Land of Confusion

1986 single by Genesis

"Land of Confusion"

Original single cover parodying
1963's With the Beatles

Single by Genesis
from the album  Invisible Touch
B-side| "Feeding the Fire"
Released| October 1986
Genre|

* Pop rock[1]
* progressive rock[2]

Length|

* 4:45 (LP and 7-inch version)
* 6:55 (12-inch version)

Label|

* Virgin (UK)
* Atlantic (US)

Songwriter(s)|

* Mike Rutherford
* Tony Banks
* Phil Collins

Lyricist(s)| Mike Rutherford
Producer(s)|

* Genesis
* Hugh Padgham

Genesis singles chronology
| "In Too Deep"
(1986)  | "Land of Confusion"
(1986)  | "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
(1987)

|
|

"Land of Confusion" is a song by the English rock band Genesis from their thirteenth studio album, Invisible Touch (1986). The music was written by the band, while the lyrics were written by guitarist Mike Rutherford.[3] The song was the third track on the album and the third track released as a single, reaching No. 14 in the UK in December 1986 and No. 4 in the US in January 1987. It also reached the top 10 in several other countries including Canada, Ireland, West Germany and the Netherlands. The song's video features puppets from the 1980s UK sketch show Spitting Image.

## Critical reception

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Billboard said it has an "anxious beat" and a "tentatively hopeful lyric."[4] Cashbox called it a "biting and aggressive cut" highlighted by "a tough electronic rhythm and Phil Collins' searching vocal."[5]

## Music video

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The band members (Banks, Collins and Rutherford) as they appeared in the video

The song is widely remembered for its music video, which had heavy airplay on MTV. The video features caricature puppets by the British television show Spitting Image. After Phil Collins saw a caricatured version of himself on the show, he commissioned the show's creators, Peter Fluck and Roger Law, to create puppets of the entire band, as well as all the characters in the video.[6]

The video opens with a caricatured Ronald Reagan (voiced by Chris Barrie), Nancy Reagan, and a chimpanzee (a reference to the 1951 movie Bedtime for Bonzo which starred Reagan[7]), going to bed at 4:30 PM. Nancy is absorbed in reading His Way, Kitty Kelley's unauthorised biography of Frank Sinatra. Reagan, holding a teddy bear, kisses the chimp goodnight, falls asleep and begins to have a nightmare, which sets the premise for the entire video. The video intermittently features a line of feet in combat boots marching through a swamp past the heads of Cold War-era political figures including François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Ferdinand Marcos, and Henry Kissinger.

Caricatured versions of the band members are shown playing instruments on stage during a concert: Tony Banks on an array of synthesizers (as well as a cash register full of cookies), Mike Rutherford on a four-necked guitar, and two Phil Collins puppets: one on the drums, and one singing.

During the second verse, the video shows, in order: Benito Mussolini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mikhail Gorbachev and his aides, and Muammar Gaddafi giving speeches on large video screens in front of mass crowds. Meanwhile, Reagan is shown putting on a Superman suit and running down a street while Collins sings,

> Oh Superman where are you now
>  When everything's gone wrong somehow
>  The men of steel, the men of power
>  Are losing control by the hour.

Meanwhile, the "real world" Reagan is shown exhaling in a large pool of his own sweat (at one point, a rubber duck floats by), as Nancy and the chimp look out the window. During the bridge, the Superman-costumed Reagan and a dinosaur resembling a ceratopsid watch a television showing various clips including Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson, Walter Cronkite, Richard Nixon, Mr. Spock (with a Rubik's Cube), and Bob Hope (reading out from cue cards).

This segues into a sequence set in prehistoric times, where the ceratopsid from earlier and a large theropod wearing a bow tie meet with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, as a bizarre, pig-nosed mammal eats an egg and reads a newspaper, and Sylvester Stallone as Rambo standing in the background. At the end of this part, the chimp from the prologue takes a large bone from Reagan and tosses it in the air, mimicking the first part of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

As the bone begins to fall, there is a shift to Collins catching a falling phone, into which he states: he "won't be coming home tonight, my generation will put it right", while a caricature of Prince applies mustard, ketchup, and a bun to his own tongue and devours it, and a caricature of Pete Townshend is seen playing a chord on guitar and giving a thumbs-up. On the other end of the phone line are Tina Turner, Madonna, and Grace Jones, each looking into their hand-held mirrors. On the verse "we're not just making promises", the bone finally lands on top of David Bowie and Bob Dylan, barely missing Mick Jagger. Reagan is then shown riding the ceratopsid dinosaur through the streets dressed as a cowboy.

As the video nears its climax, there are periodic scenes spoofing the 1985 all-star Live Aid anthem performances of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid, and "We Are the World" by USA for Africa. The caricatured benefit recordings show a large group of spoofed celebrity and leader puppets, including Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Sting, Cliff Richard, Bette Midler, Michael Jackson, Madonna (with a second mouth in place of her navel), Bill Cosby, Queen Elizabeth II, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Princess Diana and Hulk Hogan singing along to the chorus of the song, with Pope John Paul II playing a banjo.

At the end of the video, Reagan awakens and surfaces from the pool of sweat surrounding him; Nancy at this point is wearing a snorkel. After attempting to drink from a water glass (missing his mouth and even his face à la Airplane!), he fumbles for a button next to his bed. He intends to push the one labelled "Nurse", but instead presses the one titled "Nuke", setting off a nuclear explosion. Reagan then announces: "That's one heck of a nurse!" and mugs for the camera as Nancy strikes him with her snorkel.

The video, directed by John Lloyd and Jim Yukich, and produced by Jon Blair, won the short-lived Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video during the 30th Annual Grammy Awards.[8] The video was also nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1987, but lost to "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel (coincidentally, former lead vocalist of Genesis). It also made the number-one spot on The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau's top 10 music videos in his year-end "Dean's List" feature, and number three on the equivalent list in his annual survey of music critics, Pazz & Jop (again losing out to "Sledgehammer").[9][10]

## Live performances

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The song was played on their Invisible Touch,[11] The Way We Walk,[12] Calling All Stations[13] (with Ray Wilson on vocals), Turn It On Again and The Last Domino? tours.[14]

## Track listings

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7-inch: Virgin / GENS 3 (UK)

1. "Land of Confusion" – 4:45
2. "Feeding the Fire" – 5:54

7-inch: Atlantic / 7-89336 (U.S.)

1. "Land of Confusion" (LP Version) – 4:45
2. "Feeding the Fire" – 5:54

12-inch: Virgin / GENS 3–12 (UK)

1. "Land of Confusion" (Extended Remix) – 6:55
2. "Land of Confusion" – 4:45
3. "Feeding the Fire" – 5:54

12-inch: Virgin / 608 632-213 (Germany)

1. "Land of Confusion" (Extended Remix) – 6:55
2. "Land of Confusion" – 4:45
3. "Feeding the Fire" – 5:54

CD: Virgin / SNEG 3–12 (UK)

1. "Land of Confusion" – 4:45
2. "Land of Confusion" (Extended Remix) – 6:55
3. "Feeding the Fire" – 5:54
4. "Do the Neurotic" – 7:08

12-inch: Atlantic / PR 968 (U.S.)

1. "Land of Confusion" (Extended Remix) – 6:55
2. "Land of Confusion" – 4:45

* Remixes by John Potoker

UK enhanced version

1. "Land of Confusion"
2. "Sickened"
3. "Land of Confusion" (video)

UK, European and US vinyl 12-inch limited edition picture disc

1. "Land of Confusion"
2. "Sickened"

European version

1. "Land of Confusion" (version 1)
2. "Land of Confusion" (version 2)

## Personnel

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* Phil Collins – vocals, acoustic and electronic drums
* Mike Rutherford – electric and bass guitars
* Tony Banks – keyboards, synth bass

## Charts

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### Weekly charts

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| Chart (1986–1987)  | Peak
position

|

Australia (Kent Music Report)[15] | 21
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[16] | 27
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[17] | 14
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[18] | 8
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[19] | 18
Ireland (IRMA)[20] | 9
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[21] | 8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[22] | 10
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[23] | 9
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[24] | 10
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] | 8
UK Singles (OCC)[26] | 14
US Billboard Hot 100[27] | 4
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)[28] | 11
US Cash Box[29] | 5
West Germany (GfK)[30] | 7
Chart (2019)  | Peak
position

|

Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100)[31] | 82

### Year-end charts

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| Chart (1987)  | Rank

|

Canada Top Singles (RPM)[32] | 63
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[33] | 95
US Billboard Hot 100[34] | 40
West Germany (Media Control)[35] | 57

## Disturbed version

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"Land of Confusion"

Single by Disturbed
from the album  Ten Thousand Fists
Released| 2006
Genre|

* Heavy metal[36]
* hard rock[37]
* nu metal[38]

Length| 4:47
Label| Reprise
Songwriter(s)|

* Mike Rutherford
* Tony Banks
* Phil Collins

Producer(s)| Johnny K
Disturbed singles chronology
| "Just Stop"
(2006)  | "Land of Confusion"
(2006)  | "Ten Thousand Fists"
(2006)

|
|

The American heavy metal band Disturbed released a cover of the song on their third studio album, Ten Thousand Fists (2005). The song became the fourth single from that album. Vocalist David Draiman commented that the aim of covering the song was "taking a song that's absolutely nothing like us and making it our own."[39] The line "And the sound of your laughter" in the original's bridge was replaced by "In the wake of this madness," while the bridge of the song was replaced with a short solo by guitarist Dan Donegan.

It was accompanied by a music video animated by Todd McFarlane, known as the creator of the comics series Spawn. McFarlane had previously animated the music videos for the songs "Freak on a Leash" by Korn and "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam. According to McFarlane, the music video is "a big view of the corporate world and how it all ties into just one big beast for me... The world is run by one giant thing, which is driven by greed and lust."[40] "Land of Confusion" reached No. 1 in the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks; making it Disturbed's first No. 1 single on that chart.

The video starts out with The Guy, Disturbed's mascot, falling to earth. It then shows military forces bearing the symbol of a dollar sign[40] within a circle of white within a field of red, followed by legions of black-clad soldiers reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS).[41] The video then shows the Guy, escaping bondage from chains, as the military forces continue to assault cities and civilians. Later on, leaders of various nations of the world (bearing close physical resemblance to George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Jacques Chirac, Junichiro Koizumi and Tony Blair) are shown sitting at a table with the same dollar sign on it. Eventually, the Guy confronts the soldiers, and leads the people in rebellion. Flags of several powerful nations are then shown, with the final flag sporting the dollar sign. The Guy leads the rebels to the headquarters of the United Nations[41] where they disrupt a meeting of the U.N. representatives. The Guy then leads the angry mob into a back room where they confront the real power behind the throne, a gigantic, bloated Fat Cat. The mob then drags him to the ground and once immobilized, the Guy destroys the Fat Cat, who explodes into a shower of dollar bills.

### Charts

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Chart (2006)  | Peak
position

|

UK Singles (OCC)[42] | 79
US Billboard Mainstream Rock[43] | 1
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[44] | 18

### Certifications

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Region  | Certification | Certified units/sales

|
|

Australia (ARIA)[45] | Gold  | 35,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[46] | Platinum  | 80,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[47] | Gold  | 15,000‡
United States (RIAA)[48] | Platinum  | 1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

## See also

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* List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 2000s

## References

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## External links

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* "Genesis – Land of Confusion" on YouTube
* "Disturbed – Land of Confusion" on YouTube
* "In Flames – Land of Confusion" on YouTube

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* Tony Banks
* Mike Rutherford
* Phil Collins

* Peter Gabriel
* Anthony Phillips
* Chris Stewart
* John Silver
* John Mayhew
* Mick Barnard
* Steve Hackett
* Ray Wilson

Studio albums|

* From Genesis to Revelation
* Trespass
* Nursery Cryme
* Foxtrot
* Selling England by the Pound
* The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
* A Trick of the Tail
* Wind & Wuthering
* ...And Then There Were Three...
* Duke
* Abacab
* Genesis
* Invisible Touch
* We Can't Dance
* Calling All Stations

Live albums|

* Genesis Live
* Seconds Out
* Three Sides Live
* The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts
* The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs
* Live over Europe 2007

Compilations|

* Turn It On Again: The Hits
* Platinum Collection
* The Last Domino? – The Hits

Box sets|

* Genesis Archive 1967–75
* Genesis Archive #2 1976–92
* Genesis 1976–1982
* Genesis 1983–1998
* Genesis 1970–1975
* Genesis Live 1973–2007
* R-Kive
* BBC Broadcasts

EPs|

* Spot the Pigeon
* 3×3

Singles|

* "The Silent Sun"
* "The Knife"
* "Watcher of the Skies"
* "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"
* "The Carpet Crawlers"
* "A Trick of the Tail"
* "Your Own Special Way"
* "Follow You Follow Me"
* "Many Too Many"
* "Go West Young Man"
* "Turn It On Again"
* "Duchess"
* "Misunderstanding"
* "Abacab"
* "No Reply at All"
* "Keep It Dark"
* "Man on the Corner"
* "Paperlate"
* "Mama"
* "That's All"
* "Home by the Sea"
* "Illegal Alien"
* "Taking It All Too Hard"
* "Invisible Touch"
* "Throwing It All Away"
* "In Too Deep"
* "Land of Confusion"
* "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
* "No Son of Mine"
* "I Can't Dance"
* "Hold on My Heart"
* "Jesus He Knows Me"
* "Never a Time"
* "Tell Me Why"
* "Congo"
* "Shipwrecked"
* "Not About Us"
* "The Carpet Crawlers 1999"
* "The Silent Sun 2006"

Other songs|

* "The Musical Box"
* "Get 'Em Out by Friday"
* "Supper's Ready"
* "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"
* "Firth of Fifth"
* "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
* "The Lady Lies"
* "Behind the Lines"
* "Domino"
* "Anything She Does"
* "Driving the Last Spike"
* "Fading Lights"

Video albums|

* In Concert
* Three Sides Live
* The Mama Tour
* Live at Wembley Stadium
* The Way We Walk
* The Video Show
* Live in London
* When in Rome 2007
* Genesis Movie Box 1981–2007

Tours|

* Selling England by the Pound Tour
* The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Tour
* A Trick of the Tail Tour
* Wind & Wuthering Tour
* Invisible Touch Tour
* We Can't Dance Tour
* Calling All Stations Tour
* Turn It On Again: The Tour
* The Last Domino? Tour

Related musicians|

* Bill Bruford
* Chester Thompson
* Daryl Stuermer
* Nick D'Virgilio
* Nir Zidkyahu
* Anthony Drennan
* Daniel Pearce
* Nic Collins

Related articles|

* List of Genesis medleys
* Brand X
* Flaming Youth
* Mike and the Mechanics
* GTR
* Stiltskin
* Simon Collins
* Sound of Contact
* Jonathan King
* Tony Smith
* The Musical Box
* Six of the Best
* Genesis: Together and Apart
* The Farm

* Genesis discography
* List of Genesis band members
* Genesis awards
* Category

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Grammy Award for Best Music Video

1980s|

* "Girls on Film" / "Hungry Like the Wolf" – Duran Duran (1984)
* "Jazzin' for Blue Jean" – David Bowie (1985)
* "We Are the World" – USA for Africa (1986)
* "Brothers in Arms" – Dire Straits (1987)

1990s|

* "Leave Me Alone" – Michael Jackson (1990)
* "Opposites Attract" – Paula Abdul (1991)
* "Losing My Religion" – R.E.M. (1992)
* "Digging in the Dirt" – Peter Gabriel (1993)
* "Steam" – Peter Gabriel (1994)
* "Love Is Strong" – The Rolling Stones (1995)
* "Scream" – Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson (1996)
* "Free as a Bird" – The Beatles (1997)
* "Got 'til It's Gone" – Janet Jackson (1998)
* "Ray of Light" – Madonna (1999)

2000s|

* "Freak on a Leash" – Korn (2000)
* "Learn to Fly" – Foo Fighters (2001)
* "Weapon of Choice" – Fatboy Slim featuring Bootsy Collins (2002)
* "Without Me" - Eminem (2003)
* "Hurt" – Johnny Cash (2004)
* "Vertigo" – U2 (2005)
* "Lose Control" – Missy Elliott featuring Ciara & Fatman Scoop (2006)
* "Here It Goes Again" – OK Go (2007)
* "God's Gonna Cut You Down" – Johnny Cash (2008)
* "Pork and Beans" – Weezer (2009)

2010s|

* "Boom Boom Pow" – Black Eyed Peas (2010)
* "Bad Romance" – Lady Gaga (2011)
* "Rolling in the Deep" – Adele (2012)
* "We Found Love" – Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris (2013)
* "Suit & Tie" – Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z (2014)
* "Happy" – Pharrell Williams (2015)
* "Bad Blood" – Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar (2016)
* "Formation" – Beyoncé (2017)
* "Humble" – Kendrick Lamar (2018)
* "This Is America" – Childish Gambino (2019)

2020s|

* "Old Town Road" – Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (2020)
* "Brown Skin Girl" – Beyoncé, Blue Ivy & Wizkid (2021)
* "Freedom" – Jon Batiste (2022)
* All Too Well: The Short Film – Taylor Swift (2023)
* "I'm Only Sleeping" – The Beatles (2024)
* "Not Like Us" – Kendrick Lamar (2025)

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