Chumbawamba discography

Chumbawamba discography
Chumbawamba performing at the Rudolstadt-Festival in Thuringia in July 2012
Studio albums15
EPs4
Soundtrack albums2
Live albums2
Compilation albums4
Singles22
Video albums2
Music videos9
Miscellaneous releases22

English rock band Chumbawamba has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two extended plays (EPs), 23 singles, 9 music videos, and a variety of miscellaneous releases.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio and live albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]		 UK
Indie
[3]		 AUS CAN
[4]		 US
[5]
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
  • Released: 1986 (UK)[6]
  • Label: Agit Prop
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Released on CD by One Little Indian in 1994 as First 2
 —2———
Never Mind the Ballots
  • Released: 1 May 1987 (UK)[7]
  • Label: Agit Prop
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Released on CD by One Little Indian in 1994 as First 2
 —2———
English Rebel Songs 1381–1914
  • Released: 1988 (UK)[8]
  • Label: Agit Prop
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Reissued 1993 and re-released on CD by One Little Indian in 1995
 —13———
Slap!
  • Released: 1990 (UK)[9]
  • Label: Agit Prop
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Reissued 1995 & 1999 by One Little Indian. Re-released on double CD by Mutt in 2003 as Shhhlap!
 —————
Shhh
  • Released: 1992 (UK)
  • Label: Agit Prop
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Re-released in 1994 on Southern Records. Re-released on double CD by Mutt Records in 2003 as Shhhlap!
 —————
Anarchy 29————
Swingin' with Raymond
  • Released: 23 October 1995 (UK)[11]
  • Label: One Little Indian
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 70————
Tubthumper
  • Released: 1 September 1997 (UK)[12]
  • Label: EMI/Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 19—7823
WYSIWYG
  • Released: 4 April 2000 (UK)[16]
  • Label: EMI/Universal
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 —————
Readymades
  • Released: 18 June 2002 (UK)[17]
  • Label: Mutt
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 —————
Revengers Tragedy —————
English Rebel Songs 1381–1984
  • Released: 16 June 2003 (UK)[19]
  • Label: Mutt
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Re-recording, with two additional tracks, of their 1988 album English Rebel Songs 1381–1914
 —————
Un —————
A Singsong and a Scrap
  • Released: 11 October 2005 (UK)[21]
  • Label: No Masters/Edel Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 —————
The Boy Bands Have Won
  • Released: 3 March 2008 (UK)[22]
  • Label: No Masters
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 —————
ABCDEFG
  • Released: 1 March 2010 (UK)[23]
  • Label: No Masters
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
 —————

Soundtrack albums

List of soundtrack albums
Title Release details
Revengers Tragedy
  • Released: 24 March 2003
  • Label: Mutt
  • Formats: CD
Big Society!
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: No Masters
  • Formats: CD
  • A soundtrack for their musical of the same name.

Live albums

List of live albums
Title Release details
Showbusiness![24]
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: One Little Indian
  • Formats:
    • Cassette
    • CD
    • LP
Get On with It[25]
  • Released: 29 January 2007
  • Label: No Masters
  • Formats: CD

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums with notes
Title Release details Notes
The Music's Not a Threat
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Sky & Trees
  • Formats: Cassette
  • A compilation of early singles and EPs.
First 2
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Agit-Prop
  • Formats:
    • Cassette
    • CD
    • LP
  • Box set including the original album releases of Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records and Never Mind the Ballots.[26]
Uneasy Listening
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats:
    • Cassette
    • CD
  • A 23-song compilation album that includes songs released from 1986 to 1998. The album primarily features songs from Anarchy and Swingin' with Raymond.[27]
Shhhlap!
  • Released: 15 July 2003
  • Label: Mutt
  • Formats: CD
  • Box set including the original album releases of Shhh and Slap![28]

Extended plays

List of extended plays with notes
Title Release details Notes
Revolution
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Agit Prop Records
  • Formats: Vinyl
Portraits of Anarchists
  • Released: 1 April 1996[29]
  • Label: One Little Indian
  • Formats: CD
  • EP exclusively bundled with the photography book i-Portraits of Anarchists by Casey Orr.
The ABCs of Anarchism
  • Released: 27 April 1999
  • Label: Seeland
  • Formats: CD
In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher
  • Released: 8 April 2013
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[2]		 UK
Indie
[3]		 AUS
[32]		 CAN
[33][34]		 FRA
[35]		 US
[36]
1986 "We Are the World?" (split single with A State of Mind) — 4 — — — — singles only
1988 "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" — 5 — — — —
1990 "I Never Gave Up" — — — — — — Slap!
1992 "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" — — — — — — Shhh
1993 "Enough Is Enough" 56 — — — — — Anarchy
"Timebomb" 59 — — — — —
1994 "Criminal Injustice" — — — — — — single only
"Homophobia" 79 — — — — — Anarchy
1995 "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" 84 — — — — — Swingin' with Raymond
1996 "Just Look at Me Now" — — — — — —
1997 "Tubthumping" 2 — 1 1 38 6 Tubthumper
1998 "Amnesia" 10 — 34 7 — —[A]
"Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" 21 — — — — — Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole!
1999 "Tony Blair" — — — — — — single only
2000 "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" — — — — — — WYSIWYG
2003 "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" — — — — — — Readymades
"Home with Me" — — — — — —
"Salt Fare North Sea" — — — — — —
2004 "On eBay" — — — — — — Un
"The Wizard of Menlo Park" — — — — — —
2006 "Fade Away (I Don't Want To)" — — — — — — A Singsong and a Scrap

