Exploring the End of the World with Nazis, Nico, and Wagner
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We are an optimistic species. Even in our stories about the end of the world, the world doesn’t actually end. In reality, it will. In the season one finale of Ghost Echoes, we study the apocalypse. Ragnarök. The Great Tribulation. The End. Alas, we’re not alone — we’re with Nico.
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Music and Sound Notes:
— This episode contains excerpts from “Femme Fatale,” by the Velvet Underground, and “These Days”, “Eulogy to Lenny Bruce”, “Frozen Warnings”, “Nibelungen”, “You Forget to Answer”, “The End”, “Das Lied der Deutschen,” and “Win a Few”, all by Nico.
Further reading, listening:
–For biographical information on Nico, see the documentary Nico: Icon and this Guardian story by Simon Reynolds. This episode also contains clips from Susanna Nicchiarelli’s excellent biopic Nico, 1988.
–For more on the 1910 Halley’s comet panic, read Matt Simon in Wired. And for more on the UFO cult Chen Tao, see Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Exploring the End of the World with Nazis, Nico, and Wagner
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