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"America"
Single by Killing Joke
from the album Outside the Gate
A-side"America"
B-side"Jihad"
Released4 April 1988 (4 April 1988)
GenreNew wave, synthpop
Length15:29
LabelE.G. Records
Songwriter(s)Jaz Coleman
Kevin "Geordie" Walker
Producer(s)Jaz Coleman
Kevin "Geordie" Walker
Killing Joke singles chronology
"Sanity"
(1986) 		"America"
(1988) 		"My Love of This Land"
(1988)
Killing Joke CD singles chronology
""America""
(1988) 		""Money is Not Our God""
(1991)

"America" is Killing Joke's first single from their seventh studio album, Outside the Gate. It was released by E.G. Records on 4 April 1988.[1] It was the first official single by Killing Joke to be self-produced, after the departure of producer Chris Kimsey.

The single was accompanied by a satirical music video depicting Jaz Coleman as a presidential candidate and dressed as Uncle Sam, in a dystopian scene of the United States.

"America" charted at No. 77 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]

Track listings

The song was first released as a 7" single with "Jihad" as the B-side. It was also released as a 12" single in the UK and Germany, featuring "America (The Extended Mix)" as the A-side, and "Jihad" and a remix of "America" by Glenn Skinner on the B-side.

This was the first single by Killing Joke to be released as a CD maxi single, featuring the Glenn Skinner remix of "America", "Jihad (Beyrouth Edit)", "America (The Extended Mix)" and the original 1980 remix of "Change".

7" single

Side A
  1. "America" – 03:47
Side B
  1. "Jihad" – 06:00

12" single

Both versions of "America" were mixed by Glenn Skinner.

Side A
  1. "America (The Extended Mix)" – 06:45
Side B
  1. "Jihad" – 05:26
  2. "America" – 03:44

CD maxi single

Both versions of "America" were mixed by Glenn Skinner.

  1. "America" – 03:44
  2. "Jihad (Beyrouth Edit)" – 05:08
  3. "America (The Extended Mix)" – 06:45
  4. "Change (Original 1980 Mix)" – 04:00

Charts

Year Chart Peak
Position
1988 UK Singles Chart[2] 77

References

  1. ^ "America". Discogs. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b Official Charts Company - Killing Joke. OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-05
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