Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas posts is underway and here comes day 2. This years theme is quite dark and not very festive. With all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by the orange shitler in the White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. Yeah, kind of depressing maybe, but these are twelve fabulous tracks and whatever happens music will always accompany me.
Yesterday the series kicked off with the Apocalypse Disco and the end of the world track for day 2 is “Idioteque” by Radiohead. Thom Yorke wrote the lyrics by cutting up phrases and drawing them from a hat, as he did for much of the ‘Kid A’ album where “Idioteque” resides. The track is deeply apocalyptic and seems to cover climate change, fear or paranoia of technology. media control and manipulation and many global threats. So given all that it had to feature somewhere in this series. Who is in the bunker with you?
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