[CW: music with br*tish people in it]

Like I know they're old so this isn't a "new" revelation or anything but still lmao. I'd only ever previously heard tubthumping in like a fucken Kroger or whatever but one time I was on Spotify and looked up communist playlists bc I was bored and there was one that had like 12 fucking Chumbawumba songs and i felt emotions that i did NOT know how to process

Edit: i know absolutely nothing else about the band, like i haven't looked into their backgrounds or whatever so i don't know HOW based they are, but from what I gathered they're like,, at worst, socdem which at the very least is uncommon in terms of western music

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    :10000-com: percent based. They were a commune that started making music as a prank. you will not be disappointed if you dig deeper.

  • Dingus_Khan [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    They prerecorded an LP celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher to be released when she died, definitely worth a listen. The liner notes are full of dunks as well if you can find them, including "Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher’s victims.”

  • bayezid [any]
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    2 years ago

    They're not real leftists. They were together for 30 years without a schism. That's fed behavior.

  • cynesthesia
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    11 months ago

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  • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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    2 years ago

    My mom wouldn't let me listen to anything with a parental advisory. So I knew about Chumbawunmba before anybody.

  • LibsEatPoop [any]
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    2 years ago

    Huh. Might have to check them out. Thanks. Also could you link the communist music playlist?

  • wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Their song ‘Nazi’ is amazing. More people should be singing it.

    They told us after the war the nazis vanished without a trace/

    But battalions of fascists still dream of a master race/

    The history books they tell of their defeat in ‘45/

    But why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the nazi died?

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 years ago

    but from what I gathered they’re like, at worst, socdem

    It wasn't "The Levellers' Song" that they did a rendition of.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    the lion sleeps tonight is about communism. It was written by communists and played at rallies. The lion is the working class and the lion waking is revolution