You're All Aglow

 We got here a couple of Neutronical, Atomical, Positronical collections of pop music, one early and one latter.

MA-20 - The Fallout Follies:

1 - Talking Atom Pete Seeger  1947 

2 -  The Fall of the Planet Earth The Moonbillies 1960

3 - Talkin' World War III Blues Bob Dylan 1963

4 - Mushroom Clouds Love  1966

5 - Handsome Johnny Richie Havens 1967

6 - Thank Christ For The Bomb (edit) Groundhogs 1970

7 - King Of The World Steely Dan 1973

8 - Atom Satillite Del Byzanteens 1979

9 - Face The Fire Dan Fogelberg 1979

10 - Uh-Oh Plutonium Anne Waldman 1982

11 - Two Suns In The Sunset Pink Floyd 1983

12 - I Hate You (from STAR TREK IV) Edge of Ettiquette  1986

13 - After the War Gary Moore 1989

14 - The Bomb Song Corey Dwyer  1990

15 - Enola Gay Utah Phillips  1991

16 - Hot Frogs on the Loose Frank Small 1993

17 - Duct Tape John McCutcheon 2004

18 - Feed the Bomb Project Bluebird  2009

19 - Whistling in the Nuclear Wind Karl W Mahlmann 2011

20 - Time Enough at Last The Twilight Zone 1959

While waiting for time enough at last, beware of hot frogs on the loose!

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MA-106 - Uppin' Atom!:

01 - Got My Call Card - LB Lawson and James Scott Jr   1951  (3:27)

02 - Uranium Miner’s Boogie - Riley Walker and His Rockin-R-Rangers   1954   (2:53)

03 - Atomic Bounce - Johnny Latorre and the Rhythm Rockets   1955  (2:31)

04 - The Merry Minuet - Bud & Travis   1960  (1:53)

05 - Overseas Blues - Memphis Willie Borum   1961  (3:10)

06 - It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous   1965  (2:04)

07 - Thirteen Women - The Renegades   1966  (3:28)

08 - The World Beyond - Bobby Goldsboro   1968  (2:17)

09 - Fireside Favourite - Fad Gadget   1980  (4:22)

10 - Man at C&A - The Specials   1980  (3:35)

11 - Yes to the Neutron Bomb - The Moderates   1980  (4:15)

12 - Final Day - Young Marble Giants   1980  (1:40)

13 - Last Rockers - Vice Squad   1981  (4:16)

14 - Our Condition - FK9   1981  (2:38)

15 - Back in 1984 - Cerebral Hemorrhage   1984  (4:58)

16 - Pictures - Atoms for Peace   1985  (3:44)

17 - Atom Drum Bop - The Three Johns   1986  (4:10)

18 - Yellow, Black and Rectangular - Negativland   1987  (2:14)

19 - Discussing Missile Size - Dada   1988  (2:51)

20 - Symbols of Our Fear - Rage   1988  (3:31)

21 - We're So Small - The Epoxies   2002  (2:41)

22 - Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor) - Electric Six   2003  (1:16)

23 - Safe - M83   2004   (4:12)

You can take an Atomic Bounce into the World Beyond and be thankful that it's only fiction.  See you Thursday!

  

Two Spaced-Out Comps

Both of these comps contains songs about outer-space topics.

MA-22 - A Star to Steer By: Music from the Great Beyond:

1 - (When You) See Those Flying Saucers The Buchanan Brothers 1947

2 - Rocket Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones 1957

3 - Tiny Space Man Bill Carlisle 1957

4 - The Flying Saucer Goes West    Buchanan and Goodman 1958

5 - Outer Space Santa The Lennon Sisters 1958

6 - Mope-itty Mope Boss-Tones 1959

7 - Asteroid Hop Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra   1959

8 - Beep Beep Loiuis Prima 1959

9 - Beep, Beep Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans 1959

10 - UFOs Soul, Inc 1967

11 - Have You Seen The Saucers Jefferson Airplane 1970

12 - Supersonic Rocket Ship The Kinks 1972

13 - UFOs Undisputed Truth 1975

14 - Waiting For The UFOs Graham Parker 1979

15 - Flying Saucer Safari Suburban Lawns 1981

16 - The Alien song (for those who listen) Milla Jovovich 1994

17 - Subterranean Homesick Alien Radiohead 1997

18 - Fell In Love With An Alien The Kelly Family 1997

19 - Space Robot Five   Brave Saint Saturn 2000

20 - Outer Space Song Pinky and Perky 2002

21 - UFOs, Big Rigs And BBQ Mojo Nixon 2005

22 - Devil Woman From Outer Space Rezurex 2006

23 - Space Craze Rick McGuire 2006

24 - Pluto Clare and The Reasons 2007

25 - The Planet Mars The Corillions 2007

26 - Robot Monster Damon Alexander & the Ten Cent Rentals 2008

27 - The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)   They Might Be Giants 2009

