9/27/2023 1 Comment Atomic dog albumRegardless, “Atomic Dog” has been regarded as a P-funk classic at a time when funk as it was previously known was becoming a dying entity. “Dog” was attributed to Clinton as a solo effort since legal issues prevented the use of his former collectives’ names Parliament and Funkadelic. “Atomic Dog” was the last of them, memorably displacing Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” from the top in April 1983. 1 songs on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart between 19. The P-Funk collective led by legendary funk maestro George Clinton had five No. So strap on your protective gear and enjoy! Each entry comes with a link to an audio/video YouTube clip, and all the songs are featured (along with a few extras) in a special Spotify playlist linked below the list. Part tongue-in-cheek/part scientific, consider this a “fusion” of music and physics: the 25 most rad tunes whose titles were influenced by nuclear technology-as compiled by djrobblog-from No. The songs are ranked in purely subjective fashion by djrobblog based on nothing other than gut feel and the blogger’s opinion about each tune’s place in popular culture, whether because of their intended tie to nuclear physics or otherwise. Some purists will note that there’s even a “Roentgen” in these rankings! For example, like Clinton’s “Atomic Dog,” the lyrics to the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance” have nothing to do with nuclear physics, it’s the song’s popularity that carries it here. One tune even references the now defunct Atomic Energy Commission or AEC-the predecessor to the federal agency that’s employed yours truly for the last ☢️ ☢️ years!īut most of these tunes made this list for one reason-their titles. Other songs included in this special djrobblog countdown make titular references to historical figures like iconic physicist Marie Curie, the Mother of Radiation. Those credentials alone were enough to warrant the song’s inclusion in these rankings. Even more notably, it was one of the first commercial recordings to incorporate rap (even predating Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” by several months). One of them, “Radiation Funk” by a local Harrisburg band named Maxwell, had a 40th-anniversary commemoration three years ago in the local Harrisburg area. While none of those tunes had long half-lives, some have become cult classics. In the immediate wake of TMI, which involved the partial meltdown (and permanent shutdown) of one of the two reactors located there, artists across the country (and the world) recorded songs largely in protest of nuclear power. While some of these tunes are nuclear in name only, other songs on this list with literal connections to the science were created in the aftermath of events like the Three Mile Island accident that occurred near Harrisburg, PA in March 1979. And you won’t be able to “decontaminate” your ears for a long time afterwards! 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 1983Īfter you’ve been “exposed” to this radioactive song list, you won’t get a “dose” of anything like it anywhere else on the interwebs. George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog” spent four weeks at No. Others have nothing remotely to do with an unstable isotope, other than having a radioactive title (think George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog”). Some of these songs are related to nuclear technology, either metaphorically or literally. It was inevitable, wasn’t it?Īfter more than 35 years of being associated with the nuclear industry, and an even longer-standing relationship with my first love-music-it was only a matter of time before this blogger merged the two to create the ultimate song countdown for nuclear science/music nerds like yours truly.ĭjrobblog presents to you the 25 most “rad” nuclear-related songs in modern music history! It’s a list of pop culture’s most radioactive tunes whose inclusion is based purely on their song titles (not necessarily their content). Atomic Dog, atomic hits, Blondie, George Clinton, Imagine Dragons, Killers, Music blog, music trivia, NRC, nuclear tunes, radioactive songs
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