Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | I'm With Stupid | | | | 2 | | Shake Baby Shake | | | | 3 | | Pass It Along | | | | 4 | | Hey Hey We're The Junkies | | | | 5 | | The Health & Happiness Show | | | | 6 | | I'm Coming Out | | | | 7 | | I'm In Trouble Again | | |
See more tracks| 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 | | The Standing Still | | | | 14 | | She's Got All The Friends | | | | 15 | | Ladies For Compassionate Lynching | | | | 16 | | Celebration, Florida | | | | 17 | | Moses With A Gun | | | | 18 | | The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Jerry Springer | | | | 19 | | Smart Bomb | | | | 20 | | Knickers | | | | 21 | | Lie Lie Lie Lie | | | | 22 | | Dumbing Down | | |
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Review
If there's one ironclad rule of pop history, it's this: The monkey types Hamlet only once. Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" was a glorious novelty shot, coming out of nowhere to crunch disco beats and leftist punk outreach into one jolly roger of a drinking anthem. But "Tubthumping" had nothing to do with the band's previous history of dreary, well-meaning indie rock, and even less to do with the bumbling adult pop of WYSIWYG. These anarchist Brits chumba their wamba in search of "Tubthumping II," but despite a few sharp lines ("You can… Read More buy your friends/But I'll hate you for free"), they bury their first-draft song fragments in a self-imitating mishmash of shout-along choruses, tepid beats and confused eclectic diddling. For all the snazzy politics, Tubthumper was just an expensive rip-off, and so is WYSIWYG; nothing even comes close to the magic of "Tubthumping." At least Right Said Fred knew when to quit gracefully. (RS 838)
ROB SHEFFIELD
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