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MA-220 - Cosmic Thoughts:

01 - Friction Heat - Bonnie Lou with Lew Douglas, His Orchestra and Chorus - 1958  (2:12)

02 - Science Friction - XTC - 1977  (3:12)

03 - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom - The Mask - 1967  (2:29)

04 - Our Spaceman Did Come Back - Jeff Hughes - 1963  (2:37)

05 - U.F.O. - Gene McKown - 1968  (2:19)

06 - Something Going On - The Unknown Band - 1979  (3:38)

07 - Florida Rocket (Number Ninety-Nine) - Charlie Hines - 1959  (2:00)

08 - Space Shuttle Stowaway - X-Dreams - 1984  (1:43)

09 - Journey to Mars - The Perfectors - 1979  (1:58)

10 - Satellite No 2 (unissued) - Carl Mann and the Kool Kats - 1957  (2:15)

11 - Space Ship Blues - Billy Lane - 1962  (2:26)

12 - Rockin' in the Rocket Room - Frances Langford - 1956  (2:33)

13 - Space Rock - Danny Valentine - 1960  (2:06)

14 - Man on the Moon - Shelly Stuart - 1976  (3:07)

15 - Strangers from the Sky - Kim Fowley - 1967  (2:55)

16 - The Last Astronaut - Slick Slavin - 1962  (3:43)

17 - Twisting on the Moon - Sammy Marshall - 1966  (1:55)

18 - A Surprise Visitor from Outer Space - The Five Crowns - 1959  (1:54)

19 - Monkey on the Moon - Gene Hall - 1962  (2:32)

20 - Gonna Build a Rocket - Galen Denny - 1958  (2:08)

21 - Rocket Ship - Vernon Green & the Medallions - 1960  (3:00)

22 - U.F.O. - The Monos! - 1979  (3:42)

23 - Moon Doll - Ralph Young - 1961  (2:30)

24 - Energy in Northampton - Linda Jardim - 1980  (3:23)

25 - Sirius - United Balls - 1980  (2:49)

26 - Girl from Mars - Rudy Gaddis and His Lone Star Rangers - 1954  (2:08)

27 - A Menacing Glow in the Sky - Player (1) - 1979  (3:06)

28 - Secret Saucer Man - Barry McGuire - 1968  (2:45)

Be aware that since these sources are physical media, surface noise is present in places!

Track 4, “Our Spaceman Did Come Back” is a riff on “My Boomerang Won’t come Back.”

Albert van Strongheart, “The Last Astronaut”  of Track 16, seems an impersonation of Jack Benny’s voice.

When you make it back from orbit, come back on Thursday for more music from the Excellent Eighties.

  

We're Splitting Up

 ... Or maybe coming together even stronger! It all depends on whether we're fissioning or fusioning. Think about it while listening to these atomic-or-nuclear-themed songs.

MA-11 - The A-Bomb B-List

1 - Atomic Bomb Blues Homer Harris  1946

2 -  Atomic Baby Amos Wilburn  1950

3 - Fujiyama Mama Wanda Jackson  1957

4 - God's Gonna Turn Us ToDust Johnny Tyler 1960

5 - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Bob Dylan 1962

6 - Eve of Destruction BarryMcGuire 1965

7 - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) Tom Lehrer 1965

8 - Electric Funeral Black Sabbath 1970

9 - Damnation Alley Hawkwind 1977

10 -   Your Love Is Like Nuclear Waste Tuff Darts 1978

11 - Nuclear Attack Gary Moore 1980

12  -   Fylingdale Flyer  Jethro Tull  1980

13 - Einstein A Go-Go Landscape 1981

14 -   Manhattan Project   Rush 1985

15 -   If the Bombs Fall Larry Norman 1986

16 -   Christmas at Ground Zero Weird Al Yankovic 1986

17 - Watchin' Joey Glow Steve Goodman 1989

18 -    Workin' at the Nuclear Power Plant Penny File 2002

19  -   Radiation Song The Aquabats 2002

20 -    Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile Heather Noel 2003

