"Electric Lash" is a song by Australian

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band The Church. It was released as a single from the

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'' Seance''. It was a

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in 1983. In Steve Kilbey's 2014

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"Something Quite Peculiar" Kilbey wrote that then

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journalist Jennifer Keyte was "the voice of the girl on the radio" in the song's lyrics. Keyte wrote that "it was one of those lovely early romances you have such fond memories of." Guitarist

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said the song would have been "a big hit" with accessible lyrics, "but it just sounded meaningless and surreal. We were in this studio where they had man-made carpet on the floor which used to build up static electricity, and you'd get a little shock off everything, even the potted plants, so it became 'electric lashes from trees in the studio'."

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