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Track Listing 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. Fine Career, A 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 Rip 20. Charlie 21. Orgre, The 22. Refugee 23. Same Old Same Old 24. Waiting For The Bus 25. What We Want
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Album Notes Over the years, British iconoclasts Chumbawamba tranversed a startlingly wide array of styles, starting out in the 1980s as a Crass-like collective of anarchic punk rockers. By the '90s, they were incorporating pop and electronics into their sound (resulting in their 1997 hit "Tubthumping"). The 21st-century version of the band, as represented on THE BOY BANDS HAVE WON (2008), is worlds away from either of those incarnations. The Chumbas have become a straight-up folk band. While their lyrics are still full of cleverness and social comment, they're framed by acoustic guitar strumming and vocal harmonies that would not sound out of place on a Steeleye Span album.
Industry Reviews Chumbawamba specializes in subversion with a smile, and it is perhaps the best political band since the heyday of the Clash.
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