Uneasy Listening (Chumbawamba album)
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| Uneasy Listening | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1986–1998 | |||
| Genre | Anarcho-punk, pop | |||
| Length | 74:38 | |||
| Label | EMI (UK) | |||
| Chumbawamba chronology | ||||
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Uneasy Listening is a compilation album by anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. It contains songs from the time of their first album Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records up to 1998.
The album was released in the United States in 1998, to expose American audiences to the group's music before "Tubthumping," as their preceding studio albums had received only a limited stateside release and the record labels were being uncooperative with regards to the group's preceding albums there.[1] The album compiles songs from the group's pre-Tubthumper albums, from Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records to Swingin' with Raymond, although the majority of the songs are from the group's two preceding albums, Anarchy and Swingin' with Raymond. However, the album 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.[2]
The album was initially released in 1998 as a German import, although it was re-released in 1999 and 2001 by EMI Music Distribution.[3]
