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!

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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!

  

Save the Drama fo' Yo' Saucerama!

That's what you'll feel if you tried to get this post from its 2015 link. It's defunct.

Let's try again!

1 Rockin' in the Rocket Room The Larks 1954

2 Flying Saucer Rocket Ferrell Duncan and His Rockers 1955

3 Flying Saucers (unissued) The Thunderbirds 1957

4 The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor The Big Bopper 1958

5 Hello World Horace Heller 1959

6 Shooting for the Moon Carl & Norman 1960

7 The Moon's Not Meant for Lovers (Anymore) The Royal Teens 1960

8 I Go Into Orbit Johnny Acey 1962

9 Rocket Ride Johnny Greco 1963

10 Moon Race The Citations 1963

11 The Invasion Buchanan & Greenfield 1964

12 War Of The Worlds The Atlantics 1964

13 Moon Child The Ventures 1964

14 Solar Race The Ventures 1964

15 Everyone's Gone To The Moon Jonathan King 1965

16 Lunar Funk The Fabulous Counts 1969

17 Saturn Gene Page 1978

18 Destination Venus The Rezillos 1978

19 Man on the Moon MTV 1983

20 Fly Me To The Moon The Legendary Space Cowboy 1984

21 I Took A Trip (on the Space Shuttle) The Legendary Space Cowboy 1984

22 Creature from Outer Space Big Eyed Beans from Venus 1985

23 Spaceships Have Landed Frances Cannon and the Extraterrestrials 1987

24 Rocket To Nowhere Webb Wilder 1996

25 Little Green Man Godless Wicked Creeps 1997

26 Dangerous Tools Frances Baskerville 1999

27 Flying Saucer Astronaut Wife 2003

28 Spooks in Space Aural Exciters 2003

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Now you may be spaced out!  PS the cover art was taken from the cover of Frank Stranges's book of the same name.

See you Monday for our last comp in this amazing MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

  

When Superboy Ate the Uranium ...

... He got an ATOMIC ACHE.

Well, that joke is the excuse I came up with for the title of this compilation about nuclear life.

01 - Vaporize Me, Atomize Me - Moose Lodge - 1984  (2:53)

02 - The Meltdown - Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band - 1980  (3:50)

03 - 20 Tons of TNT - Flanders and Swann - 1963  (2:31)

04 - Fire from Above - SM Corporation - 1983  (3:45)

05 - I'd Rather Be Like a Hermit - Frankie Ervin & Austin McCoy - 1951  (2:39)

06 - Microwave Radiation - Xterminators - 1978  (3:17)

07 - Strange Eyes - Sons of Heroes - 1983  (4:26)

08 - The Civil Defense Sign - Mark Spoelstra - 1962  (3:46)

09 - Got My Call Card - LB Lawson and James Scott - 1952  (3:25)

10 - Nuclear Age - Synthetic Products - 1986  (5:04)

11 - Red Car - Trees - 1982  (4:42)

12 - Dig a Hole - Digits - 1980  (2:56)

13 - The Atom - Bob Harter with Dickson Hall & His Mountaineers - 1960  (2:29)

14 - Meltdown - The Reactors - 1979  (2:51)

15 - Four Minute Warning - Mark Owen - 2003  (4:12)

16 - The Great Atomic Power - Raul Malo, Pat Flynn, Rob Ickes & Dave Pomeroy - 2004  (2:40)

17 - Uranium Lou - Lew Tobin's Orchestra - 1957  (2:18)

18 - The A-Bomb Woke Me Up - The Swimming Pool Qs - 1979  (2:54)

19 - Fallout - Data - 1981  (3:34)

20 - Three Eyed Freak - Angelo & His Egos - 1985  (3:53)

21 - Khrushchev Twist - Melvin Gayle - 1962  (1:57)

22 - (We've Got) The Neutron Bomb - The Weirdos - 1978  (2:58)

23 - Doomsday - Zen Fuller - 1962  (1:55)

24 - Legacy of Morons - The Trilobites - 1986  (2:53)

Listen to these and be edified by the freed0m of opinion on bombing, fission, power generation, or trying to sleep late.

The original image is from Superboy #115, cover-dated September 1964.

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(Maybe Superboy ate one of these.)  See you on Thursday!