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.”

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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!

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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!