Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas posts have reached day 5. The four posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder and Shrub. This years theme is very dark and not very festive. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Diaper Donnie in the partly demolished White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. Yeah, kind of depressing of course, but these are twelve fabulous tracks and whatever happens music will always accompany me wherever I go, even if that is into the heart of the forthcoming (???) Armageddon! Maybe I need to make them into a playlist, what do you think?
Today’s song comes from Seattle’s The Postal Service. It is “We Will Become Silhouettes” from their 2003 album ‘Give Up’. This is their only studio album to date, can we have another one please? The song was the band’s fourth single and peaked at number three in the Canadian chart. It was written by band members Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello. Is the song about the period after a nuclear war or catastrophe? Possibly, but for me it is a great fit for a series of end of the world songs!
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