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A protest song about nuclear war and the nuclear arms race, "2 Minutes to Midnight" was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson.The song attacks the commercialisation of war and how it is used to fuel the global economy ("The golden goose is on the loose and never out of season"), how rich politicians profit directly from it ("as the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the ...
The song was written by band members Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie. The title and lyrics of the song allude to the Doomsday Clock , a symbolic timepiece published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , which represents the proximity of nuclear war (or more generally "catastrophic destruction"), designated as "midnight".
Australian rock band Midnight Oil's 1984 LP Red Sails in the Sunset features a song called "Minutes to Midnight", and the album's cover shows an aerial-view rendering of Sydney after a nuclear strike. The title of Iron Maiden's 1984 song "2 Minutes to Midnight" is a reference to the Doomsday Clock. [51] [52]
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
Recording for the album began in 2009, over a year after the release of Minutes to Midnight (2007). [2] As with Minutes to Midnight, Shinoda and Rick Rubin produced the album. [3] Primary recording sessions for A Thousand Suns took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. [4]
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No, it’s not about the video game. “Fortnight,” the first single from Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a duet with Post Malone.. Before we delve into the lyrics, let ...
"Doomsday Clock" (song), the opening track from the Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist; Doomsday Clock, a superhero comic book limited series "2 Minutes to Midnight", a song by Iron Maiden from the 1984 album Powerslave "Five Minutes to Midnight", a song by Boys Like Girls from their 2006 self-titled debut album