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Playlist for the end of the world

Needless to say, I do not believe the world is going to end tomorrow. OK, I said it anyway. And now that it’s said, let’s have a little fun with it.

I’ve put together an iTunes playlist of songs from my music library that seemed fitting in some way for the occasion:

  1. Steely Dan — Black Friday
  2. National Health — The Apocalypso
  3. Nine Inch Nails — The Beginning of the End
  4. Rush — In the End
  5. The Beatles — The End
  6. Styx — Don’t Let It End
  7. Zero 7 — End Theme
  8. Kraftwerk — Europe Endless
  9. Hall & Oates — Friday Let Me Down
  10. Chicago — It Better End Soon (1st Movement)
  11. Chicago — It Better End Soon (2nd Movement)
  12. Chicago — It Better End Soon (3rd Movement)
  13. Chicago — It Better End Soon (4th Movement)
  14. Prince — 1999
  15. Genesis — Los Endos
  16. King Crimson — Peace: An End
  17. R.E.M. — It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  18. U2 — Until the End of the World
  19. Elvis Costello — Waiting for the End of the World
  20. Happy Apple — The World Begins and Ends in Your Combover
  21. Room 34 — December 22, 2012

Yes, that last one is my own… recorded earlier this year as a reflection on what the world will be like the day after it ends. You can get it here. (Interesting side note: every sound on that song — the whole album in fact — was produced on an iPhone.)

Album covers from the Mayan Apocalypse playlist

Introducing the Room 34 Music Player

OK, I didn’t create the music player myself. It’s the freely available, Flash-based XSPF Player. But it’s a pretty slick tool to create a custom music playlist on your own website.

So now I have a convenient link you can click on to open up my music player in its own little pop-up window. It’s preloaded with all 23 tracks from the five LP/EP releases I’ve put out this year. (Yes, five! I’ve been quite prolific. I’ll leave it to you to weigh the “quantity vs. quality” issue.) And, for future reference, there’s a link to it right under the “Room 34 CDs and MP3s” heading in the sidebar on every page.

Enjoy!