The only preface I have for this is that I took this not as songs leading up to the end of the world as though you'd hear this as the world drew to a close but as that plus being the ones "left behind" as the prophecies would have you believe. As the good christians (all 3 of them) are taken up to heaven, the rest of us sinners would be left behind to (insert something christian here. i'm southern, but not THAT southern). So 1/2 is forbidding, then the destruction, then the aftermath.
Enjoy, sinners!
Fly On The Windscreen (Final) - Depeche Mode
Cantara - Dead Can Dance
The Last Ray This Mortal - Coil
Flood II - The Sisters Of Mercy
Mein Herz Brennt - Rammstein
Apocalypse Please - Muse
Deliverance - The Mission
Isolation (Joy Div Cover) - Dessau
Heresy (Blind) - Nine Inch Nails
Headhunter V3.0 - Front 242
Rapture Riders - Blondie feat. The Doors
A Strange Day - The Cure
Camphor - David Sylvian
Wake Up In New York (w/Evan Dando) - Craig Armstrong
Death's Door - Sylvain Chauveau
Motherless Child - Martin Gore
Everyday Is Like Sunday - Vitamin String Quartet
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I relate so incredibly well to where you went on this mix. While I appreciate your own history with this music, I am struck by the meaning of these songs to my own history. The time frame in which so many of these songs emerged were definitely also during the "darkest" period of my life. Dead Can Dance, The Sisters of Mercy, Front 242, Martin Gore's solo stuff... all have personal meaning for me, with my own stories attached to them. I love that and the contrast of your stark-white artwork with a dead fly. Perfect.
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