Me or You? (song)

"Me or You?"
Single by Killing Joke
B-side	"Feast of Blaze" "Wilful Days"
Released	October, 1983 (October, 1983)
Format	12" single 7" single
Genre	New wave Post-punk
Length	11:38
Label	E'G Records
Writer(s)	Jaz Coleman Kevin "Geordie" Walker Paul Raven Paul Ferguson
Producer	Killing Joke John Porter
Killing Joke singles chronology
"Let's All Go (to the Fire Dances)" (1983) "Me or You?" (1983) "Eighties" (1984)
7" Release Me or You? Side A Inner Sleeve Me or You? Side B Inner Sleeve

"Me or You?" is the second non-album single by Killing Joke. It was released in October, 1983, under E'G Records as a 12", 7", and a limited double vinyl 7" single. The B-side for the 12" and 7" single featured "Feast of Blaze", originally off their third studio album, Fire Dances. However, only the 12" featured the track "Wilful Days" as a B-side. The limited double vinyl 7" single featured "Wilful Days" as a C-Side with a blank D-side. Both "Wilful Days" and "Me or You?" later appeared on the 2008 reissue of Fire Dances, along with the John Peel Session version of "Wilful Days". The single reached number fifty-seven in the UK Singles Chart that same month.^[1][2]

Production and release

"Me or You?" featured rhythms not dissimilar to those of Adam and the Ants. The track distracted from what was, musically, perhaps the highlight of Killing Joke in the 1980s. The interplay between bass, drums, guitar and vocals in the opening bars of "Wilful Days" was the most exuberant, yet controlled, moment Killing Joke had achieved in the studio thus far.^[2]

Track listings

Tracklists for the singles.

7" vinyl single

Side A

1. "Me or You?" – 03:02

Side B

1. "Wilful Days" – 05:01

7" double vinyl single

Side A

1. "Me or You?" – 03:02

Side B

1. "Feast of Blaze" – 03:35

Side C

1. "Wilful Days" – 05:01

Side D

• blank

12" vinyl single

Side A

1. "Me or You?" – 03:02
2. "Feast of Blaze" – 03:35

Side B

1. "Wilful Days" – 05:01

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1983	UK Singles Chart[1]	57

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Chart Stats - Killing Joke. chartstats.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-05
2. ^ ^{a b} "Me or You?". http://www.discogs.com/release/377885. Retrieved 12 December 2008.