The Atomic Space Age

MA-25 - Over Reaction: Songs in a  Nuclear Vein

More fun at the deepest level ....

1 - Hydrogen Bomb       Al Rex    1959

2 - The H-Bomb's Thunder   John Brunner  1959

3 - Walking On The Ground     Sheldon Allman    1960

4 - Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter Shel Silverstein 1962

5 - Doomsday The Shirelles   1964

6 - Atom Ant TV Theme 1965

7 - Testing the Bomb Shel Silverstein 1965

8 - Who's Next Tom Lehrer 1965

9 - Apeman The Kinks   1970

10 - We Got the Neutron Bomb The Weirdos 1976

11 - Bombers (Single Version) Gary Numan / Tubeway Army 1978

12 - Save The World George Harrison 1981

13 - Going Under Devo 1981

14 - It's a Mistake Men At Work 1983

15 - Armageddon Planet P Project 1983

16 - Distant Early Warning Rush 1984

17 - P.O.E Adam Ant 1985

18 - Common Ground Goanna 1985

19 - Lucky The Dead Milkmen 1985

20 - Put Down That Weapon Midnight Oil 1987

21 - Luftwaffe Flashlight Brown 2000

22 - Nuclear Blues Seismic Anamoly 2003

23 - Iranian Uranium Robert Lund 2006

24 - We're Gonna Drop the Atom Bomb Turbonegro 2007

25 - Atom Ant   Theme Remix Cartoon Network Groovies 2008

26 - Nuclear Disaster The Fresh and Onlys 2009

Track 23 is as prescient today as in 2006.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/70wgr9kpm2ru/MA-25.rar

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MA-27 - A Cosmic Chorus

Singin' about Space ...

1 -   Bluegrass on the Moon  Poteet Brothers   1953

2 -  I Talked to the Man in the Moon  Rocky Porter    1953

3 -  Captain Santa Claus and His Reindeer Space Patrol    Bobby Helms   1957

4 -  That Crazy Place in Outer Space  Annette Funicello 1958

5 - Sputnik Rock and Roll Rock-Krister and His Cristals 1958

6 - Right Here On Earth   Gene Vincent 1959

7 - God Is on the Moon Norm Burns 1959

8 - The Face from Outer Space Jeff Barry 1960

9 - Kibble-Kibble (The Flying Saucer Song) Nervous Norvus 1960

10 - Jukebox on the Moon (acoustic version) Ginny Millay 1960

11 - Maid of the Moon  Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo     1963

12 - Love Goddess of Venus The Ventures 1964

13 - Space Walk The Spotnicks 1965

14 - U.F.O. Dudley & The Doo-Rytes 1966

15 - Moon Daddy Ole   Moon Daddy 1967

16 - Spaceship Lover Paul St John  1972

17 - Space Invaders The Piranhas 1979

 18 - Slime Creatures from Outer Space Weird Al Yankovic 1985

19 - Space Brothers JFA 1986

20 - Flying Saucer Over Mongolia Dogbowl 1990

21 - The First Girl on the Moon Roxette 1994

22 - 50,000 Spaceships (Watching Over Me) Groovie Ghoulies 1996

23 - Rocketman Red Elvises 2003

24 - Flying Saucer Baby The Slingshots 2008

25 - Two Planets Bat For Lashes 2009

26 - The Thrills That Come Along With the Landing of a Flying Saucer DeWolff 2009

MA-27 - A Cosmic Chorus

See you Monday!

 

Tomorrow’s Tech … Today!

Tomorrow’s Tech … Today!

Many futuristic inventions have come to pass, while some may never be realized.

[Some of this was used as content for the Program Book of SoonerCon 24 in June 2015.  Hope you like the idea!]

          The May, 1971 issue of National Lampoon featured a series of satiric features on “The Future.”  Articles included “Toilets of the Extraterrestrials”; instructions on forecasting the future with alphabet soup; and a horror comic dated 2571, written by cockroaches, about the warm-blooded “!Thing frum 20th Sentury” (man).

          A 1989 book by Malcolm Abrams and Harriet Bernstein titled Future Stuff made hundreds of projections of items “that will be available by the year 2000.”  Here are a few of the entries, some of them with their modern-day equivalents:

·         smart house

·         deodorant underwear

·         homing device implant (RFID chip)

·         pocket computer (smart phone)

·         watch pager (Apple watch)

·         hand-scanning security

·         interactive game network (MMORPG)

·         aquatic exercise machine (endless pool)

·         supermarket self-checkout

·         do-it-all computer notepad (tablet/smart phone)

·         automobile collision-avoidance system (now available)

·         voice-activated typewriter (speech recognition software)

·         high-fiber cupcakes

·         touchless faucet

·         no-calorie sugar

·         computer shop-at-home (eBay, Amazon, etc)

·         non-fattening fat (Olestra, anyone?)

·         car navigation system (GPS)

·         Velcro diapers

·         guerrilla information network (Yelp, Twitter)

·         electronic book (Kindle, Nook)

·         simulated golf (Wii golf)

TV eyeglasses (iTV goggles)

See you Thursday.