“Know Your Product” by The Saints

"Know Your Product" is the Australian band the Saints charging in with a horn section in tow, the second single from their second album, Eternally Yours, out in February 1978. Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey wrote it, and the shock is the brass: big, upfront horns riding a punk guitar charge, which Bailey later put down to Sam and Dave and the Stax horns.

It's a bridge record, carrying the aggression of their 1976 debut single "(I'm) Stranded" toward the horn-driven R&B of Prehistoric Sounds, and the words take a cynical swipe at consumerism; in 2004 Kuepper went along with the idea that it was a distant cousin of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". The band filmed a performance video in solarised colour, but the single never charted.

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