Chumbawamba - Shhh (Agit Prop PROP 11) (UK 1992) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1)

Chumbawamba - Shhh
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Cat#: Agit Prop PROP 11 | Country/Year: UK(?) 1992

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Chumbawamba - Shhh

Label: Agit Prop
Catalog#: PROP 11
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK? (Made in France)
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Leftfield, Pop Rock

Tracklist:

A1 Shhh
A2 Big Mouth Strikes Again
A3 Nothing That's New
A4 Behave!
A5 Snip Snip Snip

B1 Look! No Strings!
B2 Happiness Is Just A Chant Away
B3 Pop Star Kidnap
B4 Sometimes Plunder
B5 You Can't Trust Anyone Nowadays
B6 Stitch That

Credits:

Featuring - Geof Slaphead , Neil Ferguson , Simon Commonknowledge
Vocals - Howard Storey , MC Fusion

Notes:

Chumbawamba on this record : Alice Nutter, Bert Bacon, Lou, Mave, Harry, Boff, Dunst

with:

Commonknowledge : keyboards, accordion, voice
MC Fusion : vocals
Neil Ferguson : guitar, keyboards
Geoff Slaphead : fiddle
Howard Storey : vocals

Produced March 1992 by Chumbawamba.

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Chumbawamba-Shhh/release/471743
Wikipedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shhh

Shhh is a 1992 album by anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. It was originally recorded and written as "Jesus H. Christ," an album that relied heavily on samples. A number of the musicians whose material had been sampled objected, and the album was largely re-worked to defend artistic intent and criticise censorship. The album sleeve artwork itself incorporated various rejection letters received by the band denying the rights to the Christ samples.

It was later released with Slap! in the compilation Shhhlap! in 2003, released by MUTT Records. wikipedia

Review

by Chris Nickson

When Chumbawamba decided to enter the '90s in style, sampling from the likes of Marc Bolan, Paul McCartney, ABBA, and Free for an album called Jesus H. Christ, they found a big wall of rejection – no publisher would let them use the samples. Their reaction? This album, aptly titled Shhh. There are plenty of dance beats and programming to support tracks that do tend to meander a little bit, without the focus they'd gain in a couple more years. And so tracks like "Big Mouth Strikes Again" and "Happiness Is Just a Chant Away" lose their punch, even with the big choruses (and the latter's mantra of "Harry Roberts" is simply hilarious). At times they've left fairly plain evidence of where they'd intended to put the samples, like ABBA's "Money Money Money" or T. Rex' "Solid Gold Easy Action" – in fact, spotting the fake sample becomes a fun game to play while listening to this. However, that novelty belittles the politics that lie beneath the music. Chumbawamba is an anarchist collective, and while the bandmembers wear their hearts on their sleeves, they're very thoughtful and clever, leavening the harsh reality of their political views with plenty of pop culture references and humor, some of it self-deprecating. But, to be fair, they're still finding their new voice, having left their punk pasts behind, and the momentum of the dance scene hasn't completely caught up with them yet, so much of the music comes across as tentative rather than forceful, which has the domino effect of diluting their most powerful weapon, the lyrics. So, to cut a long story short, it never quite lives up to its potential (and the samples probably wouldn't have made it much better, frankly). Not their best work, but interesting, and often amusing.

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