Apocalypso: Music for the end of the world

What do you call songs for playing at the end of the world?
An Apocalypso.


Here are my nominations...



We played this song at our wedding:




When two non-theists partner, this sort of thing happens.
I love R.E.M. 






Mesmerizing:



In the final analysis, there is only me.  There is only you.  There is only love.  U2 moves me to another landscape.






The Who:



"Only Love can bring the rain..." makes me swoon every time.  Sing it!






Bob Marley, I miss you:



I saw Bob Marley at the Warehouse in New Orleans, 1978.
I saw Steve Marley at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco at the free Sunday concert in I think it was 2007.







Music to have a revolution by:



It takes one person to wake up.
It takes one person and a friend to start a revolution.
We are the revolution.
The revolution is here.  The revolution is now.
Don't miss it. 







Israel Kamakawiwo`Ole singing two of my favorite songs:



This is grace.






John Lennon doing "Imagine":



I want to move to that world, the world that "Imagine" talks about.







I should be on the beach:



with Zac Brown Band.  This is a happy song.  Even the end of the world can't take the happiness out of this song.





I am a Parrothead and I don't care who thinks that is uncool.
I love Jimmy Buffett.



singing "A Pirate Looks at 40".  The Ocean is my Other Mother.  I saw Jimmy Buffett in concert in Baton Rouge in 1978.  It was at that concert that I first understood the word "interconnected" in a real and visceral way.






New Order, yeah I love New Order too.



Another time perhaps I will make another blog post and include more New Order along with some Joy Division and Radiohead.






It seems fitting to end near where I began with R.E.M.



"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I feel fine)"
Because I really do feel fine.  It's good to be alive, yo'

sapphoq n friends


R.E.M.                                 Losing My Religion
U2                                       All I Want Is You / Where the Streets Have No Name
The Who                             Love Reign O'er Me
Bob Marley                         Jamming
Tracey Chapman                 talking bout a revolution
Israel Kamakawiwo`Ole     Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World
John Lennon                       Imagine
Zac Brown Band                Knee Deep at Red Rocks
Jimmy Buffett                    A Pirate Looks at 40
New Order                         Ceremony
R.E.M.                               It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I feel fine)