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"My Love of This Land"
Single by Killing Joke
from the album Outside the Gate
A-side"My Love of this Land"
B-side"Darkness Before Dawn"
Released3 July 1988 (3 July 1988)
Genre Synth-pop, new wave
Length9:32
Label E.G. Records
Songwriter(s) Jaz Coleman
Kevin "Geordie" Walker
Producer(s) Jaz Coleman
Kevin "Geordie" Walker
Killing Joke singles chronology
" America"
(1988)
"My Love of This Land"
(1988)
" The Beautiful Dead"
(1990)
10" single release
My Love of This Land Side A Inner Sleeve

"My Love of This Land" is Killing Joke's second single from their seventh studio album, Outside the Gate. It was released by E.G. Records on 3 July 1988. [1]

"My Love of this Land" reached No. 89 on the UK Singles Chart. [2]

Releases

"My Love of This Land" was first released as a 7" single, backed by B-side "Darkness Before Dawn" (previously from the album Night Time). "My Love of This Land" was then released as a 10" single in the UK, featuring a remix of the song by Glenn Skinner on the A-side, along with "Darkness Before Dawn", and " Follow the Leaders-Dub" and "Sun Goes Down" on the B-side. A third release of the single as a 12" featured the same A-side as the 10" release, while the B-side included a live version of "Pssyche" with "Follow the Leaders-Dub". [1]

Track listings

7" single

Side A
  1. "My Love of This Land" – 04:14
Side B
  1. "Darkness Before Dawn" – 05:18

10" single

Side A
  1. "My Love of This Land" – 03:58 [tln 1]
  2. "Darkness Before Dawn" – 05:18
Side B
  1. "Follow the Leaders-Dub" – 04:00
  2. "Sun Goes Down" – 04:19

12" single

Side A
  1. "My Love of This Land" – 03:58 [tln 1]
  2. "Darkness Before Dawn" – 05:18
Side B
  1. "Follow the Leaders-Dub" – 04:00
  2. "Pssyche (Live)" – 04:38

Track listings notes

  1. ^ a b Mixed by Glenn Skinner

Charts

Year Chart Peak
Position
1988 UK Singles Chart [2] 89

References

  1. ^ a b "My Love of this Land". "Discogs. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  2. ^ a b Chart Stats – Killing Joke. OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-05

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