Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

Studio album by Chumbawamba

Released

1986

Recorded

August 1986

Genre

Anarcho-punk, post-punk, alternative rock, pop music

Length

33:04

Label

Agit-Prop Records (UK)
Southern Records (US 1986 LP)

Chumbawamba chronology

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
(1986)

Never Mind the Ballots
(1987)

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Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records is the debut studio album by anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba, released in 1986 on Agit-Prop Records. It was released as criticism to Live Aid, which was a rock festival held in aid of charity efforts in Africa.

The sound of Danbert Nobacon vomiting into a toilet was apparently the first thing that sound engineer Neil Ferguson (who later joined the band) recorded for the band.

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba

"How to Get Your Band on Television" - 8:23 (also listed in two parts as "Prelude" and "Slag Aid")
"British Colonialism and the BBC" - 2:51
"Commercial Break" - 1:02
"Unilever" - 4:23
"More Whitewashing" - 3:43
"An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back" - 2:41
"Dutiful Servants and Political Masters" - 2:15
"Coca-Colanisation" - 0:54
"...And in a Nutshell" - 2:13
"Invasion" - 5:07

Track details

"How to Get Your Band on Television" critiques Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Cliff Richard's self-promotional techniques, such as Queen's playing in apartheid South Africa. Following a slew of Live Aid-style promotions, sequels and events and the death of Mercury, it was re-written in the 1990s as "Slag Aid", retaining most of the original lyrics. The version of it released on the live album "Showbusiness!" also references McCartney, but adds Axl Rose, Michael Jackson and Johnny Rotten as more modern examples.

Personnel

Harry Hamer - Drums, Vocals, guitar solo on "Slag Aid"
Alice Nutter - Vocals
Boff Whalley - Guitar, Vocals, Clarinet
Mavis Dillon - Bass guitar, Trumpet, French Horn, Vocals
Lou Watts - Vocals, Guitar
Danbert Nobacon - Vocals
Dunstan Bruce - Percussion

With

Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon - Keyboards, Accordion, Voice
Neil Ferguson - Engineer

Chumbawamba

Boff Whalley Danbert Nobacon Lou Watts Dunstan Bruce Alice Nutter Harry Hamer Dave Dillon Paul Greco Jude Abbott Neil Ferguson Phil Moody

Albums	Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) Never Mind the Ballots (1987) English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 (1988) Slap! (1990) Shhh (1992) Anarchy (1994) Swingin' with Raymond (1995) Tubthumper (1997) WYSIWYG (2000) Readymades (2002) Un (2004) A Singsong and a Scrap (2005) The Boy Bands Have Won (2008) ABCDEFG (2010)

Compilations and soundtracks	Uneasy Listening (1998) Shhhlap! (2003) Revengers Tragedy (2003)

Live albums	Showbusiness! (1995) Get On with It (2006)

Singles and EPs	"Revolution" (1985) "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988) "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (1992)" "Enough is Enough" (1993) "Timebomb" (1993) "Homophobia" (1994) "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995) "i - Portraits of Anarchists" (1996) "Just Look at Me Now" (1996) "Tubthumping" (1997) "Amnesia" (1998) "Drip Drip Drip" (1998) "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" (1998) The ABCs of Anarchism (1999) "Tony Blair" (1999) "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000) "Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over)" (2000) "Her Majesty" (2002) "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)

Related	Discography Agit-Prop Records One Little Indian Records No Masters Records Credit to the Nation The Ex Oysterband Coope, Boyes & Simpson Noam Chomsky Negativland

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