"This Is Your Land" | ||||
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Single by Simple Minds | ||||
from the album Street Fighting Years | ||||
B-side | "Saturday Girl" "Year of the Dragon" |
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Released | 10 April 1989 | |||
Format | 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD | |||
Genre | Pop, rock, electronic | |||
Length | 6:18 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Writer(s) | Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil | |||
Producer(s) |
Trevor Horn Stephen Lipson |
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Simple Minds singles chronology | ||||
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"This Is Your Land" is a song by Scottish rock band Simple Minds from their album Street Fighting Years, released as a single on 10 April 1989. The song features Lou Reed as guest vocalist. The single reached #13 on the UK singles chart. The music video was shot in Spain.
The song was praised by David Sinclair of Q magazine as part of a five-star album review given to Street Fighting Years. Sinclair wrote: "The utterly beguiling melody of 'This Is Your Land', featuring a deadpan Lou Reed, cloaks a stinging rebuke on the issue of the environment while gently leading the listener up towards the panoramic splendour of the instrumental coda."