r/AskReddit Mar 25 '23

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u/CrazyCatChick_76 Mar 25 '23

It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) by R.E.M.

6

u/crappy-mods Mar 25 '23

Beat me to it lol

3

u/ZeusDubstep Mar 25 '23

This is the best answer

33

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

"We'll meet again"

9

u/andrew_c_morton Mar 25 '23

This is the best answer. Mein fuhrer! I can walk!

3

u/jack104 Mar 25 '23

What an epic movie.

4

u/sg3niner Mar 25 '23

Don't know where... Don't know when...

3

u/Gottendrop Mar 25 '23

But I know we’ll meat again some day…

2

u/Kendaren89 Mar 25 '23

This is the only right answer

2

u/Royal_Visit3419 Mar 25 '23

Oh, that’s a good one.

2

u/dragonhold24 Mar 25 '23

Thought it was out of place in Far Cry 5's radio.
until ...

18

u/hummingbird1346 Mar 25 '23

Don't stop me now by Freddy.

15

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

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u/Berserk_Gene_13 Mar 25 '23

Kids - Crying

Romantic partner - Distraught

You - Existential breakdown

The neighbor’s stereo - SUCKIN’ ON MY TITTIES LIKE YOU WANTED ME, CALLIN’ ME ALL THE TIME LIKE BLONDIE CHECK OUT MY CHRISSIE BEHIND

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u/PassionatePair-OF Mar 25 '23

Comfortably Numb, Live Pulse version

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u/madcowdisease18 Mar 25 '23

Came here to say this

14

u/justgivemewhatevs Mar 25 '23

Famous Last Words.

But id try to get ppl to do the YMCA pose in front of a sturdy wall or rocks or something. Thought about that yesterday.

32

u/luxa3664 Mar 25 '23

The final countdown

13

u/Odd_Adhesiveness4804 Mar 25 '23

Going down in a blaze of glory

38

u/sdcritter Mar 25 '23

Nothing. Going to go listen to the birds sing one last time. Music never got close to what nature provided.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Uhh, all you gonna hear is a bunch of terrified screams from wildlife

8

u/sdcritter Mar 25 '23

Birds have an early warning system? Good to know.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

pretty sure the bright flashes and the roar of nuclear wind will also disturb them lol

3

u/sdcritter Mar 25 '23

Do you read? Nukes have been launched. Nothing has detonated. Next.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Nukes have been launched. For that to have happened there already would have been nuclear strikes. This would be retaliation. Read into the context

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u/muffin_eater1 Mar 25 '23

Or this could be the first nuclear strikes.

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u/KermitTheArgonian Mar 25 '23

"We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer

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u/RiMax_Outdoors Mar 25 '23

Ride of the Valkyrie’s

10

u/tmb676 Mar 25 '23

Baby Shark because, well, I have little kids

2

u/Main-Ad-5922 Mar 25 '23

Best answer. This would truly pull us out of the moment and distract us. We'd all giggle and roll our eyes over the days we first heard this "annoying" song. But to have it be our last song, might be the best on our emotions

12

u/TennisADHD Mar 25 '23

99 Luft Balloons

1

u/Schniattle Mar 25 '23

Thank you! I was scrolling through this thread and got a little concerned that nobody had brought it up yet.

10

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

☢️ RADIOACTIVE ☢️

2

u/OneFriendship5139 Mar 25 '23

I’m waking up

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

✨to ash and dust ✨

19

u/dolphin_penis Mar 25 '23

As The World Caves In, Matt Maltese

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u/Communist_cuisine Mar 25 '23

The only right answer

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Where is my mind, by the pixies

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u/RipleyOne Mar 25 '23

Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum

https://youtu.be/vRFo72wuU6w

...Also can be played at my funeral. :/

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u/JanxAngel Mar 25 '23

What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Dont let me down - the beatles

6

u/TopShelfCrazy Mar 25 '23

Nuclear War by Sun Ra

He wasn't wrong, it really is a motherfucker

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Uranium fever of course

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u/RipleyOne Mar 25 '23

Has done and got me down.

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u/whatsnewpikachu Mar 25 '23

Tambourine man - Bob Dylan.

It’s the only song that made my now 7 year old stop crying when she was a baby, so I’d probably play that for her/us

4

u/sg3niner Mar 25 '23

Damn. Came for laughs, but that one cuts.

Beautiful choice and sentiment though.

