Chris It sounds good now. I think we thought it sounded a bit weak then.

Neil  I don't think my vocal's very good.

Chris Julian Mendelsohn couldn't relate to how this sounded. He was so used to the Eighties when we had click bass drums and thumping great big snares, and then of course that all went out the window, to be replaced by squishy little sounds, and Julian couldn't get his head around them - he thought they were crap. This was when house music was still about tunes.

Neil  We originally started this song when we were recording 'I get excited you get excited too)'at the beginning of 1988. Originally it was called 'If there was more', and then that idea became 'If there was love' on Us Minnelli's album. Then I had the idea of 'The end of the world' as the title. In the middle bit there's my second guitar solo on the album. We should have got Johnny to do that, maybe. It's just a story of teenage trauma: aging whose boyfriend hasn't phoned her up, or someone whose boyfriend or girlfriend hasn't phoned them up, and they're having teenage trauma about it. She's arguing with her parents and slamming doors. Also, people were starting to get apocalyptic at the beginning of the Nineties, so it was also looking at the idea of the actual end of the world. I think I read some book about it at the time. The girl at the end of the song is hoping the world will end.