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Track Listing
1. I'm With Stupid
2. Shake Baby Shake
3. Pass It Along
4. Hey Hey We're the Junkies
5. Health & Happiness Show, The
6. I'm Coming Out
7. I'm in Trouble Again
8. Social Dogma
9. Www Dot
10. New York Mining Disaster, 1941
11. I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun
12. Jesus in Vegas
13. Standing Still, The
14. She's Got All the Friends
15. Ladies For Compassionate Lynching
16. Celebration, Florida
17. Moses With a Gun
18. Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Jerry Springer, The
19. Smart Bomb
20. Knickers
21. Lie Lie Lie Lie
22. Dumbing Down
| Details | | Producer: | Chumbawamba, Neil Ferguson | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Chumbawamba: Boff Whalley (vocals, guitar); Danbert Nobacon (vocals, banjo); Jude Abbot (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn); Lou Watts (vocals, keyboards); Harry Hamer (vocals, drums, programming); Dunstan Bruce, Alice Nutter (vocals); Neil Ferguson (keyboards, bass).
Additional personnel includes: Simon Lanzon, The Complimentary Peanuts (vocals); BJ Cole (pedal steel guitar); Armley Community Orchestra (strings, woodwinds); Toby (saxophone); Simon (trombone).
After the worldwide success of TUBTHUMPING, Chumbawamba's 1998 release, the band might have been considered a one-hit-wonder. However, its umpteenth album, WYSIWYG (an acronym for WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET), is a work of numerous contours and textures which still maintains an ultra-pop consistency.
"She's Got All the Friends" is an infectious toe-tapper that almost sounds like a summer classic, while other noteworthy tracks include "I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun," "Jesus In Vegas," and "Smart Bomb," with its funky, horn-heavy dance mix. Tongue-in-cheek humor and pop brilliance is the name of the game here, and with most of the 22 songs clocking in at two minutes, the band gives the listener plenty of value.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...A splenetic romp...
Q (06/01/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Legitimate, well-aimed fury....This is misanthropy funnelled to locate specific issues....It's the closet pop has to a community-centric modern folk music....When it works, it's poignant, vulgar and disposable...
Melody Maker (04/18/2000)
...just as fun-loving and irreverant as [their] last album....gorgeously sung, lushly produced pop, the songs well-dressed social and political statements...taking direct aim at the evils of Western society...
CMJ (03/20/2000)
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