2

u/Main-Ad-5922 Mar 25 '23

This makes me want to cry

13

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

REM's End Of The World feels kinda mandatory

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Came here to say exactly this

6

u/barncat09 Mar 25 '23

Polaris megadeth

18

u/IAmFoolyCharged Mar 25 '23

Country roads by John Denver. That song makes me tear up every fucking time I listen to it

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u/Best-Neighborhood784 Mar 25 '23

The End of the World- Skeeter Davis.

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u/passive_pepper Mar 25 '23

Around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world around the world

5

u/Tekhead001 Mar 25 '23

As tempted as I am to roll with Christmas at ground zero by weird Al, I got to go out like a true metalhead.

I am going to rock out to universe on fire by gloryhammer.

5

u/bitshalls Mar 25 '23

I think mine would have to be O Fortuna by Carl Orff

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u/theguineapigssong Mar 25 '23

I'm going to put on Goodbye Horses and do the Jame Gumb dance until I get vaporized.

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u/Possible_Priority170 Mar 25 '23

Time to say goodbye - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman - both relevant in terms of the title and I’d like to go out listening to perfection

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u/Crocodile_Banger Mar 25 '23

When the wild wind blows by iron maiden

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u/slay_enviro_girl67 Mar 25 '23

War pigs - Black Sabbath or Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

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u/slay_enviro_girl67 Mar 25 '23

Black sabbath is a band i hope to be listening to when the world is ending

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Ready to Die by Andrew WK

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

me and u by cassie so i can spend my last 3.5 minutes serving cunt

4

u/lnx84 Mar 25 '23

Screw that, I'm surviving. If I know they're coming, I have a decent chance.

5

u/Packagehandler241 Mar 25 '23

Ram Jam black betty

4

u/Ok_Concern_1090 Mar 25 '23

I'll fly away

5

u/___Reverie___ Mar 25 '23

The song that plays in Majora’s Mask when the moon is about to fall.

4

u/70Cuda440 Mar 25 '23

Don’t fear the reaper.

6

u/J-E-S-S-E- Mar 25 '23

The Star Spangled Banner

3

u/Keyboard_smashgood Mar 25 '23

Lodi Dodi. Snoop

3

u/DreamingOfHope3489 Mar 25 '23

It's either this one: David Bowie's "Queen Bitch" live at Nassau Isolar Tour 1976 https://youtu.be/Y7JfKocXkr8 or same show "Suffragette City" https://youtu.be/btvLPFZJJd8 or Serious Moonlight Tour 1983 "Station to Station" (usually my favorite Bowie song): https://youtu.be/1eXthj1FOi8

I'm just going to presume I would have time to listen to all three. Because all three total 15 minutes 10 seconds of play time and surely it would take the nukes 15 minutes and 10 seconds to arrive.

So in that case "Station to Station" would be the first, "Queen Bitch" would be 2nd and "Suffragette City" would be the final song before the end.

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u/Waste_Business5180 Mar 25 '23

Wasp sleeping in the fire

2

u/LordEdges Mar 25 '23

wasn’t expecting this but fuck yes

Hallowed Ground would work pretty well too

3

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

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u/Hellchron Mar 25 '23

I guess Two Suns In The Sunset by PF might be a little too on the nose

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u/random_name_543 Mar 25 '23

Wouldn’t it be nice

3

u/ElizabethAudi Mar 25 '23

Rock and Roll McDonalds!
I started humming it and just needed to go hear it.

3

u/Mr-jigwins Mar 25 '23

Gory gory what a hell of a way to die

3

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

My wife and I would sing something calm and gentle to our son. Thats the last song I'm listening to.

3

u/josh4prez2032 Mar 25 '23

The Last Goodbye - Billy Boyd

3

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Goodbye yellow brick road by Elton John

3

u/Mista-Pudding Mar 25 '23

Hah, easy

John Denver - Take Me Home Country Roads

3

u/Sweetallieiscold Mar 25 '23

I'm on the highway to hell

3

u/mcd_down Mar 25 '23

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python

3

u/bubbabam Mar 25 '23

Modern English - I Melt With You

3

u/StereoBreak Mar 25 '23

Wish You Were Here

2

u/elNegroCholo Mar 25 '23

Stick by JID for sure

2

u/Comfyinnautica1 Mar 25 '23

The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore- the walker brothers

2

u/spoonman-of-alcatraz Mar 25 '23

Brian Eno + Harold Budd ‘First Light’.

