Don't Join This Crowd

 

Well, this is the latest in an ongoing series of pop songs inspired by or relating to nukes, atomic power, and the fears and expectations surrounding such.

01 - Early Warning - Standing Waves - 1979  (3:18)

02 - London Calling - The Clash - 1979  (3:20)

03 - Radioactivity - The Aircuts - 1980  (2:58)

04 - Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys - 1980  (3:04)

05 - Hiroshima - Utopia - 1977  (7:16)

06 - Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd - 1979  (2:48)

07 - Neutron Bomb - Controllers - 1978  (2:05)

08 - Atomic Love - Thelma Farmer and Hal McKinney Orchestra - 1962  (2:31)

09 - Four Minute Warning - Chaos UK - 1982  (2:22)

10 - All I Want for Xmas Is a Neutron Bomb - The Razor Gang - 1982  (2:09)

11 - Eve of Destruction - Bonnie Parker - 1982  (3:23)

12 - Microwave Radiation - Xterminators - 1980  (3:16)

13 - The Survivor - St Vitus Dancers - 1982  (3:12)

14 - Seconds - U2 - 1983  (3:12)

15 - Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath - 1970  (4:53)

16 - Euroshima - PVC - 1984  (3:01)

17 - Bombs and Rockets Go on Bye - Carl Ruth and His Harmony Boys - 1959  (2:39)

18 - Gimme That Neutron Taste - Bleach Boys - 1982  (2:01)

19 - 1945 (Posh Boy version) - Social Distortion - 1981  (1:51)

20 - Chernobyl Song - Battery Farley - 1986  (2:40)

21 - The Russians Are Coming! - AD 1984 - 1979  (2:37)

22 - My Girl's Radioactive - Pink Steel - 1981  (3:21)

23 - The Great Atomic Power - The Louvin Brothers - 1958  (2:39)

24 - Radio Activate (demo) - Still a House - 1986  (2:02)

25 - Radiation - Excellent Accident - 1987  (3:49)

26 - I'm in Love With a Mutant - Sonny Adams - 1961  (1:46)

Only you fine folks can tell me if my labors are in vain.

  

MA-194 - The Mushroom Crowd

Well, that's the end of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY.  See you on Monday!

  

Leopard Says March This Way!

Yep, it's the third silly anthology of Beatles-related pop songs.

01 - Yeh Yeh We Love Them All - Little Cheryl - 1964  (2:11)

02 - I Understand Them (A Love Song to the Beatles) - The Patty Cakes - 1964  (2:44)

03 - Santa Bring Me Ringo - Christine Hunter - 1964  (2:36)

04 - Come Back Beatles - Lipstick - 1976  (3:24)

05 - Beatle Tribute - Billy Preston - 1984  (3:19)

06 - Beatles Please Come Back - Gigi Parker and the Lonelies - 1964  (2:20)

07 - My Girl's Been Bitten by the Beatle Bug - Annie and the Orphans - 1964  (2:01)

08 - The Invasion - Buchanan and Greenfield - 1964  (2:57)

09 - Ringo for President - The Young World Singers - 1964  (2:38)

10 - Only Seventeen - The Beattle-ettes - 1964  (2:01)

11 - Beatle Mania - Donny Rae & the Defiants - 1964  (1:44)

12 - (Buggs vs. Beetles) I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Buggs - 1964  (2:09)

13 - A Letter to the Beatles - The Four Preps - 1964  (2:54)

14 - My Boyfriend Got a Beatle Haircut - Donna Lynn - 1964  (2:13)

15 - Interview with the Fab Four - Harv Moore - 1965  (1:58)

16 - I'm as Old as Paul McCartney - Mike Berry - 1980  (2:48)

17 - The Beetle - Gary Usher - 1964  (1:56)

18 - Like Ringo - Wildfang, the Band with 1,001 Names - 1984  (1:33)

19 - Beatle Fever - Bret & Terry - 1964  (2:01)

20 - I Wanna Cut Your Hair - Howard Morrison & Hu Hu's - 1964   (2:13)

21 - Beatle Maniacs - Ray Ruff and the Checkmates - 1964   (1:55)

22 - The Beatle Bounce - Bobby Comstock and the Counts - 1964  (1:58)

23 - The Other Ringo - Larry Finnegan - 1964  (2:14)

24 - My Beatle Haircut - The Twiliters - 1964  (2:27)

25 - I Just Shot John Lennon - The Cranberries - 1996  (2:41)

26 - Sgt Pepper's Epitaph - Keith Green - 1970  (2:44)

27 - (Don't Let Her Use) That Ticket to Ride - The Bossmen - 1965  (2:41)

28 - Long Live Love - The Banana Splits - 1969  (2:29)

29 - Let's Beetle in the Rocket - Ronny Davis - 1964  (2:50)

30 - You Can't Do That - Harry Nilsson - 1967  (2:17)

Can you name all the pop-culture icons shown on THIS cover?

MA-202 - Marching Leopard's Phony Fart Cub Band

See you on Thursday for the last post of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY. A little fallout music, maestro!