The Day the Country Died is the debut studio album by English anarcho-punk band Subhumans.

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.

[citation needed] Four of the tracks on the album had previously been performed by the Stupid Humans, the band that Bruce was in before forming Subhumans.

The "nihilist" section, between "I Don't Wanna Die" and "No", is from the chorus of an earlier Subhumans track, "Song No.