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Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records 
Studio album by Chumbawamba Released 1986 Recorded August 1986 Genre Anarcho-punk, post-punk, alternative rock Length 33:04 Label Agit-Prop Records (UK)
Southern Records (US 1986 LP)Chumbawamba chronology Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
(1986)Never Mind the Ballots
(1987)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
linkPictures 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 rock festival held in aid of charity efforts in Africa.
The sound of Danbert Nobacon vomiting into a toilet was apparently the first thing that sound engineer Neil Ferguson (who later joined the band) recorded for the band.
Track listing
All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba
- "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" - 0:54
- "...And in a Nutshell" - 2:13
- "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 of it released on the live album "Showbusiness!" also references McCartney, but adds Axl Rose, Michael Jackson and Johnny Rotten as more modern examples.
Personnel
- Harry - Drums, Vocals, guitar solo on "Slag Aid"
- Alice Nutter - Vocals
- Boff - Guitar, Vocals, Clarinet
- Mavis Dillon - Bass guitar, Trumpet, French Horn, Vocals
- Lou - Vocals, Guitar
- Danbert Nobacon - Vocals
- Dunst - Whirlypipe, Turntables
With
- Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon - Keyboards, Accordion, Voice
- Neil Ferguson - Engineer
Lou Watts • Boff Whalley • Neil Ferguson • Jude Abbott • Phil Moody
Dunstan Bruce • Danbert Nobacon • Alice Nutter • Harry Hamer • Paul Greco • Mavis DillonAlbums 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)Compilations
& SoundtracksFirst 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)Related Categories:- Chumbawamba albums
- 1986 albums
- Debut albums
- 1980s alternative rock album stubs
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