CHUMBAWAMBA

Check out this chamber folk/punk band from the U.K...

They started out as an anarchic punk band then moved to danceable pop rock in 1997 with Tubthumping but the band in is essence remains a political very opinionated left winged and their latest album could be included as the longest album title in history initially called, And The Boy Bands Won.

The full title of the album is:

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.

To hear their latest effort,head over here.

It's not your grandma's folk music and not your dad's punk rock either! It's a whole new generation of folkin' around!!!

These guys are evolutionist and though i cold say evolution is the stupid idea ever produced by mankind (a theory now accepted as science? u kidding me?), i salute their creativity which is kinda ironic isn't it?

Download some songs legally free from their official website here!