MA-13 - Splitting Mad: More Nuclear Numbers

1  Fireball Boogie Camille Howard  1948

2   Sh-Boom The Chords  1953

3  Watch World War Three (on Pay TV) Crown City Four 1960

4  The Sun Is Burning Simon & Garfunkel   1964

5  I Come And Stand At Every Door The Byrds  1966

6  Atomic Bombs Away Blues Creation  1971

7  Nuclear Blues Blood Sweat & Tears  1980

8  Your Attention Please Scars 1981

9  After the Rain Comsat Angels  1982

10  99 Red Balloons Nena  1983

11  Party at Ground Zero Fishbone  1985

12  Protect And Survive The Dubliners  1987

13  Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 1988

14  I Like Chinese Monty Python  1989

15  April 2031 Warrant  1992

16  Nuclear Supremacy  Dayglo Abortions  1995

17  Jesus Hits Like an Atomic Bomb Chanticleer  2004

18  Bring Back the Bomb GWAR 2004

19  Brighter Than A Thousand Suns Iron Maiden  2006

20  The Iranian Bomb Tal Gilad  2011

MA-18 - Goin' Fission!: Pop & Rock with a Long Half-Life

1  Jesus Is the First Line of Defense Pilgrim Travellers 1951

2  Atomic Kisses Earney Vandagriff 1955 

3 Hydrogen Bomb The Laurels 1961

4 The War Drags On Mick Softley 1965 

5 Atom and Evil General Electric 1966

6 Please Don't Drop That H-Bomb on Me Country Joe & The Fish 1967 

7 Wooden Ships Jefferson Airplane 1969

8 Political Science Randy Newman 1972

9 Nuclear Babies Oingo Boingo 1980

10 Let's All Make a Bomb Heaven 17 1981

11 Run Like a Villain Iggy Pop 1982 

12 World Suicide Defuser 1983

13 Uranium Rock The Cramps 1983

14 Surfin' USSR Ray Stevens 1988

15 The Bomb Lifesavers Underground 1992

16 Atomic Power Uncle Tupelo 1994

17 The Bomb Inside the Bomb We Are Scientists 2002

18 Nuclear Blues Frances Plante-Scott 2004

19 Bomb.Repeat.Bomb.1954 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 2007

20 Atomic Bomb Brian Butler 2008

21 Atom and Evil song Heaven and Hell 2009 

22 Atom Bomb Blues The Naptown Jug Busters 2009

Please remember that the viewpoints expressed in these songs may or may not be consonant with your own.

See you Monday with some more spies!

  

Givin' You Some Space

Herewith are three of my comps of music about space, aliens, and all that "out there" jazz.

MA-14 - A Saucerful of Songs: Space-Age Pop Music corrected link

1 Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer Joe Loss & His Orchestra 1949 

2 Rollicking Man From Mars Scotty MacGregor 1955

3 The Fang Nervous Norvus 1956

4 The Little Blue Man Betty Johnson 1958

5 The Little Space Girl Jesse Lee Turner 1958

6 Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll Love Brothers 1958

7 Martian Love Song Pete Seeger 1958

8 Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater Sheb Wooley 1958

9 Take us To Your President Conried-Pearce 1959

10 I'm The Little Space Girl's Father Jesse Lee Turner 1959

11 We Get Messages Jimmie Haskell 1959

12 Flying Saucers The Mell-o-Tones 1960

13 The Fall of the Planet Earth The Moonbillies 1960

14 The Screemin' Meemies From Planet X Merv Griffin 1961

15 Fireball XL5 Theme Don Spencer 1962

16 That Martian Jubilee Rodd Keith 1964

17 Cockeyed Ballad Mollie Thompson 1966

18 Beautiful Zelda Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1968

19 Space Odyssey The Byrds 1968

20 The Moon Bug Delsu and the Smarts 1969

21 Spaceman Harry Nilsson 1972

22 UFO Larry Norman 1972

23 Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Langley Schools Music Project 1977

