Tom Lehrer
Featured on That Was the Year That Was
Warner Bros.
Recorded July 1965
Comedy
Vinyl
B+
Possibly Lehrer's best song ever, this juxtaposes a bouncy, even catchy tune with an incredibly bleak yet funny view of the future, and certainly there have been few more amazing verses in the history of music than this one:
"While we're attacking frontally,
Watch Brinkally and Huntally,
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost.
No need for you to miss a minute
Of the agonizing holocaust."
Comments
Post a Comment