Compilation appearances

(not including top-single compilations)

Song name Compilation Title Record label Year Notes
"I'm Thick" Back on the Streets EP Secret Records 1982 recording as 'Skin Disease', a mock skinhead/Oi! band
"Three Years Later" Bullshit Detector Volume 2 Crass Records 1982
"The Police Have Been Wonderful", "Fitzwilliam" Dig This: A Tribute To The Great Strike LP Forward Sounds International Limited 1985 Liner notes list Margaret Thatcher on vocals and Neil Kinnock on lead guitar
"Rich Pop Stars Make Good Socialists" Red Rhino Records 1986 Free flexi with June edition of independent trade magazine The Catalogue. 3 other artists including The Mekons.
"Kinnochio" Ideal Guest House cassette Secret Records 1986
"Knit Your Own Balaclava" Mindless Slaughter Anhrefn Records 1987 Re-released in 1989 on "The Liberator" compilation LP
"Younger Moralists" A Vile Peace Peaceville Records 1987
"Tearing Up Zoo" The A.L.F. Is Watching No Master's Voice 1988
"Harry Goldthorpe" Wild And Crazy Noise Merchants 1 in 12 Records 1990 Benefit CD for the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford, UK
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" No Compromize Delerium Records 1996 Benefit CD for the Campaign for Free Education; Cover of U2 song
"Homophobia (Live)" Milkshake timmi-kat ReCoRDS 1998 Benefit CD for the Harvey Milk Institute; Can be purchased here.[43]
"Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)" Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole! Columbia Records 1998 Official album for 1998 FIFA World Cup in France
"We Don't Go To God's House Anymore (Acoustic)" No Ocean Separating Our Desire For Justice Esan Ozenki Records 1998 Benefit CD for Mumia Abu-Jamal; Performed by Chumbawamba & Alabama 3
"Unilever" This Is The Animal Liberation Front Mortarhate Records 1998 Benefit CD for the Animal Liberation Front
"Misbehave" Return of the Read Menace G7 Welcoming Committee Records/AK Press 1999
"Mary Mary (Stigmata Mix)" Stigmata - Original Soundtrack Virgin 1999 Remix of song; Featured in opening credits of Stigmata
"Bella Ciao" Article 14 Irregular Records 2001 Benefit CD for the medical foundation for victims of torture in support of their work on behalf of asylum seekers
"Smart Bomb" Dropping Food On Their Heads is Not Enough: Benefit For RAWA Geykido Comet Records 2002 Benefit CD for the Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan
"Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" With a Little Help From My Friends Pirate Records 2002 German benefit CD for dolphin aid; Beatles cover
"Without Reason Or Rhyme (Acoustic)" Kitestringing: The Prison Literature Project Benefit AK Press 2006 Benefit CD to raise money to buy books for prisoners
"I Drive a Four by Four Four Door Fortress" Cat Nav: Songs and Poems of Les Barker (Guide Cats for the Blind, Volume 4) Osmosys Records 2009 Benefit CD for The British Computer Association of the Blind
Artist Song title(s) Album title Record label Year Notes
Chimp Eats Banana Cardboard Box N/A 1980 Cassette only release by proto-Chumbawamba group
Boffo "Garageland" Bullshit Detector Volume 2 Crass Records 1982 aka Boff Whalley; Cover of a song by The Clash
Passion Killers "Start Again" Bullshit Detector Volume 2 Crass Records 1982 Featuring Chumbawamba members Mavis Dillon, Boff Whalley and Harry Hamer
Passion Killers & Chumbawamba Side A[44] Be Happy Despite It All Sky and Trees 1983 Cassette only release; featuring hand coloured cover
Passion Killers It's Up To You Sky and Trees 1984 Cassette only release
Passion Killers & Chumbawamba Let Us Show Them Our Hearts Sky and Trees 1984 Cassette only release
Antidote [45] Destroy Fascism! Loony Tunes 1986 Features members of Chumbawamba & The Ex
Chumbawamba & Dona Nobis Pacem Side A Still Fighting The Fences Y.U.R.A. Kollektief 1987 Cassette only release
Scab Aid "Let It Be" b/w "The Scum" n/a 1987 Alter-ego of Chumbawamba, released in protest of Live Aid
Sportchestra! 101 Songs About Sport Agit Prop 1988 2 LP release; Collaborations with various other musicians
Passion Killers Whoopee, We're All Gonna Die EP Rugger Bugger Discs 1991 7-inch EP of cover songs
Credit to the Nation "Sowing the Seeds of Hatred" One Little Indian 1994 12-inch single; Production and remixes by Boff, Harry & Neil
Oysterband "Jam Tomorrow" & "One Green Hill" "Jam Tomorrow / One Green Hill" Running Man Records 1996 12-inch single; Remixes by Chumbawamba
Various Artists Bare Faced Hypocrisy Sells Records Ruptured Ambitions 1998 A parody EP released in reaction to Chumbawamba signing to EMI; reissued in 2017 digitally with bonus tracks
Negativland & Chumbawamba "The ABCs of Anarchism" EP Seeland Records 1999 Collaboration that extensively samples Chumbawamba
Enemy Within God Save The Queen n/a 2002 Side project of Chumbawamba
Hassle Bastards Sik'O'War Demo Tapes Records 2017 A side project of Chumbawamba. Recorded in 1985 but not released publicly until 2017.

