Can U Dig It? Explained

Can U Dig It?
Cover:Can u dig it? pwei.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Pop Will Eat Itself
Album:This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!
B-Side:Poison to the Mind
Released:30 January 1989[1]
Genre:Dance-rock[2]
Length:4:32
Label:RCA
Producer:Flood
Prev Title:Def. Con. One
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Wise Up! Sucker
Next Year:1989

"Can U Dig It?" is a single by British band Pop Will Eat Itself, released in 1989 from the band's second album This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! and it peaked at #38 in the UK Charts.[3]

The lyrics include a litany of references to movies, comics, music, and television. The sample in which a male voice is heard yelling "Can you dig it?" several times and the female voice at the beginning of the track saying "Let's get down to it, boppers..." were taken from the cult classic 1979 U.S. action film The Warriors.

Music video

An accompanying music video was made for the single. It features Clint Mansell and Graham Crabb singing the song against various changing backgrounds (many of which reference the song lyrics) while in other parts the rest of the band members perform the song with stacks of TVs behind them.

Track listing

All songs written by Pop Will Eat Itself

12"

7"

CD

Personnel

Clint Mansell - Vocals
Graham Crabb - Vocals
Adam Mole - Guitar
Richard March - Guitar
"The Buzzard" - Wild Guitar

External links

Notes and References

  1. News . Record Mirror . 1989-01-28 . 4 . 6 . 29 November 2021 . English . The rascally Pop Will Eat Itself release their single 'Can U Dig It' on January 30..
  2. Web site: Tom . Breihan . The Number Ones: Fine Young Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Crazy. . July 7, 2021. November 24, 2023.
  3. News: PWEI UK Charts. 2013-04-12. Official charts.