CHUMBAWAMBA – PICTURES OF STARVING CHILDREN SELL RECORDS LP –  Nr MINT/EXC+ A1 UK 1986 PUNK

Chumbawamba – Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records
(Agit Prop Records  1986  PROP1)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – French Pressing for UK
“Porky Prime Cut” in dead wax

Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– great condition apart from a little rubbing near the top and light discolouration mark in bottom left corner
Inner Sleeve is perfect apart from some light foxing spots on the KFC side

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

Chumbawamba were a British alternative music band that had, over a career spanning three decades, played anarcho-punk, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music. The band’s anarchist politics exhibit an irreverent attitude toward authority, and the band has been forthright in its stances on issues including animal rights, pacifism (early in their career) and later regarding class struggle, feminism, gay liberation, pop culture and anti-fascism.

The band is best known for its song “Tubthumping”. Other singles include “Amnesia”, “Enough Is Enough” (with MC Fusion), “Timebomb”, “Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)“, and most recently, “Add Me“.

In July 2012, Chumbawamba announced its decision to end the band. On its website the members stated “That’s it then, it’s the end. With neither a whimper, a bang, or a reunion.” The band performed three last shows between October 31 and November 3.

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

1. “How to Get Your Band on Television” – 8:23 (also listed in two parts as “Prelude” and “Slag Aid”)
2. “British Colonialism and the BBC” – 2:51
3. “Commercial Break” – 1:02
4. “Unilever” – 4:23
5. “More Whitewashing” – 3:43
6. “An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back” – 2:41
7. “Dutiful Servants and Political Masters” – 2:15
8. “Coca-Colanisation” – 0:54
9. “…And in a Nutshell” – 2:13
10. “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 – Drums, Vocals, guitar solo on “Slag Aid”
• Alice Nutter – Vocals
• Boff – Guitar, Vocals, Clarinet
• Mavis Dillon – Bass guitar, Trumpet, French Horn, Vocals
• Lou – Vocals, Guitar
• Danbert Nobacon – Vocals
• Dunst – Whirlypipe, Turntables

With

• Simon “Commonknowledge” Lanzon – Keyboards, Accordion, Voice
• Neil Ferguson – Engineer