Chumbawamba "Never Mind The Ballots.." Part 2

[S0unDOfCha0S]

They really should have stayed as a punk band.

[MrAcousticthyme]

@S0unDOfCha0S they have always stayed a punk band

[S0unDOfCha0S]

@MrAcousticthyme So, Tubthumper's punk? lol

[nothumbsup]

Cheers for the upload,this album is a must have. along with Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records and English Rebel Songs, early Chumbawamba is some of the greatest music out there regardless your tatse. Thanks for all the uploads.

[TheYazoo321]

NO BODY IS COMPLEATLY WORTHLESS! THEY CAN ALWAYS SERVE AS A BAD EXAMPLE! HA HA HA I LOVE CHUMBA

[BrainStormTechNoCent]

@TheYazoo321 HA HA HA :-)

Spot on .

Thank You :-)

Peace ;-)

[bartekqsmierzak]

j love it. from '89. that's chumbawamba for me forever. amen

[223mattieu]

First heard this in late '87. F**king great to be able to listen to it again. (lost the tape during a raid in '88!)

[scottbaluch]

Are these guys a new band? Good shtuff

[i811st]

try 1985 . or, were you being facetious?

[wenchy2]

i owned this l.p when i was 18 and i'm 38 now . theyve been about a while.

everybody sing along,... tho they broke my legs they gave me a crutch to walk..........;-)

[xsandinistax]

no they are not a new band but after being an independent anarcho-punk band fpr some years they sell out to EMI with songs like Tubthumbing.....

[NeverTheSame]

@xsandinistax common misconception. They actually wrote and recorded Tubthumper for One Little Indian Records, who didn't want to release it. They were then offered a contract from EMI, which they took. What people don't realize is that most of the money they made from that deal was donated to anarchist political causes.

[BrainStormTechNoCent]

@NeverTheSame "anarchist political causes" !!!!

Ha Ha Ha

"Only Stupid Bastards Sign To EMI " ;-)

Like NMA who sold themselves down the river Chumbawumba have SOLD OUT for their own Greed/Ego Bolloxs and deserve to be nailed up like Cliff R for all the millions with mt bellys.

"Money Is The Root of All Evil"

Anybody who calls themselves an anarchist and uses it is a Hippocrite!

Peace ;-)

[xsandinistax]

@NeverTheSame well my friend let me remind you the anti-chumbawamba LP that some punk bands like Oi Polloi made when Chumbawamba signed to EMI....later in their official page Chumbawamba confessed that those bands were right ....dont forget that Chumbawamba were against EMI.....i never told that they stopped to care about people's problems or the hole world.....i just said that they sell out to EVIL EMI and they started making big money....thats all my friend....

[NeverTheSame]

@xsandinistax I suppose signing to EMI may not have been their best decision, but it was a decision they all made together. I think the most important thing is that their music did not change to reflect their new record deal. They wrote and recorded Tubthumper while still on OLI. The only album they wrote while on EMI was WYSIWYG, and that album was far less commercial than Tubthumper.

[notnowliberty]

@NeverTheSame Yeah, WYSIWYG wasn't their most commercial offering, but if we're gonna be brutally honest, they were never DIY the way some people were

[NeverTheSame]

@notnowliberty There'll always be someone doing it better or harder or more punk than you. The thing with these guys is, in the beginning they were fiercely DIY. What ended up happening was that they did their thing so well that other people believed in them too. First it was people putting out comps, then One Little Indian wanted to put out their records. They put on bigger and bigger shows, and then EMI wanted to sign them too. You can't fault a band for being successful on their own terms.