.
wobblybits
@rm: Check #44
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@rm:
wade across the rubicon at your own risk
timbuk3
Origuy
How did the Submit button get pressed?
NO CARRIER
Ghanima Atreides
@Biff Longbotham: the tall black guy in tails at the beginning is a representation of Baron Samedi the head guy in the voodoo pantheon.
In voodoo hougans and bokors could make zombies.
David Brooks (not that one) is a dickhead.
No, this is serious. If all the truly good people are raptured tomorrow – John Boehner will become President. Third in line, remember?
We’re doooooomed!
Villago Delenda Est
@alwhite:
Other biblical scholars point out the entire rapture magilla is heresy.
They have the advantage of being able to look back at an entire series of “Judgement Days” that failed to deliver.
eemom
you know, maybe we ought to hold off snickering about the rapture until Sunday.
Cuz we’re all gonna look pretty stoopid if it actually does happen tomorrow.
Jussayinzall.
Villago Delenda Est
@JGabriel:
Those are two of the key triggering mechanisms.
Throw in a sunny day at the beach, and it’s curtains.
Buffalo Rude
Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus) – Drive-By Truckers
http://youtu.be/sS_STVCRsyM
JenJen
Totally. But maybe I’m the only one who remembers the apocalyptic Ultravox classic, “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes.” The Cold War and the nuclear age really did a number on art, didn’t it?
Bruuuuce
So now I’m praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive
‘Cause if I’ve got to spend another minute with you I don’t think that I can really survive
eemom
@Bruuuuce:
awesome!
Y’all folks who are too young to remember that song gotta check it out. It’s brilliant.
They ought to play that in high school sex ed classes instead of preaching about abstinence. The number of teen pregnancies would plummet.
Jager
“I’ll be finger fucking for the rest of the day”
Is it just me or has the definition of “finger fucking” changed?
If it hasn’t, reveal her identity! In any case, she must be a terrific girl to crawl into a broken down bed with you, two dogs and a really fat cat and let you digitize her all fucking day! Trust me John, after about 15 minutes, you’ll both be bored. If your encounter becomes more active chances are the pets will un-ass the bed and leave you two alone. You may get a cold nose in your ass before they bail and keep your “thing” out of Tunch’s reach! Have a great day!
Dan
How a Resurrection Really Feels – The Hold Steady
redbeardjim
@Jager: Wrong frontpager.
arguingwithsignposts
@Jager: Um, that’s mistermix, not JC.
ETA I see someone beat me to it.
Jager
Sorry, it early here on the left coast, but the definiton?
redshirt
I’m hoping it really happens, just like Camping says it will. In one fell swoop, we’ll lose most of our “27%ers”, and then we can truly work constructively on bringing peace on earth.
It will be the end of the Wingnuts, and that will be just fine.
Thoughtcrime
It’s hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be so much fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNdMc6wGtU
trollhattan
Lemme just say with the End Tymes coming and all, that I am working for the WRONG employer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160
Chet
And some people thinkin’ that the end is close by / ‘Stead of learnin’ to live they are learnin’ to die
Boohunney
Skeeter Davis…. The End of the World.
John & Paul
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make.
JenJen
Ooooh!! I just thought of a word to describe the end-of-the-world 80’s music genre:
“Apopalyptic”
OK. That’s really all I’ve got today.
Tim
The rapture will not happen this Saturday because it has already happened. I’m one of the few who saw it. The rapture happened on May 20 (Eliza Doolittle day) in 1952.
I was not quite 5 years old at the time and was in Sammy’s drug store with my father. There was a young man in the store. He was tall, with dark hair, and was wearing one of those jackets with the dragon on the back that Korean war veterans were bringing back, which was what caught my attention. He had just brushed his index finger under his nose when he disappeared. I asked my dad where he went, but he hadn’t noticed the man. I looked around, but he was no longer in the store.
I’ve wondered about that for many years and a few years ago started asking questions and checking around. Information was hard to find because many of the witnesses were dead by the time I started inquiring fifty years later. It was the rapture, and it was tiny, maybe 20 or 25 people in the whole country. Not many people had seen it. I was the sole witness in St. Joseph and saw the only person raptured in the entire state of Missouri (there were, of course, none at all in Kansas). Nonetheless, I did find people who had had experiences similar to my own. The rapture went largely unnoticed and of course all the people who would have expected to be raptured weren’t. We’re on our own now, and have been for nearly sixty years, but honestly, I can’t tell any difference.
Steve M.
Following this guy’s lead, I’d recommend, as a variant on “Rapture,” the awesome Blondie/Doors mashup “Rapture Riders.”
Marmot
Damn. I get all wrapped up in work and I’m too late to help y’all remember that ’80s apocalypticism actually started in the late ’70s.
Kevin
Peggy Lee – Is That All There Is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M
alwhite
@arguingwithsignposts:
@eric:
Boy, thats a new take I have not come across before. How could any Jews be taken up when they do not accept Christ as the son of God? And, since they are to be the princes that lead the world why would He pick Jews?
OTOH 200million is a number directly from that guys posterior.
Nick
understand that the SON does not know the exact date on which the following prophesy will occur—”only the FATHER”. so, anyone who claims to know the exact date has been misled.
yes, HE will come to snatch up all who are “in CHRIST”, but first all who have passed away. “After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. And so we will be with the LORD forever.”(1Th 4:16-17 NIV)
so that you will not be misled today, study the Bible today.(Mat 24:36; Mar 13:32)