Chumbawamba: Invasion

[kakurot69]

@GUSEMCONTRA. You hit the nail on the head. You are educated in the bands history. Sometimes, you do what you gotta do to get the message out there!

[kakurot69]

Damn! This song kicks ass! Love the fact they had so many lead vocalists. And each had their own unique style!

[roboimp]

My favorite chumbawamba song, off their best album. Chumbawamba aren't sellouts, they took money from corporations and then gave it to revolutionary causes. As they explained, all record labels worked on the same capitalist principles, they figured they'd find a way they could support what they believed in.

[timursoganci]

Great Song!

[Machihekamake]

used to have this on a cassette. i had a vhs of a live concert in LA 1990's-remember bullhorns, nun dresses, and a GOOD VIBE! if i ever find those tapes....

[guwest2]

@Machihekamake oh yes, I remember Alice in a nun's outfit in a tent in Nottingham, free gig, around summer 1994. Sounds like a lurid fantasy but I'm sure it actually happened.

[patmuck]

we are not isolated by distance but by greed and our racist history

[TrueStonerArmy]

i take a vodka drink i take a whiskey drink and when i have to pee i use the kitchen sink

[mediattackrecords]

it worked so did we are the world and youre correct it is corporate entertainment parody and satire

[antimonument]

This song sounds heavily influenced by Crass

[SharksInTheGenePool]

They are. Still good shit though. I'd take Crass any day, but these guys did some real cool shit.

[gusemcontra]

Bollocks to those who call Chumbawamba sellouts. You have no idea how politically involved most of the members still are and how political their latest few albums have been.

The EMI deal was probably a mistake, but then again - as they've explained - it meant they got loads of cash from the exploiters to stand on stage and sing the stuff they sing. Not that bad a move.

Name a more genuine band of similar renown, because I cannot.

[lucidloon]

@gusemcontra I also heard the dealings EMI were involved with that the band took issue with were ended before they were signed.

[markusa]

sell out wankers.

[piro6220]

first time ive heard this song and the lyric are fucking amazing. "with food as a weapon, worker remain silent" genius!!

[kosmischesynth]

rock on

[lgacouldbedangerous]

It was the best years of chumbawamba

[KonVay1]

any other chumbawamba songs like this?? cant find any others with the punk feel of this one

[itsacorporatething]

Anything from their first two albums ("pictures of starving children" and "Never Mind the Ballots...Here's the Rest of Your Lives") are punky. some songs might be: "ah-men", "the wasteland."

[KonVay1]

very nice, ta ^^

[NixonAddict]

@KonVay1 look for Revolution, one of their early 7" EPs.

[eltrevoso]

Watching their old stuff is cool, it's not that different from the newer.

All the elements are there.... boy/girl vocals, the accent, songs with multiple sections, weird instrumentation, the horns...

[eringette]

YAY!!! I love their older music!

[eringette]

Thankyou! I've been wanting to hear the good older stuff for decades! Love it!!!

[rickypoveri]

Yeah sellouts, true. Anyhow the first 2 records (which I unfortunately lost. DAMN) are bloody good Pop. Don´t even try to compare early 80´s U2/Talking Heads with them.

[kcphila]

fucking sellouts

[tonyhighlife77]

fucking douchebag

[morningsickness]

hahah you dont even know

[zookaxjoe]

i never knew there was a none pop side to Chumbawamba till today.

o joy! :D

[ianboydwalker]

@zookaxjoe - i saw them live at the WOMAD 2010 UK Festival last year, full acoustic set, still excellent after all these years!

[killerklown91]

wow....

im very very very surprised...

[2012ahead]

great song, btw i also like tubthumping as well !!!

[pixelatedinvader]

This is a great record. Before my ex-sister-in-law that trendy sorority idiot started singing along with Tubthumper.

[fadedfuck]

chumbawamba is even more incredible on there cassete eps

[YellingInMyEar]

I cannot believe what i'm hearing is the same band that made that aweful pop song. I bet it must have hurt a lot to realize their song had been re-purposed by the system as a national anthem for the system they sought to destroy. Still, good stuff, and good sentiments also.

[wcarloswiliams]

Thanks for posting this. I was shure there would just be abunch of remixes of The Hit . This is what i think of when I want to hear Chumbawamba. Geat stuff lyricly and musicly.

[markusa]

only stupid bastards help EMI.

[kopijrules]

This is my first time listening to old Chumbawamba and I'm not gonna lie, I like it a lot.

[neverseenso]

tune

[jangenk]

sounds like it all happened yesterday

[solonely8777]

I can't wait for the Troops to come home, then we are in for some fun! eh?

[laminatedeffect]

One of the greatest Anarchopunk albums ever made.

[wanksy]

Tubthumping will at least get people to listen to their other stuff - this band shaped my life - saw em live countless times and never ever saw a bad show

[KarmicAnarchist]

Any Danger of getting Never mind the Ballots up, or Anarchy

[BallinAssBrennan]

i take a whiskey drink... i take a vodka drink... n' i take the time to ponder why in the hell does tubthumping exist....

[PsylocybinSi]

The Whole of this Album in 4 Parts now on RadioPsi (PsylocybinSi),

Peace, Love and Light Psi..

[itsacorporatething]

Thanks so much! I just threw this and a few other songs up because I thought it was a shame that classic political punk bands weren't on youtube.

[cheapy2006]

please please please put "slag aid" up!!!

[itsacorporatething]

my computer is broken right now, but i will when i get the chance.

[cheapy2006]

where is it????????????

[cheapy2006]

then he stopped smiling, and talked conditions. . . . .

LOVE this album

[SharksInTheGenePool]

It's a shame so many only know Chumbawamba from Tubthumping. They did so much awesome stuff for so long. Tubthumbing was their first sub par release ever, imo, and I wish others would go ack and hear this album, Never Mind The Ballots, Shhhh, Anarchy, and Slap!

They are a terminally under rated band.

Thanks for posting this, and feel free to add more.

[cideroipunx]

This album is a classic.

[shadrac72]

i'm always telling people not to run away when i play this band, because of THAT song. yeah, this is possibly my favourite of theirs.

[losgrindos]

The time to give it all back nears ever closer...

[chumbachump]

i would download all songs on here for chumbawamba fans, but i don't know how

i got 'em all on CD

one of the four current chumbawamba fans told me something that made me feel comfortable about downloading their songs from other sites, which was simply; "we don't mind at all!"

which is one of the many reasons why i love 'em...they love the music, not too much on the fame. they care for the music.

so i'm always recommending chumbawamba music to friends.

[chumbachump]

this "top nineties hit" was from 1986

i'm not bitching, it's a killer track!

i own it on CD, i like More Whitewashing, after the vomit...lol

[itsacorporatething]

Oh, I know its not from the nineties. This track wasn't a hit. What I was saying is that hopefully it will attract some people looking for tubthumping, which seems to be the only song they are known for, unfortunately

[kiwijuggler]

Thank you for posting this!