Citizen Fish


Citizen Fish is an English punk rock band that has been active since 1990 and shares members with Subhumans. Citizen Fish does not emphasize the raw political statements and nihilistic viewpoint of the former, instead focusing on issues of social alienation and human interaction, viewed through a more optimistic lens. Both bands deal with themes such as anti-consumerism and vegetarianism.

History

Based around Bath, England, the original members were Dick Lucas, Jasper, Trotsky, and Larry. Following their first album, Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Larry left the band and was replaced by Phil, who, along with Dick and Trotsky, had previously been a member of the Subhumans. Jasper and Dick had previously played together in Culture Shock.
In July 2006, Silas replaced Trotsky on drums. In the following month, after a five-year recording hiatus, the band returned to the studio to record songs for a split album with the New York band Leftöver Crack.
Their latest and eighth full-length studio album, 2011's Goods was hailed as a return to form, and they remain active, releasing the Manmade EP in 2015.

Discography

  1. Supermarket Song
  2. Break Into a Run/Rainbows
  3. Possession
  4. Small Scale Wars
  5. Home Economics
  6. Paint
  7. Talk Is Cheap
  8. Face Off/Youth
  9. Flesh and Blood
  10. Get Off the Phone
  11. Experiment Earth
  12. How to Write Ultimate Protest Songs
  13. Charity
  1. Disposable Dream
  2. Flesh And Blood II on the back cover
  1. Sink Or Swim
  2. Language Barrier
  3. Same Old 'Starving Millions'
  4. Conditional Silence
  5. Big Big House
  6. Mind Bomb
  7. Chili Pain
  8. Give Me Beethoven...
  9. Talk It Over
  10. Offended
  11. Central Nervous System
  12. Traffic Lights
  13. Smells Like Home
  1. T.V. Dinner
  2. Naked
  3. Small Talk
  4. Time Control
  5. Dividing Lines
  6. Media Men
  7. Bag Lady
  8. First Impressions
  9. Wet Cement
  10. Circular Vision
  11. Social Insecurity
  12. Invisible People
  13. Flinch

  1. P.C. Musical Chairs
  2. Next Big Thing
  3. Can't Be Bothered
  4. 2000 And One
  5. Panic In The Supermarket
  6. Can't Complain
  7. Faster
  8. Phone In Sick
  9. Refugees Go West
  10. Backlash
  11. Friends
  12. Skin
  1. Feeding
  2. Popsongs
  3. City on a River
  4. Used To Work
  5. Plasticash
  6. Scene 496: Cafe in Melksham
  7. Words on Overtime
  8. Talk About the Weather
  9. Catholic Sex Confession
  10. Criminal
  11. What Charlie Said
  12. Fill Me Up
  1. Habit
  2. Phone In Sick
  3. Overheard
  4. I Had to Guess
  1. Active Ingredients
  2. The B.O.B. Song
  3. Oslo
  4. Bitter and Twisted
  5. Digging a Hole
  6. Sacred Cows
  7. Pills
  8. Habit
  9. Isolated Incidents
  10. Barking
  11. Heard It All Before
  12. Deep Neuortic
  13. Not For Sale
  1. Over the Fence
  2. Revolution
  3. Out of Control
  4. Picture This
  5. Internal Release
  6. Autographs
  7. Back to Zero
  8. Choice of Viewing
  9. Lose the Instructions
  10. Somewhere to Go
  11. Shrink the Distance
  12. Will Swap
  1. Used to Work
  2. Next Big Thing
  3. 2000 and One
  4. Phone In Sick
  5. Can't Complain
  6. Smells Like Home
  7. Longbridge Deverill Stomp
  8. First Impressions
  9. Traffic Lights
  10. Social Insecurity
  11. Fill Me Up
  12. Flinch
  13. Alienation
  14. Skin
  15. Not For Sale
  16. Habit
  17. P.C. Musical Chairs
  18. Deep Neurotic
  19. Dividing Lines
New Citizen Fish line-up as listed in the CD booklet:
Dick-Voice & Words
Phil-Guitar
Jasper-Bass & Voice
Silas-Drums
Alex-Trumpet
Matt-Trombone
  1. Working on the Inside
  2. Money
  3. Meltdown
  4. Getting Used to It
  5. Back to Square One
  6. Join the Dots
  7. Clear Channel
  1. Shelf Life
  2. Free Speech
  3. Human Conditioner
  4. Overseas
  5. Better
  6. Click
  7. How Far Does It Go?
  8. Insane
  9. Marker Pen
  10. Fearless
  11. Discomfort Zone
  12. Spotless
  13. Wake Up