"Warriors of the Wasteland" is the sixth single by English pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Having already referenced Dylan Thomas in "Rage Hard", for "Warriors of the Wasteland" Holly Johnson turned to T. S. Eliot for inspiration, citing Eliot's The Waste Land poem, Mad Max 2, and the 1979 film, The Warriors as inspirations.
1 magazine the song was of social inequality saying, "Warriors implies fighting tribal heroes.
Rich people and corporate businesses have got it worked out so they launder money and avoid tax while the education system keep a type of ignorance going.
"[3] James Brown of Sounds also gave a negative review calling the song "a predictable piece of rock junk" which he believed showed how Frankie Goes to Hollywood had become "appallingly tame and useless" and "so bloody obviously boring that they have resorted to making competent rock records".