Uneasy Listening

Infobox Album |
Name = Uneasy Listening
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = Chumbawamba


Released = 1998
Recorded = 1986 - 1998
Genre = Anarcho-punk, Hard rock, Pop
Length = 74:38
Label = EMI (UK)
Last album = "Tubthumper" (1997)
This album = "Uneasy Listening" (1998)
Next album = "The ABCs of Anarchism" (1999)

"Uneasy Listening" is a compilation album by the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. It contains songs from the time of their first album "Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records" up to 1998.

It contains one previously-unreleased song, "We Don't Go To God's House Anymore", which is based on a tune derived from an Alabama 3 song.

The cover photograph is of Buenaventura Durruti, anarchist soldier and revolutionary, who died fighting fascists in Spain in 1936.

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba except #20.

# "...And In A Nutshell" – 1:16 from "Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records", 1986
# "Mouthful Of Shit" – 3:38 from "Anarchy", 1994
# "Behave" - 4:14 "Single, 1992"
# "Timebomb" - 4:08 "Single, 1993"
# "Morality Play In Three Acts" - 4:06 "B-side of "Homophobia", 1994
# "Enough Is Enough" - 4:35 "Single, 1993. With Credit To The Nation"
# "On Being Pushed" - 0:30 from "Anarchy", 1994
# "Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire" - 2:02 from "English Rebel Songs 1381-1914, 1987"
# "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses" - 2:19 Single recorded 1995
# "Look! No Strings!" - 5:00 from "Shhh", 1992
# "Big Mouth Strikes Again" - 5:34 "From the album Shhh, 1992"
# "This Girl" - 3:42 from "Swingin' With Raymond", 1995
# "Smash Clause 29!" - 4:46 "Single, 1988
# "Georgina" - 2:24 "From the album Anarchy, 1994"
# "Waiting, Shouting" - 2:55 "From the album Swingin' With Raymond, 1995"
# "Song Of The Mother In Debt..." - 6:10 "From compilation album "Pox Upon The Poll Tax", 1989"
# "On The Day The Nazi Died" - 1:20 "From the album Anarchy, 1994"
# "Give The Anarchist A Cigarette" - 4:00 "From the album Anarchy, 1994"
# "Nothing Knocks Me Over" - 3:04 "From the CD accompanying the book "i - Portraits Of Anarchists", 1996
# "We Don't Go To God's House Anymore" - 8:55 "(Chumbawamba/Alabama 3). Previously unreleased"

Personnel

Chumbawamba

* Lou Watts
* Dunstan Bruce
* Danbert Nobacon
* Boff
* Paul Greco
* Jude Abbott
* Harry Hamer
* Alice Nutter

With

* Neil Ferguson
* Simon Lanzon
* Matthew Hanson
* Mave Dillon