We Are All Prostitutes (song)

"We Are All Prostitutes"
Single by The Pop Group
B-side "Amnesty International Report on British Army Torture of Irish Prisoners"
Released 9 November 1979
Format 7"
Genre
Length 3:08
Label Rough Trade
Writer(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 November 9, 1979, through Rough Trade Records.[1]

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

Reception

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."[2] 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."[3]

Legacy

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Mojo United Kingdom 100 Punk Scorchers[4] 2001 33
Gary Mulholland United Kingdom This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock[5] 2002 *
Mojo United Kingdom The Mojo 100 Greatest Protest Songs[6] 2004 93
Q United Kingdom The Ultimate Music Collection (Punk)[7] 2005 *

(*) designates unordered lists.

Formats and track listing

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

Personnel

The Pop Group
Additional musicians
Technical personnel

Charts

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

References

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

External links

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