Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
Studio album by Chumbawamba
Released	1986
Recorded	August 1986
Genre	Anarcho-punk; post-punk; folk punk; experimental pop;
Length	33:04
Label	Agit-Prop (UK); Southern (US)
Chumbawamba chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
St Petersburg Times	(favourable)^[2]
Vox	^[3]

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records is the debut studio album by British band Chumbawamba, released in 1986 on Agit-Prop Records. It was released as criticism to Band Aid and Live Aid.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba.^[4]

"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" – 2:13
"...And in a Nutshell" – 0:54
"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 released on the live album Showbusiness! also references McCartney, but adds Axl Rose, Michael Jackson and John Lydon as more modern examples.^[1]

Personnel

Band members

Harry Hamer – drums, vocals, guitar solo on "Slag Aid"
Alice Nutter – vocals
Boff Whalley – guitar, vocals, clarinet
Mavis Dillon – bass, trumpet, french horn, vocals
Lou Watts – vocals, guitar
Danbert Nobacon – vocals
Dunstan Bruce – percussion

Additional personnel

Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon – keyboards, accordion, vocals
Neil Ferguson – engineer

References

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Boff Whalley Danbert Nobacon Lou Watts Dunstan Bruce Alice Nutter Harry Hamer Mavis Dillon Paul Greco Jude Abbott Neil Ferguson Phil Moody
Studio albums	Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) Never Mind the Ballots (1987) English Rebel Songs 1381–1914 (1988) Slap! (1990) Shhh (1992) Anarchy (1994) Swingin' with Raymond (1995) Tubthumper (1997) WYSIWYG (2000) Readymades (2002) English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 (2003) Un (2004) A Singsong and a Scrap (2005) The Boy Bands Have Won (2008) ABCDEFG (2010)
EPs	Portraits of Anarchists (1996) The ABCs of Anarchism with Negativland (1999) In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher (2013)
Other releases	Showbusiness! (live) (1995) Uneasy Listening (compilation) (1998) Revengers Tragedy (soundtrack) (2003) Get On with It (live) (2006) Going, Going (live DVD) (2013)
Singles	"Revolution" (1985) "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988) "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" (1992) "Enough Is Enough" with Credit to the Nation (1993) "Timebomb" (1993) "Homophobia" (1994) "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995) "Tubthumping" (1997) "Amnesia" (1998) "Drip Drip Drip" (1998) "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" (1998) "Tony Blair" (1999) "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000) "Her Majesty" (2002) "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)
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