Atomic Platters, Baby!

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Absolutely amazing collection of Cold War tracks about atomic weapons.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000A5HJ86.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1141166830_.jpg

These are the ones with an Atom Bomb, Baby! theme, but really a place to discuss any of these curiosities.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
George McKelvey - My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) 1
Fay Simmons - You Hit Me Baby Like an Atom Bomb 0
Amos Milburn - Atomic Baby 0
The Five Stars - Atom Bomb Baby 0
Skip Stanley - Satellite Baby 0
Roosevelt Skyes - Sputnik Baby 0
Linda Hayes with The Red Callender Sextet - Atomic Baby 0
Dude Martin and His Round-Up Gang - Atom Bomb Baby 0
The Jewels - B. Bomb Baby 0


Mordy, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)

The last might have to win for the title alone.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4Uri9H_Ds

Atom bomb baby, little atom bomb
I want her in my wigwam
She's just the way I want her to be
A million times hotter than TNT

Mordy, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

we never had it better
than in the anderson shelter
stepping to the geiger groove

Devil Mo (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

Your clothes look like a sack to me
And your hair, your hair is gettin’ thin
But I thought I saw when you came back to me
That it had cleared up your skin!

So wo wo, hold me close my darling
‘Cause I know what you’ve got
My Geiger counter, dear
Tells me that you’re hot, ha ha
You’re my radiation baby
You’re my teenage fallout quee hee hee hee

Mordy, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

You went back for my class ring
Where you left it in the pa aa aa aa ark
Now when it’s on your finger dear
It glow wo wo wo wo wo wos in the dark

Mordy, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:55 (fourteen years ago)

i wrote a song a few years back called "Sweethearts of the Fallout" set in an alternative universe where the bomb did happen some time in the late '70s, but by the 00's the kids decide they're gonna have a fallout revival and start fetishising it in a retro way while their parents roll their eyes.

Devil Mo (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

Haha, been youtubing a bunch of these all day today after you mentioned it last night, Mordy. Love it so much.

emil.y, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

The spoken word stuff is incredible too like Groucho Marx's "Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances" about how if you prepare, you and your loved ones too can survive the bomb drop!

Mordy, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

Mike Russo - Agnes (the Teenage Russian Spy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNwI302-0So

emil.y, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

Luke, The Drifter - No, No Joe! (nb Luke, the Drifer was a nom de plume of Hank Williams)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh378oyTQWQ

Mordy, Saturday, 14 May 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

Hm, not sure I ever decided which one was my favourite...

emil.y, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

lol, highly attended poll

Mordy, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

Vastly underrated thread, imo.

emil.y, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:45 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Well when she told me that she loved me for the rest of her days
Her words banished all my fears
‘Cause her half-life is 4.67
Times 10 to the 9th power here

Yes, and she's my fallout filly
With the atomic kiss, yea-hah!
So we'll hole up together
In a shelter of eternal bliss

Mordy, Monday, 21 May 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Bump for a new Fallout game arriving

Purves Grundy (kingfish), Monday, 9 November 2015 22:35 (ten years ago)

Game, hell. Bump for Trident missile launch over California - November 7, 2015

how's life, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:43 (ten years ago)

Not until they put out snappy pop tunes about it

Purves Grundy (kingfish), Monday, 9 November 2015 23:01 (ten years ago)


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