"Ride It On"/"Lions After Slumber" is a 7"split single by Delays and The Veils, released in November 2003 to promote the album Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before... a compilation of interpretations by current Rough Trade bands of classic songs released by the label.
"Lions After Slumber" was originally released in October 1981 as the B-side of The "Sweetest Girl" (in UK, US and Germany) by Scritti Politti.[1] The title and final line is a quote from Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy, often cited as the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance. "Rise, like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number!”[2]
Track listing
- 7" (RTRADES153)
- "Ride It On" (Delays, originally by Mazzy Star) – 3:28
- "Lions After Slumber" (The Veils, originally by Scritti Politti) – 3:30
References
- ^ The "Sweetest Girl" (12" vinyl). Scritti Politti. Rough Trade Records. 1981.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Huxley, Aldous (1937). "Shelley". An Encyclopedia of Pacifism. London: Chatto and Windus, in association with the Peace Pledge Union. pp. 93–94.
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