Nuclear Songs

Hot Spot is a particularly stark juxtaposition of our modern distractions—in this case, a nightclub—with the consequences of leaving the reigns of power in the hands of madmen who have the keys to the nukes and other weapons of mass destruction.

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I said "Hey, baby what you need the needle for?"
She said, "It used to be illegal, now it's a law!
We're all shooting atropine to make damn sure,
Everyday since they started up the third world war..."

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→ From the album K-Scope
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A fun classic. The eco spin is Godzilla's origins—genetic mutation from radiation.

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History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men . . .
Godzilla!

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→ From the album 'Spectres'
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The song starts out with pastoral images of everyday life, culminating in the terrifying end described in the lyrics below. A great anti-nuke song from the 1960s folk-rock era.

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Now the sun has come to earth,
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death.
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash . . .
And the sun has come to earth.

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→ From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
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A great song, with that comments on the absurdity of politicians suggesting we do the bunker hunker so they don't have to actually solve the little problem of nuclear apocalypse.

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Fireball, there's going to be a fireball...
There won't be a sign,
There was never a time like this before...

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→ From the album Tracks 2
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When Graham Nash lived in San Francisco, he loved the bay view—until he found out they'd been dropping barrels of nuclear waste in the water.

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I can see the sea begin to glow;
I can feel it leaking down below;
I can barely stand it what you're doing to me...

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→ From the album Allies

A nice rocked-out song with an explicit message to The Powers That Be on how we feel about nuclear energy and weapons.

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[To] the high and mighty—
Stop the nuclear night; if
This you don't do,
WE will stop YOU.

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A good rave-up where the girl of his dreams may be a little to hot to handle.

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When she made landfall on the Oregon Coast,
I grabbed her hand and I held her close.
When it comes to love, some feel a pitter-patter,
But I felt the heat of her nuclear reactor.

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I'm only seven, although I died
In Hiroshima long ago....
Death came and turned my bones to dust,
And that was scattered by the wind.

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→ From the album Fifth Dimension
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German band Kraftwerk strikes a blow against the nuclear machine, overtly criticizing the nuclear operation at Sellafield—and nuclear power in general.

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Chain reaction and mutation;
Contaminated population....
Stop—radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me.

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→ From the album Radio-Activity
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A witty, world-wise tune from the master folkie.

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The answer to it all ain't military datum,
Like who gets there firstest with the mostest atoms.
No, the people of the world must decide their fate—
They gotta get together or disintegrate.

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→ From the album Gazette, Vol. 1
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A direct message that the only good nuclear power plant is a dead nuclear power plant.

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Did you feel that rumble? Did you hear that sound?
Well it wasn't no earthquake, but it shook the ground.
It made me think about power, like it or not:
I got to work for earth
For what it's worth,
'Cause it's the only earth we've got.
Shut 'em down!

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→ From the album Tour de Force
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