The Day the Country Died

The Day the Country Died is the debut studio album by the English anarcho-punk band Subhumans. It was released in December 1982 through Spiderleg Records. It was recorded in five days in June 1982. The album was later re-released via Bluurg, the band's own record label. The album is influenced by the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The most obvious sign of such an influence is the song "Big Brother"; Big Brother is the dictatorial political leader figure in Orwell's novel. The song revolves around how "Big Brother is watching you", and when Dick Lucas sings "there's a TV in my front room and it's screwing up my head", it is a comparison between the telescreen in the novel which monitored citizens constantly and excessive viewing of mass media. Today, there is a huge amount of video surveillance in the United Kingdom, showing the foresight of this subject matter. Like the novel, the album has dystopian overtones. It also describes a world ravaged by war, most likely our world which arguably is, this is suggested by track titles such as "Dying World" and "All Gone Dead". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)