"Loaded" is a single released by the Scottish band

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in 1987. The main B-side, "Long Distance from Just Across the Road", appears on all versions of the single, which was released on

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and on 7" and 12" vinyl. Ricky Ross has described this stark, echoing song as " attempt to re-write 'Shore Leave' by

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." The other songs, "

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" and "Kings of the Western World", appear on the

and 12" versions of the single. In an interview given to the '' Daily Record'' in 2012, songwriter Ricky Ross explained about "Loaded" that "I’d left the keys to my flat in Glasgow to the guys in the band and they did a backing track on an old 8 track. I came in and started singing stream of consciousness on it, about some of the people we’d met in the record business. Part of the lyric was lifted from an old evangelical children's hymn, "Christ Is The Answer"".

Track listing

All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loaded (Deacon Blue Song) Deacon Blue songs 1987 singles Songs written by Ricky Ross (musician)