Tuesday, July 27, 2004  

"Everything you know is wrong."

Chumbawamba, "Everything You Know Is Wrong"
from Un (Koch, 2004)
Chumbawamba, "Salt Fare, North Sea"
from Readymades & Then Some (Koch, 2003)

With all the mis-mis-mis-misinformation we'll be hearing from the DNC and RNC over the next few days, here's a little ditty, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," from a band you probably forgot. Shame, because Chumbawamba released some great albums since "Tubthumping" unwittingly filed them next to "Who Let the Dogs Out?" (woof woof woof). And "Tubthumping," before you heard it 99,733,739,950,065 times, was a great song. Still is, tho Chumbawamba recognizes the tune has grown beyond them so they've let people have it. The fun thing about "Tubthumping"'s success is how its message was ignored/misinterpreted and it became a song for people of all social & political backgrounds to sing and dance to at sporting events. Kind of like the gay anthem "Y.M.C.A." I get a kick when I see meatheads, church groups and, say, Secretary of State Colin Powell doing dance routines and karaoke to a song that's about how hot the guys are down at the Y.

More Chumba media (MP3s, videos, etc).

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