["We are the angry mob","I'll make you admit again and again","","To keep us all off the streets","But we're also easily swayed","","So tonight you'll sleep softly in your bed","We are the angry mob","","But we're also easily swayed","The way that it's read again and again","Because we need entertainment","I can prove anything","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","You're winding yourself up until you're turning blue","So here we go with the letter","","Can you fix it for me","But we're also easily swayed","But we're also easily swayed","And it's only 'cos you came here with your brothers too","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","","But why should you do anything again","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","You choose to lose again and again","","","But we're also easily swayed","And get a shopping basket wrapped round your head","So tonight you'll sleep softly in your bed","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","","","We read the papers everyday","And you could stop anything","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","We are the angry mob","If you came here on your own you'd be dead","It's only 'cos you came here with your brothers too","We read the papers everyday","We read the papers everyday","","We read the papers everyday","We read the papers everyday","You could try anything","And it's only 'cos you came here with your brothers too","We are the angry mob","It's only 'cos you follow what the others do","","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","We read the papers everyday","You could choose anything","We are the angry mob","The twenty-four hour drinking","But we're also easily swayed","","But we're also easily swayed","That I can prove anything","Repeating everything that you read","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","But we're also easily swayed","","We are the angry mob","","We are the angry mob","","To keep us all off the streets","Well, can you fix it for me","You raise a glass or two, you raise a fist or two","It starts with just one and turns to two then three","It's no excuse to say you're easily lead","So here we go with the letter","We read the papers everyday","We read the papers everyday","We are the angry mob","","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","And you could do anything","If you came here on your own you'd be dead","We are the angry mob","We read the papers everyday","We like who we like, we hate who we hate","","And no one would know apart from you and me","If you came here on your own you'd be dead","But we're also easily swayed","We are the angry mob"]
Performed by: Kaiser Chiefs Written by: Nicholas Matthew Baines; Nicholas James D Hodgson; James Simon Rix; Andrew Robert White; Charles Richard Wilson
Credits: Baines, Nicholas Matthew (Songwriter); Hodgson, Nicholas James D (Songwriter); Rix, James Simon (Songwriter); White, Andrew Robert (Songwriter); Wilson, Charles Richard (Songwriter); RONDOR MUSIC (LONDON) LTD (ASCAP) (Publisher)
"The Angry Mob" is a song by Englishindie bandKaiser Chiefs and is the title track to their second album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob. The name "The Angry Mob" is also the name of the band's fanclub and is possibly the inspiration for the band's blog. The song was released in the UK as the third single from Yours Truly, Angry Mob on 20 August 2007[1]. The song discusses the way in which the media encourage knee-jerk reactionary thinking, and the way society at large keeps people under control via the tabloids and 24-hour drinking culture.
The video was first shown at 23:00 on 23 July 2007 on Channel 4. It depicts the working-class hen-night culture and culminates in two separate hen parties coming together in a "gang war" style fight after they have been banned from a high-class restaurant 'NOBLESSE' at the request of the upper middle-class diners. The diners gather at the window to enjoy the spectacle of the two groups that have turned on each other, however the hens then decide to unite to confront the diners instead. The video was directed by W.I.Z.
The single came with special artwork created by Dandy/Beano artist Nigel Parkinson, and features caricatures of the band with various Beano characters. A limited 7" single containing an exclusive Beano poster, was only available through the Kaiser Chiefs website [1]
Despite only reaching #22 in the UK Singles Chart[2] (the lowest peaking single by the band since the original release of "I Predict a Riot"), it has received significant airplay on contemporary radio stations.
