[PenultimateManStanding]

Ultimate Peak Oil Music Some of you may recognize this from the movie The Mist. Haunting music. The music speaks for itself, but the movie is open to interpretation. I found it to be strangely allegorical. How it ended with the camera on the empty fuel gauge and then the gunshots. If you listen to the soundtrack through the final credits there is an eerie play of helicopters and engines.

edit: I thought if I renamed this thread that more folks would hear this amazing music.

[mgcardin]

Interesting that you would post about this right now, considering that THE MIST is the single movie I've been aching to see more than any other in the past year, and I have the DVD right here and am about to watch it.

Also appropriate because I have been an avid, and in fact fanatical, listener to and lover of Dead Can Dance for the past 19 years. This song is one of their most purely awe inspiring. Thank you for sharing. I'm excited to know that director Darabont and crew used it in THE MIST.

And I agree, the epic and even epochal sadness and drama of the song make it the perfect soundtrack for global civilizational meltdown in the throes of peak oil.

[PenultimateManStanding]

It's funny, but I thought if I renamed this thread that more people would hear this amazing music. But only you have responded and you already know. What did you think of the movie?

[mercurygirl]

Grief is a great occasion to make music.

[catbox]

I spin an online punk rawk show called System You Radio. Playing much of the music I have been collecting for almost 30 years. To me, the best music for PO is punk rock. People always use to ask us what we were rebelling against...hahaha....take a look at where we are now and the question is answered, we've been skeptical of this whole thing for a good while...we have a crumbling society and we knew it wouldn't last for ever! Woooohooooo! It's funny how much shit we took for actually questioning the system and doing what we wanted.

Stop by for a listen...if'n punk is your bag......http://www.systemyou.org
TheDude should enjoy the show!

PS...it's free, I don't sell anything, or play downloaded music.

My favorite PO band right now would be the Subhumans...heres the lyrics to a nice little ditty:

"This Year's War"

There’s war in the headlines, war in the heads
Of the leaders who feed us til we’re overfed
We’re not hungry anymore for your diet of war
Malnutrition for the global poor
The people stood in breadlines
Are still paying for the landmines
Are being cursed for nothing worse
Than living on the pipeline

One war ends and the next one starts
The oil pipe dream leading straight to the heart
Of capitalism and market chains
That supply the demand to feel less pain
But the pacification is wearing thin
Global domination has its cost
When culture’s lost then no one wins
Its no surprise when the bombs go off
-This year’s war-
The war against terror like the war on crime
Is a war on anyone, anytime

The invisible enemy could be you
Now we live in a state of total strangers
Fear controls til' its who trusts who?
Everyone scared of their next door neighbors
-This year’s war-
The war against terror like the war on crime
Is a war on anyone, anytime

People turn to terror when all else fails
The prisons aren’t full of rich white males
We’re more than scared of the men at the top
We’re talking to each other and we’re pissed off!
Pissed off with the thought its out of our hands
That innocent people in far-off lands
Will die for the greed or revenge of the few
Who say ‘we have no choice in what we must do’

The empty reasons about defending
Freedoms’ are just never-ending
Strings of bluff to justify
Complete control over peoples lives
Or at least the global oil supply
And re-election as the polls roll by
And a place in history when you die
-This year’s war-

catbox

[PenultimateManStanding]

mgcardin, you never told us what you thought of The Mist. I thought the use of that Dead Can Dance piece was brilliantly scary. I've got the movie and told my kids about it, but I'm not so sure I want to show it to them. I've showed them lots of movies, including some scary ones and they've liked them. But that final scene at the end with The Host Of Seraphim playing has to be one of the gloomiest and most frightening scenes ever filmed. No bloody slashers or any of that B-movie garbage, just a gut wrenching feeling of people pushed beyond endurance or hope by a bizarre change of reality. I'm thinking of playing them the song and then giving them a choice about watching the film with a warning.

[midnight-gamer]

How about some "Rage Against the Machine"
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