| Working with Fire and Steel | |
| Cover: | WorkingwithFireandSteel.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | China Crisis |
| Album: | Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two |
| Released: | [1] |
| Genre: | New wave |
| Length: | 3:41 |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Producer: | Mike Howlett |
| Chronology: | China Crisis |
| Prev Title: | Tragedy and Mystery |
| Prev Year: | 1983 |
| Next Title: | Wishful Thinking |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
"Working with Fire and Steel" is a song by the English new wave band China Crisis, released as the second single from their second studio album Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two (1983). It peaked at No. 48 on the UK Singles Chart[2] and at No. 47 in Australia.[3] It was also a hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart where it reached No. 27.[4]
Spin said the song was, "pop in every sense of the word" but the meaning was, "too precious and couched in metaphor and the whole mix was too crowded with different sounds and instruments to be considered strictly pop. It was more than the average listener could decipher while watching MTV or tuning his car radio."[5]
UK 7" single / 7" silver vinyl
UK 12" single
US 12" single (Warner Bros.)
Canada 7" single (Virgin)
Europe 7" single
. . David Kent (historian) . Australian Chart Book . . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6.