Uneasy Listening (Chumbawamba album)

Uneasy Listening
Compilation album by Chumbawamba
Released 1998
Recorded 1986 - 1998
Genre Anarcho-punk, pop
Length 74:38
Label EMI (UK)
Chumbawamba chronology
Tubthumper
(1997)
Uneasy Listening
(1998)
WYSIWYG
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert ChristgauA−[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

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 the Alabama 3 song "U Don't Danse 2 Tekno Anymore".

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

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba except where noted.

# Title Length Original Album Year Notes
1 "...And in a Nutshell" 1:16 Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records 1986
2 "Mouthful of Shit" 3:38 Anarchy 1994
3 "Behave" 4:14 "Behave" single 1992
4 "Timebomb" 4:08 "Timebomb" single 1993 Single remix
5 "Morality Play in Three Acts" 4:06 "Homophobia" single 1994
6 "Enough Is Enough" 4:35 "Enough Is Enough" single 1993 Written and performed by Chumbawamba & Credit to the Nation
7 "On Being Pushed" 0:30 Anarchy 1994
8 "Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire" 2:02 English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 1988
9 "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" 2:19 Swingin' with Raymond 1995
10 "Look! No Strings!" 5:00 Shhh 1992
11 "Big Mouth Strikes Again" 5:34 Shhh 1992
12 "This Girl" 3:42 Swingin' with Raymond 1995
13 "Smash Clause 28!" 4:46 "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" single 1988
14 "Georgina" 2:24 Anarchy 1994
15 "Waiting, Shouting" 2:55 Swingin' with Raymond 1995
16 "Song of the Mother in Debt..." 6:10 Pox Upon the Poll Tax compilation 1989
17 "On the Day the Nazi Died" 1:20 N/A 1994 Previously unreleased live version
18 "Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" 4:00 Anarchy 1994
19 "Nothing Knocks Me Over" 3:04 "Portraits of Anarchists" EP 1996
20a "We Don't Go to God's House Anymore" 8:55 Previously unreleased 1998 Written by Chumbawamba and Alabama 3
20b "Harry's Ambient Mantra" (excerpt) (n/a) "Hat Trick for Harry" unreleased EP 1993 Hidden track. A brief portion of an otherwise unreleased ten-minute remix of "Happiness Is Just A Chant Away."

Personnel

Chumbawamba

With

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Robert Christgau review
  3. Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 163. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
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