Mine's mostly industrial, (early) electro, garage rock, and some good old fashioned gothic rock thrown in for good measure: Nick Cave, Sister of Mercy, that sort of thing. Anything particularly gritty or evoking of baddassery. To that end, there's also a fair bit of Black Sabbath in there.
Right, so let's go through mine in more depth. I'm enjoying this a little too much, aren't I?
The White Stripes
A lot of the more bare bones stuff, songs where Meg slams the bass without any complexity whatsoever. Icky Thump, I Think I Smell A Rat, Black Math. It's all just raw, it makes me want to get as drunk as possible and smash metal things together, which is probably what I'd be doing post-apocalypse.
A lot of the more bare bones stuff, songs where Meg slams the bass without any complexity whatsoever. Icky Thump, I Think I Smell A Rat, Black Math. It's all just raw, it makes me want to get as drunk as possible and smash metal things together, which is probably what I'd be doing post-apocalypse.
Abney Park
This is pretty easy. A lot of their stuff is actually about a post-apocalypse steampunk reality. Under The Radar from Aether Shanties in particular. Earlier stuff is just so heavy though. The Death Of Tragedy and Cemetery Number 1 are entirely composed of songs from some Matrix-esque rave scene. An industrial rave, that's what I think of when I envision Abney Park.
This is pretty easy. A lot of their stuff is actually about a post-apocalypse steampunk reality. Under The Radar from Aether Shanties in particular. Earlier stuff is just so heavy though. The Death Of Tragedy and Cemetery Number 1 are entirely composed of songs from some Matrix-esque rave scene. An industrial rave, that's what I think of when I envision Abney Park.
Tom Waits
Tom Waits' voice is terrifying. Particular albums just sound like they've been stripped down to the bones, right down to the rattlin' bones. His voice, like an ash cloud soaked in whiskey, it conjures images of a much less violent world, but one where some futuristic cowboy walks into the bar and everyone immediately goes back to their drinks because he'll murder them with a guitar string. He writes poetry better than any I've heard, he writes songs to be alone by.
Tom Waits' voice is terrifying. Particular albums just sound like they've been stripped down to the bones, right down to the rattlin' bones. His voice, like an ash cloud soaked in whiskey, it conjures images of a much less violent world, but one where some futuristic cowboy walks into the bar and everyone immediately goes back to their drinks because he'll murder them with a guitar string. He writes poetry better than any I've heard, he writes songs to be alone by.
Dr. Steel
Assuming of course it wasn't Dr. Steel that actually caused this Armageddon, though that probably wouldn't deter me, hammers and nails and sampling would walk me through a ghost city. In all probability though, he probably launched the nukes.
Assuming of course it wasn't Dr. Steel that actually caused this Armageddon, though that probably wouldn't deter me, hammers and nails and sampling would walk me through a ghost city. In all probability though, he probably launched the nukes.
Tool
I just like the idea of blowing off zombies heads to irregular times and unnecessarily distorted guitars.
I just like the idea of blowing off zombies heads to irregular times and unnecessarily distorted guitars.
The Creatures
Those drums! Practically all Creatures songs are just Siouxsie Sioux howling and Budgie on ecstasy beating the drums like he wants to give them all heavy concussions.
It's pretty easy to imagine any of this ringing out through deserted streets and up collapsing concrete skyscrapers or across junkyard wastelands or through deserts or even in vast underground caverns (Abney Park <3).
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