I've long thought the Mekons must rue the day they were never able to write a pop song like this.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
xp ah, gotcha, agreed
as far as the Mekons, "Millionaire" comes close but it doesn't have a shouty pub chorus
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
"tubthumping" changed everyone's politics! the album tubthumper did not because no one actually listened to any of it beyond "tubthumping" and maybe two other tracks.
speaking of the album. it had a bunch of interludes, intros/outros, other nonsense like that. the one at the front end of "tubthumping" has a terrific bit of distorted speech, apparently sampled from the 1996 film brassed off:
The truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks. Not compared to how people matter.
it drops right into the track and is quite effective. it's the people that matter! i didn't know it until i was 7 years old and heard (the album version of) this song.
― dyl, Friday, 1 February 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
Why was the thread title fixed?! The original version was perfecto
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Friday, 1 February 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
hello yes I would just like to say that no, despite the fact that I was of a most impressionable age at the time this particular song was put out into the world, that no, my personal political ideologies were not affected in any way by this musics, and nor have they been affected in any way since then, but thank you very much for asking
― del griffith, Friday, 1 February 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
I've long thought the Mekons must rue the day they were never able to write a pop song like this.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Where Were You?"
as far as the Mekons, "Millionaire" comes close but it doesn't have a shouty pub chorus― sleeve, Thursday, January 31, 2019 8:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, January 31, 2019 8:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Happy days recalled, playing that single for Amber and Alice, and they would shout "NO!" at the end of each line in the last verse..
― Mark G, Friday, 1 February 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
Not really, come to think of it.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
speak for yourself, buddy
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Tried a cider for the first time because of it, if that counts.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
fond memory: DJing an Earth First "Wild Cascadia" party for lawyers and activists in 1999-2000, spinning a bunch of stuff from Anarchy and Tubthumping, at some point a lawyer dude comes up and is like "it is imperative that you play more Chumbawamba"
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
also milo that is excellent, do you like cider now?
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
He likes a cider nowHe likes a vodka now..
― Mark G, Monday, 7 December 2020 07:17 (three years ago) link
Big fan of dry ciders
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 7 December 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
The Brassed Off sample at the start of this has at times genuinely made me reconsider the things in my life that I prioritise, and reminded me to get my head out of my computer and to try to actually do a better job of connecting with the people in my life. So, kinda?
― triggercut, Monday, 7 December 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link
was really curious about this album when I was 13 but could not bring myself to buy it with that godawful cover
They Might be Giants covered this song for AVClub and they actually did a pretty good job with it. fits right into their style.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QbWHQUzKGs
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
that rules
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
agreed
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
I heard them once or twice described as "one of the Crass bands" so I assumed they shared a band member or two. I just did a quick 60 second Google search and it looks like they have an indirect crossover. They're on a few of the same comp releases, probably played shows together at some point.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
TIL napalm death, another one of the crass bands, played their first gig with chumbawamba
― Left, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
whose path ended up changing more hearts and minds? idk
― Left, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
aiui "Crass bands" refers to bands who were on the label - a lot of bands put out one release and then formed their own labels after, I think that may have been a deliberate label policy
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
also good q about who changed more people, I love 'em both but Chumbawamba has an emotional impact for me that Crass doesn't.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
the left has certainly "pissed away" the good will it built up in the post-trump, post-brexit era, when people felt open to alternatives to the neoliberal status quo. the moment has passed, tubthumping again becomes the most prescient song of the era or something.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
there is the outline of a tweet thread here, for sure.
I have no idea what you are talking about
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
lol
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
great revive
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Wait.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
ffs
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
previously I was not going to get up again, but this song convinced me that I should
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
yes, although one they (Crass) kind of circumvented by having another label they put out subsequent records on (Corpus Christi), and there were a few bands that had more than 1 record on Crass records - Dirt, Poison Girls, KUKL
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
first they came for the Tubthumpers, and I did not speak because I got knocked down but couldn't get up
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link