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1997 single by Chumbawamba

"Tubthumping"
TubthumpingHQ.jpg
Single by Chumbawamba
from the album Tubthumper
B-side
  • "Cheerio to the Crown"
  • "Football Song" ("Shit Footing, No Fans...")
Released eleven August 1997 (1997-08-eleven)
Studio Woodlands (Castleford)
Genre
  • Dance-stone
  • alternative rock
  • dance-punk
Length
  • 4:38 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
Label
  • EMI
  • Universal
  • Republic
Songwriter(s)
  • Chumbawamba
Producer(southward)
  • Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba singles chronology
"Just Expect at Me Now"
(1996) 		"Tubthumping"
(1997) 		"Amnesia"
(1998)
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"Tubthumping" on YouTube

"Tubthumping" is a song released by British rock band Chumbawamba from their eighth studio album, Tubthumper (1997). It is the band's most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and hit number six on the U.s. Billboard Hot 100[ane] (although information technology topped the United states Modern Rock and Mainstream Tiptop 40 charts). At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. It sold 880,000 copies in the UK.[2]

Groundwork [edit]

The song was the grouping's lead unmarried from Tubthumper, their major-label debut.[three] It was released on 11 August 1997.[4] [5] Vocalist Dunstan Bruce retrospectively observed that, before the group wrote it, they "were in a mess: nosotros had get directionless and disparate". He credited "Tubthumping" with irresolute that, telling The Guardian, "Information technology's not our near political or all-time song, simply it brought us back together. The vocal is about united states – as a class and every bit a band. The beauty of information technology was nosotros had no idea how big information technology would be."[vi]

Writing and composition [edit]

A Leeds pub chosen the Fforde Grene served as the group's inspiration for the song; guitarist Boff Whalley told The Guardian that it was written about "the resilience of ordinary people";[6] musically, "Tubthumping" is a dance-rock, alternative rock, and dance-punk vocal in D major.[7] [8] [9] [x] [xi]

Critical reception [edit]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Some records just demand attention: 'Tubthumping' is ane of the rare few. Y'all tin can spend three times the track'due south running time plucking out the seemingly disparate sounds and contrasted genre references—starting with the forceful alterna-rock guitar scratches, the hip-hop-derived beats, and the swing-way horns. Belongings it all together are the kind of rousing, gang-like chants that y'all hear at football games. Sounds odd, eh? Well, yous won't shortly forget this jam after offset mind. And you lot'll likely be hearing it on popular and modern rock stations for months to come. If this gem is indicative of the tone of the act'due south forthcoming album, information technology should be quite a head trip."[12] A reviewer from Daily Record described information technology as an "irritating catchy drinking canticle from the anarchist band".[13] It was also called a "raucous anthem".[14] Pan-European magazine Music & Media said, "Afterward a decade and a half spent as indie heroes this commonage is likely to break into the mainstream in a big fashion".[fifteen] Ian Hyland of the Dominicus Mirror rated information technology eight out of 10, writing, "Sing a terrace chant, mention lager and the rugby boys will be making boozed-up human pyramids on the trip the light fantastic floor in seconds. And you'll accept a monster striking – skillful piece of work, chum."[16] Troy J. Augusto from Variety declared it as a "drinking-and-dancing canticle" and "the quirk hit of the season".[17]

In The Village Phonation 's Pazz & Jop poll for 1997, "Tubthumping" was voted the 2nd-best unmarried of the year.[xviii] Australian radio station Triple J ranked it No. 3 in its Triple J Hottest 100 for the same twelvemonth.[19] Author Bruce Pollock included information technology in his 2005 book "The 7,500 Nearly Of import Songs of 1944-2000".[20] "Tubthumping" also placed at No. 12 in Rolling Stone 's 2007 list of the "20 Almost Abrasive Songs"[21] and at No. viii in the magazine'southward 2011 listing of the "Top 10 Ane-Hit Wonders of All Time".[22]

Commercial performance [edit]

Upon its release, the vocal became an international hit.[23] On the UK Singles Chart, it debuted at number ii on the nautical chart dated 23 August 1997; information technology spent iii sequent weeks at number 2, held off the top spot past Will Smith's "Men in Blackness."[24] [25] [26] The vocal spent 11 consecutive weeks in the top 10, and twenty consecutive weeks on the top 100.[27] On the nautical chart dated 24 Jan 1998, three weeks after its final week on the chart, the song reentered the singles chart at number 88; the next week, it fell to number 96 before exiting the chart.[27]

In the U.South., the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 dated thirteen September 1997, at number 79.[28] The next week, it rose to number 63, attaining the week'due south biggest gain in airplay.[29] 2 weeks later, on the chart dated 4 Oct 1997, the vocal was again the biggest airplay gainer of the calendar week, entering the summit 40 in its rising from 47 to 35.[xxx] In its 12th week on the chart, 29 November 1997, the vocal reached its elevation of number vi, where it spent two weeks.[31] In total, it spent 31 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[32]

The unmarried was too present on many year-finish singles charts for 1997. In the U.G., it ranked as the year'southward seventh almost-popular single,[33] while it placed at number 3 on Australia's top 100 songs of the yr.[34] The single also placed in the top 20 of the year-end chart in Sweden[35] and in the height 100 of 1997 in Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the Us.[36] [37] [38] [39] [xl] [41] In the U.Due south., it placed at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100's year-end ranking for 1998.[42]

Track listings and formats [edit]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

"Tubthumping" (2003 Remix) [edit]

"Tubthumping (remix)"
Single by Chumbawamba
from the album Readymades then Some (Bonus DVD)
B-side
  • "Salt Fare, N Sea"
  • "Jacob'south Ladder (Non in My Name)"
Released 2003}
Label Koch
Chumbawamba singles chronology
"Jacob'south Ladder (Not in My Name)"
(2002) 		"Tubthumping (remix)"
(2003) 		"Home with Me"
(2003)

"Tubthumping (remix)" was released in 2003 as a promotional CD past Chumbawamba on Koch Records. The remixed version of the vocal was washed by The Flaming Lips and Dave Fridmann.[93]

The single was released promotionally by Mutt Records, with their previous single, "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Proper noun)", every bit a B-side.[94] It was as well included on the bonus DVD accompanying Readymades and Then Some, the rerelease of their 2002 album Readymades.[95] Stereogum also made the vocal available as a free MP3 download in June 2004.[96]

Track listing [edit]

Us promo CD [97]

  1. "Tubthumping" (remix) (by the Flaming Lips and Dave Fridmann) – 5:20
  2. "Salt Fare, Northward Bounding main" – iv:28
  3. "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" – 2:52

Legacy [edit]

I get knocked downwardly just I get up again

A neon sculpture on the Leeds Playhouse features the lyric "I get knocked downwardly but I get upwards over again".[98] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Leeds, the vocal was given a remix by local young musicians and sportspeople.[99]

Culling stone band They Might Be Giants covered Tubthumping for The A.V. Lodge'southward A.5. Hole-and-corner series, and included on their compliation album Album Raises New and Troubling Questions.[100]

See also [edit]

  • List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1990s
  • List of RPM number-one culling rock singles
  • List of number-ane singles of 1997 (Ireland)
  • List of number-one singles from the 1990s (New Zealand)
  • List of Billboard Mainstream Superlative 40 number-ane songs of the 1990s
  • Listing of Developed Acme 40 number-one songs of the 1990s

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External links [edit]

  • Song Review at AllMusic

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubthumping