Kings of the Wild Frontier (Adam and the Ants song)

"Kings of the Wild Frontier" is a 1980 song by the British new wave group Adam and the Ants.

[1] Although it was not the first pop song to do so, this was the first time the band employed the use of the two-drummer Burundi beat which then became one of their stylistic hallmarks.

I took that cowboy guitar twang from Ennio Morricone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly soundtrack.

When the album was released in the US, the track "Making History" was dropped in favour of "Press Darlings" and "Physical (You're So).

"[4] The Guardian said the song was "one of history's flat-out weirdest bids for screamy teen stardom: the lyrics beckon new fans in – "a wild nobility, we are the family" – set to a cacophony of thunderous drums, shouting, whooping, feedback and Duane Eddy-style guitar.