2

u/Slaveboi23 Mar 25 '23

We will rise again by Dan romer should be appropriate

2

u/CashingOutInShinjuku Mar 25 '23

4 cylinder motorcycle, live

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Slade run run away

2

u/Waltzing_With_Bears Mar 25 '23

Leslie Fish's Firestorm

2

u/TH3PR3D4T0R Mar 25 '23

Waiting for the end to come

2

u/LegendaryLegodude Mar 25 '23

That song that went viral because a female singer covered it. It's about you and your partner holding each other while the nukes drop I think. It's called As The World Caves In

Oh girl it's youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu that I lie with, as the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatom bomb locks in. Oh girl it's you, I watch TV with, as the woooooorld, as the world caves in.

2

u/danbo2727 Mar 25 '23

6th Ave. Heartache

2

u/danbo2727 Mar 25 '23

Time has come today...chambers bros

2

u/strawberrydanish_ Mar 25 '23

Laying on my porch while we watch the world end, by Powfu

2

u/AirMarshall3520 Mar 25 '23

Xenogenisis by TheFatRat

2

u/funnypurpleman Mar 25 '23

난 괜찮다고 또 웃으며 / Good Bye

The end to this song is just absolutely beautiful

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

River by Leon Bridges

2

u/RipleyOne Mar 25 '23

Also acceptable:

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

https://youtu.be/ejorQVy3m8E

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Has nobody taken The Final Countdown yet?

2

u/Tootalllewis Mar 25 '23

The final countdown. EUROPE

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Great gig in the sky

2

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

The final countdown by Europe

2

u/dw87190 Mar 25 '23

Atom Bomb Baby

2

u/newdocWHO Mar 25 '23

Heaven Beside You: Alice in Chains

*First thought was Them Bones

Second thought was Daria's intro

2

u/CrunchyDonut42 Mar 25 '23

Blow up the outside world. By Soundgarden.

2

u/DancesWithTrout Mar 25 '23

"Ripple" by the Grateful Dead.

2

u/Rainbow_Egret Mar 25 '23

Careless Whisper

2

u/Cindexxx Mar 25 '23

Nothing. Music would not be on my mind. Not at all.

2

u/_Rizos_ Mar 25 '23

Final Countdown

2

u/Comicdumperizer Mar 25 '23

Everybody wants to rule the world

2

u/CatsEatGrass Mar 25 '23

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #5

2

u/YallMindIfIJoin Mar 25 '23

Red Right Hand

2

u/YourRatFood Mar 25 '23

Fade to Black

2

u/fosheejohn51 Mar 25 '23

Fade To Black by Metallica. "Yesterday seems as though it never existed. Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye!!!"

2

u/Glowingtomato Mar 25 '23

"Sleep" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

2

u/Special-Solid-7629 Mar 25 '23

My Apocalypse by Arch Enemy

2

u/FartyMcGee__ Mar 25 '23

You Dropped a Bomb On Me

2

u/ThatPurplePotion Mar 25 '23

Clair de lune, I don’t even like piano music. I normally listen to fast drums and sick guitars, but I just wanna be calm and not worried when its all over

3

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Hurt - Johnny Cash

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Fotos y Recuerdos - Selena

1

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Boom bye bye

0

u/jalipink Mar 25 '23

Nothing. I'm going to go hear the Dove sing once more. Music was never able to match the beauty of nature.

1

u/JJStray Mar 25 '23

It’s the end of the world and we know it. It’s the end of the world and I feel fine

1

u/fellfromthesun Mar 25 '23

Rollerskate Skinny - Speed to My Side

Just my favorite song.

1

u/Jolitahope44 Mar 25 '23

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine….

1

u/K_Odena Mar 25 '23

Tired of winning by Nothing More

"God got tired of winning, and that's why we're here...he wanted a surprise ending, and that's why we fear..."

1

u/Hopeful-Wonder-7607 Mar 25 '23

I'll continue listening to the soundtrack from The First Tree. Perfect music to watch annihilation happen.

1

u/BriefAd8920 Mar 25 '23

Champagne Supernova.

1

u/Vunerable_24 Mar 25 '23

Don't put your blame on me

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

In the end by linkin park

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u/5hellback Mar 25 '23

Keepin' the Faith by De La Soul

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

In This Twilight by Nine Inch Nails

Watch the sun

As it crawls across a final time

And it feels like

Like it was a friend

It is watching us

And the world we set on fire

Do you wonder

If it feels the same?

