Chumbawumba hating the Manics (and vice versa)

[hummingbird]

wonder if they still hate the manics.
wonder if they've all kissed and made up
wonder if the manics would even CARE

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

wonder if they still hate the manics.
wonder if they've all kissed and made up
wonder if the manics would even CARE

They probably barely remember who they are!

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

They probably barely remember who they are!

very true

[Lindseyn]

I only know them by Tubthumping too - can someone put up some of their political type lyrics (I'm too lazy to trawl the net)

they were shit...

wait, they are still around? lmao... then i mean they are shit!

Chumbadicks.

[Tom]

Oh yeah, I forgot to say... my mum punched the guy from Chumbawamba in the face years and years ago. Irrelevant I know, but I feel my mum deserves some recognition for it.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by Tom

Oh yeah, I forgot to say... my mum punched the guy from Chumbawamba in the face years and years ago. Irrelevant I know, but I feel my mum deserves some recognition for it.

ooh cool! Why?

Originally Posted by Tom

Oh yeah, I forgot to say... my mum punched the guy from Chumbawamba in the face years and years ago. Irrelevant I know, but I feel my mum deserves some recognition for it.

your mum sounds like a good person,

does she not like fat guys who sing about drink?

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Lindseyn

I only know them by Tubthumping too - can someone put up some of their political type lyrics (I'm too lazy to trawl the net)

Ya have to do some ctrl+F'ing here.

"Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" here
"Walking into Battle with the Lord" and "The Land of Do What You're Told" here
"Enough Is Enough" here
"Don't Pass Go" here
+ prolly fuckloads of their early stuff when they were still more of a punk band, but I'm not familiar with that era

At least I regard them as if not directly political then at least commenting lyrics. Different from Tubthumping's liquor lyrics anyway (like pretty much all their lyrics are). If you're really bothered, just read through some of the album lyrics.

I feel so oddly defensive in this topic, the band's not even nowhere near my favourites. But ah well, still good stuff and my fault I got into this position.

[Assassinated_Beauty]

Originally Posted by manicbabyshambles123

they just came across as thugs

they are from burnley

[Tom]

Originally Posted by News & Tributes

your mum sounds like a good person,

does she not like fat guys who sing about drink?

Originally Posted by hummingbird

ooh cool! Why?

I dunno exactly what happened, it's just one of those cool stories that comes up in conversation once every few months. She used to really like them so I dunno why she lamped him. Something to do with an argument outside one of their gigs in the late 80s apparently.

Read an interview once where they said Richey deserved death for his obsessive behaviour, which was quite charming I suppose...

[Elvis Impersonator]

Pretty contradictory saying they're nothing like the Fratellis, when they released a footy chant then faded away into obscurity, releasing stuff that the masses have never heard...

[Flint]

But unlike The Fratellis the rest of their discography isn't a bunch of other pub chants.

[Elvis Impersonator]

Originally Posted by FlintGF

Yeah but unlike The Fratellis the rest of their discography isn't a bunch of other pub chants.

OK, granted.