Miscellaneous releases

Chumbawamba during their early years released several cassette-exclusive releases, often either self-released or through independent labels. They also released a handful of miscellaneous releases later on.

  • Another Year of the Same Old Shit (Sky and Trees, 1982)
  • "Common Ground" (Sky and Trees, 1984) (Benefit single for striking miners)
  • History Luddite, (Homebrew Tapes, 1984) (Live at Luton Library, May 1985)
  • To Thine Own Self Be True (Sky and Trees, 1984)
  • In the Cellar (Sky and Trees, 1984)
  • It Could Be So Much More (Acid Rain Products, 1985) (Joint with Flux of Pink Indians, recorded live at the Conway Hall, London)
  • Benefit for Leeds Hunt Saboteurs (Self-released, 1986)
  • Know Your Enemy (Doomsday Tapes, 1986) (Live material recorded at the Bull and Gate, London)
  • Feed the World, Sell the Rich, 1986 (Live material recorded in Birmingham)
  • Un Toast a la Democratie, 1986 (Early live incarnation of "Never Mind the Ballots")
  • There Comes a Time, 1987 (Recordings of two shows)
  • Still Fighting The Fences (Y.U.R.A., 1987) (Live split with Dona Nobis Placem)
  • The Police are Wonderful (1988, R.E.D. Tapes) (Split with Chumbawamba member Danbert Nobacon)
  • Raising Heck with Chumbawamba (Peaceville Records, 1989) [recorded 1983/4] (Live material plus songs by Simon Lanzon, also known as Be a Rebel, Raise Some Heck)
  • A Toast to Democracy (KomistA, 1989) (Two live performances from 1987)
  • Jesus H. Christ (Everyone's Stealing From Someone, 1992) (The original version of what would become Slap!. Was released in limited numbers before being withdrawn for copyright reasons)
  • Stitch That! (E.G. Smith Press Audio, 1992) (A live performance from the same year)
  • For A Free Humanity: For Anarchy (Allied, 1997) (A release of speeches by Noam Chomsky that features Showbusiness! as a second disc)
  • Amnesia (EMI, 1998) (A Japan-exclusive album features remixes and re-recordings of songs from Anarchy and Tubthumper)
  • Class War (self-released, 1990s) (Live recordings from the Revolution era to the Slap! era)
  • Songs from WYSIWYG Played in a Fetchingly Acoustic Neobilly Style (EMI, 2000) (Re-recordings of songs from WYSIWYG. Promotional release.)
  • Her Majesty, an extended cover of The Beatles song with added anti-royal lyrics written in response to Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee. Released exclusively through their UK mailing list.
  • Chumbawamba 1985 (Shellfield Tape Archive, 2015) (A digital release of a live show from 1985)

Videography

Video albums

Title Release details Notes
Well Done, Now Sod Off
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: DVD, VHS
  • A documentary detailing the history of the band up to that point through interviews.
Going, Going
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: No Masters
  • Formats: DVD
  • A recording of one of the band's final shows.
  • Released through their website.

Music videos

Year Title Album
1993 "Enough Is Enough" Anarchy
"Timebomb"
1994 "Homophobia"
1995 "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses" Swingin' with Raymond
1997 "Tubthumping" Tubthumper
1998 "Amnesia"
"Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole!
2000 "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" WYSIWYG
2004 "On eBay" Un

Notes

  1. ↑ "Amnesia" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.[42]

References

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