The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
I don’t know how this hasn’t been mentioned yet!
OP let me know your thoughts, still haven’t found a song that so beautifully captures the helpless feeling of collapse. It may take a few listens to to fully get it
[Blue Lips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRipheS8dxE) by Regina Spektor hits the right notes for me. A very succinct history of western civilization, I think. See if you can make it past "They made it past the enemy lines just to become enslaved by the assembly lines" without getting goosebumps.
Edit: Apologies. I saw the word "playlist" and my mind automatically went to music. I see now that's not what you're looking for.
The Seed by Aurora.
>You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no
not specific to climate but for collapse:
aenima - tool, and [ Cello & Violin Cover by Sage Etters (youtube.com)Tool - Ænema Cello & Violin Cover by Sage Etters (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz50APzAzaY)
Moon over Marin - the Dead Kennedys
Fugazi - Strangelight
Puscifer - the Humbling River
3rd World - Immortal Technique
Nine inch nails - zero sum
Dunno about playlist, but this is a really fitting song, [Money Game Part 3 by Ren](https://music.youtube.com/search?q=money+game+part+3) and the other money game parts
Check out Holocene by The Ocean or For Those That Wish To Exist (the abbey road version or not) by Architects
They both are directly inspired by collapse ideas (the bands have confirmed this). I recommend both because they don't emphasize a single viewpoint.
Descending, Tool
The Begining of the End, NIN
The Great Below, NIN
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, A Perfect Circle
I inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey
Just a few.. Songs to hear, sorry I seen playlist and thought of music. haha
My angle for a collapse video would be pretty pointed. A mix of human greed, ignorance, avoidance about the damage we've done. Background music being [Hunz - Your still here](https://youtu.be/Ursdd44o8Zk?si=mbbaX_jEwW0nDBX4). The point being Humans are *still here* and we still destroy everything without consideration to the environment and other life around us.
You guys suck hard at this. A few climate change songs that are right off the top of my head...
Land of confusion - Genesis
Beds are burning - Midnight Oil
Another way to die - Disturbed
I saw your edit that you weren’t asking for music but here these are anyway lol.
Gods on Fire - Korpiklaani
Suffer Our Dominion - Cradle of Filth
Deuteronomy 2:10 - The Mountain Goats
I'm struggling so much that I can only really listen to gentle ambient instrumental these days. There's some great hour-long dreamcore playlists on YouTube for that, should be at the top of any search result along those lines.
Dance Macarbe - Ghost.
It's about the black plague and people just being all "well, if we're gonna die, may as well live hedonistically and have orgies and have fun before we go".
Think its fitting. World's gone to shit, may as well enjoy some indulgences while the world burns.Â
I don't know about a youtube video accumulator, but for podcasts you should check out Ashes Ashes and Breaking down: Collapse
[https://ashesashes.org/](https://ashesashes.org/)
[https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64e11b3fcc399200115010f0](https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64e11b3fcc399200115010f0)
[Bad Moves - Out of Reach](https://youtu.be/nnSdQHXJ5G0?si=zItUACegWCkBfTBN)
Caught up in the daily forecasts, basking in the sun
Oh, how it hurt to squint at decades still to come
While the blaring television boasted of our skill
The imminence, it gripped you early on
Fearful child
You'd lie awake at night
In bleak envisioning, visioning
A prophet’s end
Through a heretic lens
Nobody listening, listening
Every blackened night
Every temperature rise
We are the fire
We give off light
By the time we could admit we’d foreseen the effects
You’d spent a lifetime mapping outlooks of the wreck
Drink it down, cough it up
Torrid air fills your lungs
If not the best that’s left, what’s left is left for us
Circling high
Above the rising tide
It seemed so out of reach, out of reach
The clouds that rise
Up through a darkened sky
Warm from the air we breathe, air we breathe
Every blackened night
Every temperature rise
We are the fire
We give off light
And every faded hope
Every hallowed divide
We are the air
The ardent denial
Every blackened night
Everywhere you walk, there’s a dark cloud forming
Even where you are, it’s a perfect storm and
Everywhere you walk, there’s a dark cloud forming
Even where you are, even where you are
First that comes to mind is Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada, the fact that they haven't released another album after this in 11 years almost seems like a statement in itself
These are my recommendations:
Environmental Coffehouse (https://www.youtube.com/@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse): Go to their live videos. They have great interviews and great discussions.
Climate Emergency Forum (https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateEmergencyForum)
Our Changing Climate (https://www.youtube.com/@OurChangingClimate)
Climate Town (https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown): This is mostly US based.
