Give The Anarchist A Cigarette - Chumbawamba

[Benjammin911]

anybody gotta light?

[theskafest77]

Widać że wielkie sceny to nie żywioł Chumby. Kluby, festiwale niezależne., własna publiczność,, Klimat., siła, przekaz.

[1974paulw]

the implication is that a true anarchist would take the cigarette and burn the place down therefore bob dylan was full of shit basically.

[Deanooooooo123]

Sappy middle class nonsense.....

[harrison98x]

lol nice song but what is that women wearing!?

[mickystoned]

@harrison98x  looks like a blend of cotton and lycra

[PeaceEpieces]

i love this song

[claraghpunk]

God what a great, Influential band, word up ! :)

[bRain524]

Boff Whalley is so much better than Danbert Nobacon. Good thing the latter is gone.

[johnnynativeseed]

The song is referring to a Bob Dylan interview from the 1960s when Dylan was asked by a reported if he was an anarchist. Dylan said, "Give the anarchist a cigarette." Chumba was making fun of it and suggesting a more direct approach to attacking the state..

[bryngOneOn]

@johnnynativeseed if that is what they didnt understand the quote, give the anarchist a cigarette would suggest, that the anachist is just someone who isnt really on a mission, but just unhappy and angry with the way life has turned out for them, so give him a cigarette to calm down, what he's sayin is these artists who give it the angry political are just pathetic, really doin nothin to change things in the world and just stampin the feet, ineffectual. chumbawamba 2 a t

[sidcramp]

Thanks to all saying Phoenix, how did i miss that bird...doh!

[ChrisGnosis]

I find it funny that all of my Anarcho or anti-multinational friends seem to smoke cigarettes.

Seems to be a tad hypocritical

[sulfurousstench]

damn should have gone to this if it's really phoenix

[darkmountin43]

Give me a cigarette! :D

[apathyisignoranc]

"have you ever realized that rockstars always seem to lie so much? Chumbawumba once said they cared but they never reall gave a fuck" Chumbawumba your shit"- Oi Polloi fuck chumbawumba fuck "working on the inside" fuck emi fuck sellouts fuck everyone who reads this and dont know what im talking about and most of all fuck you

[wid85]

@apathyisignoranc

According to Lacan the image is the Real from which we flee in anger to 'reality'. Maybe then Chumbawamba represent the Real from which you would flee? Perhaps the possibility that radical politics might not always be a minority friendship clique or tirbe? Is it possible that the 'reality' of their record deal or hit single is used to obfuscate the Real of their being? I apologise for using obsucre Lacanian philosophy here, but this form of analysis seemed apposite.

[NeverTheSame]

@apathyisignoranc There are numerous interviews on the subject of why they signed to EMI. Basically, they realized that every record label, whether big or small, is just a company trying to make money off your art. They figured if they were going to be used, they might as well be used by a company that did that did their part well.

They made a lot of money from EMI, but donated most of it to anarchist causes, and are back on an indie label, still making political music.

[xtcbeyond]

are any of the members of the band gay ? that might seem like an odd question because i just wondered due to their anti homophobic stance

[MrSiddeney]

@xtcbeyond mmm yes but they are also anti oppression anti multi-nationalist, anti war, anti carnivorous, and anti racist e.t.c. They became popular under the Anarcho-punk movement in the mid eighties....

[xtcbeyond]

@MrSiddeney wat do you mean umm yes, people like as if you are trying to patronise me when actually you are just a fucking idiot, i asked a simple question and you didn't answer it you just told me what i already knew and obviously anyone that listens to chumbawamba would know this...

[MrSiddeney]

@xtcbeyond mmm fuck you very much mr overeaction

[xtcbeyond]

@MrSiddeney no it was just a reaction or what is known as a reply to what you said.

[xtcbeyond]

@MrSiddeney * you answer like you are trying to patronise me

[katsarid]

why you talk about dylan ,,sorry but i dont know if the song or the band has something to do with him,,,plz tell me

[barbworlds]

When and where was this recorded? They're still so young! Great song anyway!

[sidcramp]

I think it was Glastonbury some time in the 90's

[davbob]

@sidcramp tHEY ONLY PLAYED GLASTONBURY ON 2007

[scotsmaninusa]

@davbob no they did it in 1994 with pretenders and the manics

[davbob]

@scotsmaninusa Shit I forgot about that!! that was my first time at Glastonbury and someone ended up getting shot. I must be getting senile.

[davbob]

@sidcramP this would be phoenix 95

[marsamgod]

@sidcramp It's Phoenix, Long Marston Nr Stratford upon Avon not Glastonbury

[NotNaughtyJustRude]

@sidcramp

It was the fecking Pheoinix at Long Marston you ****, because every festival must be Glastonbury because thats the only festival you middle class ***** have ever heard of /anger

[sidcramp]

@NotNaughtyJustRude

what the hell are you on, I've just said I got it wrong, and how the hell can you say I'm middle class when you dont know me? Mind you I must be more intelligent than you even though I was brought up on a council estate. I've probably been to a lot more diverse festivals and lived a more rock n roll lifestyle than you will ever know.

[sidcramp]

@sidcramp

and I'd just like to say I have nothing against the middle class

[NotNaughtyJustRude]

@sidcramp

Gotta admit dude, I am so sorry. Was a bad bad week mixed with too much of the fermented sugar and the anonymousness thrill of internet rage :( I appologise wholeheartedly and will remeber that;

naughty+no sleep+rum = TOOL!!

:( :(

Again, I appologise.

[sidcramp]

@NotNaughtyJustRude

Ha ha, no problem...thanks

[scotsmaninusa]

@barbworlds actually I've just noticed the bird over the stage duhhh.this is the Phoenix Fest in 1995

[egomate]

thanx for video!

[neverdenyit]

"Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth

Rip down all hate, I screamed

Lies that life is black and white

Spoke from my skull. I dreamed

Romantic facts of musketeers

Foundationed deep, somehow

Ah, but I was so much older then

I´m younger than that now"

Bob Dylan, "My back pages", 1964, aged 23

[janstange]

powerful track!!!!

[crazyokan85]

boring..

[MrSailorjerry]

dylans a fake chumbas are real.what a great band.danbert rules

[angstriddenyouth]

I've never liked the sentiment behind this song. Bob Dylan is the wrong target, and meaningless destruction doesn't solve anything, Albert. Still, it is catchy though. Thanks for posting the clip sidcramp.

[ronrutherford]

@angstriddenyouth totally agree,

Dylan was a brat, though. There's no way to say he wasn't, lol. But that had nothing to do with selling out, his social work, etc.