Recently I found this page about radiation-related music at The Radiation Dose Assessment Resource website. It includes many songs you’ve likely never heard of; here are sample quotes, lifted directly from their website (some of my old favorites):
LISTEN to Neutron Dance, by The Pointer Sisters —
I still like this song a lot. Definitely fast neutrons, resonance escape probability is zero. Whoo-hoo. Now what any of it has to do with neutrons I never understood. But you don't have to understand the deep meaning of a song to sing it badly in your car when no one's listening, right?
LISTEN to The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be, by Tom Lehrer —
"Where the scenery's attractive, and the air is radioactive". You gotta love that rhyme. Tom had several songs dealing with bomb issues, and we did not treat all of them here. One good one, however, is We Will All Go Together When We Go, that has the memorable phrase "When the air becomes uranious, And we will all go simultaneous."
LISTEN to Your Love is Like Nuclear Waste, by Tuff Darts —
Jim Herrold transcribed the lyrics for us (what a guy!) Here's some: "Your love is like nuclear waste. Your body is a danger to the human race. They should stamp 'contaminated' right across your face." "I'd rather crawl through poison ivy or grab high tension lines, cut my legs off at my knees or set myself on fire than be between the sheets with you, for any time or feel your scaley flesh moving onto mine." Hopeless romantics, obviously, but can they sing?
Of course, looking for the name of the Tuff Darts is what got me here in the first place.