The Great Simplification by Nate Hagans (https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatsimplification)
Paul Beckwith (https://www.youtube.com/@PaulHBeckwith): He mostly reviews articles and scientific papers and breaks them down for the average person.
Sid Smith (https://www.youtube.com/@bsidneysmith): He doesn't post often, but he has a good overview of collapse
The Great Story (https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatstory): Michael Dowd has some great overview videos, as well as wonderful conversations surrounding Post Doom.
[Mono Blanco - El mundo se va a acabar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rs2KGFx304)
If the world is coming to an end, we might as well dance our asses off.
I don't know what to think of him. He's a Christian for a start, so there's a major red flag in terms of intelligence. He also thinks climate change is a hoax, so he's ticking the right wing nutter box too. I do like the idea of the poleshift catastrophe cycle, but I find him hard to take seriously given what I've mentioned previously.
No need to apologise!
I do recommend that people give him a listen. The poleshift stuff is fascinating. I was just pointing out the red flags with his belief system.
You probably should have specified documentary / news footage playlist.
There aren’t really enough songs that are actually about *Climate Related Collapse* or biosphere collapse, to make a playlist anyway. Most are focused on social/political/economic aspects.
Not a Playlist but some somg suggestions.
Amour Plastique slowed.
Rhinestone Eyes
QKThr
There's a bunch more on a Playlist I made if you're interested... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/174jW4h4sT5Ozycb713w2k?si=RgkcZQloQ_S14N3afLHr0w
The album Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse.
And the album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - same band.
Aenima. 🥂
End of the World - R.E.M.
We are Fucking Fucked by Muse?
This whole album honestly
Nelly - It’s Gettin Hot In Here
Love this climate classic
Thank you for the chuckle
The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I don’t know how this hasn’t been mentioned yet! OP let me know your thoughts, still haven’t found a song that so beautifully captures the helpless feeling of collapse. It may take a few listens to to fully get it
My absolute favourite band
"We are all trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death."
Puscifer - Apocalyptical https://youtu.be/jrtZWVjdoL0?si=Gk9_7zZIAwYfLPau
Adding obligatory "Aenema" by Tool
The whole album Existential Reckoning is basically a collapse theme.
"Con-crete conclusions.. be damned.. it's far.. too late"🔥
Our Changing Climate (haven't watched it myself but seems decent from the episode titles) and The Great Simplification would get you started
Lampshades on Fire Modest Mouse
Planet B - King Gizzard
Radiohead: all albums.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's album "Infest the Rats Nest" is all about climate change and it goes hard AF
Half their songs off their 20 album catalog are about climate change.
Petrodragonic Apocalyse, or dawn of eternal night: an annihilation of planet Earth and the beginning of merciless damnation is even better ;)
[Blue Lips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRipheS8dxE) by Regina Spektor hits the right notes for me. A very succinct history of western civilization, I think. See if you can make it past "They made it past the enemy lines just to become enslaved by the assembly lines" without getting goosebumps. Edit: Apologies. I saw the word "playlist" and my mind automatically went to music. I see now that's not what you're looking for.
Haha this was an interesting take. I mean informational videos that I can play consecutively, but this is a good recommendation! Thank you!
Megadeath - Countdown To Extinction https://youtu.be/bNVcktiS6C4?si=dJyYFJK1onqK0mDl
The Seed by Aurora. >You cannot eat money, oh no You cannot eat money, oh no When the last tree has fallen And the rivers are poisoned You cannot eat money, oh no
Planned Obsolescence by Gojira - but pretty much their entire L'enfant Sauvage album.
not specific to climate but for collapse: aenima - tool, and [ Cello & Violin Cover by Sage Etters (youtube.com)Tool - Ænema Cello & Violin Cover by Sage Etters (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz50APzAzaY) Moon over Marin - the Dead Kennedys Fugazi - Strangelight Puscifer - the Humbling River 3rd World - Immortal Technique Nine inch nails - zero sum
Zero Sum is so underrated.
Keep the World we Know, Bruce Cockburn and Susan Aglukark
Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies The Day the Politicians Died - The Magnetic Fields It's Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan
Thank you! These are finally good suggestions as well.
The Final Countdown by Europe.Â
we're heading for Venus
Dunno about playlist, but this is a really fitting song, [Money Game Part 3 by Ren](https://music.youtube.com/search?q=money+game+part+3) and the other money game parts
Check out Holocene by The Ocean or For Those That Wish To Exist (the abbey road version or not) by Architects They both are directly inspired by collapse ideas (the bands have confirmed this). I recommend both because they don't emphasize a single viewpoint.
