Bienvenue, L'Âge Atomique

Happy New Year to all our listeners. Welcome back to Bang! 101 More Songs About Nuclear War from the 1980s.  Thanks to your brilliant suggestions, we have had plenty more to talk about. Enough for another season, in fact.Season 2 starts with REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know it”. But we also went on a field trip to investigate a certain rumour that had been spread about the possibility of REM reforming….We then pay tribute to Jeff Aaron Brown of the Pasadenas who died before Christmas and discuss their plea for peace “Justice for the World”.Our next song is the gorgeously hummable “Russians and Americans” by Al Stewart, the prolific Scots-born folk singer with a nuclear birthright.We then have our first song in the French language – duo’s Elli et Jacno’s brilliant “L’ âge atomique”. Another duo, this time from Boston, Jane and Jeff Hudson released the wonderfully dark post-punk “Los Alamos”.We have a brand new playlist to accompany season 2. It can be found on Spotify at:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aHCNYfoQ2gtko5z6pwS9O?si=e52c370433cc4dc0and on Apple athttps://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/bang-101-more-songs-about-nuclear-war-from-the-1980s/pl.u-vxy6L76uzVzd8ZlOur podcast is made all the more special by your interactions with us. Stay in touch as follows:Instagram:                     bangnuclearpodcastBlue Sky:                       @bangpodcast.bsky.socialFacebook:                     Bang Nuclear PodcastReddit:                           r/bangnuclearpodcastEmail:                             [email protected] and closing music: (Waiting for the) Heatwave – Fay Ray, appears courtesy of Fay Ray. Written by John LoveringArtwork:                          Rachel MalbonAssistant Producer:   Shivam PathakOpening words:           Richie Wheeler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.