Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls

about this song

The working title for the song was “Tazer Floyd” The second track on Yanqui U..X.O. fills the entire second side of the first disk on vinyl. The title most clearly dialogues with the artwork and title of the album – being Yanqui the Spanish translation to “Yankee” and U.X.O. standing for “unexploded ordinance”, as in landmines or cluster bombs. Rockets falling are also on the cover of the record. Yanqui U.X.O. as the image below (from the album artwork) reveals

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