Up2Me by yeat
Toxic garbage island by Gojira is about the great pacific garbage patch and climate change
Time is Up - Poppy
KMFDM - [Paradise] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTihQa5mAlc)
r/collapse video playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtzeuU0FBnYeXURLMSVc2rile-bSqdaQH&si=4CbwyAxNuYa1iGgl
Descending, Tool The Begining of the End, NIN The Great Below, NIN So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, A Perfect Circle I inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey Just a few.. Songs to hear, sorry I seen playlist and thought of music. haha
Collapse with a video! Death Cab For Cutie - Grapevine Fires https://youtu.be/H8ZUV9IBEXY?si=fPNYN2uoeZrk5xbm
My angle for a collapse video would be pretty pointed. A mix of human greed, ignorance, avoidance about the damage we've done. Background music being [Hunz - Your still here](https://youtu.be/Ursdd44o8Zk?si=mbbaX_jEwW0nDBX4). The point being Humans are *still here* and we still destroy everything without consideration to the environment and other life around us.
When Everything Dies by God is an Astronaut and the entire All Is Violent album in general
You guys suck hard at this. A few climate change songs that are right off the top of my head... Land of confusion - Genesis Beds are burning - Midnight Oil Another way to die - Disturbed
[Exodus - Good Riddance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmnZonES34)
A Crow Looked At Me
https://open.spotify.com/track/1H2Dq1kyLUWl0QW8CLzDZb?si=uUofGf5KQRatjEO80B6NJQ
Down in the Weeds Where the world once was by Bright Eyes
A good sing is Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap. It fuels my hate fire lol
Elephant Bones by That Handsome Devil
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fHExaI0RzUuB3xrCYT7rP?si=Sq0hpRRbQ3-8VYv6901aUw
“The effects of climate change on heavily populated areas” by people under the stairs https://youtu.be/B7M6cMrgFrI?si=qqoqoMZwVAqvxW3M
I dunno if it's necessarily a "collapse" playlist.. but, I have one I've been working on for a few years, called vive la révolution! So, it's a mix of every genre (except country..) and the theme is basically "we're fucked unless we rise up".. I dunno, maybe people can find some new stuff they dig.. over 21h long at this point.. and I add stuff regularly.. sorry, I don't watch YouTube videos, so this is all I've got.. https://spotify.link/VVBQGV8hmJb
Anything by Neurosis but Through Silver in Blood and Aeon if you want specific tracks.
Everything by Puissance. [Treat yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-NomfZB48).
Kill the messenger - Rezodrone
Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada
Depeche Mode: The Landscape Is Changing
Angelspit - Don't Say Ministry - Scarecrow Thy Light - A Crawling Worm in a World of Lies
Morning Dew, written by Bonnie Dobson. Jeff Beck covered it well in 1968, with Rod Stewart on vocals. Great song...
I saw your edit that you weren’t asking for music but here these are anyway lol. Gods on Fire - Korpiklaani Suffer Our Dominion - Cradle of Filth Deuteronomy 2:10 - The Mountain Goats
2young - Stop Light Observations
Worst Comes to Worst by Denzel Curry
Threshold - Let It Burn No better song than this one
For me, nothing encapsulates the idea of collapse more than [Better When We Die](https://youtu.be/ftkcHHoCpSI?si=M5LqpvFc8sP4edca) by Viscera Drip.
fred j. eaglesmith, things is changin and harold wilson
Music for an empty metropolis
I'm struggling so much that I can only really listen to gentle ambient instrumental these days. There's some great hour-long dreamcore playlists on YouTube for that, should be at the top of any search result along those lines.
Dance Macarbe - Ghost. It's about the black plague and people just being all "well, if we're gonna die, may as well live hedonistically and have orgies and have fun before we go". Think its fitting. World's gone to shit, may as well enjoy some indulgences while the world burns.Â
r/collapse music playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkGJdJSErBWn9SIGHVlF-IbDUDJxAypjF&si=BuceruhqR7cf80xr
[The Good Times are Killing Me](https://youtu.be/EhyMimkcdS8)
Cold - five finger death punch.
