Ammunition (formely known as "U2 Like Song") is an alternative/pop rock song recorded off of an Vancouver-based radio station in 1993.
Search History[]
In March 1993, a young Robyn Hanson would record the song off a Vancouver-based mainstream radio station onto a cassette. At the time, Robyn thought it was by U2, but none of their songs sounded similar.
Somewhere around 2002, Robyn went to the U2Interference forum site and asked for the song to be identified, to no avail. In the same year, she tried it again but this time on the Eidosgames forum, again not getting much help.
On November 13th, 2015, Robyn posted on Twitter, asking people if they could help identify the song, linking to the comment section of their blog. Eventually some people joined in the search in hopes of finding the song. She also attached the incomplete recording of the song.
On November 16th, 2015, a user on their blog brang up a CBC radio show called "The Hum Line", which ran somewhere around the 90s and seemingly has no extant records.
A day later, Robyn replied, thanking the user for the suggestion as well as telling them she had talked with he host of CBC Radio's "On The Coast" last Friday about the mysterious song and that a small interview took place between them.
On November 18th, 2015, the official CBC posted an article titled "Mystery song recorded radio stumps everyone for 22 years". On the same day, Stephen aired the interview as well as the song through 88.1 FM in Vancouver. Eventually, a listener identified the song as Ammunition by All Good Children, a Hamilton, Ontario-based band.
On November 19th, 2015. Robyn and Erin thanked everyone for helping their 22-year old hunt for a once unknown song recorded from the radio. On the same day, CBC made a follow-up article stating that the song was identified.
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Soldier march on to the front
Till' there's battle, the wars begun
Take your orders from a hackerman
Burn the bridges to the promised land.
[Chorus]
Ammunition
Ammunition
[Verse 2]
And they're marching down on the Queens street
There's new world order, and new world beat
Snap the fire in the alleyway
No one cares about your mother on Mother’s Day.
[Chorus]
Ammunition
Ammunition
And when I lift you
You said you love me, yeah
And the nation walks beside
How'd you forget me, yeah.
[Verse 3]
Soldier march on to the front
Until there's battle, the wars begun
Shown next line, it's your only prayer
When the front page sees you every time
You might also like.
[Chorus]
Ammunition
Ammunition
When I lift you
You said you love me
Now all the nation walks
How'd you forget me, yeah
When I left you
You said you loved me
Imagination
How'd you forget me, yeah.
(mumbled)
Fear me and you
Yeah me and you
I can see the fear in you
Kneel some raving x3.
All Good Children[]
All Good Children was an alternative rock band from Ontario, Canada, active in the early 90s. They have two albums to their name.
The band consisted of: Simon Ruzzier (vocals), Steve Metham (guitar and vocals), Sean O'Kane (bass), Gavin O'Sullivan (drums) and Frank Koren (guitar).
In 1991, the band released their first album, self-titled All Good Children. Their song "Black and Blue" also appeared on the CFNY 1992 New Music Search CD.
In 1994, the band released their second and last album Fetish Fetish, where this song was included.
After the song's discovery, group's lead singer Simon Ruzzier along with guitarist Frank Koren gave an interview to CBC News, which they said:
- We were pretty serious, there were some years where we played upwards of 200 shows a year [...] But you get married, you have bills, mortgages … playing local shows in Ontario doesn't pay bills, you know? [...] So we had to get real jobs, and we couldn't fit into our rock star pants anymore and our leather jackets, so we just sort of quit.
Ruzzier said that despite the band breaking up, several of the band members and their families remain close to this day.
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