Songs about NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE!!!!!!!!!!

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Inspired by this thread - NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE!!!!!!!!! And how you'd deal with one...

List apocalypse songs!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Two Tribes!
Atomic!
Glad It's All Over!
Seven Minutes To Midnight!
Five Minutes To Midnight!
Two Minutes To Midnight!
Man At C&A!
99 Red Balloons!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)

99 Red Balloons! Wow!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Nagasaki Nightmare!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

The War Song!
Political Science!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Four Minute Warning!

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:23 (twenty years ago)

A couple of novelty songs:

"Christmas at Ground Zero" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
"We'll All Go Together When We Go" - Tom Lehrer

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:25 (twenty years ago)

1999 by Prince ?

― jazzamatazz (Sean Miguel), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:56 (twenty years ago)

"Nuclear War"
If you push that button (if you push that button)
Your ass gonna go (your ass gonna go)
If you push that button (if you push that button)
Your ass gonna go (your ass gonna go)
What you gonna look like
With no ass! (no ass!)

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

"When the world is running down, you get the best of what's left around" and "Omega Man" by The Police

Oh, and this http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Atomic-Basie-Count/dp/B000005GX2

The best album cover ever!

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Russians!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Sting had a thing for it, didn't he?

And he took this totally egotistical line that it would be kind of good being the last man left alive.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:57 (twenty years ago)

it's a motherfucker, don't you know...

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Do you remember that "Life in the European Theatre" CND benefit album. I used to like that when I was a kid. I miss growing up with the constant threat of the extinction of the human race!

http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=282442

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Young Marble Giants - Final Day

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Five Years by Bowie?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

Your Love Is Like Nuclear Waste - Tuff Darts

http://www.tommyfrenzy.com/TDalbumcover.jpg

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

pink floyd - 'two suns in the sunset'

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

"Atomic Punk" - Van Halen

― treechewer (Maximillions), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/48/0000238448/38/imgdb812886ndhmzk.jpeg

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Tom T Hall "Poor Planet Earth"

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, apparently it was SONNY HALL that did Poor Planet Earth.
Great song, from the International Artists "Epitaph for a Legend" 2lp.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

kate - breathing

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

― ONIMO's lips can't feel! (GerryNemo), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Everyday Is Like Sunday!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 20 October 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

From another thread:

Weird Al - Christmas at Ground Zero

― someteenpartying (someteenpartying), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

The Postal Service - We Become Silhouettes
Kingston Trio - The Merry Minuet

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Some suggestions may be found on this thread: C90 - 1980s Cold War/nuclear paranoia

― LC (Damian), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Ronnie Talk To Russia

― hank (hank s), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Like-Atom-Bomb-Apocalyptic-Songs/dp/B00019FWF8

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

This entire box set

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/600/603814.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

"8.5 Minutes" by The Dismemberment Plan
"If the World Should End in Fire" by Handsome Family
"It's Not the End of the World?" by Super Furry Animals
"Dead Flag Blues" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

― ryborg3k (Badarts), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan - Talkin World War III Blues

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Jefferson Airplane (or Crosby, Stills & Nash) - Wooden Ships
Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom, I'm Off To Drop The Bomb
All these weird songs Ursula K. LeGuin and someone did to accompany her book Always Coming Home (I have the cassette somewhere)

― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

"The New Stone Age" - OMD

― Andrew Aiken (aaiken), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

"Glad It's All Over" - Captain Sensible

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

"This World Over" - XTC

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Jefferson Airplane - "The House at Pooneil Corners"

and whoever did that noxious "Dawn of Correction" song

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 21 October 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Eve Of Destruction ffs!

I read Geir's post as *Glad All Over*

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 21 October 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

The entire Killing Joke catalog.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

No "London Calling" yet?

