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Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love

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song nameSapphire Bullets of Pure Love
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumFlood, Don't Let's Start (EP) [Elektra 7" Re-issue]
year1990
first playedFeb. 24, 1989 (31 known performances)
run time1:36
sung byJohn Flansburgh; John Linnell sings very prominent harmony

Trivia/Info

  • From a 2009 RollingStone Interview:
    • Flansburgh: "This was a track we reworked for Flood. The sounds are very cool, but it's quite a production. We also used to do this song as a duo, and that version had a nice simplicity to it."
    • Linnell: "I thought it would be good to expand on the [identical] title of a very short instrumental Mahavishnu Orchestra album cut from the '70s. 'Bullets of love' is a funnily dissonant idea. That was a few years before the Sex Pistols arrived."
  • The title comes from a song by the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
  • TMBG's fake TMBG cover band, Sapphire Bullets, take their name from this song.

Song Themes

Love, Me, Precious Metal, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Self-Reference, Title Not In Lyrics

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