Essential Reading
If you’re old enough to remember November 1989, you’ll know that it was one of those game-changing events that come along only a couple of times in a lifetime.
After seventy years, the old Soviet empire crumbled away with barely a whimper and the map of Eastern Europe was completely redrawn. It was a very optimistic time, with some of the sentiments expressed in the Jesus Jones hit, “Right Here, Right Now.”
A woman on the radio talks about revolution
When it’s already passed her by
But Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about you
You know it feels good to be alive
I was alive and I waited waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history
I saw the decade in, when it seemed
The world could change at the blink of an eye
And if anything
Then there’s your sign of the times
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But prior to 1989, the world lived in fear of atomic annihilation. And just as Jesus Jones sang about the brave new post-commie world, others sang about being blown into tiny bits of radioactive dust.
Last week, I stumbled on a site called Atomic Platters http://www.atomicplatters.com/index.php which documents songs inspired by the Cold War. It’s a fascinating look back at a now-forgotten part of music history.
Check out this video by George McKelvey from 1964 called “My Teenage Fallout Queen.” This was filmed for a video jukebox-type device called a Scopitone.
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