“Don't Argue” by Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire lifted the title and whole sentences of "Don't Argue" straight from the narration of Your Job in Germany, the 1945 Frank Capra short made for American soldiers occupying Germany, which warned them hard against trusting or fraternizing with the locals. Dropped onto a chilly, drill-press groove, those old orders turn eerie.

Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder wrote it; Mallinder sings, Kirk handles the instruments and Bill Nelson adds guitar, with the band producing alongside Adrian Sherwood and Graham Bonnett engineering. It comes from Code, their eighth studio album, out on EMI in October 1987, which AllMusic reckoned the loosest, most approachable thing they'd done. The album itself never charted, but "Don't Argue" slipped onto the UK singles chart at No. 69.

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