No business like showbusiness. Glade popange til enhver lejlighed. Her en fra Cleveland, Ohio’s Pere Ubu:
30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO
Flew off early in the haze of dawn
In a metal dragon locked in time,
Skimming waves of an underground sea
In some kind of a dream world fantasy
Sun a hot circle on a canopy,
’25 a racing blot on a bright green sea
Ahead the dim blur of an alien land,
Time to give ourselves to strange gods’ hands
Dark flak spiders bursting in the sky,
Reaching twisted claws on every side
No place to run,
No place to hide,
No turning back on a suicide ride
Toy city streets crawling through my sights,
Sprouting clumps of mushrooms like a world surreal
This dream won’t ever seem to end,
And time seems like it’ll never begin
30 seconds,
And a one way ride
30 seconds,
And no place to hide
30 seconds over Tokyo
© Pere Ubu
– interessant, 1888.
Her en af Guardians mange temalister:
1 Political Science – Randy Newman
2 Gay Bar – Electric Six
3 Enola Gay – Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark
4 I Come and Stand at Every Door – The Byrds
5 Mushroom – Can
6 Nuclear War (Version 2) – Yo La Tengo
7 Man at C&A – The Specials
8 Breathing – Kate Bush
9 Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me – Charles Mingus
10 We Will All Go Together When We Go – Tom Lehrer
Når nu man er på YouTube så nyd bror/søster duoen The Collins Kids: Rock Boppin Baby – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuJx6NkeS_E
Der er også gode gamle Uncle Tupelos udgave af “Atomic Power” på March 16-20 1992: Se den på http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNX4fRcHoY – det var forresten gruppens næstsidste koncert.
Og med Lowell Blanchard and the Valley Trio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_SXbJE69Y
Også god med The Pilgrim Travellers…
Endnu en popsang om Atombomben. ‘Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb’ med The Blind Boys Of Alabama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIMwRdgVb8