Peace Krime #1

One main version:

* (1981) - Chemical Playschool 1 (3:43)

A track with prominent samples taken from news broadcasts regarding British current events -- state of the royalty, Prince Charles' suitability for the throne, financial issues, somebody's hunger strike, and the death of two children -- as well as what sounds like football chanting.

The people being interviewed keep suggesting that Prince Charles should get married, so maybe the recording was made previous to his engagement in February 1981.

Unavailable elsewhere.

Instruments: Sequenced keyboard bassline; organ synth chords; heavily modulated swoopy synth noises; indecipherable vocoder voice; samples from news broadcasts with echo in the left speaker.

Lyrics:

(Watch the famous on the box)

...most people are very happy with the queen?

I think there are good...it's good for England to still, to have a queen. It's one of the few places in the world where they still have royalty and I think it's a very worthwhile thing to still have royalty. I used to live in Australia and people there think so much of the royal family. I think that it's done a good job and I don't see any reason to [?]

Well, I [?] two or three years yet meself, you know, I don't think he's quite ready for it yet. He's a bit too, it's a bit too soon for him yet, he's not quite...try getting married, settle down for a little while.

Can I get your opinion of the royal family?

Yes, I think they're very good, I think we need them, they do a lot for trade, and I think, um, I think she should retire, actually, I think she should let Charles come to the throne.

You think he has the qualities to make a good king?

Yes, sure.

What do you think those qualities are.

Well, I think he's quite serious-minded, I think he knows what's going on in the world, he's seen a lot of it, he meets people all the time, and...yeah, I think he's a [?] maybe get married and settled down, then he might [?] yes, let somebody else...

[?] go down, falls very quickly. The pound--

...well...

...the corporate spending world today, [?] straight to the pound, which of course was [?] and if so [?]. Because [?] has got a lot of slack, uhhh [?]

([?] Armageddon...[?] really look like he'd be at home there?)

[?] have not a great deal to begin with.

[?] 27 days [?]

[?] ...and the latest in their department and legislature [?]

...with someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political, it is crime. And can be no question of granting political status. I just hope that anyone who is on hunger strike for his own sake will see fit to come off hunger strike, but that is a matter for him.

(Like Gabriel, like Gabriel...)

[?] police have managed an inquiry after two young children were found dead at their home. The children's mother has said [?] child had been taken to hospital [?] suffering some bruises.

Why You Should Care:

This doesn't appear anywhere else, but Peace Krime #2 appears on many different releases and it uses the "crime is crime is crime" sample (probably Margaret Thatcher) repeatedly, as well as the football chanting. This sample also appears in the "Full Band Version" of "Apocalypse Then" and at the beginning and ending of "A Bargain at Twice the Price (from All the King's Horses).

This is also the first time that they've really played with samples, though they've obviously done them with tape manipulation as opposed to with a sampler.