Singles like Kate Bush's "Breathing" and UB40's "The Earth Dies Screaming" brought nuclear anxiety into the Top 20, and countless postpunks, from This Heat on their concept album Deceit to Young Marble Giants with their classic single "Final Day", sang about Armageddon as a real prospect, impending and imminent.
Kate Bush - Breathing - 1980
UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming - 1980
This Heat - Makeshift Swahili - 1981
Young Marble Giants - Final Day - 1980
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