Songs with Dystopian Themes
REM – “End of the World as I Know It and I feel Fine” / “I Remember California”
Men at Work – “Pop Goes the World”
Carl Orff – “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana
Mike and the Mechanics – “Silent Running”
Cheap Trick "Dream Police"
Bob Dylan – “Talkin World War III Blues” / “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”
Talking Heads – “Road to Nowhere” / “Life During Wartime” / “(Nothing But) Flowers”
Imagine Dragons - “Radioactive” / “All Eyes” / “Whatever It Takes”
Linkin Park – “the End” / “The Catalyst”
Blue Oyster Cult – “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
J P Saxe “If the World Was Ending”
Zager and Evans - “In the Year 2525”
Oingo Boingo – “Perfect System”
Busta Rhymes – “The End of the World”
The Clash – “London Calling” / “Stop the World”
George Strait – “Ready for the End of the World”
Johnny Cash – “The Man Comes Around”
The Doors – The End”
Soundgarden – “Black Hole Sun”
Smashing Pumpkins – “ The End is the Beginning is the End” / “Doomsday Clock”
David Bowie – “Five Years”
Peter Gabriel – “Here Comes the Flood”
Elvis Costello – “Waiting for the End of the World”
Elton John – “Two Rooms at the End of the World”
Wycleaf Jean—“Apocolapyse”
Tom Waits – “The Earth Died Screaming”
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – “The End of the World”
Beatles – “the End”
Led Zepplin – “When the Levee Breaks”
Postal Services – “We will all Become Silhouettes”
Tom Lehrer – “We will all go Together”
Bastille – “Doom Days”
U2 – “Until the End of the World”
Europe – “The Final Countdown”
Pink Floyd – “Goodbye Cruel World” / “Goodbye Blue Sky”
Dio – “The End of the World”
The Cure – “The End of the World”
Pet Shop Boys – “The End of the World”
Crosby Stills Nash – “Wooden Ships”
Fishbone – “Party at Ground Zero”
CCR – “Bad Moon Rising”
Carpenters – “The End of the World”
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – “East 1999”
Leonard Cohen – “Everybody Knows” / “The Future”
Gotye – “Eyes Wide Open”
Metallica – “The Four Horsemen”
Timbuk3 – “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades”
Jay Sean – “2012 (It Aint the End)”
Awolnation – “Knights of Shame”
Green Day – “Last Night on Earth”
XTC – “This World Over”
Black Sabbath – “War Pigs”
Tina Turner – “One of the Living” ??
Jay Z – Run this Town” ??
