ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba
They got knocked down. Did they ever get back up again?
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They got knocked down. Did they ever get back up again?
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@ZestyMR
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Why do anarchist have to be fucking boarding assholes
@mkallend
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Their protest songs are amazing
@1020bronwyn
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Anarchist here, the original idea was no government other than the people no corporations no billionaires. Rule of law is in the hands of the people without the role of a law.
Read a Crass book best explanation
@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Thatcher pop 5 piece Duran Duran
@tegantalks9612
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
11:02 just you wait until 2039, Todd!
@captainunderpants200
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Chumbawamba are amazing. The Boy Bands Have Won is one of my all-time favourite albums.
@jeremylesh7098
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Tubthumper was a great album.
@THERobertL2000
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
🎶Chumbawamba released their song 'Tubthumping' on this date (August 11) in 1997.
@Robbie_Lugos
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
This showed up in my recommended right after I bought the album.
@Sandlot1992
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Y2K brought us here with that song!
@sharjesm
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Absolute legends
@Ulfilias
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Came across them as a 90s uni person – They wrote some VERY catchy tracks, ticky ticky time bomb, give the anarchist a cigarette, etc. Always VERY tongue in cheek, making you think!
English Rebel songs was very folk from '88 so going folky was always in their background!
@revelrem4409
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Not sure if this is noteworthy or not, but they (technically) did one of the first hardcore punk songs combined with elements of ska music (Marching Round In Circles) in 1983/1984, years before the likes of Operation Ivy, Choking Victim, Suicide Machines and Mighty Bosstones did so, and slightly predating when Kortatu (coincidentally, another far-left punk group, this time from Basque) were experimenting with the idea.
@オラオラオラ
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Nothing says early 2000’s like a robot animal dancing to a one hit wonder tune. Flashbacks.
@awrogers3013
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
I remember I lost some respect for Chris Squire when he said he rated it
@EvolvingPickleball
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
I am commenting on this video, but refuse to watch it because I HATED this song SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH. Few songs make me want to vomit as much as this piece of hot garbage.
@GizmoBeach
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
They had one big international hit, but Chumbawamba was one interesting band throughout their varied career.
Reminded me of someone like The Mekons, who also evolved their sound while retaining what made them familiar and fascinating to fans in the first place.
@plusmin09
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
The first TODD IN THE SHADOWS video that got me into enjoying his content! LOVE YOU TODD!!!!
@shred6
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Being into anarcho way back, I had their first 2 albums, and…. a few songs were incredible, but most I found absolutely unlistenable – just too out there in experimentation and not the aggro CRASS style I was infatuated with. But I very much appreciated their weirdness and anti-anti stance. Years later, I hear this track in a drug store and loved the infectious gang-vocals and wondered who tf it was. Laughed my ass off finding out it was Chimpish Banana (one of the members told an interviewer the band name was this, if it was shouted fast by someone Cockney – one of hundreds of false explanations of the name lol). Still love this song even tho I'm basically sick of it. They do have an amazing 10-track album of acapella worker's songs dating from the 1600s to early 20th century. Ridiculous talent in that group.
@smithd078105
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
How come you missed the song they did with credit to the nation,Enough is Enough??? Also If you’re going to mention RATM you might want to mention that the guitarist joined Audioslave with Chris Cornell.
@shukilevyandbrookesheildsl2638
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
My Dad liked this song. He was a 26 year Air Force Veteran. I still don't get it.
@augustschild
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
making a new term: "Billy-Bass'd" (Verb) when your utterance, whether a lyrical or non-musical verse, has entered the collective consciousness, and anyone hearing or reading said thing knows its origin, meaning, and usage. said utterance is then enshrined in a mechanical device (sometimes accompanied with dance) that spouts the phrase again and again, in supposed comedic effect.
all that said, Chumbawamba is amazing, and god bless 'em.
@delarkaBCN
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
"the day the nazi died" is relevant
@amandak.4246
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
idk i'd say an anthem about perseverance can be seen as pretty political.
@arsonistoitx
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Punks know Chumbawumba, I love them. <3 Crass is one of my favorite bands.
Anarchist typically believe that the government should be abolished , typically.
Enjoying the video, I subbed.
Oi! from Texas!
@koboldcatgirl
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
I think the political interpretation of Tubthumping ages well for me. I think it's a deeply leftist experience. To me, it's about a kind of joyous defiance, having a drink and trying to find some optimism about our political future. That feels harder than ever, so I appreciate Tubthumping more and more nowadays. We get knocked down, but we get up again.
@hive_indicator318
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
like Emma said, we deserve to have dancing in our revolutions. and they deserved all the hits
@ovalteen4404
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Would be ironic if their song were claimed by The People, and their exclusive rights to it and royalties stripped.
@sputnik_1118
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
todd should check out penis envy, it's pretty far from punk music but it'd be cool to see him cover the more hardcore anarcho-punk movement
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