The Cold War Apocalypse of British Rock Music | Musical Maybes

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What happens at the end of the world? Revelations of a morally questionable nature. The Cold War inflicted British music with a certain complex about the apocalypse. It was a fascination with the spiritual and physical reality of the end of the world: spiritual upheaval, amoral warfare, and nuclear annihilation. The past, present, and future collapsed in a very dream-like, or nightmare-esque, nature that was unique to Great Britain (though it had it's American influences). It did not help that the mood and culture of Cold War tensions often bordered upon apocalyptic. Musicians reckoned with the reality of the divided world, or just outright ignored it: King Crimson, David Bowie, This Heat, and Dire Straits. It was an interesting surfacing of a critical cynicism (or fatalism) that had first emerged in the 1960s. The irony over it all was biting or burning.

Their sources of inspiration for their images were a menagerie: Medieval theology, mystic kings, the bargain of new musical technology, nostalgia for strange Victorian novels, Japanese fashion, schizophrenia, the collapse of the British Empire, anti-imperialism (maybe anti-everything), criticism of all language, American country, the shift from vinyl to compact discs, and contemporary conflicts like the Falklands War. All these things struck at a division in time. A division on how humanity lived in the world: before and after, capitalist and communist, optimistic or cynical. There existed a hardened apathy over the fact annihilation always seemed at hand. A great deal of bitter irony over the fact "Great Britain" was caught between the rows of two superpowers.

There's plenty more than this, but let's focus on these for now.

#apocalypse - #rocknroll - #postapocalyptic
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Credits:
- Intro Animation by Scott Luís Masson/SLM Illustration: https://slmillustration.com/ / Instagram:
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- Intro Music by Ben Elliott: https://twitter.com/BenElliottSound
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Video Sources (Support the creators/uploaders): https://rentry.co/The_Apocalypses_of_British_Rock_Music
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Music:
- This Heat - "Greenfingers (Camberwell Now)" (00:00-00:37)
- Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, & Yasuo Yamate (The King of Fighters '98 OST) - "Fanatic Waltz (Shermie of the Raging Lightning)" (00:37-03:52)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Ending (Ash)" (03:52-04:02)
- Ben Elliot - "Midnight Dream Oil" (04:02-04:18)
- Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, & Yasuo Yamate (The King of Fighters '98 OST) - "Cool Jam" (04:18-07:05)
- Masahiko Hataya & Yasu Yamate (The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match OST) - "butterfly emerges from chrysalis" (07:05-10:22)
- Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, & Yasuo Yamate (The King of Fighters '98 OST) - "Mad Fantasy (Chris of the Flames Destiny)" (07:05-13:25)
- Masahiko Hataya & Yasu Yamate (The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match OST) - "Falling of The Nightingale" (13:25-14:57)
- Masahiko Hataya & Yasu Yamate (The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match OST) - "Destiny (14:57-18:06)
- Masahiko Hataya & Yasu Yamate (The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match OST) - "Geese with Mustard" (18:06-20:43)
- Masahiko Hataya & Yasu Yamate (The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match OST) - "Diamond Dust" (20:43-23:42)
- Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, & Yasuo Yamate (The King of Fighters '98 OST) - "Rumbling on the City" (23:42-24:55)
- Masahiko Hataya & Yasu Yamate (The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match OST) - "Trash Head ~Spring has come~" (24:55-27:26)
- Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, & Yasuo Yamate (The King of Fighters '98 OST) - "The ЯR (Rugal Bernstein)" (27:26-31:02)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Ending (Ash)" (31:02-31:25)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Ending (Yagami Team)" (31:25-31:45)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Who is Queen (Women Fighters Team)" (31:45-33:51)
- Hideki Asanaka, Marimo, & Yasuo Yamate (The King of Fighters '98 OST) - "In Spite of One's Age (Master Team)" (33:51-36:29)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Ending (Elisabeth Team)" (36:29-37:16)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Ending (Ikari Team)" (37:16-38:19)
- Tetsuhiro Ogawa (King of Fighters XIII OST) - "Tame a Bad Boy (Kim Team)" (38:19-39:19)
- Peter Dawson - "On the Road to Mandalay 1929 (Hedgecock)" (39:19-39:51)
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