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Saturday, 21 October 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

"Party at Ground Zero" - Fishbone
"The Sun is Burning" - Simon & Garfunkel

― mat maiellro (chelvis), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Jefferson Starship - "Rose Goes to Yale" and "Champion" from Nuclear Furniture. "In the aftermath of atomic fire, she'll carry us through next year ..."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 22 October 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Scars, "Your Attention Please"

― because no one else was going to mention it. (krushsister), Sunday, 22 October 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, and "It's A Mistake" by Men At Work! Maybe the best one of all, even if the apocalypse is only kind of vaguely hinted at.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Colonel Poo -
i remember taping that Young Marble Giants' song off Sir John Peel's show in about 81/82.I used to listen to it on a loop. It was so haunting at the time. I was 13/14 and it hit me a lot. I was shit scared of the bomb

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Mojo Nixon, "Gonna Put My Face On A Nuclear Bomb"

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

if you live in japan, we could make an argument for "Enola Gay"

― davelus (davelus), Monday, 23 October 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Nuclear attack by Greg Lake (I think this one was written by Gary Moore).

"You'll never come back/From a nuclear attack!"

― Romolo Tobias (Romolo), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

due to recent events

Stahlnetz - vor all den jahren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqbH14xPmmo

― meisenfek, Monday, 16 June 2014 05:47 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Thomas Köner - novaya zemlya 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiCF4obRfzQ

― meisenfek, Friday, 4 November 2016 10:37 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

The Ink Spots - i dont want to set the world on fire (Fallout 3 OST)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvsmho1lGA

― meisenfek, Thursday, 24 March 2022 06:44 (four years ago)

Lots of good samples in M.A.D. By Sigue Sigue Sputnik!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0JniNX1OCg "> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0JniNX1OCg

― christopher.ivan, Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:48 (four years ago)

Ugh - 2nd link works in above post…

― christopher.ivan, Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:50 (four years ago)

I've had the Minutemen "paranoid chant" stuck in my head for the past month:
"I try to work, and I keep thinking of World War III
I try to talk to girls and I keep thinking of World War III
The goddamned six o'clock news makes sure I keep thinking of World War III
I got a mile of numbers and a ton of stats of warheads. A billion Chinese with warheads
I don't even worry about crime any more
So many goddamned scared faces
I keep thinking of Russia, of Russia
Paranoid, stuck on overdrive
Paranoid, scared shitless"

― BrianB, Thursday, 24 March 2022 12:31 (four years ago)

I have an exceptionally long playlist of nuclear war songs. A few years ago my radio show did a Nuclear Winterval special which contains a fair number of them (some mentioned on this thread already, some not).

― emil.y, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:15 (four years ago)

Tracklist for those who don't want to click through:
Art Bears - Freedom
Lowell Blanchard With The Valley Trio - Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
Anne Waldman - Uh-Oh Plutonium
The Buchanan Brothers - Atomic Power
Moranbong Band - Without A Break
Joseph Beuys - Sonne Statt Reagan
Negativland - Time Zones
Clams Casino - Cold War
Etron Fou Leloublan - La Java Des Bombes Atomiques
Louvin Brothers - The Great Atomic Power
Re Styles & The Final Rinse - The Nuclear Beauty Parlor
Monia - Nuclear War
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda - Atomic Nightmare
Peter Scott Peters - Fallout Shelter
The Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb
Piero Umiliani - Finalissimo Atomico
William Onyeabor - Atomic Bomb
Scars - Your Attention Please
Negativland - An Actual Attack
Tom Lehrer - We’ll All Go Together When We Go
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Drinking Electricity - Cruising Missiles
The Electronic Circus - Direct Lines
Bruce Haack - War
Trouble Funk - Drop The Bomb
Doris Norton - Protect And Survive
Can - Mushroom
Elf With Wound - Fissions of Sugarplums
The Future - Nuclear Holocaust
Asha Puthli - Fall Out Dust
Righeira - Vamos A La Playa
The Dead C - Suffer Bomb Damage
This Heat - Suffer Bomb Disease
Katie Gately - Last Day
Sheldon Allman - Crawl Out Through The Fallout
Klaus Nomi - After The Fall

― emil.y, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:17 (four years ago)

lovely list, thank you.

― meisenfek, Thursday, 24 March 2022 17:03 (four years ago)

randy newman - political science

― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 March 2022 17:09 (four years ago)

no Timbuk 3 in this thread? what "future's so bright" meant was like the first cool secret knowledge I had

― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Thursday, 24 March 2022 21:07 (four years ago)

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