Thenceforward - Walk Like An Egyptian (The Bangles Cover)

From '' Sleepless Nights: Cover Comp Volume One ''
Label: Sleepless Nights Studio – SNP#9
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1996

Tracklist
01. Premonition - Wise Up
Written-By – Bold
02. Campfire - Backfire
Written-By – Side By Side
03. Line Drive - True 'Til Death
Written-By – Chain Of Strength
04. Chokehold - We're Not Gonna Take It
Written-By – Twisted Sister
05. Battery - We're Gonna Fight
Written-By – 7 Seconds
06. Falling Down - New Direction
Written-By – Gorilla Biscuits
07. Thenceforward - Walk Like An Egyptian
Written-By – Bangles
08. Worlds Collide - Old Man Down The Road
Written-By – John Fogerty
09. Mission To Murder - Suspect Device
Written-By – Stiff Little Fingers
10. Cornelius - Circle Of Friends
Written-By – Edie Brickell
11. Damnation A.D. - Cold
Written-By – The Cure
12. Act Of Faith - Eye Of The Tiger
Written-By – Survivor
13. Fragment - Proud Mary
Written-By – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Sleepless Nights Studio
Defunct recording studio in Atlanta, GA (USA).
Around the mid 90s the studio was renamed to "Microgroove Studios".

Thenceforward
American hardcore band from Atlanta, Georgia.
Members: Aaron Mountain, Clay Hawk, Greg Guerrero, Justin Caballero, Meir McGill

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"Walk Like an Egyptian" is a song recorded by the American band the Bangles.
It was released in 1986 as the third single from the album Different Light.
It was the band's first number one single, being certified gold by the RIAA, and became Billboard's number-one song of 1987.

Composition

Liam Sternberg said he was inspired to create the song while on a ferry crossing the English Channel.
When the vessel hit choppy water, passengers stepped carefully and moved their arms awkwardly while struggling to maintain their balance, and that reminded Sternberg of the depiction of human figures in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings. He wrote the words "Walk like an Egyptian" in a notebook.
Later, Sternberg looked back in the notebook, and composing the melody with a guitar, he put together an up-tempo song with lyrics about Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Nile River, crocodiles, desert sand, bazaars and hookah pipes and then segued into modern scenes of blond waitresses, school kids and police officers.

Recording

Sternberg finished a demo version by January 1984 with singer Marti Jones.
He offered it to Toni Basil, who turned it down.
Lene Lovich recorded the first version of the song, but it went unreleased when she decided to take a break from music to raise her family.
David Kahne from Peer Southern Publishing was the producer of Different Light; he received a copy of the demo and liked it, especially Jones's "offhand quality".

Kahne took the song to the Bangles, who agreed to record it.
He had each member of the group sing the lyrics to determine who would sing each verse; Vicki Peterson, Michael Steele, and Susanna Hoffs sang lead vocals in the final version on the first, second, and third verses, respectively.
Kahne disliked Debbi Peterson's leads, so she was relegated to backing vocals, which angered her and caused tension within the group.
The situation was exacerbated by the use of a drum machine in place of her drumming, further diminishing her role in the song.
She can be seen playing the tambourine during their 1986 performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The whistling in the song was played by a machine.

Chart performance

"Walk Like an Egyptian" was released as the third single from Different Light.
It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1986.
The song reached a peak of number three on the UK Singles Chart in November 1986 and reached number one in the US on December 20, staying at the top of the Hot 100 for four weeks, carrying it over into January 1987.
The success of the song and "Manic Monday" propelled Different Light to number two on the Billboard 200 chart, making it the group's most successful album.

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