Pull Out the Pin
1982 · EMI EMC 3419 · UK: England
- Artist
- Kate Bush
- Title
- Pull Out the Pin
- Release
- The Dreaming
- Year
- 1982
- Label
- EMI # EMC 3419
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- UK: England
- Songwriter
- Kate Bush
- Genre
- Pop · Art Pop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
British singer-songwriter Kate Bush on the track "Pull Out the Pin" (EMI Records # EMC 3419) looked at the war from the 'other side'. Bush took inspiration for the song from an Australian documentary which portrayed the Vietnamese as a "really crafted, beautiful race" and the Americans as "these big, fat, pink, smelly things". It claimed that the North Vietnamese popped a silver Buddha into their mouths before they died, to have Buddha on their lips: "with my silver Buddha and my silver bullet, I pull the pin". (1) (2)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
English singer-songwriter, born 30 July 1958 in Bexleyheath, England ('Pull Out the Pin'). [Source: Wikipedia]