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Neil
was the last track to be written for Please.
Chris
It was inspired by a sound on the PPG. It's the bass sound on the record.
Actually, the same sound is also used for the organ. It sounds quite soulful.
Neil
My vocal is really thin sounding on this. Helena Springs sings on it as
well. In the instrumental middle bit we are still in 'Axel F' tempter.
It's about Northern Ireland. At this time there were bombs in London.
It was also partly inspired by another Penelope Spheres film, The Boys
Next Door, which is about two teenagers who go up to lots of people in
Los Angeles shopping malls. Chris said I should put in 'violence breeds
violence'.
Chris
'Violence breeds violence'. It's a bit like 'War is stupid', isn't it?
Neil
I always thought it was a bit of a corny line but I couldn't think of
anything else. I like the last verse best. The song is really about how
violence is male. It's a male concept. A friend of ours who was in jail
when this album came out said that everyone in his prison loved this -
they thought it was the best track on the album. I don't think they thought
it was glorifying violence. I think they liked the fact that it was hard.
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