(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave

"(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" is a single from Chumbawamba, a different version than the song "Behave" from their album Shhh, with a faster tempo and no trumpet or samples.

Background and composition

According to the band, their then-distributor, Southern, disliked the song, and refused to properly promote it. The label was also reluctant to release the song on CD and vinyl. The conflict led to the group's leaving the label.^[1] Though the song was initially released on Southern while the group was on tour in the US, they re-released the song after their departure from the label, on Agit-Prop, their own record label.^[1] The song was made available both on vinyl and a CD single.^[2]^[3]

The song discusses the pop music industry's homophobia.^[4] The line "Mickey Mouse grew up a cow" comes from the David Bowie song "Life on Mars?",^[5] with the addition of the line "you should hear the things they say about Minnie now."

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, Brian Whitener commented that the song "features a beautiful, and amusing, chorus about brainwashing children," also feeling that the song showed the group's dance and pop sensibilities.^[4] The song remains a favorite among Chumbawamba fans.^[1]

Track listing

Remixes by The Sexy Papa Brittle^[2]^[3]

"Behave" (4:15)
"Behave (Brittle Mix)" (5:36)
"Misbehave (Brittle Mix)" (3:41)
"Misbehave" (3:35)
"Behave" (Alternate Version) (4:14) (Hidden track)

References

1 2 3 "Back Catalog: Chumbawamba stuff on Agit Prop". Chumba.com. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
1 2 "CD single track listing". Discogs. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
1 2 "Vinyl track listing". Discogs. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
1 2 Whitener, Brian. "Song Review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
↑ ""Life on Mars?" lyrics". MetroLyrics. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 3 March 2017.

External links

Hear "Misbehave"
Song overview at Discogs

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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