Chumbawamba: Tubthumper (2LP, expanded edition) [INTEGRAL]

Why you'll love it

An expanded 2LP edition of Tubthumper, with a side of bonus tracks including "Top Of The World (Ole, Ole, Ole)". The album went to number 3 in the US and sold over 3.2 million copies there, and "Tubthumping" is still the song everyone sings at the end of the night.

This edition

• Expanded 2LP set
• Side D of bonus tracks, including "Top Of The World" and "Bella Ciao"
• Seventeen tracks in all

About the album

Chumbawamba spent fifteen years as a Leeds anarcho-punk collective before they wrote the biggest pub singalong of the decade. They made Tubthumper between August 1996 and February 1997 at Woodlands Studio in Castleford, chose to go poppier than ever, and when their label turned it down they signed to EMI and watched "Tubthumping" go round the world.

Underneath the choruses it's a sharp record about class and politics: "Amnesia" and "Drip, Drip, Drip" were the other singles, and "The Good Ship Lifestyle" and "One By One" have more bite than the radio ever noticed. The bonus side adds "Top Of The World (Ole, Ole, Ole)", from the 1998 World Cup album, and "Bella Ciao". The song asks whether you get knocked down; the sales figures suggest the band rarely did.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 23, 2026 on Integral (cat# INTGDS00092LP), a reissue of the 1997 album.