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Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro

The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel · 1.4M views · 2008-08-27 · 2:37

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Overview

Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song Who's Next, about the spread of nuclear weapons, with a spoken introduction. It is a short musical comedy piece from the Cold War era.

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HN mentions it mostly in nuclear-weapons threads as a witty or darkly funny aside, rather than as a recommendation.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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Music performance & songsSatire & parodyMilitary history & warfare
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pizza · 2018-04 · Recommendation

I love his song "Who's Next?", about nuclear war: especially how it starts and ends, haha > First we got the bomb and that was good > Cause we love peace and motherhood > Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K > Cause the balance of power's maintained that way! ... > ... We'll try to stay serene and calm > When Alabama gets the bomb! [VIDEO]

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082349872349872 · 2024-10 · Joke / meme

That might have been a better argument if the USSR[0] had had the bomb in 1945[1]? Lagniappe: [VIDEO] [0] first test: 29.08.1949 [1] a year in which the US and USSR were, however tenuously, still allied

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khafra · 2024-08 · Joke / meme

It's easy to remember the early players in the nuclear power/weapons game, with a simple mnemonic song: [VIDEO]

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