They're actually unironically a cool band
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
91 points (100.0% liked)
Chapotraphouse
14165 readers
991 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
god they're amazing. the whole reason they even made pop music was so they could do some higher-profile shit-stirring like dumping a bucket of ice water on john prescott at the brit awards:
they also have a really great anarcho-punk back catalog along with some folk music
They wrote one song that would pay all the bills, and spent all the rest of their time being punk as hell. Respect.
They also made an LP years ahead of time only to be released upon the death of Margaret Thatcher. It's pretty fun, and the liner notes do not pull any punches
Edit: don't want to make a million replies, but if anyone wants another good song Farewell to the Crown is one of my other favorites
Also iirc they made Tubthumping as a way to get some cash to help fund less financially successful punk artists in the same scene. They demonstrated their ability to make a generational banger then went right back to making weird anarchist folk music (that I love and am not denigrating by calling it that)
link and/or reference please
I couldn't find the full liner notes on mobile, but quoted from an article I did find is the best part:
"Let's make it clear: This is a cause to celebrate, to party, to stamp the dirt down. Tomorrow we can carry on shouting and writing and working and singing and striking against the successive governments that have so clearly followed Thatcher's Slash & Burn policies, none more so than the present lot. But for now, we can have a drink and a dance and propose a toast to the demise of someone who blighted so many people's lives for so long. If we must show a little reverence and decorum at this time, then so be it. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher's victims"
I am converting to chumbawumba-ism
The good ship lifestyle is an accurate depiction of treatlerism written 30 years early
Chumbaist-Leninist
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
“Aaaand we’lllll nevvvvar rest agaaaaaaain!
Uuuuntil everyyyy fascist diiiiiiiiies!”
Btw I used to have the album ‘I get Knocked Down’ is off of and it’s incredibly underrated. Every song off that album is such a weird high energy fucking banger. Very useful when moving out of an apartment you’re being evicted from due to noise complaints.
I was learning the drums at the time. The album’s great for that too!
There are mill ee ons think just like me
Amnesia is incredible. Gotta be my favourite left wing song about how people have bad memories (second is Midnight Oil's Short Memories)
Yo never heard about that one from Midnight Oil before now! Thanks comrade!
I wish I could be even 10% as cool as Chumbawamba
Give an Anarchist a Cigarette is my favourite
One of my first cds growing up. Good thing my parents had zero media literacy. Chumbawumba were proper anarchist punks.
They also turned down a very large amount of cash (something like a mil) from Nike. Who wanted to use this song in an advertising campaign
They ended up giving a lot of the proceeds to revolutionary anarchist groups in Africa too I believe.
Proceeds from the ad deal they turned down?
From Tubthumping I believe
All chumbawumba songs are good and I get knocked down is a banger too
it is but I always thought of it as the '98 world cup song
Wasn't that Ricky Martin? I prefer Waka Waka 2010 over La Copa De La Vida personally
Chumbawumba is one of the punkest of bands.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This one is my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1KwWxX16sI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Chumbawumba (that’s annoying to type with autocorrect!) are unironically a very cool band.
Nigel Farage is an arse. His party is made up of bigots and its policies are racist.
Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher's victims. -on thatchers death