Line #38 AfterTheEnd/Music


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2	* ''Music/TheAquabats'': "Radiation Song!" from ''Myths, Legends, and Other Amazing Adventures'' is a tongue-in-cheek show tune about life in a post-nuclear wasteland.
3	-->''Razor-blade boomerangs and iron hands\
4	Crossbows and hockey pads are in demand\
5	The toxic waste in synthetic place\
6	Can add an eyeball to your face''
7	* The last verse of "99 Luftballons " by Music/{{Nena}} describes a survivor exploring a ruined city after "ninety-nine years of war". The English version, "99 Red Balloons", ends on a similar note.
8	-->''It's all over, and I'm standing pretty\
9	In this dust that was a city\
10	If I could find a souvenir\
11	Just to prove the world was here\
12	And here it is, a red balloon\
13	I think of you and let it go''
14	* Music/JimiHendrix's "1983...A Merman I Should Turn To Be" from ''Music/ElectricLadyland'' has the protagonist and his lover turn into merfolk and dive to the bottom of the ocean to escape a nuclear holocaust.
15	* Music/TheDecemberists song "After the Bombs" follows two lovers in such a world.
16	* The second and third verse of Music/NeilYoung's song [[Music/AfterTheGoldRush "After The Gold Rush"]] describes the physical world and humanity's attempt to rebuild respectively after the end.
17	-->Look at mother nature on the run in the 20th century
18	-->We got MotherNature on the run in the 20th century.
19	* Music/{{Metallica}} also had to get in on the action. Ladies and gentlemen, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Blackened.]]
20	-->Smouldering decay
21	-->Take her breath away
22	-->Millions of our years
23	-->In minutes disappears
24	* The Music/KateBush song "Breathing", the closing track of ''Never for Ever'', is either this or an ongoing nuclear war that may well end in this. A spiritual foetus-like being usually occupying a womb implied to belong to mother nature, has seen the outside world multiple times before. The foetus entity remains one of the last living lifeforms on Earth, or the very last one, after a giant nuclear explosion has wiped all or most life off of it, and now perhaps even the aforementioned womb isn't safe enough anymore.
25	-->We've lost our chance
26	-->We're the first and last, ooh
27	-->After the blast
28	-->Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.
29	* Music/JudasPriest's "Cathedral Spires" from ''Jugulator'' is about mankind in post-apocalyptic world waiting to die in the titular structure.
30	* "Come Away Melinda", perhaps this trope's most understated yet touching example.
31	* Music/EdgeOfSanity's song "Crimson" takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth where humans can no longer breed.
32	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030 Deltron 3030's]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030_(album) self-titled]] concept album focuses on a post-apocalyptic world.
33	* Music/BlackSabbath's song "Electric Funeral" from ''Music/{{Paranoid\|Album}}'' portrays a struggle for survival on a post-nuclear Earth.
34	* Music/ThePolice's song "When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around" describes life in a bomb shelter after a nuclear war.
35	* Music/{{Gotye}}'s music video for ''Eyes Wide Open'' shows a band of strange, thin limbed creatures wandering Earth, starting with the aftermath of a nuclear war and going back in time to the beginning of life on Earth.
36	* The video for {{Music/Alan Walker}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ItHLz5WEA "Faded"]]
37	* Music/MasakiYamada's EZO song ''Fire Fire'' is the world after a nuclear holocaust.
38	* Hawkwind: "Who's Gonna Win the War" and "Damnation Alley" (the latter based on the Creator/RogerZelazny novel).
39	** Then there's Hawkwind soundalikes ''Music/UndergroundZero'', whose song "Atomchild" seems to be set in a post-apocalyptic future (though it's really hard to make out the words and there's no lyric sheet).
40	* Music/SteelyDan's [[http://www.sdarchive.com/lyrcountdown.html#track8 King of the World]], not very clear, but can be interpreted as such.
41	* Creator/MichaelMoorcock's album ''The New World's Fair'' (featuring members of Hawkwind) seems to be based on this trope. Its cover depicts a funfair in the distance with a "Danger - Radiation" sign in the foreground.
42	* Music/INomadi and Francesco Guccini, "Noi non ci saremo" ("We won't be there"), spends only the first verse on the presumably thermonuclear extinction of mankind; the rest of the song is bleakly optimistic (life recovers, and Earth will be better without us). A far cry from the juvenile destruction porn of some heavy metal bands.
43	* The Music/TalkingHeads song "(Nothing But) Flowers" takes place years after humanity has given up technology and now lives as hunter-gatherers while the surrounding architecture rots away. The singer becomes increasingly irritated by the lack of modern conveniences and reminisces about life before the end.
44	* Music/{{Stereolab}}'s "One Small Step"
45	-->From the sky would fall an incessant rain of bombs
46	-->We had nowhere to go but retreat underground
47	-->Our ground had been peppered with loads of mines
48	-->Growing our food was a risk at any time
49	* The Music/ImagineDragons song "Radioactive" alludes to a nuclear apocalypse. The music video for "It's Time" shows the band traversing a desolate wasteland (which somewhat resembles San Francisco).
50	** This forms setting for Music/LindseyStirling and Music/{{Pentatonix}}'s collaborative cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2GCa-_nyU Radioactive]]". The video is filmed around some old graffitied buildings and junk in the middle of a desert, and the desolate feeling is enhanced by the heightened contrast in the video.
51	* ''Music/AkikoShikata'''s song ''Replicare'' is about someone wandering in a destroyed world, condemned to relive eternally the fall of mankind in his mind and be tormented by the cries of despair of the dead. The Apocalypse itself is narrated between the verses in [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Italian Chanting]].
