Saturday, August 31, 2024

Making light of childhood fears at eight

Some songs about bombs
One bomb in particular
A bright flash: nothing

8:00
1. Ghost Brigade by Jonathan Winters (1:29)

Labor Day is Monday, but I had confused it with Memorial Day. Haha.

3. Warren Smith - Uranium Rock (2:01)
4. Fern, Mike ''mike Fernandez'' - A Bomb Bop (2:06)
5. Al Rex - Hydrogen Bomb (2:47)
6. Dore Alpert - Fallout Shelter (2:10)
7. Prescott Reed - Russia, Russia (Lay That Missile Down) (2:10)
8. Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama (2:12)
9. Crown City Four - Watch World War Three (on Pay Tv) (2:13)
10. Commodores - Uranium (2:15)
11. Five Stars - Atom Bomb Baby (2:17)
12. Elton Britt - Uranium Fever (2:19)
13. Sheldon Allman - Crawl Out Through the Fallout (1960) (2:20)
14. Two - Ton Baker - Bert the Turtle (the Duck and Cover Song) (2:22)
15. The Chords - Sh-Boom (2:23)
16. Jerry Engler, Four Ekkos - Sputnik (Satellite Girl) (2:27)
17. Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) (2:29)
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. The Police Bombs Away Remastered (3:04)
22. I Giganti - La Bomba Atomica (3:33)
23. Buchanan Brothers - There's a Power Greater Than Atomic (2:36)
24. Flanders And Swann - 20 Tons Of TNT (2:30)
25. Tom Lehrer - We will all go together... (2:41)

While the opera was written by John Adams, the hymn was written by John Donne. According to PKD, Donne's songs will get popular again.

9:00
27. John Adams - Doctor Atomic - Batter My Heart (7:38)
28. Gojira (1954) - Peace and Light Return to Us (2:05)
29. Unknown Artist - H-bomb (2:39)
30. Tipsy - El Bombo Atomico (3:12)
31. Crudup, Arthur big Boy - I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole (3:12)
32. George Mckelvey - My Radiation Baby (my Teenage Fallout Queen) (2:48)
33. Doctor Steel - Drop the Bomb (2:36)
34. Fluke - Atom Bomb (3:40)
35. ISRN.ORG - Cultural Pollution - Show 38 (27:32)
36. Josh Ritter - Temptation of Adam (3:49)