"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." -Albert Einstein
A mixtape about nuclear war. When I was growing up in the 1980s, I really felt that there was not going to be a future. It just seemed inevitable. What better way to deny the inevitable than with a dance party?
Of course we didn't know to much later that the Russians were cooking the books and that by the end of the decade they'd be insolvent and the Cold War would be over. Any young person these days probably think it was all very ridiculous.
But it did produce some great songs:
- Anne Clark - Poem for a Nuclear Romance
- Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Enola Gay
- The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
- Psychic TV - Eve ov Destruction
- Fischerspooner - We Need a War
- Time Zone (feat. Afrika Bambata and John Lydon) - World Destruction
- Sting - The Russians
- Nena - 99 Luftballoons
- Alphaville - Forever Young
- Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
- Sun Ra - Nuclear War
- Colonel Bagshot - Six Day War
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