Many of you will not be able to make it through this monster, but please do take a gander at the lyrics if you can: it’s an almost perfect exemplar of doom, both sonically and lyrically. Your version of a doom playlist might not include Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard, but mine sure does. ![]() But shall we go all the way in? Down to the blackest reaches of the soul? Yes. OK, so this point we’ve been focused on doom, but we’ve almost been nibbling around the edges. But it also makes it because Alice Donut is one of my all-time favourite bands. The Son of an X-Postal Worker Reflects on His Life While Getting Stoned in the Parking Lot of a Winn Dixie Listening to Metallica makes the cut on its own merit – great song, great lyrics – the life he is reflecting on will, in all likelihood, be put to an end by his father, along with that of his mother and everyone his father worked with, and no one will lift a finger to stop this from happening. So let’s go to 90s rock (and I defy you to find another person who would think Benjamin Britten into Alice Donut is a good idea). ) And Britten somehow managed to make it even more depressing, hopeless, and doom laden. He wrote an accompaniment to the poem The Sick Rose by William Blake (O Rose thou art sick / The invisible worm / That flies in the night / In the howling storm. I live in the States and had never heard this song or seen the video, but it’s almost as if I had put out a call exactly for it: “There’s a ‘when’ not an ‘if’ inside everybody / We’re all going to die alone.” Oof.Ĭlassical music! That’ll provide some relief, surely? “No!” says Benjamin Britten. When I first posted about the parameters of this playlist, I asked for songs where hope itself is weeping, befuddled with drink. So how about a Christmas song? This one was popular in the UK a couple years ago: We’re All Going to Die, by Malcolm Middleton. Turns out it’s about little things like a neighbour’s suicide, a plane crash, children starving, the “little things that keep us together, while the war’s going on”. Something this upbeat sounding can’t be about doom, right? Oh. How about a nice, poppy number? Scott Walker will fill that spot nicely, with Little Things (That Keep Us Together). He lives in a world of death, and that’s it. ![]() Then the father replies, reassuringly, that the child is absolutely correct. First the son complains that all his father has given him by his birth is entry into a world of death. Harsh, repetitive guitars, snarled vocals, sung from the point of view of a son to a father, then the father to the son. ![]() This was actually the very last nomination before the deadline. I love King Tubby, and I’m the guru, so it’s in.Īfter that comes Rudimentary Peni with Bequest. ![]() This song is about Armageddon, really, and that was outside the parameters of this playlist (End of the World had already been done, in 2013), but it’s King Tubby. She doesn’t miss a trick and she’s not wrong. The wealthy are corrupt, our social supports have collapsed, life has fallen into a meaningless rut of dead-end jobs and getting wasted, and on and on it goes. Tempest gives us a litany of the ways western society is failing, dying, falling apart. And what is it that’s coming for us first? Well, it’s Kate Tempest with Europe is Lost.
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