Ontopic Random (Not So) New Music Thread

Could also be the whiskey drink and/or the vodka drink.

Not the cider drink though.
I think of the available options, I'd tend to favor lager (although I'll have the occasional whiskey sour) but the album of theirs I listened to the most was actually The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won. (typically shortened to The Boy Bands Have Won)
 
I think of the available options, I'd tend to favor lager (although I'll have the occasional whiskey sour) but the album of theirs I listened to the most was actually The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won. (typically shortened to The Boy Bands Have Won)
That whole thing's it's name? Fuck's sake.
 
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I think of the available options, I'd tend to favor lager (although I'll have the occasional whiskey sour) but the album of theirs I listened to the most was actually The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won. (typically shortened to The Boy Bands Have Won)
I'm shocked their record label agreed to this but it's fucking Devine.
 
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I'm shocked their record label agreed to this but it's fucking Devine.
that album has some great songs, including one about a dude who was to be executed during the Mexican Revolution but survived all the shots by the firing squad AND the coup de grace, a song that is a Bertolt Brecht poem that leads into the next song that is about him, a funny one about social media, one about Thatcher (because of course, but also not to be confused with the album about Thatcher they pre-recorded to be released upon her death), there's a little something for everyone.

their next, and last, album has a song called Pickle that is of a similar topic to the title of the last, and the track just after it is about the 80-year old Holocaust survivor who protested during an orchestra performance of works by Wagner, there's one about Dimitri Shostakovitch, one about Klaus Renft Combo, a song making clear their disapproval of how James Hetfield responded to finding out Metallica songs had been used to aid in human rights violations/torture that also manages to be self deprecating and humorous.

they have an album that's English Rebel Songs 1381-1984 that has their take on a variety of songs that span that length of time, and I listened to that one a lot, too.

I know it's a meme that they only have one song (see Torturing James Hetfield: "it's Chumbawamba, their greatest hits / there's only one") but in all honesty they fuck, they slap, they bop, they slay, and I absolutely learn stuff when I listen to them. the first time I ever heard about unions was from a Chumbawamba song on Tubthumper, as well as some other words and concepts my then 11-year-old self had never encountered. their catalogue ranges from punk to pop to folk to madrigals to electronica and everything in between. it's honestly such a shame that they're only known for the one song here and also that most people miss the deeper political context behind that one song & think it's literally just about getting drunk af and/or perseverance.

please forgive the dissertation lol new year, same me
 
that album has some great songs, including one about a dude who was to be executed during the Mexican Revolution but survived all the shots by the firing squad AND the coup de grace, a song that is a Bertolt Brecht poem that leads into the next song that is about him, a funny one about social media, one about Thatcher (because of course, but also not to be confused with the album about Thatcher they pre-recorded to be released upon her death), there's a little something for everyone.

their next, and last, album has a song called Pickle that is of a similar topic to the title of the last, and the track just after it is about the 80-year old Holocaust survivor who protested during an orchestra performance of works by Wagner, there's one about Dimitri Shostakovitch, one about Klaus Renft Combo, a song making clear their disapproval of how James Hetfield responded to finding out Metallica songs had been used to aid in human rights violations/torture that also manages to be self deprecating and humorous.

they have an album that's English Rebel Songs 1381-1984 that has their take on a variety of songs that span that length of time, and I listened to that one a lot, too.

I know it's a meme that they only have one song (see Torturing James Hetfield: "it's Chumbawamba, their greatest hits / there's only one") but in all honesty they fuck, they slap, they bop, they slay, and I absolutely learn stuff when I listen to them. the first time I ever heard about unions was from a Chumbawamba song on Tubthumper, as well as some other words and concepts my then 11-year-old self had never encountered. their catalogue ranges from punk to pop to folk to madrigals to electronica and everything in between. it's honestly such a shame that they're only known for the one song here and also that most people miss the deeper political context behind that one song & think it's literally just about getting drunk af and/or perseverance.

please forgive the dissertation lol new year, same me
No I really dug it. I had no idea, I thought they were a one hit wonder. Gonna stream the Chumbas tomorrow while driving boxes around.
Who knew?
 
No I really dug it. I had no idea, I thought they were a one hit wonder. Gonna stream the Chumbas tomorrow while driving boxes around.
Who knew?
idk if you already got a chance, but I'm gonna toss a quick vibe guide below if'n you didn't (or for anyone else).

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the albums within brackets are not necessarily in any order along the spectrum, I think they just all kind of fit into that section. and, many of the records have tracks that jump genres so every track may not fit in the section I stuffed them in.

this isn't an exhaustive list of their music, but it's some of my favorite albums of theirs, and these are all available on Spotify for streaming.
 
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