Bombs In The Tundra is a formerly unidentified alternative rock song recorded by New York based band, "Pleasure Hounds" in 1983. Prior to the song's identification, the song was tagged to have been "Opus" by the same band.
Search History[]
2010s[]
The song was first posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm on August 23rd, 2012 along with multiple other unknown songs. He didn’t provide any information about the songs.
On April 20th, 2013, Guglielm commented on the WFMU.org page for a playlist made by user Bob Brainen, saying the songs were recorded sometime between 1981-1984 or 1991-1993 off of WFMU.
Guglielm reposted the song to WatZatSong on July 27th, 2013. The song was most likely recorded from 1981-1984.
On May 13th, 2014. The song was recorded off of WFMU in 1983-1984. He said it was tagged as Pleasure Hounds - Opus.
2022-2023[]
On October 27th, 2022, Discord user Kurty discovered that Opus was a real song that was in a 1982 demo tape by the band. The other songs on the tape, Miami and Anymore, were found, but Opus wasn’t.
Multiple users have attempted to contact the band, but none of them had responded. Furthermore, the guitarist Richard Campbell had unfortunately passed away in 2014.
On March 26th, 2023, Guglielm confirmed that he digitized all of his cassette tapes with the songs on them in the early 90s, and no longer had any of them anymore.
2024[]
On October 4th, 2024, it was proven that guglielm's tag was false and the song wasn't named "Opus", as the length was found and it didn’t match. Later, the song was found by Kurty after he found it in a song archive. You can listen to the song here.
On the same day, user Tyx claimed to have contacted Diane Kamikaze, a DJ for WFMU who had played multiple songs by Pleasure Hounds and that she said it was their song Bombs In The Tundra.
However, this was met with doubt as Kurty had contacted Diane before and she said she couldn't find the song. Kurty replied and said Diane likely said they made the song to stop people from bombarding her with messages.
On December 5th, 2024, Discord users Aidnic and rocketballboi found a Facebook post from WFMU DJ Pat Duncan, which had an image of a 1983 tracklist which included the song, proving that a song called Bombs In The Tundra by Pleasure Hounds did in fact exist, thus identifying the song.
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
We're running on foreign soil
Design is made to order
The jealousy drives them wild
Forcing them over our borders
[Chorus]
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
I can’t deny they play the beat
[Verse 2]
We’re waiting for the countdown
[Hustling through grass down to the knee]
I see a tear in the eye of KGB
[?] for submitting here for tyranny
[Chorus]
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
I can’t deny they play the beat
[Verse 3]
We're running on foreign soil
Design is made to order
The jealousy drives them wild
Forcing them over our border
[Chorus]
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
I can’t deny they play the beat
[Instrumental break]
[Final Chorus]
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
I can’t deny they play the beat
[Outro]
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Bombs in the tundra
Pleasure Hounds[]
Pleasure Hounds was a short-lived, obscure alternative rock band from New York, USA.
The band consisted of Vocalist Kevin Kelley, Guitarist Richard Campbell, an unidentified Bassist, and a Drummer possibly named Walt Grather.
In 1981, they performed multiple live songs at the Dirt Club in New Jersey. Those songs were called Dark Days, Nuke Boy, Seaside Heights Police, Poseur Dance, and Somalia.
In 1982, they made a 3 song demo cassette which included the songs. The songs are:
In 1983, they recorded this song. It was never released, but it played on WFMU at least once.
On August 1st, 2014, Richard Campbell passed away. The following Thursday, during a WFMU broadcast, DJ Diane Kamikaze played all their songs besides Opus, Poseur Dance, and this song.
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