(If the world does not end tomorrow at 6 p.m., then we can resume the usual alphabet game next Friday.)
Hold on world ’cause you don’t know what’s coming …
“I Wish We’d All Been Ready,” Larry Norman
“Eve of Destruction,” The Dickies
“Until the End of the World,” U2
“1999,” Prince
“The Man Comes Around,” Johnny Cash
“Earth Died Screaming,” Tom Waits
“The Apocalypse Song,” St. Vincent
“We Will All Go Together When We Go,” Tom Lehrer
“I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive,” Hank Williams
“We’re All Gonna Die Someday,” Kasey Chambers
“I’ll Fly Away,” Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
“Nothing But Flowers,” Talking Heads
“It Is Well With My Soul,” Mahalia Jackson
“Soon,” Daniel Amos
“Around the Sun,” REM
“The Revolution Starts Now,” Steve Earle
My own eschatology is much closer to the last song than it is to the first. But anyway, what apocalyptic music am I missing?