anarchy

Chumbawamba attracted and alienated their audience with the danceable diversion and riveting revolutionary rage of this thought provoking triumph.  The Burnley, Lancashire, England anarcho-punks had drawn a hard line from their inception with the pointed political content of albums like 'Another Year Of The Same Old Shit', 'Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records', 'Never Mind The Ballots', 'English Rebel Songs 1381-1914',  'Slap!', and 'Shhh'.  After a decade of musical insurrection on their own Agit-Prop record label, the band signed to the independent One Little Indian record label for 'Anarchy'.  The collective produced, engineered, and composed the album with Boff on guitar and vocals; Dustan Bruce on vocals and percussion; Neil Ferguson on keyboards and guitars; Paul Greco on bass; Harry Hamer on drums and programming; Danbert "The Cat" Nobacon on vocals; Alice Nutter on vocals; Louise Mary Watts on vocals and keyboards; and Mavis Dillon on vocals, trumpet, French horn, and bass; with additional production and engineering by Neil Ferguson, vocals by MC Fusion, Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon on accordion, Kerry and Casey on the "Georgina" intro, and Geoff Reid on mandolin.  

Nutter describes 'Anarchy' as “the politics which announce your life; I do do-this and I do do-that … The best idea & what happens is, we never take the first idea that comes up. Somebody will say something and we'll start to argue around it, say "that's a good idea, but & " And ideas get modified, but our creed is, the best idea wins. But, not in a ruthless way, it has to be that we reach some sort of decision that we're all happy with. If there's a point where one person isn't happy, we rarely just go ahead with it...It's not one person at all & before we do anything we all sit down together and we talk about what we want the songs to be about. Everybody gets a say in it. From that we split it up into categories. People check categories about what they want to write about. And from that point onward, they'll be fitted to drum loops. And someone else will start altering and changing things around. So, it's not a precious process at all, again it's the best idea wins. And everything is altered, you cannot be precious about the things that you've done in Chumbawumba. Because we realize that individually we probably do all that, but we sound much better if we work as a group.

 'Anarchy' features a sound that infuses their punk and traditional music with rave and techno to produce an anthemic pop canvas for their political lyrics.  The choice of a graphic photo of a live birth for the album cover proved too controversial for most stores and for many potential fans, and was replaced by an image of roses for some pressings.  Nevertheless, the album managed to break into the top thirty of the UK album chart.  





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'Anarchy' 
full album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypkzgwZUqwo



All songs written and arranged by Chumbawamba except where noted. All songs produced and engineered by Chumbawamba and Neil Ferguson.

"Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" – 4:07
"Timebomb" – 3:40
"Homophobia" – 2:31 (Melody trad.)
"On Being Pushed" – 0:31
"Heaven/Hell" – 2:26 (Melody trad., from Hungarian folk tune "Hidegen")
"Love Me" – 3:51
"Georgina" – 2:26
"Doh!" – 0:20
"Blackpool Rock" – 0:28
"This Year's Thing" – 4:04
"Mouthful of Shit" – 3:45
"Never Do What You Are Told" – 1:22
"Bad Dog" – 4:31
"Enough Is Enough" – 4:34 (Chumbawamba/MC Fusion)
"Rage" – 2:50
"Timebomb" (vocals by Jimmy Echo) (Secret track )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqD8dARWiE