OST - When The Wind Blows (1986) (@320)

The whole world was holding its breath during the previous weeks; the nuclear threat in Japan was extremely serious. Fortunately, it seems that the worst have passed (?). What remains though, is that even in a totally organised country such as Japan a nuclear disaster can indeed take place. It is evident now that all these voices that and were deliberately downgraded all these years by the mainstream media for being "excessive screams from youngster with dreadlocks" were right, since it is the second time after 1986 that the "youngsters with dreadlocks" prove to be right: Nuclear energy cannot be used without a huge amount of risk. Even the strongest argument of those who insist in nuclear energy (all in all the same neo-liberals who run the markets and for whom "profit" being the one and only buzzword in their minds) is that the produced energy by the nuclear plants is cheap. Probably... in the short term. But if someone calculates in the produced energy's unit production cost (a) the cost of decommissioning of the nuclear power plants, who have a 30-year life, (b) the cost of abnormal situations such as in Chernobyl and Fukushima and (c) the cost for the safe disposal of the nuclear waste, the nuclear energy will become pretty expensive. I do not calculate of course the large number of human lives that each accident costs; the devastating ongoing effects of every nuclear accident on the health of some hundreds of thousands people is only an insignificant "detail" for the neo-liberals.

Today's upload is the soundtrack of When The Wind Blows, a strong animation film that presents the progressive physical effects of a nuclear assault on an old couple. The soundtrack's first side contains tracks from David Bowie, Hugh Cornwell, Genesis, the Squeeze and Paul Hardcastle, while side B contains music composed by Roger Waters.

You can also watch the whole movie here.

info link: here

download link: here (mirrocreator) and here (rapidshare)