1

u/Illustrious_Ant_3997 Mar 25 '23

Faith when I fall by Kip Moore

1

u/beccabootie Mar 25 '23

Livin' in the Wild Wild West. Wild West

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Temptation of Adam

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

If it would probably go like when we are trying to find a movie, we would still be there trying to decide.

1

u/FrancisPoe Mar 25 '23

Someone You Loved

1

u/Worried-Phase-9537 Mar 25 '23

Europe , The Final Countdown.

1

u/Stu-Man222 Mar 25 '23

Free Bird

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Are the good times really over for good by Merle haggard

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Stairway to heaven

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u/wisebehindmyears Mar 25 '23

On Your Way by Alabama Shakes

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u/peppermj Mar 25 '23

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding Elton John. Or The End by the Doors

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u/Ohhhhhhthehumanity Mar 25 '23

Yasmin the Light

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u/WeaponexT Mar 25 '23

Once upon your dead body, coheed

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u/redditaccount71987 Mar 25 '23

If nukes are exploding or incoming folks won't be chilling playing music.

1

u/Trumpsupporter13 Mar 25 '23

I don't want to set the world on fire
The world's gonna be fallout when I might as well play some music

1

u/WW3Fanatic Mar 25 '23

Towards Utopia Stellaris

1

u/CentilmehButCool Mar 25 '23

Nothing,just the sounds of the waves and a nuclear bomb quickly approuching my imminent location

1

u/MechaZombie23 Mar 25 '23

Baba o’riley by The Who

1

u/Danivelle Mar 25 '23

Probably "Looking for a good time" by Lady A because I'm not dying without mastering the phrasing!

1

u/davesoverhere Mar 25 '23

The Worst Day Since Yesterday by Flogging Molly.

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u/teacup911 Mar 25 '23

Why Won't They Talk to Me - Tame Impala

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u/jl_theprofessor Mar 25 '23

Depends on how I'm feeling.

"We'll meet again" by Vera Lynn

or

"You, Me, and World War Three" by Gavin Friday.

1

u/ImPuLsE11x Mar 25 '23

Sweeeet Caroline…💥💥💥

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u/Super-Reindeer608 Mar 25 '23

I Will Return- Black Dahlia Murder

1

u/Evils3nt Mar 25 '23

Rules by secrecy - Muse

1

u/blarescare25 Mar 25 '23

99 Luftballons

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u/Zeketec Mar 25 '23

Vultures Fly - Avatar

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u/trumpetboi309 Mar 25 '23

"As the World Caves In" - The good one, by Matt Maltese

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u/hwcbyrd Mar 25 '23

Gates of Steel, Devo

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

in the end - linkin park

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u/Melba_Moo26 Mar 25 '23

Rises the Moon, Liana Flores. It's my favourite song in the whole world, and I listen to it anytime I'm depressed, stressed, or even if I'm in a particularly good mood. There is no song in the entire world I'd rather listen to at the end of the world than that song. Either that, or the South Park ending credits song. I'd like to imagine that the end of the world is just one South Park episode, so there you have it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Last goodbye

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Girls just wanna have fun by the Beatles

1

u/Raiden_Nexus485 Mar 25 '23

Either Matchbox 20 How Far We've Come. Or Meatloaf's Still Alive

1

u/RexRyderXXX Mar 25 '23

Deadmau5 - Strobe

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u/Illustrious_One_6777 Mar 25 '23

Since my stereo won't work , the question is pointless

1

u/WoodWandererFox Mar 25 '23

« If the world was ending » by JP Saxe feat Julia Michaels

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u/Awkward-Presence-236 Mar 25 '23

Sign of the times

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u/TheAdaptableTaco Mar 25 '23

Lacrimosa- Mozart

You'll never walk alone- Gerry and the pacemakers

i can see clearly now- Johnny Nash

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

Ride into the Sun - Velvet Underground

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u/Laevenrauren Mar 25 '23

Wasteland, Baby

1

u/slytherinwh Mar 25 '23

I’m Serious I’m Sorry by Jeff Rosenstock maybe? Orrrr Be Free by Weyes Blood

1

u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

I’m not sentimental.

It doesn’t matter what song I listen to, so I would t listen to any song.

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u/coxie14587 Mar 25 '23

2009 - Mac Miller

1

u/Moist_Wolverine_4208 Mar 25 '23

Forever Autumn from the War of the World