Your last choice track before the meteors hit?

[Ina]

Yoko Kanno - Blue

Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream, you know
that's never ending
I'm ascending

Reason

I'm here, next to you
For now, that's all I need
Someday, tell me more
About your dreams you mentioned the other day

Our long journey has made us stronger
We know the wind is blowing against us
But we have a reason to go on

So, my friend, it's still too early for us to just live to grow old

Covered in sweat, covered in mud
We win things the hard way, so what does it matter if they think we're weak?

We're not trying to win medals from anyone
Listen to the beat

Hearts of Iron IV - Katyusha

Yes! Katyusha! ... and if you add Kalinka, it means we must have some common ancestry.

 

[Alma.Innovadora]

Yes! Katyusha! ... and if you add Kalinka, it means we must have some common ancestry.

Yup, I also listen to kalinka and Tersky Cossack Choir. Well, the soul is not of one nationality (laughs). Lately I've had a lot of Russia in my environment. I am about to do a photographic work in homage to Yuri Gagarin as well, the person that life has introduced me to work together speaks Russian and is encouraging me to learn the language, he has contact with Russians... if there is something there calling, I will just say poyekhali! (laughs).

 

[Mike]

There is one song that always comes to mind for me in terms of "your last choice track before the meteors hit". This is mainly due to the lyrics "I'll ride the wave / Where it takes me" and the power of the song and the emotions it evokes in me... I used to be able to sing a fair version of it.

Release by Pearl Jam

I see the world
Feel the chill
Which way to go
Windowsill
I see the words
On a rocking horse of time
I see the birds in the rain

Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me

Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll wait up in the dark
For you to speak to me
I'll open up
Release me
Release me
Release me
Release me

 

[3DStudent]

I remember this thread. It's similar to asking what song would you like played at your funeral. I'm mostly serious, and especially after the COVID madness, we've said "Bring on the Comets." quite a lot. So in a bittersweet way I'm picking Mr. Blue Sky. I think it's also fitting because it has a quick upbeat start and a cometary impact would be sudden. Better to call it Mr. Red Sky at that point.

And today, is the day we've waited for!

Maybe I was more optimistic last year, but I've felt like I need something heavier and expressing righteous anger. After the Ohio train wreck, and I may have been anticipating, but it really got me down and I felt like it was deliberate. I find Guns N' Roses - Civil War is really fitting these days! Don't know if the band has a more esoteric song. It has mentions of war, destroying the planet and people, conspiracy, etc.

And the lyrics:

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land
And

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
Ow, oh no, no, no, no, no

Look at the shoes you're filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh no
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
No, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh no
What's so civil 'bout war anyway?

And the movie clip that's in the intro, Cool Hand Luke:

 

[Alix]

This song seems sad at first, but then it swells into what I think of as an embrace. As if I'm suddenly seeing all of you in front of me for the first time.
Sam Hulick - I Was Lost Without You: