The album 'Always outnumbered, never outgunned' celebrates 20s anniversary this year , although maybe a little late, still the question about the title meaning was never disclosed as far as I know.

On wikipedia it says "The title is a play on the name of the Walter Mosley novel Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. "

But I rather wondered if the final track "Shoot down" with lyrics like "Shoot the gun" was meant to be the title track of the album in combination with Spitfire lyrics "Fire " . (referring obviously to "never outgunned."



Thanks for replies !

I'd say the title came from what Liam was feeling at the time. Keef and Maxim were doing their own thing and the three of them were barely speaking and weren't available for the studio when Liam called them up so he felt outnumbered but not outgunned because he did the album without them anyway. Just a guess.

I always wondered these "Shoot down " lyrics what do they mean ?

"Shoot the gun" what is meant ?



(gun is it meant metaphorical for phallus ?)

"To the bang bang bang"

like "Gang bang "



Seriously please do not delete this question.

Re-release 24 August, 2LP but no special edition or additional tracks

https://shop.xlrecordings.com/release/4 ... -outgunned

Another missed opportunity.
So many unreleased tracks from that era

23rd according to juno and XL site.

Same day as Reading if that's the case.

And they're playing France on Jilted's anniversary.

Got the vinyl 2 days ago XL sends them already.

It is complete Shoot Down of the version that cuts early?

Is the catalogue number just XL183?

XL183LP2 according to: -

https://www.discogs.com/release/3090943 ... Outgunned-

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It is complete Shoot Down of the version that cuts early?[/quote]

what do you mean? in which release(s) can we find that version?

When 'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned' was first released, the UK CD version had an error during production which clipped off the last second or so of 'Shoot Down' (I don't know if there was ever another production run of the UK CD with the error corrected). The UK Vinyl version had the full version of 'Shoot Down'. The US release of the CD has the bonus track 'More Girls' after 'Shoot Down'. 'Shoot Down' is not clipped on the US CD. I presume the same applies to the Japanese release CD. Discogs lists 'Shoot Down' with a 4:32 runtime for the US and Japanese CD but 4:31 for the UK CD.