52	-->Unable to catch any of the lamentations that pour down\
53	I stand there, petrified\
54	The smashed up world scatters in the middle of silence\
55	As blue flames overwhelm it\
56	Darkness is filled by an inescapable nightmare\
57	Disturbing and distorting my lost mind\
58	How long will I continue to dream, now that the future is gone?
59	* Music/DavidBowie has stated the world that ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' takes place in is this.
60	* The 1994 anime ''Rusty Nail'' PV for Music/XJapan combines this trope with an AlienInvasion - the band members' animated avatars all play important roles in it - Toshi's character (armed with the phallic LanceOfLonginus no less) and Pata's are part of LaResistance, hide's is TheQuisling / SlaveMook with the invading aliens due to a HypnoTrinket he wears, and Yoshiki's is CrystalDragonJesus ''and'' the only one who can overcome the HypnoTrinket controlling hide's - by throwing roses at it.
61	* Music/{{Muse}}'s music video for "Sing For Absolution" features a spaceflight to retrieve a massive capsule containing thousands of cryogenically frozen people and take them to Earth. Problem is, when they get there, Earth is an unrecognisable, let alone uninhabitable wasteland akin to the surface of Mars, and it looks like it has been that way for some time. The only things that let the viewer know it is Earth are Big Ben and what remains of a bridge.
62	* Music/PorcupineTree's "[[Music/StupidDream A Smart Kid]]" is an incredibly depressing song set after the end, stated to have been some sort of war.
63	-->There was a war, but I must have won
64	* Music/{{Moby}} said his "South Side" song is about a post-apoc world:
65	-->Here we are now going to the south side\
66	I pick up my friends and we hope we won't die\
67	Ride at night, ride through heaven and hell\
68	Come back and feel so well
69	* Music/RunningWild's song "Straight to Hell" is about bunch of survivors trying survive in post-apocalyptic world and "Land of Ice" is about TimeTravel to a future where the world is caught on nuclear winter.
70	* Music/ElectricWizard has a song called "The Sun has Turned to Black" which describes the very end of humanity by unknown means.
71	* German heavy metal group Rage have a song named "Take me to the Water", which deals with a lone survivor in an already dried-out Earth looking for a mythical source of water.
72	* Played for increasingly dark humour in Music/BobDylan's "Talkin' World War III Blues".
73	-->I called up the operator of time, just to hear a voice of some kind
74	-->She said "When you hear the beep, it'll be three o'clock."
75	-->She said that for over an hour, then I hung up.
76	* Music/{{Boards of Canada}}'s [[spoiler:Tomorrow's Harvest]] is (probably) about this and the events that will directly precede it.
77	* Music/KlausNomi's music follows a plot: "Total Eclipse" from ''[[Music/KlausNomiAlbum Klaus Nomi]]'' warns of nuclear annihilation, and the aptly titled "After the Fall" from ''Music/SimpleMan'' is this.
78	* The Postal Service song "We Will Become Silhouettes" seems to be set in the aftermath of nuclear destruction. The titular silhouettes are a reference to the ghostly images of people that were left behind on walls after [[http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/armyyouhave/Hiroshima_Shadow.jpg the nuclear bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]. In a classic example of LyricalDissonance, the song sounds like a normal peppy, Postal Service electro-pop love song.
79	* "Wooden Ships" (written by Music/JeffersonAirplane guitarist and SF Fan Paul Kanter, in collaboration with members of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and a hit for both groups) depicts ocean-dwelling survivors of an unspecified apocalyptic event.
80	* Bobby Goldsboro's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOYqPTIi98k The World Beyond]]".
81	* The video for Music/TomPetty's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTAhZKP5wCY&feature=related "You Got Lucky."]]
82	* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_LxyhCJpsM&ob=av3e ''You're Gonna Go Far Kid'']] by Music/TheOffspring.
83	* Maybe overlapping with GaiasVengeance, we have "Scavengers Feast" by Music/{{Cormorant}}
84	* The song "Wasteland" by Atargatis describes how, after having ruined Earth reducing it to a dry wasteland, humans become wretched, naked, creatures of knotty limbs looking in vain for fertile land. Overlaps with GaiasVengeance, as Mother Nature itself wants them to give up and leave Nature heal itself.
85	* Music/BillyJoel, of all people, dabbled in this trope with the song "Miami 2017 (I've Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)". It describes a New York lost to what seems to be civil unrest, a mass flight and botched military intervention. The survivors apparently settled in Florida and the narration mentions that the mafia now openly rule Mexico.
86	* The song and accompanying video for Disturbed's "[[https://youtu.be/HwELajFteTo Another Way to Die]]" alternates between this and JustBeforeTheEnd.
87	* The Music/{{XTC}} "This World Over" is about parents doing mundane things after a nuclear holocaust, such as bathing babies with extra limbs from mutations and going on hikes to ruined cities.
88	* Music/{{Jhariah}}'s ''The Great Tale Of How I Ruined It All'' surrounds the one man standing in an apocalyptic city. Having lost their faith, everyone turned to a brainwashing cult and all the buildings are destroyed.
89	-->''The world has turned itself on it’s head\
90	The trees don’t grow they kill instead\
91	Where hope once was the light’s turned black\
92	We find find faith in the strangest places''
93	* The setting of the Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's "[[Music/BrainSaladSurgery Karn Evil 9]]" suite is a bleak future in which humanity was largely wiped out, with the narrator holding out for someone to save what's left of it. Some surviving artifacts of humanity's past are preserved in a carnival exhibition.

Context AfterTheEnd / Music