The Boy Bands Have Won

by Chumbawamba

Overview

Cultural Writing. Music. Chumbawamba is back, armed with acoustic guitars, accordion and trumpet, five-part harmonies, a bucketful of attitude and a new 25-track album called THE BOY BANDS HAVE WON. It actually has a much longer title than that (See cover for full title), but let's call it by its pseudonym. The new album is a collection of such ideas; some are just passing thoughts, others are fully-formed songs. It's gentle and warm in tone, but caustic in intent. It plays with culture, with the idea of recycling our own culture. We all have this vast history of 'stuff', musical and historical and in art and sport and politics and a million other things. And it's all there for the taking. Featuring guests the OysterBand,Roy Bailey, Robb Johnson, Barry Coope and Jim Boyes...and a hundred others, give or take a few.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/24/2008
Label:	Trade Root Music
UPC:	0877746000621

Tracks

1. When an Old Man Dies
2. Add Me
3. Words Can Save Us
4. Hull or Hell
5. El Fusilado
6. Unpindownable
7. I Wish That They'd Sack Me
8. Word Bomber
9. All Fur Coat & No Knickers
10. Fine Line
11. Lord Bateman's Motorbike
12. A Fine Career
13. To a Little Radio
14. (Words Flew) Right Around the World
15. Sing About Love
16. Bury Me Deep
17. You Watched Me Dance
18. Compliments of Your Waitress
19. Rip RP
20. Charlie
21. The Ogre
22. Refugee
23. Same Old Same Old
24. Waiting for the Bus
25. What We Want

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chumbawamba   Primary Artist
Neil Ferguson   Guitar,Vocals
Barry Coope   Vocals
Jim Boyes   Vocals
Harry Hamer   Cajon,Tabla
David P. Crickmore   Banjo
Jo Freya   Saxophone
Ray Hearne   Vocals
Jude Abbott   Brass,Vocals
Lou Watts   Vocals,Percussion
Robb Johnson   Vocals

Technical Credits

Lou Watts   Group Member
Neil Ferguson   Group Member
Chumbawamba   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Casey Orr   Photography
Jude Abbott   Group Member
Traditional   Composer

Editorial Reviews

“We should be grateful for the Chumbas. Moving on from that anarchic post-punk phase and the bestselling single 'Tubthumping,' they have eased across to the folk scene and reinvented themselves yet again—this time as a classy, low-key harmony band writing inventive, intelligent songs.” —Robin Denselow, The Guardian (UK)

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