Oh, but could those shadows speak,
About the wind, so fiery hot,
A weapon, sadly, not unique.
We now know what can be wrought.
And though some would like to forget,
It's history. Remember we must.
Even with that, it's a fun set.
Flashes to ashes, bust to dust.
9:00
1. Django Reinhardt - Nagasaki (2:53)
Yeah,
the Velvet is having a Midsummer Night's event this weekend, so we're
not in the club proper but on the lawn. It's fun! Hopefully, this set is
fun.
3. Dr. Strangelove, Fallouts - Love That Bomb (1:43)
4. Sammy Salvo - A Mushroom Cloud (1:56)
5. Warren Smith - Uranium Rock (2:01)
6. Fern, Mike ''mike Fernandez'' - A Bomb Bop (2:06)
7. Prescott Reed - Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down) (2:10)
8. Dore Alpert - Fallout Shelter (2:10)
9. Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama (2:12)
10. Crown City Four - Watch World War Three (on Pay Tv) (2:13)
11. Commodores - Uranium (2:15)
12. Five Stars - Atom Bomb Baby (2:17)
13. Elton Britt - Uranium Fever (2:19)
14. Crawl Out Through the Fallout (Novelty Song)_ Sheldon Allman (1960) (2:20)
15. Tom Lehrer - The Bomb (1:59)
16. Two-Ton Baker - Bert the Turtle (the Duck and Cover Song) (2:22)
17. Jerry Engler, Four Ekkos - Sputnik (Satellite Girl) (2:27)
18. Doris Day - Tic, Tic, Tic (2:34)
19. Talbot Brothers of Bermuda - Atomic Nightmare (2:34)
20. Fred Kirby - When That Hell Bomb Falls (2:36)
21. Buchanan Brothers - There's a Power Greater Than Atomic (2:36)
22. Unknown Artist - H-bomb (2:39)
23. Amos Milburn - Atomic Baby (2:42)
24. Sir Lancelot - Atomic Energy (2:43)
25. Louvin Brothers - Great Atomic Power (2:45)
26. Slim Gaillard Quartette - Atomic Cocktail [1945] (2:46)
I'm going to play a lot of Lehrer this evening, because Lehrer is funny and my god but we need funny right now.
10:00
28. Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) (2:29)
29. Al Rex - Hydrogen Bomb (2:47)
30. Hawkshaw Hawkins - When They Found the Atomic Power (2:48)
31. George Mckelvey - My Radiation Baby (my Teenage Fallout Queen) (2:48)
32. The Chords - Sh-Boom (2:23)
33. Sons of the Pioneers - Old Man Atom (3:07)
34. I Giganti - La Bomba Atomica (3:33)
35. Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb (3:35)
36. Crudup, Arthur big Boy - I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole (3:12)
37. The Golden Gate Quartet - Atom And Evil (3:20)
38. Arlo Guthrie / Pete Seeger - The Neutron Bomb (Album Version) (3:45)
39. Robbie Robertson - Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me [Album Version] (6:47)
40. Ken Nordine - Outer Space (3:33)
41. Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans - Thumbnail Sketch Of Atomic Energy (1:07)
42. Tom Lehrer - We will all go together... (2:41)
43. The Firesign Theatre - La Bomba Shelter (1:11)
44. Tipsy - El Bombo Atomico (3:12)
OK, so we're a little early here, but I have to change gears in a major stylistic way and I need to introduce that.
46. The Decemberists - After The Bombs (5:05)
11:00
47. Eisenfunk - Duck and Cover (7:19)
48. Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 (4:58)
49. Doctor Steel - Drop the Bomb (2:36)
50. Nuclear Bomb Meat Beat Manifesto (6:12)
51. Breakout of Fat Man & Little Boy (Full Nuke Vers.) (10:00)
52. Spitting Image Every Bomb You Drop Complete (3:10)
53. Eisenfunk - Atomic Bomb (4:25)
54. ISRN.ORG - Cultural Pollution - Show 38 (27:32)
55. Pizzicato Five - Peace Love Music (8:38)
Just sob. It's OK.
12:00
56. Gojira (1954) - Peace and Light Return to Us (2:05)
I'm so sorry. Please, forgive us.
