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1* "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" from ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'' by Music/KingCrimson describe a miserable pastiche of the modern world, ruled by corrupt politicans and presumably wartorn, if the line 'innocents raped by napalm fire' is worth going off.
2* Music/{{Macabre}} likes to play that our world is full of killer and tragedy, this is especially noticeable in their album "Gloom".
3* The world around the kitchen set used for the video of Music/BillyJoel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" appears rather devastated, indicating the state of the world that existed from 1989 (the ending point of Billy's list of historical names and events) onward.
4* The subject of Music/BlackSabbath's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wicked World"]].
5* Many Music/BruceSpringsteen songs, such as ''Youngstown'' or ''Music/BornInTheUSA'' deal with this theme.
6** This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album ''Music/{{Nebraska}}''.
7** As on his 1995 album ''Music/TheGhostOfTomJoad''.
8* Battery City and The Zones, the setting of Music/MyChemicalRomance's post-apocalyptic concept record ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys''. "The Zones" are basically the dry, scorching hot, desert wasteland California becomes after the tragic events of 2012
9* "Hunger City", the setting of the Music/DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Music/DiamondDogs'' (a work that rose from the ashes of an unrealized musical version of ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'') -- after an undescribed catastrophe, what's left of humanity here splits up into decadent, scavenging tribes, bringing on TheApunkalypse.
10* Downplayed in Los Lobos- "Hearts Of Stone". The chorus is about how there's too many people with hearts of stone, ice etc, but hearts of gold (i.e, good people) are hard to come by. Also, the first stanza talks about him looking to pick a rose but only finding a bunch of thorns, the implication being even things that are supposed to be good are shitty these days.
11* The entire setting of the concept album Deltron 3030 but specifically Turbulence, a song describing the setting in detail.
12* Fireaxe’s ''Music/FoodForTheGods'' depicts life - all life - as a never-ending, brutal struggle. The fate of humanity is to careen from one brutal god or ideology to the next, murdering each other en masse. Ultimately, humanity destroys itself to put an end to it all. After a life in this world, your reward is likely to be eternal torment in hell. The ''best'' outcome is for God to destroy the universe and fail to make another one.
13* [[{{Music/Mothy}} The Evillous Chronicles]], while occasionally normal, has [[AxCrazy quite]] [[AutoCannibalism a]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen lot]] [[SerialKiller of]] [[DemonicPossession these]] [[EldritchAbomination at]] [[HumansAreBastards times]].
14* The Underworld in Theatre/{{Hadestown}}
15* The lyrics to Music/LinkinPark's ''Forgotten'' seem to describe this.
16* ''Music/LudwigVon88'' made several songs on this theme. ''L.S.D. for Ethiopie'' is sarcasm about humanitarian aid (Don't feed monkeys with peanuts, send these to Ethiopia). In ''Oh Lord'' it is mentioned that starved children in Latin America are being eaten by rats.
17* The ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic''-inspired songs of Music/TheProtomen.
18** Act II tells us exactly how the world managed to turn into this.
19* Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}'s "Planet Hell" definitely describes one of these. The chorus even suggests that the only way to escape the suffering of the living world is to cross over to the world of the dead.
20* In the song ''Roses'', not by Music/{{Outkast}}, but by Nik Kershaw, tells what of happens later after a wasteful society turns the world into this trope later on.
21* "Here's To The State Of Mississippi" was a brutal take down by Music/PhilOchs of the state of Mississippi during the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement: Phil depicted Mississippi as a state where murder was prevalent, the [[ApatheticCitizens citizens apathetic to the killings]], the schools [[AssimilationAcademy taught hatred]], the police was [[PoliceBrutality brutal]] and [[DirtyCop corrupt]], the churches were [[CorruptChurch tolerating injustice]], the judiciary was [[KangarooCourt morally compromised]] and so was the government who had left the U.S. Constitution "drowning in an ocean of decay."
22-->Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of\
23Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of
24* The opening lines of Music/ShaniaTwain’s “Up!” strongly hint at such a world.
25* In a humorously ironic subversion of this trope, [[Music/ScatmanJohn Scatman John's]] Scatman's World partially takes place in a {{Utopia}}n society called... Scatland. [[DontExplainTheJoke You know, like crap.]]
26* "Mad World", by Music/TearsForFears.
27* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Happy Birthday" is a song about how you should enjoy the crappy party for the fleeting moments it offers as a distraction to the fact that the world is going straight to hell.

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