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francaise-de-coeur:

berlynn-wohl:

A collection of songs about nuclear terror, the space race, the arms race,
friends and lovers separated by walls, espionage, despair, and hope.

To narrow down this list, I excluded novelty songs (sorry, Weird Al and Tom Lehrer) and songs about the Vietnam War, because *whew*, those are two whole other playlists.

Nuclear Freeze, Please!
Simon and Garfunkel – The Sun Is Burning

(1963)

Bruce Springsteen – Roulette (1988)
U2 – Seconds (1983)

Nena – 99 Luftballoons (German) (English) (1983)

Midnight Oil – Minutes to Midnight (1984)
Morrissey – Everyday is Like Sunday (1988)
Queen – Hammer to Fall (1984)
Timbuk 3 – The Future’s So Bright (1986)
Prince – 1999 (1983)
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark

– Enola Gay (1980)
Iron Maiden – Two Minutes to Midnight (1984)
Fishbone – Party At Ground Zero

(1985)
Kate Bush – Breathing

(1980)
The Fixx – Red Skies (1982)

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Chumbawamba – That’s How Grateful We Are (1990)

Polish Solidarity movement
U2 – New Years Day (1983)

US Intervention in foreign governments
Midnight Oil – US Forces (1982)
U2 – Bullet the Blue Sky (1987)

Bruce Cockburn – If I Had A Rocket Launcher (1984)

The Berlin Wall
David Bowie – Heroes (1977)
Steppenwolf – The Wall (1990)

Sex Pistols – Holidays In the Sun (1977)

You Masters of War
Bob Dylan – Masters of War (1963)
Survivor – Burning Heart (1985)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes (1984)
The Ramones – Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (1985)
Sisters of Mercy – Dominion/Mother Russia (1988)
Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers (1980)
Genesis – Land of Confusion (1986)
Industry – State of the Nation (1984)
The Spokesman – Dawn of Correction (1965)
Camper van Beethoven – Sweethearts (1989)
Men At Work – It’s a Mistake

(1983)

Africa
Stetsasonic – A.F.R.I.C.A. (1986)
Artists Against Apartheid – Sun City (1986)
Warren Zevon – Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (1978)

The Russians Love Their Children Too
Sting – Russians (1985)

Billy Joel – Leningrad (1989)

Shona Laing – Soviet Snow (1987)

The Space Race
Owl City – January 28, 1986 (2011)

They Can Never Keep Us Apart
Thomas Dolby – Europa and the Pirate Twins (1981) and its sequel, Eastern Bloc (1992)
Elton John – Nikita (1985)

T’Pau – Bridge of Spies (1988)


Watching the World Wake Up From History
Jesus Jones – Right Here Right Now (1991)
Scorpions – Wind of Change (1991)

Rush – Heresy (1991)
Pink Floyd – A Great Day For Freedom (1994)

A few more…
Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire (1989)
The Clash – Ivan Meets GI Joe (1980)
The Fugs – CIA Man (1967)
Made For TV – So Afraid of the Russians (1983)

Not enough? Here’s more…

@spoutnik1