Chumbawumba
One song written around a slightly catchy hook, repeat ad nauseum. And how the hell does "Danny Boy" fit into all that.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:00, 17 replies)

you're writing off chumbawumba on the strength of one song?
good lord.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:03, closed)

I see you're using "strength" verrrry loosely.

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:22, closed)

they have a 30 year career with a number of fabulous albums in there.
tubthumping is all anyone knows them for. it's a bit like saying the beatles were shit based on yellow submarine. or something.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:37, closed)

OK, OK, they're highly underrated, were ripped off by the music moguls who never allowed their "good" stuff to air
"pissing the night away, pissing the night away."


He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink

Repeat x 1000.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:42, closed)

again you're pointing to one song - the one everyone knows, but certainly not their best IMO
Danny Boy (while apparently written for a grandson going to war by his grandfather) is a popular Irish song... therefore a drinking song.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 15:09, closed)

Jesus H Christ is a fucking brilliant album
as is Never Mind The Ballots. Oh, and Pictures Of Starving Children.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:49, closed)

Look at it this way.
You see a beautiful girl, and you go up to chat with her. Two seconds before you get there she evicts a huuuuge farm fart so that your first half minute of speaking to her leads you to believe that your teeth will corrode. You beat a hasty retreat.

Yeah, she might be the cat's meow, great lover, trophy wife material, but you can never get past that first impression. In the case of ChumbabbaWumbbabba, it was the first several thousand impressions I can't get past.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:57, closed)

If I were making a case against the Beatles
Yellow Submarine would be Exhibit 'A'
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Sat 1 Jan 2011, 22:31, closed)

It does sort of make
sense. It's on the strength of there only really being one song.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:35, closed)

see above.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:37, closed)

Chumbawumba try to go Manu Chao...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnGiXm02OY

Chumbawumba fail!
(El_diablo_blanco, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:08, closed)

Thats shocking!

( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:50, closed)

Hmm, I'm sorry you only just discovered them in time for the abortion known as Tubthumping...
Try some of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJLv46_N6c

Or you a little of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS32iAnPUAo
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 15:15, closed)

I listened to that...
...and wondered if it was actually Robbie Williams covering a Kylie Minogue song as reimagined by 5ive.
(SlantedScience, Mon 3 Jan 2011, 23:51, closed)

Or this awesome track
from the Stigmata soundtrack..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MOxsvx-HVU
(sirhiss, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 15:17, closed)

No no no!
I have listened, and although they try to reinvent their musical style, it all seems to be a chorus repeated thousands of times with some effort at connecting material.

Give me Louie, Louie over that anyday.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 15:39, closed)

You're wrong
But you might enjoy this tribute to Chumbawamba:

Riot Clone - Chumbawanka
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Mon 3 Jan 2011, 7:38, closed)