X-Ray Spex - 'The Day The World Turned Dayglo"

"The X-rays were penetrating
Through the laytex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
Fell from the rayon trees ..."

The upside would be at least no blooming Daily Mail from then on . Yet somehow I wont be canceling the milk .

R.E.M. It's the end of the world as we know it?

as I've suggested elsewhere
Geek love by Bang bang machine

'This Monkeys Gone to Heaven' obvious one though it's more eco-disaster than an atomic thing. 'Into the White' may be more pertinent - blasted into oblivion beyond night and day perhaps, could be one interpretation.

by Wire

was a genuine concern to me as a teenager in the early 1980s - with Reagan at the helm it seemed a very real possibility. I remember being scared to death after seeing 'Protect & Survive' which was shown by CND in a community hall near my village. I think it was the matter-of-fact tone that freaked me out. Watching it in that environment, with tea and biscuits served by bearded men in earnest knitwear, simply heightened the terror!

I decided then and there that the best thing to do on hearing the legendary '4 minute warning' was to get in a car and drive very fast TOWARDS the likely nuclear target - the soundtrack for my last four minutes was to be Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along The Watchtower".

Where do you drive to if there's a black hole in Switzerland, and how long will it take to get there? Should I opt for something snappy by the Ramones, or 'Tales From Topographic Oceans'?

might do the trick

For The Heart Of the Sun

Black Hole Star album.
Still I can't help but get annoyed by the lack of scientific rigour employed by The Mail. Nothing like a good scare story centred on something they won't even take the time to try to understand. I suspect they do understand, but like to run a good scare story. What they forgot to add was once the torus is in operation it will automatically open a cosmic gateway between eastern Europe and somewhere in the Midlands through which thousands of immigrants will flood.
See you all Wednesday evening.

I'm going out with this version played at full volume

I've decided I want to spend my final hours (i.e. Tuesday evening) with Terry Hall. He has the air of a man who knew what was coming all along and therefore wouldn't get hysterical.
A lot of his brilliant album with Mushtaq, "The Hour of Two Lights", has a wonderfully ominous and apocalyptic feel to it. Here's an example - "A Tale of Woe":

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'Kiss Your Ass Goodbye' by The Game

Michael Gira set out to make music that would destroy the body. Early Swans shows were played at volumes liable to make the audience physically ill. His obsession with the disintegration of the physical form at the hands of indifferent universal forces also permeated into his lyrics.

The Great Annihilator - a song with a raging cosmic hurricane at its centre - begins with a single warped note, stretched to a point where it suddenly snaps back into place; the stored energy driving the cacophony as it hurtles forwards.

Gira takes the role of a disspassionate observer, his intoned, overlapping musings concerning the nature of time and the universe, spared the immense gravitational forces that distort the backing vocals. It ends with ferocious, militaristic drumming, the music fading out and then back in again.

I think this should be the LHC anthem.

Swans – The Great Annihilator

“One second burns for a billion years
And time is relative
And light is physical
We feel your body
We feel your feelings
We see the eye of god shine through the citadel
And space is empty behind the universe
The past and future were simultaneous.
Inside your body we feel your emptiness
The light we breathe in is your unconsciousness

And your body disappears,
Burning backwards through the years
And in your hands time was made
And through breathing
You'll erase it
But we can see forever.
Before love and hate
And we will fall right through the wall
of the place where we were made
Right into the open mouth of the great annihilator”

Radio CERN: ...
and now here's Barry McGuire, with "Eve Of Desctructi

Muse's Starlight..."black holes and revelations"

Quark, Strangeness and Charm. Very relevant if you are up on your QECD.

I guess "things can only get better" would be appropriate too seeing as it is by astrophysicist Prof. Brian Cox (and the rest of D:Ream).

Tom Waits.
Preferably the version on "Big Time".

Is That All There Is?

Why indeed...Skeeter Davies asked in "The End of the World "

I listened to The Today programme at 8.30 on the drive to work as the big tumbler driver was switched on. It was quite exciting as we were told ing my car to be sucked into a black hole at any moment. I kept preying this would happen as I drove very very slowly to my office. Imagine my disappointment, when I made it too work as normal and found myself with a pile of Yellow Pages adverts to deal with. How routine and normal, I was hoping to find myself on a new planet, drinking alien tea with John Lennon and Bob Dylan robot clones.

Don't be victim to a false sense of security, they are just running tests at the moment.

The big wallop won't happen for a week or two yet; once they've pushed a few protons up to 99.9999999 percent of the speed of light a few times, tried the brakes and the steering, and made sure it's all switch-onable and offable, then and only then will the gates of Hell be opened.

Geneva gets it first, Paris goes before London, and then the inexorable suck will spread all the way to Much Binding In The Marsh and beyond, gaining speed as it spreads. Wave as you go down.

Either the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs with Bang or more likely the Radio Stars with Nothing Happened Today!

Nothing like a big machine programmed to fail to DANGER! If the sceptics are right the last words from the scientists we're ever likely to hear are "we told you so..."

Still, the last night of the proms is on the telly and Britain will be saved.