24 Ain't No UFO Gonna Catch My Diesel Joe Dolce 1981 

25 Flying Saucer Brave Combo 1995

26 Music Man from Mars Rodd Keith 1996

27 Alien Abduction Background 2000

28 Let Me Fly Your UFO Frank Smith 2005

29 Spaceman The Killers 2008

MA-19 - Records from Regulus

1 Man from Mars Ferrante and Teicher 1955

2 Those Funny Little Saucers in the Sky Dr Danny Hart of the Church of Soul-Truth 1958

3 Take Me to Your Leader Cha Cha Cha Sam Space and the Cadettes 1958

4 What Do You Hear from the Red Planet Conried-Pearce   1959

5 The Girl from the Fourth Dimension Sheldon Allman     1960

6 Space Mice Walter Brennan    1960

7 Sky Men Geoff Goddard      1963

8 Hootenanny on Mars Randy Starr and the Merry Martians 1964

9 You Came from Outer Space The Kirby Stone Four 1964

10 Mr Spaceman The Byrds 1966

11 The Invaders Are Here Mike Adkins   1967

12 Urban Spaceman Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1968

13 Space Oddity    David Bowie     1969

14 It Came Out of the Sky Creedence Clearwater Revival 1970

15 Space Buggy    Asleep At The Wheel 1973

16 I've Seen the Saucers Elton John 1974

17 Flying Saucer Attack The Rezillos    1977

18 The Flying Saucer Man and the Truck Driver Red Simpson 1979

19 Thing from Another World Marlin Wallace    1981

20 Rocket Ship Kathy McCarty   1988

21 I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O. Ray Stevens   1989

22 Humans From Earth T-Bone Burnett 1991

23 Background   Background   2000

24 I Want an Alien for Christmas Fountains of Wayne 2005

25 Heck, I'd Go Maria Muldaur     2006

26 Flying Saucer U F O  with  Dee Dee Bridgewater 2006

MA-21 - Music from an Inner Planet

1 - Introduction Howard Menger

2 - Space Girl Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger 1952

3 - UFO (The Answer to the Flying Saucer) Syd Lawrence 1956

4 - Martian Love Call (A Hand Jive) 1958

5 - Space Girl The Earth Boys 1958

6 - Flying Saucer Conried-Pearce 1959

7 - Take Me to Your Ladder (I'll See Your Leader Later) Buddy Clinton 1960

8 - Robot Man Jamie Horton 1960

9 - My Little Martian Floyd Robinson 1961

10 - Telstar Bobby Rydell 1962

11 - Magic Star Kenny Hollywood 1962

12 - ( Help Me ) Telstar The Gee Sisters 1962

13 - Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue Allan Sherman 1963

14 - Magic Star Margie Singleton 1963

15 - We're Going UFOing Jimmy Durante 1964

16 - The Invaders TV Theme 1967

17 - UFO TV Theme 1970

18 - Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space TV Theme 1972

19 - A Spaceman Came Travelling Chris de Burgh 1976

20 - Arriving UFO Yes 1978

21 - Flying Saucers Nina Hagen 1984

22 - Teenagers from Outer Space The Meteors 1986

23 - Amazons from Outer Space Batmobile 1989

24 - Wishing on Telstar Susanna Hoffs 1991

25 - Spaceman Babylon Zoo 1995

26 - Rednecks from Outer Space FAQ 2004

27 - Your Neighborhood Spaceman Mike Patton & Jel & Odd Nosdam 2006

28 - She Came from Outer Space Bang! Bang! 2007

If you make it back to Earth orbit by Monday, I'll see ya then.  Till then, ta!

 

Fass-Kinatin'!

That's what Popeye would say!

01. Syncopation (3:02)

02. Intersection (Fantasy for Electronic Sound and Orchestra) (5:31)

03. Drifting (3:14)

04. Vibration (3:11)

05. Song of the Second Moon (2:50)

06. Whirling (2:37)

07. Mechanical Motions (7:27)

08. Pianoforte (5:07)

A fun 1962 release.  It’s all interesting and not too dissonant or aimless, the way much early electronic “music” is.  Track 2 has long sequences which would make great background music for a 1960s private-eye show.

“Song of the Second Moon” is also found on  1963’s  Electronic Music by “The Electrosoniks.”

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday, fellow music lovers!

  

Don't Take a Bite

 On this Memorial Day, let's remember the heights and depths to which Man's knowledge can lead him.

Knowledge is great. It's the APPLICATION of that knowledge that we sometimes take less responsibly than we should. Just ask Victor Frankenstein.

