of pop styles and media messages are sampled, tasted and either spat out or savoured (Rick Astley, nuclear warfare, fast food and alcoholism fail to meet the taste test; science-fiction fantasy and pop styles that are noisy, emphatic, and identified with troublemakers win the blue ribbon)." Robin Reinhardt of Spin noted the influence of Public Enemy, and Crabb would later state that the influence of Public Enemy's second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) was "stamped, trodden and embedded" within This Is the Day. Band member Clint Mansell elaborated on this: In Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola's book Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling, they write that the album made extreme usage of sampling, noting its excessive samples from songs (including two songs by Salt 'n' Pepa, three songs by Public Enemy, "Bike" by Pink Floyd, "We Care a Lot" by Faith No More, "That's Right" by Mantronix, "Shout" by Tears for Fears, "Jungle Law" by Love & Rockets, "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix, "Astley's in the Noose" by The Wonder Stuff and "Paid in Full" by Eric B. and Rakim), as well as samples of the films RoboCop, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Deer Hunter, Evil Dead II, Dirty Harry, Casablanca and The Warriors, as well as a Rice Krispies television commercial, The Twilight Zone and the Super Bowl XXII. Songs On "Preaching to the Perverted", Crabb sings "So we steal, so what? So far so good, we're Robin Hoods." "Wise Up! Sucker" contains a "sharp, mocking backing vocal" from Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff. One of the songs which "really taps into the heart of PWEI’s science-fiction obsession", "Inject Me" features a breakbeat and "murky" beginning, With its "shady" and "creepy" sustained narrative, it starts with what appears to be a "first-person reverie of some slacker junkie", with the song's introductory lyrics whispered by Crabb, whose voice becomes more paranoid and sharper when the verse begins, with science-fiction-style lyrics forming the rest of the song, though one critic noted that "it's unclear whether the whole SF scenario is happening only in the narrator's addled brainpan." The beat is sampled from "Jimbrowski" by The Jungle Brothers, itself sampling the beat from Funkadelic's "Good Old Music". The lyrics of the propulsive "Can U Dig It?" are largely a list of things the band loves, including Dirty Harry, DJ Spinderella,