BIFF is fast approaching. It's the final week! What is your top choice for 'end of the world' music? With today's addition, we have featured two dozen chosen tunes. It could be End Times by the Eels, Earth Dies Screaming by Tom Waits, maybe Seconds or Until the End of the World both by U2, or 3 Minutes to Midnight by Midnight Oil. But time is running out . . .
This week's choice is one that many think of at a time like this - - the end of the World? It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and "Lenny Bruce is not afraid." And it only gets better as Michael Stipe continues winding through a whirlwind of images, from Lester Bangs to a flurry of furies while feeling just fine.
This week's choice is one that many think of at a time like this - - the end of the World? It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and "Lenny Bruce is not afraid." And it only gets better as Michael Stipe continues winding through a whirlwind of images, from Lester Bangs to a flurry of furies while feeling just fine.
What music list about the end of the world could not include this song? It’s a happy little ditty that makes everything seem okay. This song also may be the premiere example of overcrowded lyrics. It's the End of the World as We Know It (1987) by R.E.M., a Georgia-based rock group. Can you sing the song in its entirety? Michael Stipe’s cheeky enthusiasm and Peter Buck's carefree guitar-jangle make you feel fine. Perhaps you could do what Chris Farley and David Spade did in Tommy Boy and just make-up the words? Depends on how excited you are about the end of the world.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake,
birds and snakes, an aeroplane
and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
World serves its own needs,
regardless of your own needs.
Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt, no strength
no ladder starts to clatter with fear, fight, down, height.
Wire in a fire,
representing seven games in a government for hire
and a combat site.
and a combat site.
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop.
Look at that low plane! Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
feeling, pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
and I feel fine
and I feel fine
Six o'clock, TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming,and book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate.
Automotive incinerate light a candle, light a motive.
Step down, step down, watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh,
This means no fear cavalier.
Renegade steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline
and I decline
[Chorus]
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
I feel fine
[Repeat Chorus]
The other night I dreamt of knives,
continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein.
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right
[Chorus]
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine
[Repeat Chorus: x3]
