"Empires (Bring Me Men)" is a song by British singer
Lamya
Lamya Al-Mugheiry (30 October 1973 – 8 January 2009), better known as her mononym Lamya, was a Kenyan-born English singer-songwriter and record producer. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as one of the lead singers of R&B group Soul II Soul, ...
, released in 2002. It was the first single taken from her debut album ''
Learning from Falling
''Learning from Falling'' is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter artist Lamya. The album included production by Nellee Hooper and Mark Ronson and entered the Top Heatseekers chart in the United States at #16.
A remix of the first ...
''.
It is based on a poem, ''The Coming American'', commemorating the 75th anniversary of the American acquisition of the state of
California
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, by American librarian and poet
Samuel Walter Foss.
A remix of the song reached #1 on the ''
Billboard''
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.
Track listing
;CD single (Europe)
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (Radio edit) − 3:42
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (
Sander Kleinenberg
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Audio Paranoid Mix) − 8:42
;CD single (Europe)
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (Radio edit) − 3:42
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (Sander Kleinenberg Audio Paranoid Mix) − 8:42
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (Bent Mix) − 6:59
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (video) − 3:42
;Vinyl 12" (USA)
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (Widelife Main Room Tribal Mix) − 9:17
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (That Kid Chris Remix) − 8:56
;Vinyl 12" (USA)
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (Sander Kleinenberg Audio Paranoid Club Mix) − 8:36
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (That Kid Chris Mix) − 8:56
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (
Junior Vasquez
Junior Vasquez (born Donald Gregory Mattern, August 24, 1949) is an American DJ, record producer and remixer. He has been referred to as one of the only DJs of his time to gain international attention.
Career
Mattern moved to New York City a ...
"Bring Me Men" Anthem Mix) − 9:59
# Empires (Bring Me Men) (
Illicit Siren Mix) − 8:55
References
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2002 debut singles
Lamya songs
Songs based on poems
Song recordings produced by Nellee Hooper
2002 songs