This Is Your Land

"This Is Your Land"
Single by Simple Minds
from the album Street Fighting Years
B-side
  • "Saturday Girl"
  • "Year of the Dragon"
Released10 April 1989 (1989-04-10)
GenrePop, rock, electronic
Length6:18
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil
Producer(s)Trevor Horn
Stephen Lipson
Simple Minds singles chronology
"Belfast Child"
(1989)
"This Is Your Land"
(1989)
"Take a Step Back"
(1989)

"This Is Your Land" is a song by Scottish rock band Simple Minds from their album Street Fighting Years, released as the second single on 10 April 1989. The song features Lou Reed as guest vocalist. The single reached #13 on the UK singles chart.[1] 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."[2]

  1. ^ "The Official Charts Company - Simple Minds - This Is Your Land". Official Charts. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Simple Minds 'Street Fighting Years' Reviews & Articles". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2014-02-28.