Album: Roll The Bones (1991)

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• John from Asheville, NcAnother forgotten fine piece of work from an only average album. This song...Ghost Of A Chance...two gems from Roll The Bones. "All those precious wasted year....who will pay?"...into the dual vocal second verse. My ear likey!
• John from Overland Park, KsI grew up with the cold war... although I didn't get to see the "Duck and Cover" cartoon, we did go through "disaster drills" at school along with fire drills and tornado drills. My seventh-grade Life Science class had a section on first aid, as well as a description about what one might face with a nuclear attack (blast, heat, initial radiation, and "residual radiation" - a polite term for fallout). I learned how to find the capacity for a fallout shelter on the sign. As a result, the anger at the end of the song ("... All the crap we had to take / Bombs and basement fallout shelters / All a big mistake") was something I and others could share.

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