• Submit Date: 9/23/2006
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

If The Button Is Pushed There's No Running Away

Artist Song
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young  Wooden Ships 
Timbuk 3  The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) 
Sting  Russians 
Queen  Hammer To Fall 
Ozzy Osbourne  Killer Of Giants 
Barry McGuire  Eve Of Destruction 
Rush  Distant Early Warning 
Bob Dylan  A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall 
Ryan Adams  Nuclear 
OMD  Enola Gay 
Nena  99 Luftballons 
Prince  1999 
System Of A Down  Boom! 
Metallica  Fight Fire With Fire 
Black Sabbath  Electric Funeral 
The Fixx  Stand Or Fall 
Kate Bush  Breathing 
Men At Work  It's A Mistake 
Smile Empty Soul  This Is War 
Metallica  Blackened 

Comment:

Inspired by the nuclear showdown with Iran lately. The title is from the Barry McGuire Track.

Feedback:

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boodean
Date: 9/23/2006
Great idea, and well done. But might I suggest Sun Ra's "Nuclear War"?
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Nomates
Date: 9/23/2006
Ominously good. Should you wish to end it on a hopeful note, try Roger Waters/Pink Floyd (The debate continues) - Two Suns In The Sunset "segued" (ha ha) with The Tide Is Turning. Love that CSNY track.
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black pearl
Date: 9/24/2006
Good theme choice and great picks.. I especially like Russians and Dylan's track.
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The Wonder Years
Date: 9/24/2006
Great theme. 6-10 do it for me, Music man.
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 9/24/2006
Great concept, some clever picks (though I would sooner have an icepick shoved through my temple than ever hear Men at Work again). I've been meaning to do an anti-war mix, which I think would look quite different (mandatory inclusions of Pink Floyd, particularly The Final Cut, and the Kinks' Arthur would be necessary).
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Music Man
Date: 9/24/2006
I agree with you Pop Kulcher on the Men At Work comment, But "It's A Mistake" is probably the best track they ever recorded. Though Colin Hay's solo career is very good. I enjoy listening to him, but not when he's with Men At Work.
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joey de vivre
Date: 9/24/2006
Scarily topical, & although I hope it doesn't come to that, Yo la Tengo also has a very appropriate "Nuclear War" --

(Seymour Hersh says there are those in the White House who are just itching to use nukes on Iran, but the unstable nuclear military dictatorship I'd really worry about is Pakistan . . .)
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musicgnome
Date: 9/25/2006
Distant Early Warning...Bonus Points!!!!
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Bear
Date: 9/26/2006
War! Huh!
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hemizen
Date: 9/26/2006
...what is it good for.... Any antiwar mix is a good mix.