“The Angry Mob” by Kaiser Chiefs

"The Angry Mob" gives Kaiser Chiefs' second album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob, its title track, and on 20 August 2007 it went out as the record's third UK single. Ricky Wilson, Andrew White, Simon Rix, Nick Baines and Nick Hodgson share the writing credit, and Stephen Street produced it, mixing with Cenzo Townshend. It's a swipe at a press that whips up knee-jerk outrage and at a society kept docile by tabloids and round-the-clock boozing.

The single came dressed for the part, with Beano and Dandy artist Nigel Parkinson drawing the band as cartoons among Beano characters, plus a limited seven-inch with a Beano poster sold only through the band's website. It stalled at 22 in the UK, their lowest showing since the first time round for "I Predict a Riot", but radio kept it spinning. Fittingly, their fan club goes by the Angry Mob too.

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