| "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" | ||||
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| Single by Heaven 17 | ||||
| from the album Penthouse and Pavement | ||||
| B-side | "The Decline of the West" | |||
| Released | 6 March 1981 | |||
| Studio | Maison Rouge (Sheffield) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 4:20[3] | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | British Electric Foundation | |||
| Heaven 17 singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" on YouTube | ||||
"(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" is a song by British synth-pop band Heaven 17. It was their debut single, released on 6 March 1981, and the lead single from their debut studio album, Penthouse and Pavement (1981). It was a minor hit in the UK in 1981, despite being banned by the BBC. It was also a minor dance hit in the US. It developed from an instrumental, "Groove Thang", that Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh created earlier that year for Music for Stowaways, an album they released as British Electric Foundation.
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