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We Are All Prostitutes

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"We Are All Prostitutes"
Single by The Pop Group
B-side"Amnesty International Report on British Army Torture of Irish Prisoners"
Released9 November 1979
Genre
Length3:08
LabelRough Trade
Songwriter(s)The Pop Group
Producer(s)Dennis Bovell, The Pop Group
The Pop Group singles chronology
"She Is Beyond Good and Evil"
(1979)
"We Are All Prostitutes"
(1979)
"Where There's a Will There's a Way"
(1980)

"We Are All Prostitutes" is a song by English post-punk band The Pop Group. It was released as the band's second single on 9 November 1979 through Rough Trade Records.[1] The song is a critique of consumerism.[2]

The song was included as the third track in the 2016 reissue of The Pop Group's 1980 album For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?

Reception

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Songwriter Nick Cave declared the song to be the band's masterpiece, saying, "It had everything that I thought rock and roll should have. It was violent, paranoid music for a violent, paranoid time."[3] Writer Mark Fisher described the song "scouring, seesawing, seasick funk, a pied piper’s exit from dominant reality, fired by a fissile compound of millenarian terror and militant jubilation."[4]

Legacy

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Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Mojo United Kingdom 100 Punk Scorchers[5] 2001 33
Gary Mulholland United Kingdom This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock[6] 2002 *
Mojo United Kingdom The Mojo 100 Greatest Protest Songs[7] 2004 93
Q United Kingdom The Ultimate Music Collection (Punk)[8] 2005 *

(*) designates unordered lists.

Formats and track listing

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All songs written by The Pop Group.

  • UK 7" single (RT 023)
  1. "We Are All Prostitutes" – 3:08
  2. "Amnesty International Report on British Army Torture of Irish Prisoners" – 3:08

Credits and personnel

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The Pop Group

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Charts

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Chart (1980) Peak
position
UK Indie Chart[9] 8

References

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  1. ^ "We Are All Prostitutes Single". thepopgroup.net. 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  2. ^ "BBC Four – Punk Britannia, the Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes (Web exclusive performance)".
  3. ^ T, Peter (September 19, 2012). "1979: The Pop Group – Y". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  4. ^ Fisher, Mark. "The Pop Group's How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?." Fact. February 2016.
  5. ^ "100 Punk Scorchers". Mojo. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  6. ^ "This Is Uncool". Gary Mulholland. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  7. ^ "The Mojo 100 Greatest Protest Songs". Mojo. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  8. ^ "Ultimate Music Collection – Tracks (Punk & New Wave)". Q. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  9. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
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