Sin City - The Flying Burrito Brothers/Graham Parsons Five Years - David Bowie
I don't know about a youtube video accumulator, but for podcasts you should check out Ashes Ashes and Breaking down: Collapse [https://ashesashes.org/](https://ashesashes.org/) [https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64e11b3fcc399200115010f0](https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64e11b3fcc399200115010f0)
Concrete Jungle and ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE by Bad Omens
Climate crisis love song https://open.spotify.com/track/5NNtPytCHCG2BGieeG8eLh?si=MxAWjf-2T6K-_j7O5i8DkQ
[Bad Moves - Out of Reach](https://youtu.be/nnSdQHXJ5G0?si=zItUACegWCkBfTBN) Caught up in the daily forecasts, basking in the sun Oh, how it hurt to squint at decades still to come While the blaring television boasted of our skill The imminence, it gripped you early on Fearful child You'd lie awake at night In bleak envisioning, visioning A prophet’s end Through a heretic lens Nobody listening, listening Every blackened night Every temperature rise We are the fire We give off light By the time we could admit we’d foreseen the effects You’d spent a lifetime mapping outlooks of the wreck Drink it down, cough it up Torrid air fills your lungs If not the best that’s left, what’s left is left for us Circling high Above the rising tide It seemed so out of reach, out of reach The clouds that rise Up through a darkened sky Warm from the air we breathe, air we breathe Every blackened night Every temperature rise We are the fire We give off light And every faded hope Every hallowed divide We are the air The ardent denial Every blackened night Everywhere you walk, there’s a dark cloud forming Even where you are, it’s a perfect storm and Everywhere you walk, there’s a dark cloud forming Even where you are, even where you are
Collapse - Rise Against Hits a little too close to home lately
First that comes to mind is Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada, the fact that they haven't released another album after this in 11 years almost seems like a statement in itself
When the levee breaks by Led Zeppelin has the beat resampled by the Beastie Boys
These are my recommendations: Environmental Coffehouse (https://www.youtube.com/@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse): Go to their live videos. They have great interviews and great discussions. Climate Emergency Forum (https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateEmergencyForum) Our Changing Climate (https://www.youtube.com/@OurChangingClimate) Climate Town (https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown): This is mostly US based. The Great Simplification by Nate Hagans (https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatsimplification) Paul Beckwith (https://www.youtube.com/@PaulHBeckwith): He mostly reviews articles and scientific papers and breaks them down for the average person. Sid Smith (https://www.youtube.com/@bsidneysmith): He doesn't post often, but he has a good overview of collapse The Great Story (https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatstory): Michael Dowd has some great overview videos, as well as wonderful conversations surrounding Post Doom.
[Mono Blanco - El mundo se va a acabar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rs2KGFx304) If the world is coming to an end, we might as well dance our asses off.
Me gusta esa canciĂłn! Added to my personal list. Gracias por su recomendaciĂłn!
Mine opens with Walking on Sunshine.....
New World Water by Mos Def
I didnt see anyone recommend V.A.N. bad omens x poppy. Literally this sub in a song lol.
The best escape for the End Times: [The SubGenius Hour of Slack](https://open.spotify.com/show/4FGxb6fw2ipYhy75VyRx4i?si=fef27cefc0bd4c90)
Try r/collapsemusic
Revolution - Raury Hypersonic missiles - Sam Fender
Become Ocean, by John Luther Adams.
5 Years by BowieÂ
Go to for You tube- Suspicious Observers. Ben is very arrogant but he does do research and pulls up Science released articles.
I don't know what to think of him. He's a Christian for a start, so there's a major red flag in terms of intelligence. He also thinks climate change is a hoax, so he's ticking the right wing nutter box too. I do like the idea of the poleshift catastrophe cycle, but I find him hard to take seriously given what I've mentioned previously.
I agree, I dont follow him. Bad advice - sorry.
No need to apologise! I do recommend that people give him a listen. The poleshift stuff is fascinating. I was just pointing out the red flags with his belief system.
You probably should have specified documentary / news footage playlist. There aren’t really enough songs that are actually about *Climate Related Collapse* or biosphere collapse, to make a playlist anyway. Most are focused on social/political/economic aspects.
Kreator - Violent Revolution
Not a Playlist but some somg suggestions. Amour Plastique slowed. Rhinestone Eyes QKThr There's a bunch more on a Playlist I made if you're interested... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/174jW4h4sT5Ozycb713w2k?si=RgkcZQloQ_S14N3afLHr0w
Collapse by Rise Against
apollo by brian eno
The end of the world - skeeter Davis. I got it from fallout.
Love that song. Sharon Van Etten did a cover of it for “The Man in the High Castle” which also has apocalyptic vibes
Diiv- frog in boiling water