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Lehrer’s popular song about nuclear proloferation was written in 1964, when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had been rapidly improving their nuclear arsenal, and France and the U.K. had
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Tom Lehrer released “Who's Next?” in July 1965.
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By Thomas Dolby (1982) "Come Away Melinda" By Bobbie Gentry (1968) "Countdown to Extinction" by Megadeth (1992) "Countdown to Zero" By Asia (1985) "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" By Sheldon Allman (1960) "Cries of Help" By Discharge (1982) "Cruise" By David Gilmour (1984) "Cruise Missiles" By Fischer-Z (1981) "Cuando Seas Grande" By Miguel ...
- Prince, "1999" From: 1999(1982) In 1981, Prince included a song in his Controversy album called "Ronnie, Talk to Russia." A year later he revisited the subject of nuclear annihilation in the title track of his breakthrough album, 1999.
- Sting, "Russians" From: The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985) Sting wasn't exactly subtle on this bummer of a single from his solo debut. How's this for the opening lines of a radio singalong?
- Nena, "99 Luftballons" From: Nena(1983) The German quintet Nena had a huge hit in Europe with "99 Luftballons," an antiwar song about a group of balloons mistaken for UFOs that leads to a full-scale world war after militaries get involved.
- Bob Dylan, "Talkin' World War III Blues" From: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) It helps to poke a little fun in the face of death. That's pretty much the attitude take on Bob Dylan's "Talkin' World War III Blues."
Mar 30, 2016 · Here are 20 songs all about the nuclear annihilation in honor of The A.V. Club’s Cold War Week. 2. “The Great Atomic Power,” The Louvin Brothers (1962) The disturbing use of atomic power to ...
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark – “Enola Gay”
- Peter Gabriel – “Games Without Frontiers”
- Kate Bush – “Breathing”
- The Police – “When The World Is Running Down
- The Specials – “Man at C&A”
- XTC – “Living Through Another Cuba”
- The Clash – “Ivan Meets G.I. Joe”
- Prince – “Ronnie, Talk to Russia”
- Abba – “The Vistors”
- After The Fire – “Der Kommissar”
There are a lot of songs on this list that sound infectious and poppy while conveying some very dark subject matter. In “Enola Gay,” that contrast is pretty severe. Every part of this song, especially the main synth line that anchors it, is a danceable earworm, but all of that is a propulsive delivery mechanism for a meditation on nuclear war via h...
Though not explicitly about the Cold War exactly, “Games Without Frontiers” often registers as one of the iconic songs influenced by the politics of the era, and it features the pairing of two iconic artists: Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. Inspired by a European game show where teams from different nations competed in ridiculous competitions, Gabriel...
The same year she appeared on “Games Without Frontiers,” Bush offered her own haunting track inspired by the times. “Breathing” was told from the perspective of a fetus in a mother’s womb, taking in the outside world. “We’ve lost our chance/ We’re the first and the last/ After the blast/ Chips of plutonium/ Are twinkling in every lung,” Bush sings ...
A characteristic Police offering, this is a catchy and groove-driven track that’s also one of countless ’80s songs that isn’t necessarily about anything on the surface but is actually influenced by the darkness hanging over everything at the decade’s opening. It’s actually told from some kind of post-apocalyptic landscape, the narrator listing his ...
“Warning! Warning! Nuclear attack!” is how the Specials’ “Man At C&A” begins, and it remains pretty explicit about its intentions from there, between references to World War III, the news from Moscow, and Mickey Mouse talking to the Ayatollah. The key lines, however, are “I’m the man in gray, I’m just the man at C&A/ And I don’t have a say in the w...
Like “Enola Gay,” XTC’s “Living Through Another Cuba” is another ’80s track that looks to past atomic era events to illuminate their current moment, this time the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Choosing one of the most precipitous chapters of the Cold War was an effective choice and leads up to a later lyric. When Andy Partridge sings “Russia and Am...
One of the most directly political artists on this list, the Clash had a lot of songs that were either influenced by or completely about the state of the world at the time. As far as the Cold War specifically goes, there’s the “nuclear era” line in “London Calling,” a lyrical allusion to the Doomsday Clock in “The Call Up,” an indictment of America...
Right in the middle of Prince’s new-wave funk album Controversy, perhaps one of his sleekest and sexiest albums, there was “Ronnie, Talk To Russia.” A brief, synth-y rave-up, it’s a bluntly political song complete with machine gun sound effects. “Ronnie, talk to Russia/ Before it’s too late … Before they blow up the world,” Prince sings over and ov...
Though ABBA’s final LP is known as their divorce album, its title track is allegedly a protest song about USSR’s mistreatment of dissidents in the late Cold War. Though its meaning was kept enigmatic at the time, the song is told from the perspective of a person inside, hearing people coming for her. It could be vague — the repetition of “Crackin’ ...
Originally cut by Austrian singer Falco, “Der Kommissar” was also made famous when the British band After The Fire made an English version. It’s one of the songs on this list that happens within the Cold War more than it is aboutthe Cold War. Supposedly, it’s partially about cocaine. But the title refers to a police captain in Berlin, and its narra...
The fact that the United States did not use nuclear weapons in the Korean War set the stage for future Cold War proxy fights, which tended to rely on conventional forces. Ultimately, the conflict codified the U.S. policy of containment and contributed to a considerable buildup of both conventional and nuclear weapons. Resources. Brands, H. W.
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Jul 17, 2009 · A new history of Soviet espionage in the United States during those critical pre-World War II years takes full advantage of a brief peek at one of the crown jewels of Cold War history, the brown ...
