- electronic, hip hop, rock, industrial
- 51 min
- 15 tracks
- RCA
This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! is the second studio album by English rock band Pop Will Eat Itself, released on 1 May 1989 by RCA Records. It builds upon the band's 1987 debut Box Frenzy in its extensive usage of sampling, combining influences from punk rock, hip hop, heavy metal, and disco music, with samples and lyrics that reference, among many subjects, pop culture and otaku culture.
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- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
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Tracks
- 1PWEI Is a Four Letter Word1:13
- 2Preaching to the Perverted4:27
- 3Wise Up! Sucker3:16
- 4Sixteen Different Flavours of Hell1:23
- 5Inject Me3:51
- 6Can U Dig It?4:32
- 7The Fuses Have Been Lit4:03
- 8Poison to the Mind0:58
- 9Def.Con.One3:60
- 10Radio PWEI3:37
- 11Shortwave Transmission on ‘Up to the Minuteman Nine’1:02
- 12Satellite Ecstatica3:33
- 13Not Now James, We’re Busy...3:09
- 14Wake Up! Time to Die...6:42
- 15Wise Up! Sucker (12” Youth mix)5:43
15 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Pop Will Eat Itself
- Label
- RCA
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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