[Lugal]

Ok, so I've been scared sh*tless. I've tried to tell myself that things will not be so bad after all. I've tried to think of plans, but end up doing nothing. I've realised that I'm not really a fighter, not really the survivor type. I also have a wife and a little daughter, and another kid on the way. My wife thinks I'm exaggerating, and I hope she's right, but I doubt it.

Right now I'm on paternity leave, life feels good, and I might have only one or a few years left of my life to feel that way. I won't use that time panicking about how to prepare for something that might be impossible to properly prepare for anyway. I choose the blue pill. I accept my fate. I might actually be starving to death in a few years time, or I might not, but right now I feel calm.

There's a saying in Swedish, roughly translated: "If we're going to hell let's do it with music." Here's a few songs I find appropriate for a soundtrack to Peak Oil. Whatever happens, let's not lose our sense of humour, or our ability to live here and now. Please feel free to add your own suggestions!

R.E.M. - It's the end of the world as we know it
Metallica - Blackened
Frank Sinatra - My way
David Bowie - Five years

(And just in case there are other Swedes around, I'd also like to add:
Peps Persson - Hög standard
Bo Kaspers orkester - Vi kommer aldrig att dö
)

[Barbara]

Not to depress you, but didn't you think of:
The Doors - The end
?

[Lugal]

Didn't think of that one

I think my own choices were just as depressing, though. Let's give a few samples of the lyrics:

"Blackened is the end, winter it will send, throwing all we see into obscurity" (Blackened)

"Now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain" (My way)

"Newsguy wept and told us, Earth was really dying. Cried so hard his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying." (Five years)

They're also all songs that I really like, of course.

[Roy]

The 4 Horsemen -- Metallica
When the Levee Breaks -- Led Zeppelin

[Soft_Landing]

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Eric Idle

[smiley]

My contributions. I' don't think it's allowed to post the lyrics here, but it is certainly worthwhile to look them up. Esp. modern man is prophetic as it speaks about how modern man is carelessly spending earths resources while assuming eternal supply.

Bad religion -Modern man

Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors - where are we gonna work when the trees are gone

Dead Kennedys- If only people could shrink

Nomeansno - The day everything became nothing

[Aaron]

discovery - Rush

"What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It’s got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?

See how it sings like a sad heart
And joyously screams out it’s pain
Sounds that build high like a mountain
Or notes that fall gently like rain

I can’t wait to share this new wonder
The people will all see it’s light
Let them all make their own music
The priests praise my name on this night"

[Zebraim]

My Peak Oil soundtrack right now:

Black Sabbath (1969-75)
Samael "Passage"

Du är inte den enda svensken här

[RIPSmithianEconomics]

1. The Doors- The End (obviously).

2. The lead sountrack from Psychomania (the scene at the beginning).

3. Iron Maiden- Face In The Sand (not their best, but good).

4. Pink Floyd- Not Now John (many people's attitude to Peak Oil).

5. Roger Waters- Amused To Death (as in the signature).

6. Black Sabbath- Children Of The Grave.

7. Radiohead- Street Spirit.

8. Bruce Dickinson- Omega.

The above list is similar to my nuclear war and plague lists.

[Bri]

Messugah (sp?)- Chaosphere

[Hoagie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'd')iscovery - Rush

[Lugal]

Always look on the bright side of life and When the levee breaks (How did I miss that one?) goes right in on my soundtrack as well!

I might seem like a sissy, but I would like to add Earth Song with Michael Jackson as well. And somehow Gimme some truth by John Lennon seems to fit as well. I always get shivers by it:

I'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight short-sighted narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just give me some truth
I've had enough of seeing things from neurotic psychotic pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just give me some truth


Zebraim, var är du ifrån?

[smiley]

Good, good, we're getting somewhere,

But we're missing one ingredient. Any good album should contain some Hendrix.

So I vote for Jimi Hendrix -castles made of sand

And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea....

......eventually

[jato]

Good to see some Rush! I just learned to play 2112 on the bass, a great post-peak song already brought up by Aaron.

Here is another:


Rush- Red Barcheta

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm,
Before the Motor Law.
And on Sundays I elude the Eyes,
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire,
Where my white-haired uncle waits.
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the Borderline.
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine.
Down in his barn,
My uncle preserved for me an old machine,
For fifty-odd years.
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream.
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car.
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better, vanished time.
I fire up the willing engine,
Responding with a roar.
Tires spitting gravel,
I commit my weekly crime...

[lowem]

... and one of the root causes of it all?

Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys

[EnviroEngr]

Steve Martin sez:

Music 1
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic458.html

&

Music 2
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic377-15.html

[buster]

In the interest of conservation, I hope everyone will support the "unplugged" versions.

That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
That's the night that they destabilized Iran
Well, don't trust your juice to no Texas Skull-and-Bones-man
'cause the Commander-In-Chief's's got oilstains on his hands

[Soft_Landing]

I feel kinda silly, but this has got to get a mention. . .

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

And here's another.

Circle around the park
Joining hands in silence
Watch the evil black the sky

The storm has ripped the shelter
Of illusion from our brow
This power is no mystery to us now.

Leave your spirit genocide
The cancer you won’t remove
We cast our funeral rose inside
And bury the need to prove
Our mutilation is to gain from the system

Ooh, turn your head away
From the screen, oh people
It will tell you nothing more
Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K.
Public’s empty promise
To the people that the public can ignore

...

Oh, I see you take another drag
One nation bends to kiss the hag
The sky is a landfill
I see you take another drag
I see you take another drag
I have no fear of this machine!

[Carrie]

Here's one - "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater:

I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

CHORUS:
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

CHORUS
All right!

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

CHORUS
CHORUS

[goldfishbowl42]

I'd definately chose
REM - Its the end of the world as we know it.
Great choice of song.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californicaton

"It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the east
At least it settled in a final location"


Also agree with

Bob Dylan - The Times They are a Changing