Album · Pop Will Eat Itself
This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This! by Pop Will Eat Itself
This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This! is an album by Pop Will Eat Itself, released in 1989. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Def.Con.One”, on 8 lists with a best position of #25.
This Is the Day... This Is the Hour... This Is This!, Pop Will Eat Itself's second album, came out on RCA on 1 May 1989 with Flood producing, and it takes the sample-crazy approach of their 1987 debut Box Frenzy and cranks every dial. Punk, hip hop, heavy metal and disco all get chopped up and glued together, with Public Enemy the loudest influence, and the lyrics and samples fire off pop culture and otaku references like a cartoon machine gun.
The Stourbridge band had started out as a grebo act, and here you can hear them turning into something weirder and more wired, part rock band, part sound collage. "Def. Con. One", "Can U Dig It?" and "Wise Up! Sucker" were their most successful singles yet, and critics loved the invention and the jokes. The Designers Republic sleeve toys with nuclear war imagery. Cherry Red reissued it as a two-disc deluxe edition in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Def.Con.One | 8 | #25 | – | 1988–2003 | |
| 2 | Wise Up! Sucker! | 4 | #41 | – | 1990–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.