Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

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Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

Studio album by Chumbawamba

Released

1986

Recorded

1986

Genre

Anarcho-punk; Post-punk; Jazz rock

Length

33:04

Label

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

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link

Chumbawamba chronology

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
(1986)

Never Mind the Ballots
(1987)

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records was the first full-length album by anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba, released in 1986 on Agit-Prop Records. It was released as criticism to Live Aid, which was a festival to stop African starvation by holding a rock concert.

[edit] Track listing

"How to Get Your Band on Television" (also listed in two parts as Prelude and Slag Aid) - 8:23
"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

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The sound of Danbert Nobacon being physically sick into a toilet was apparently the first thing that sound engineer Neil Ferguson (who later joined the band) recorded for the band.
How To Get Your Band on Television, following a slew of Live Aid-style promotions, sequels and events and the death of Freddie Mercury, was eventually re-written in the 1990s as "Slag Aid". It retained most of the original lyrical concepts and changed the sound to accommodate Chumbawamba's increasingly broad musical repertoire. A version of it was released on the live album "Showbusiness!".