[CheshireTheCat]

I think I would swap out Sting for Jesus Jones.

[DannyTN]

What about Randy Newman's "Let's drop the big one"?

Let's drop the big one

[Boogieman]

Yeah, I read the list expecting #1 to be “Right Here, Right Now”, and was disappointed.

In Living Color’s “Cult of Personality” could also be on the list.

[PIF]

Best of the bunch:

Revolution, Beatles (1968)
Back in the USSR, Beatles (1968)
Eve of Destruction, Barry McGuire (1965)
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, Bob Dylan (1963)

[gundog]

David Bowie, “Heroes”

[aspasia]

SCORPIONS: Winds of Change

[rellic]

I grew up during the cold war.
I grew up with this music.
I’m a Vietnam war era veteran
I was crawling around Nukes
when I was 18 years old.
I remember this - the Democrats
stabbed Americans in the back.
They still do and they will continue
to do so.
My favorite of the tunes?
Der Kommissar, Falco.

[mewzilla]

To close it out: Jesus Jones “Right Here, Right Now” from 1991.

[aspasia]

PINK FLOYD: A Great Day for Freedom

Those rockers sure like "freedom," but I think they are as politically naive as any. Sting, for example. Celebrations of weakness and such: they know the class that gives them cash.

[hardspunned]

King of the World by Steely Dan

https://youtu.be/7Ay8tPN8Rys

[darkangel82]

Scorpions - Wind of Change. about the fall of the Berlin Wall

[virgil]

Marvin Gaye. What’s Going On. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0xitQKNsQY

[martin_fierro]

File this under GOOD Cold War Music!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Party at Ground Zero by Fishbone.

[Fiji Hill]

My Cold War Top 10

1. Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)

2. Advice to Joe--Roy Acuff (1951)

3. The Voice of Free America--Jimmie Osborne (1951)

4. Mr. Stalin, You're Eating Too High on the Hog--Arthur 'Guitar Boogie" Smith & His Crackerjacks (1950)

5. I'm No Communist--Carson Robison (1952)

6. They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain--Little Jimmy Dickens (1952)

7. When They Drop the Atomic Bomb--Jackie Doll & His Pickled Peppers (1951)

8. God, Please Protect America--The Sunshine Boys Quartet (1951)

9. Thank God for Victory in Korea--Jimmie Osborne (1950)

10. The Iron Curtain Has Parted--Don Windle (1953)

[Cecily]

Living Through Another Cuba - XTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZFCyMPvLd8

[smalltownslick]

This was right about the time I was getting seriously into country music. I remember to this day the first country album I ever bought, Ray Price’s The Other Woman. It was so good to this day I still rank it in my Top 5 of all time. There was a song on there called This Cold War With You.

[Cecily]

From Russia With Love - Matt Monro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcdmq07u2T8

and just about every other James “Cold Warrior” Bond theme song.

The Ipcress File soundtrack - John Barry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFWMFvBTZ4M&list=PLWv6NgYmPAip6VgCX0IwY5TV3L4zwtCZT

[NWFree]

Def Leppard Gods of War has Regan Thatcher and raghead chants can’t get any better than that 🤪

[Fiji Hill]

How about some music from the other side of the Cold War?

• Imagine--John Lennon (1971)

• The Hammer Song (If I Had a Hammer)--The Weavers (1950)

• Rise Up! (The Comintern Song)--The New Singers (1935)

• Moscow-Peking--The All-Union Radio Orchestra & Chorus (1950)

• Stalin, Friend & Comrade--Ernst Busch (1951)

• The Thaelmann Battalion--Ernst Busch (1938)

• The Song of the [Socialist Unity] Party--Ernst Busch (1950)

[fso301]

Ballad of the Green Berets

Fightin Side of Me