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Bored of all the things they brought her up to say...

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Chumbawamba – Ugh! Your Ugly Houses! One Little Indian – 139 TP 7 Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM, UK, 1995 info I've a had a short run going here of women artists and vocalists. I move too slowly for these to turn up during women's history month, but I figured I'd keep it up for a minute to help balance the over representation of men on these pages (and in pretty much every discussion of music in the world). Chumbawamba, was a mixed gender band, so maybe they don't completely fit the bill, but the women (and the group's feminist politics) were always upfront. Plus I threatened promised to someday rip more vinyl by them, so here we go... These two tracks come from Swingin' With Raymond , Chumbawamba's eighth LP and their last before the major label adventure that scored them status as a bar trivia one hit wonder answer. The album was split in two parts, corresponding with cover star Raymond's knuckle tattoos: Hate and Love. The "Hate" side had ...

Someone's Always Telling You...

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Chumbawamba ‎– (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave Agit Prop ‎– AGIT 666 Vinyl, 12", Maxi-Single, UK, 1992 info Ahem. Ok, let's deal with a few things up front.  1. Yes, they are the same band that did that one song in the late '90s .  2. No, that isn't their only song. They were together for 30 years, roughly 15 on either side of their one bonafide international hit. Started as a punk band before discovering samples and dance music and ended their career as a legit folk music group, but had a good long run as an anarchist pop band in the middle.  3. Yeah, I got it- you remember their song being  about drinking booze and getting up again . But I swear, they spent decades as serious radicals playing music . They funded and supported 100 causes, have the only 1990s pop music video I know of about shooting racists , and kept trying to figure out what a pop band could contribute to the movements . (It's not in the video, but at that same awards show, after...