Agit-Prop Records

This article refers to the UK based record label and should not be confused with Agitprop! Records.

Agit-Prop Records was an independent record label founded in 1985 by the members of the then-peace punk band Chumbawamba.

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History

Before starting the label in '85, Chumbawamba had distributed their records and tapes using the Sky and Trees label. As well as releasing their own recordings, Agit-Prop also put out a number of records by other groups.

Agit-Prop was run in co-op form adhering to anarchist philosophy.

Agit-Prop released its last album, Shhh, in 1992. Chumbawamba felt it was too much work to maintain a band and a label. Band member Alice Nutter adds:

We realised long ago while still running Agit-Prop that we were existing within a capitalist system, and belonging to a small but pure indie ghetto wasn't going to have any effect other than making us feel holy. [1]

The label was disbanded, and Chumbawamba signed onto One Little Indian Records.

At some period during the nineties, the unreleasable "Jesus H. Christ" album (from which "Shhh" was born) was bootlegged and distributed with the fake label "Tragic Flop". It bore the serial code: TRAGIC-FLOP001"

The Name (meaning)

The term "agit prop" originates from Soviet Russia's Department for Agitation and Propaganda.

Discography

Original UK release dates for vinyl records given. Some of the following may have been re-issued in CD format.
(For full Chumbawamba discography see main Chumbawamba discography)

See also

Chumbawamba
Lou Watts • Boff Whalley • Neil Ferguson • Jude Abbott • Phil Moody
Dunstan Bruce • Danbert Nobacon • Alice Nutter • Harry Hamer • Paul Greco • Mavis Dillon
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
& Soundtracks
First 2 (1994)  • Uneasy Listening (1998)  • Shhhlap! (2003)  • Revengers Tragedy (2003)
Live albums
Showbusiness! (1995)  • Get On With It! (2006)
Singles and EPs
"Revolution" (1985) • "We Are the World?" (1986) • "Let It Be" (1987) • "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988) • "I Never Gave Up" (1990)  • "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (1992)"  • "Enough is Enough" (with MC Fusion) (1993)  • "Timebomb" (1993)  • "Homophobia" (1994)  • "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995)  • "i - Portraits of Anarchists" EP (1996)  • "Just Look at Me Now" (1996)  • "Tubthumping" (1997)  • "Amnesia" (1998)  • "Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)" (1998)  • "Tony Blair" (1999)  • "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000)  • "Pass It Along" (2000)  • Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over)" (2000)  • "Her Majesty" (2002)  • "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)  • "Tubthumping (Remix)" (2003)  • "Home with Me" (2003)  • "Salt Fare North Sea" (2003)  • "On eBay" (2004)  • "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (2004)  • "Add Me" (2007)
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