Colin Moulding’s first-ever fully solo release uses lines from the American poet E.E. Cummings to highlight opposition to the herd instinct and to praise individual thought and action: “To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.”.
The single also contains the ‘First Exploratory Demo’ of the title song together with a Beatle-esque ditty, Say It, which carries pretty much the same message in other words and in under three minutes: ”Open up your heart – say the things you want to say.” This song was written for an XTC album that never but only previously surfaced on an obscure promo.
Moulding wrote XTC’s first charting singles ('Life Begins at the Hop', 'Making Plans for Nigel' and 'Generals and Majors') and this single shows he still has an ear for intelligent pop with a message.
