I heartily recommend you guys comb through "Techmoan", a youtube channel. He goes through a great many obscure audio formats, sometimes fixes playback decks etc.

For example, it was through him that I learned in the 1950s there was a flexible audio format, that, while it appeared to be a tape cartridge, it had grooves on it, and played like a record, with a stylus.

That's just one of the amazing facts I learned from his channel.

But the point of it is, where there's a will to record audio, there's a way. Magnetic tape playback and recording goes all the way back to the early 1900s, and gramophone and wax cylinder recording recordings to the late 1800s.

The audio quality of these early formats is obviously poor, but still, when the choice is some lifting of spirits or none, you'll surely see people taking "some".

Plus, earlier "boom boxes" relied less on fragile electronics and more on robust components. Someone with moderate hobbyist skills could get a reel-to-reel playback working again. Or even car speakers, hooked up to a car radio, which may have been shielded by the metal body of the car, from EMP damage. Some sort of ad hoc battery system (salvaged from a car, for example) and a little bit of determination and there's your music!

Also keep in mind guys that EMP wont damage a car battery at all - zip - or the alternator - what it will fry is the electronic ignitions and computers that run the emission system - but if you have a car built pre-1978 EMP will basically do nothing to it at all - i.e. that old 1966 Impala you have will run just fine and start up just fine - and so would the old fashioned 8 Track player or cassette player thats in it or the old fashioned car radio - not today's heavily electronic radios - so if you are looking for a traveling "boom box" for a game look for an older car

FYI for those looking for EMP effects on automobiles and trucks interesting discussion that includes a study on cars and trucks made from 1986 thru 2002 that said that if the cars and trucks were turned off there was NO effect on them from EMP. They had to be on at the time for their to be any damage at all and in the case of trucks even then the damage was minimal.

https://forums.thesurvivalpodcast.co...?topic=12485.0

http://www.empcommission.org/reports.php

For related songs played in a war, there's the 2017 documentary chronicles Bruce Dickinson/Skunkworks' concert in Sarajevo during the Siege.

I missed the event, but my dear friend Saša was there.

Bangin' Tunes
 

Free League has released a v4 soundtrack for Kickstarter backers. Check your email!

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T2K related music
 

Black Sabbath's The Eternal Idol album (1987) has Glory Ride-lyrically calls out to mercenaries and the Battle of Britain. Two versions; one a demo with Ray Gillen and the "officially" recorded version issued with Tony Martin.

W.A.S.P.'s The Headless Children album (1989) has The Neutron Bomber which references both the ER weapon and Reagan. "Neutron Ronnie."
The same W.A.S.P. album has the title track The Headless Children "Time Bombs in the hands of all the wicked war-babies, light the fuse of temptation we all burn."

Prince (date unknown) released Ronnie Talk to Russia. "Before It's Too Late."

Music that makes me think of T2K
 

One album that has always made me think of T2K (since the mid-80s) is Dire Straits _Brothers_in_Arms_ - really just "Ride Across the River", "The Man's Too Strong" and "Brothers in Arms"

The video for Brothers in Arms is rotoscoped pencil and paper images from wartime footage. The first time I saw it, I thought it was the same art as the v1 illustrations. https://youtu.be/jhdFe3evXpk?si=zexzq30ZCUeH-ql9

Headbanging to the Apocalypse
 

The Def Leppard songs, Die Hard the Hunter (from Pyromania) and Gods of War (from Hysteria)- which features spoken word samples from Ronald Reagan's post-Libya airstrikes speech- are both up-tempo, war-related songs.

They're probably mentioned upthread, but Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls (from Ride the Lightning) and One (from And Justice For All) both tackle war.

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