Def. Con. One

"Def. Con. One"
Single by Pop Will Eat Itself
from the album This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!
Released 1988 1989
Genre Industrial, Hip hop, Alternative
Writer(s) Clint Mansell, Constant, Graham Crabb, Richard March, Adam Mole
Pop Will Eat Itself singles chronology
"There Is No Love Between Us Anymore"
(1988)
"Def. Con. One"
(1988)
"Can U Dig It?"
(1989)

"Def. Con. One" is a single by Pop Will Eat Itself released in 1988 from the album This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! , It samples the songs "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges, Funkytown by disco band Lipps Inc. and Crazy Horses a 1972 hit by The Osmonds. The title comes from the United States' Defense Readiness Condition DEFCON 1, meaning "war is imminent".