01 - Rockin' at Ground Zero - The Gears - 1980  (1:45)

02 - Ten More Shopping Days Till the Bomb - The Weeds - 1967  (3:02)

03 - A Letter from the Shelter - Planet P Project - 1984  (5:22)

04 - Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus) - The Stranglers - 1979  (3:32)

05 - No War No More - Uproar - 1982  (2:51)

06 - American Neutron - Citizen 23 - 1980  (2:14)

07 - Radiation - Perfect Gentlemen - 1987  (3:45)

08 - Missiles - The Sound - 1980  (5:26)

09 - Steps - Leningrad Sandwich - 1983  (5:06)

10 - Back in 1984 - Cerebral Hemorrhage - 1984  (4:56)

11 - Atomic Energy - Jimmy Womack - 1960  (2:13)

12 - Neutron Bomb - The Art Attacks - 1978  (2:58)

13 - Meltdown Boogie - The Buzzards - 1979  (2:54)

14 - Welcome to the Nuclear Age - The Hates - 1982  (2:53)

15 - Limited Nuclear War - Toxic Reasons - 1984  (2:20)

16 - Radiation Nation - Subverts - 1981  (1:44)

17 - Paint It Red - The Disco Zombies - 1980  (2:05)

18 - Prompt Critical - Insinuations - 1980   (2:51)

19 - Strontium 90 - Bobbie Warren - 1960  (2:24)

20 - Atomic Garden - Bad Religion - 1992  (3:12)

21 - Satan Ain't Nothing but a Bomb - Sister Pauline Trotter - 1976  (3:32)

22 - Shattered Glass - Paranoia - 1984  (3:04)

23 - Nuke Up Now! - Sado-Nation - 1983  (2:32)

24 - Holocaust Hop - The End - 1983  (2:16)

We start and end this depressing chronicle of fatalism with some dance steps.  Even though (so far) the most pessimistic fears of atomic angst haven’t come true, if it’s got a beat, you can dance to it!

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Thursday for our final installment.

  

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.

  

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

  

Way, Way Out There!

That's this comp about music and space and aliens and man's space programs.

01 - Into the Void - Black Sabbath - 1971  (6:01)

02 - Alien Landing - Catch 22 - 1979  (2:08)

03 - Skylab (Son of Telstar) - XL Capris - 1979  (2:41)

04 - (Now I Wanna Be A) Space Girl - Fingerprints - 1978  (2:46)

05 - Take Me to Your Leader - The Lancers - 1959  (1:58)

06 - UFO Part Two - Eddie Fiction - 1979  (3:52)

07 - UFO Part One - Eddie Fiction - 1979  (4:07)

08 - Flying Saucers - Moronics - 1979  (5:04)

09 - Space Age Laser - The Spiffs - 1980  (1:47)

10 - Theme from Star Trek - Cy Payne and His Orchestra - 1972  

11 - I Wanna Be a Cosmonaut - Riff Raff - 1978  (1:27)

12 - Flying Attack - Surprise - 1979  (3:45)

13 - Taking the City by Storm - The Haskels - 1980  (2:11)

14 - Science Friction - XTC - 1977  (3:13)

15 - UFO - Caution - 1981  (5:30)

16 - Zippy, Hippy, Dippy - Coye Wilcox - 1959  (1:56)

17 - My House Is a Satellite - The Shapes - 1980  (3:43)

18 - Spaceman - Bushbaby - 1988  (4:58)

19 - Baby Brother - Bill Carter - 1959  (2:17)

20 - Do the Orbit - The Skoings - 1977  (3:25)

21 - Theme from Star Trek - Andy Ross and His Orchestra - 1972  (2:43)

22 - Skylab Is Falling - The Astronuts - 1979  (2:31)

23 - A Night at the Space Opera - That Hideous Strength - 1977  (2:21)

24 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - SST - 1978  (2:59)

25 - Jet Star 19 - Zolar X - 1982  (2:42)

Some of you folks might wonder about Tracks 6 and 7.  Why does "UFO Part Two" come before "UFO Part One"?  That's because "Part Two" is the A side, according to the record label.

In our musical survey from the Fifties to the Eighties, one thing remains:  the human capacity to throw some creativity at an old topic to generate some new moolah!

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No fears, friends, this comp is FREE of charge to you!  Come back Thursday for more!