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* Music/{{Nightwish}}'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.
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* The Underworld in {{Hadestown}}

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* In a humorously ironic subversion of this trope, [[ScatmanJohn Scatman John's]] Scatman's World partially takes place in a {{Utopia}}n society called... Scatland. [[DontExplainTheJoke You know, like crap.]]

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* In a humorously ironic subversion of this trope, [[ScatmanJohn [[Music/ScatmanJohn Scatman John's]] Scatman's World partially takes place in a {{Utopia}}n society called... Scatland. [[DontExplainTheJoke You know, like crap.]]



* In the song ''Roses'', not by Outkast, but by Nik Kershaw, tells what of happens later after a wasteful society turns the world into this trope later on.
* Battery City and The Zones, the setting of MyChemicalRomance's post-apocalyptic concept record ''DangerDays: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys''. "The Zones" are basically the dry, scorching hot, desert wasteland California becomes after the tragic events of 2012
* Hunger City, the setting of the DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Diamond Dogs'' (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.

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* In the song ''Roses'', not by Outkast, Music/{{Outkast}}, but by Nik Kershaw, tells what of happens later after a wasteful society turns the world into this trope later on.
* Battery City and The Zones, the setting of MyChemicalRomance's Music/MyChemicalRomance's post-apocalyptic concept record ''DangerDays: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys''.''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys''. "The Zones" are basically the dry, scorching hot, desert wasteland California becomes after the tragic events of 2012
* Hunger City, the setting of the DavidBowie Music/DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Diamond Dogs'' ''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.



* Many BruceSpringsteen songs, such as ''Youngstown'' or ''Born in the USA'' deal with this theme.
** This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album ''Nebraska''.
* The lyrics to LinkinPark's ''Forgotten'' seem to describe this.
* "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" by Music/KingCrimson.

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* Many BruceSpringsteen Music/BruceSpringsteen songs, such as ''Youngstown'' or ''Born in the USA'' ''Music/BornInTheUSA'' deal with this theme.
** This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album ''Nebraska''.
''Music/{{Nebraska}}''.
* The lyrics to LinkinPark's Music/LinkinPark's ''Forgotten'' seem to describe this.
* "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" from ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'' by Music/KingCrimson.



* The opening lines of Music/ShaniaTwain’s “Up!” strongly hint at such a world.

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* The opening lines of Music/ShaniaTwain’s “Up!” strongly hint at such a world.world.
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Mothy?from=Main.Mothy The Evillous Chronicles]], while occasionally normal, has [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy quite]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AutoCannibalism a]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen lot]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SerialKiller of]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DemonicPossession these]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination at]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreBastards times]].

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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Mothy?from=Main.Mothy The Evillous Chronicles]], while occasionally normal, has [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy quite]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AutoCannibalism a]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen lot]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SerialKiller of]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DemonicPossession these]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination at]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreBastards times]].times]].
* The opening lines of Music/ShaniaTwain’s “Up!” strongly hint at such a world.
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* ''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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* ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic's'' Happy Birthday 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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** Act II tells us exactly how the world managed to turn into this.
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* "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" by Music/KingCrimson.

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* "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" by Music/KingCrimson.Music/KingCrimson.
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Mothy?from=Main.Mothy The Evillous Chronicles]], while occasionally normal, has [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy quite]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AutoCannibalism a]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen lot]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SerialKiller of]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DemonicPossession these]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination at]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreBastards times]].
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* [[AliceCooper Alice Cooper's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA3OWll_Das Brutal Planet]]

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* [[AliceCooper Alice Cooper's]] Music/AliceCooper's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA3OWll_Das Brutal Planet]]
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* "21st Century Schizoid Man" by Music/KingCrimson.

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* "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" by Music/KingCrimson.
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* [[AliceCooper Alice Cooper's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA3OWll_Das Brutal Planet]]
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* The lyrics to LinkinPark's ''Forgotten'' seem to describe this.

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* The lyrics to LinkinPark's ''Forgotten'' seem to describe this.this.
* "21st Century Schizoid Man" by Music/KingCrimson.
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* Mad World by Music/TearsForFear.

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* Mad World by Music/TearsForFear.Music/TearsForFears.
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* Mad World by Tears of Fear.

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* Mad World by Tears of Fear.Music/TearsForFear.
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* Hunger City, the setting of the DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Diamond Dogs'' (a work that rose from the ashes of an unrealized musical version of ''[[Main/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'') -- after an undescribed catastrophe, what's left of humanity here splits up into decadent, scavenging tribes, bringing on TheApunkalypse.

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* Hunger City, the setting of the DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Diamond Dogs'' (a work that rose from the ashes of an unrealized musical version of ''[[Main/NineteenEightyFour ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'') -- after an undescribed catastrophe, what's left of humanity here splits up into decadent, scavenging tribes, bringing on TheApunkalypse.
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* Hunger City, the setting of the DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Diamond Dogs'' (a work that rose from the ashes of an unrealized musical version of ''[[Main/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'') -- after an undescribed catastrophe, what's left of humanity here splits up into decadent, scavenging tribes, bringing on TheApunkalypse.

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* Hunger City, the setting of the DavidBowie ConceptAlbum ''Diamond Dogs'' (a work that rose from the ashes of an unrealized musical version of ''[[Main/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'') -- after an undescribed catastrophe, what's left of humanity here splits up into decadent, scavenging tribes, bringing on TheApunkalypse.



* ''WeirdAl'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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* ''WeirdAl's'' ''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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** This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album ''Nebraska''.

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** This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album ''Nebraska''.''Nebraska''.
* The lyrics to LinkinPark's ''Forgotten'' seem to describe this.
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* Many BruceSpringsteen songs, such as ''Youngstown'' or ''Born in the USA'' deal with this theme.

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* Many BruceSpringsteen songs, such as ''Youngstown'' or ''Born in the USA'' deal with this theme.theme.
** This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album ''Nebraska''.
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* Mad World by Tears of Fear.

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* Mad World by Tears of Fear.Fear.
* Many BruceSpringsteen songs, such as ''Youngstown'' or ''Born in the USA'' deal with this theme.
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* ''WeirdAl'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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* ''WeirdAl'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.hell.
* Mad World by Tears of Fear.
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* The MegaMan-inspired songs of Music/TheProtomen.

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* The MegaMan-inspired VideoGame/MegaMan-inspired songs of Music/TheProtomen.
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* The entire setting of the concept album Deltron 3030 but specifically Turbulence, a song describing the setting in detail.

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* The entire setting of the concept album Deltron 3030 but specifically Turbulence, a song describing the setting in detail.detail.
* ''WeirdAl'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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* The subject of BlackSabbath's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wicked World"]].

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* The subject of BlackSabbath's Music/BlackSabbath's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wicked World"]].
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* The MegaMan-inspired songs of TheProtomen.

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* The MegaMan-inspired songs of TheProtomen.Music/TheProtomen.
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* The Underworld in {{Hadestown}}{{Hadestown}
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* The MegaMan-inspired songs of TheProtomen.

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* The MegaMan-inspired songs of TheProtomen.TheProtomen.
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* Battery City and The Zones, the setting of MyChemicalRomance's post-apocalyptic concept record ''DangerDays: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys''. "The Zones" are basically the dry, scorching hot, desert wasteland California becomes after the tragic events of 2012
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* The subject of BlackSabbath's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wicked World"]].

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* The subject of BlackSabbath's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wicked World"]].World"]].
* The MegaMan-inspired songs of TheProtomen.
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* The subject of BlackSabbath's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wicked World"]].

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