C90 - 1980s Cold War/nuclear paranoia

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XTC - This World Over, Nena - 99 Luftballons

― Damian (Damian), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

I'm Afraid Of The Russians - christ, I can't actually remember the name of the band. Was it Flying Lizards?

― kate (kate), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

Nuclear Assault - anything

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:18 (twenty years ago) link

Sting - Russians (Obviously). His only decent solo track BTW.
Treponem Pal - Too Many Humans
Frankie - Two Tribes (Obviously, again)
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

etc. etc.

― Marcel Gallingez (Marcel Gallingez), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

Nik Kershaw: I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Captain Sensible: Glad It's All Over
Heaven 17: Let's All Make a Bomb

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:39 (twenty years ago) link

Prince 'Ronnie, Talk to Russia"
Prince "1999"
Fishbone "Party at Ground Zero"

― H (Heruy), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

A good chunk of Chameleons songs (but in particular, "Up the Down Escalator")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:37 (twenty years ago) link

Kate Bush - Breathing

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

'shiny shiny' from
haysi fantayzee should own
this thread, but doesn't

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

Fischer-Z=Cruise Missles

"They claim the ultimate solution.
To all the problems that we face.
It's pointing rockets at the Russians.
And hope they don't end up in Greece. All those
Cruise missiles (We're looking for those).
Cruise missiles (We're standing near those).
Cruise missiles (They're not 5 miles away)."

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

Weirdos-"We Got the Neutron Bomb"

― Trish! (Arthur), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

David Bowie-"Bombers"

― Trish! (Arthur), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

Ronnie talk to Russia before its too late
before its too late
before its too late
Ronnie talk to Russia before its too late
before they blow up the world
You go to the zoo, but you can't feed guerillas
can't feed guerillas
Left-wing guerillas
You can go to the zoo, but you can't feed guerillas
who wanna blow up the world

― Freedom Dupont, Monday, 1 September 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

The Sound, "Missiles"
B-Movie, "All Fall Down"

Was nuclear apocalypse the Babylon of UK postpunk?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

The whole the Sisters First and Last and Always album.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over

― F. Ranier, Monday, 1 September 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

Crazy Train? "Heirs to the cold war..."

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

Gillan - "And they call iiiit/ Mutually Assured Destructshaaaaaaaaan"

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

XTC - "Living through another queue-oo-oo ..... ba ba ba ba ba ba ba..."

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

Pink Floyd - 'Two Suns In The Sunset'

"And as the windscreen melts/ and my tears evaporate/ Leaving only charcoal to defend..."

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

David Bowie, "Fantastic Voyage"

"Ask" by the Smiths -- that's what nuclear paranoia is ALL ABOUT

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

Iron Maiden, "2 Minutes to Midnight"...TO KILL THE UNBORN IN THE WOOOOOOOOMB!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

Exploited - "Let's Start a War"

― H (Heruy), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

"Gay Bar" !!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Seven Seconds to Midnight - Wah Heat

― rub a soul, Monday, 1 September 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

Megadeth - Rust in Peace...Polaris
Megadeth - Tornado of Souls

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

Queensryche -- "Before the Storm"

hell, most of the tracks off the album, in one way or another.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

Minutemen, "Paranoid Chant"

"I try to talk to girls and I keep thinking about World War III!"

― unperson, Monday, 1 September 2003 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

Weird Al Yankovic - "Christmas At Ground Zero"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 1 September 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

The Happiest Guys in the World - The Cold War's Over

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

The Sneakers- "(Love's Like a) Cuban Crisis"

― Trish! (Arthur), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

Data-Fallout

― Paul R (paul R), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

sun ra - nuclear war (did that come out in the 80's? i first heard it in the 80's)

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

Killing is my business...and business is good!
Peace sells, but who's buying?
I get my political views from Megadeth album titles.

― Shmuel (shmuel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

"Think Again" (plus about a score of other Billy Bragg songs)

― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:03 (twenty years ago) link

Time Zone - World Destruction!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

One of Our Submarines, by Thomas Dolby.

Plenty of good old U2, particularly Unforgettable Fire.

This topic is the whole reason I started listening to music & reading books. U2 War- first album I owned.

― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

the specials' "man at C&A"

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

Midnight Oil: "Power and the Passion", "Best of Both Worlds"

― d.w., Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:32 (twenty years ago) link

In total shockah, no one says Roger Waters - 4 Minutes

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

Sun Ra - Nuclear War

― ModJ, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

Art Attacks - Neutron Bomb
Crass - Nagasaki Nightmare, Big A Little A
Crisis - Holocaust
Discharge - Protest & Survive
Killing Joke - Turn To Red, Requiem, Wardance, Tomorrow's World.... aah sod it - Alex In NYC to thread!
The Mob - Our Life Our World
1919 - After The Fall, Earth Song
Red Beat - Survival
Zounds - War

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

Elton John - Nikita

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

The Stranglers - Nuclear Device

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

.... not to mention Tank and Sweden of course

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

blondie's "atomic" was a 1980 single, so just scrapes in

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

ABSOLUTELY EVERY TRACK ON THE FIRST SEVEN ALBUMS BY KILLING JOKE, YOU FIRE-DISHONORING DOLTS!

`cept you, Stew, of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

"5 Minutes"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

By the Stranglers? That's about a break-in/murder.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

(not yet reading thread)

If somebody hasn't yet beat me to "Party at Ground Zero" I'm ashamed of you all.

(reads thread)

H I kiss you!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

oh and also "It's the End of the World As We Know It" by REM

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

"By the Stranglers? That's about a break-in/murder."

No, that single my Jerry Harrison and Bootsey collins featuring a loop of Reagan's "The bombing begins in five minutes..." speech.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

Oooh that's a fucking GREAT song...that's offa that one Jerry Harrison album with the people crawling in the mud on the cover, innit?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Nah, it came out as an EP by "Bonzo Goes To Washington" in 1984 (according to the AMG) Never saw the cover though, heard it on a tape.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

That reminds me of The Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitberg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

OMD -- "Enola Gay"

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

Fear - "Let's Start a War"
Fear - "Foreign Policy"
Circle Jerks - "Paid Vacation"
Circle Jerks - "Makin' the Bombs"
Men At Work - "It's a Mistake"
Sex Pistols - "Holiday in the Sun"
the Clash - "Ivan meets G.I. Joe"
...er..
Elton John - "Nikita"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

the motherlode

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:55 (twenty years ago) link

The russians are coming with The red squares

i second Young Marble Giants - Final Day
and
Arthur russell was also on Bonzo Goes To Washington" in 1984

― Jens (brighter), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:55 (twenty years ago) link

The Walls Came Down - The Call
If I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

XTC - Generals And Majors

― Damian (Damian), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Jethro Tull - "Fylingdale Flyer"! I found this on an old cassette tape at the weekend. Fantastic prog/pop tune.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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