Tubthumping

Tubthumping
Chumbawamba
publication	August 11, 1997
length	4:38 (album version) 3:33 (single version)
Genre (s)	Alternative rock
album	Tubthumper

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Tubthumping   DE 11 08/18/1997 (20 weeks)   AT 14th 10/19/1997 (12 weeks)   CH 14th 11/16/1997 (14 weeks)   UK 2 08/23/1997 (22 weeks)   US 6th 09/13/1997 (31 weeks)

Tubthumping is a song by alternative rock band Chumbawamba that was released on August 11, 1997. It was their most successful single and a worldwide hit. Nike offered the band $ 1.5 million to use the song to advertise the 1998 World Cup , but the band declined. The song also ensured that the Tubthumper album was a great success.

Music and lyrics

The album version of the song begins with a sample of a monologue by Pete Postlethwaite from the film Brassed Off - With Timpani and Trumpets . At the end of the song is a sample of the Prince of Denmark's March by Jeremiah Clarke heard.

The word tubthumping comes from the anarchist tradition. Tubthumpers stood on boxes on street corners and in front of factories to express radical political opinions. According to Chumbawamba, the song means: "Scream to change the world (and then have a drink to celebrate)" .

The text has only a few lines, the hookline is:

"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down! "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sources chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ Klein, Naomi: No Logo , Picador, New York, 2000, p. 301.
3. ↑ Chumbawamba Interview ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NY Rock, February 1998. 
4. ↑ Chumbawamba Interview , New Songs for Peace, January 2004.