Since I gather this may be the last Saturd80's I'll be able to post, I'm gonna double up. Blondie, Rapture:
REM, End of The World as We Know It:
Tom Lehrer, So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III):
Not precisely apocalyptic... but it has always felt that way to me. Kate Bush has done more goose bump-raising pop music than anyone I can think of. (BTW, yes, that is a very young Hugh Laurie.) Kate Bush, Experiment IV:
Not apocalyptic at all, but I can't dodge the title. Motels, Apocalypso:
And I finally thought of the perfect song to end this set with: "This is what you want? This is what you get." Think about it, rapturists. Public Image Ltd., Order of Death:
 
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