Rapper FIRST time REACTION to Chumbawamba - Tubthumping! What is this about...

[@shanegooding4839]

Watching BPs confusion was great!😂 Tub thumping doesn't have to be about politics and can just be getting noisy or raucous. The song's about working class Brits resilience. They get knocked down but get back up, have a drink and sing, and think about the good and the best times.😊

[@coreenavenn4235]

The song was used by Australian Rugby league as its promo song for a year or 2. BP should watch some rugby hits

[@afterthemouse]

almost... working class brits drinking, more drinking, throwing up then drinking again :)

[@korybeavers6528]

"gettin pissed" is slang for getting drunk, pissing the night away just means drinkin all night

[@eh1702]

There’s also its more general metaphorical sense, “pissing x away “ = wasting it. Money, life, whatever.

[@martinzissou11]

@@eh1702Also “taking the piss” - teasing/making fun of someone or taking advantage of someone if you say it more aggressively

[@eh1702]

@@martinzissou11 Yes! One I forgot.

[@martinzissou11]

@@eh1702 And an alcoholic/drunk is sometimes called a pisshead 😆

[@eh1702]

@@martinzissou11 True. I’m pissing mysel now, metaphorically, at how many expressions have piss. That is, I am laughing …strenuously. There’s also the older, gentler, pish. Which is nonsense. As in “Yer talking pish, mate”.

[@PSBFAN1991]

Danny Boy is an old Irish song. Traditionally sung when out drinking. ❤

[@themightybuzzard3088]

Aren't most Irish songs traditionally sung when drinking?

[@bubbasmith6505]

@@themightybuzzard3088 The best ones are.

[@rickpat-x9u]

at about 10:10 trumpet is playing *_Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary_* which is one of the greatest instrumentals in history..... often used at weddings when you don't wnat to use 'Here comes the bride'.......... used a lot at royal weddings & rest of us too.

[@themightybuzzard3088]

@@rickpat-x9u I've preferred Imperial March ever since my cousin had it played instead of Here Comes the Bride at his wedding.

[@Karl-t4u]

The lyrics to Danny Boy were actually written by an Englishman.

[@jsssmith66]

Chumbawamba where an anarchist punk band formed in Burnley Lancashire in 1982 a town I know well. The name came from a dream about gender confusion apparently it means nothing. The song meaning comes from a direct quote ' the song Tubthumping was written to celebrate the resilience and tenacity of working-class folk who keep fighting when the chips are down'

[@SKINFLAPP]

Also Leeds

[@beendiggin]

I didn't know they were from Burnley, a lot of my family were from round there. They're great live if they are still touring.

[@simonorr594]

Do they know Alistair Campbell? lolz

[@tony152]

I’m a Burnley lad, very encompass the towns under dog never say die spirit

[@reedlarson3153]

This song was all over the radio in the late 90s, it was huge.

[@Slane583]

Sadly other than Amnesia the radios never played anything else. It was Tubthumping or nothing.

[@carolleather5992]

Yeah it was massive

[@billkeithchannel]

And I couldn't understand a word of it.

[@karensilvera6694]

Tubthumping also means expressing opinion loudly. Great reaction again.

[@eh1702]

Yes, or hectoring people.

[@susanrombak7959]

It’s about pub life in Europe. Pissing the night away is literally what it says- drinking; and the references of Danny Boy is what you do when you are drunk, sing drinking songs.

[@waynesudama111]

Unless you were there, in the pub on a Friday and Saturday nights with your mates in the 90s getting pissed, you'll never really understand how good this song is

[@pmac340]

This song is an anthem... its about resilience and the spirit of not giving up despite life's challenges. The song's lyrics, particularly the famous chorus "I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down," reflect themes of perseverance, optimism, and the ability to recover from setbacks, often associated with the British working-class resilience.

[@docjohnson1]

Thanks bot

[@fryke]

Thank you, ChatGPT.

[@mlbw1966]

BINGO. THANK YOU. AMERICA

[@rickpat-x9u]

at about 10:10 trumpet is playing *_Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary_* which is one of the greatest instrumentals in history.....

[@mrschicken315]

Truth

[@bonnielee78]

two songs that give me a similar feel to Tubthumping are Len's 'Steal my sunshine' and OMC's 'How bizarre'. All are hugely catchy and uplifting.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

ooh ♥ How Bizarre!

[@DiDiana55]

Yes!!🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@debbie9342]

YES! Both of those BUT I love How Bizarre

[@nette6119]

I loved how bizarre. I was the only one I knew who liked it. . I still sometimes sing it.

[@mothermaclean]

And football anthem e lions on the shirt

[@stischer47]

I was a college prof when this song came out and my students loved it...even more so when I explained that "pissed" meant drunk, and "Danny Boy" would be a song Brits would sing when drunk. So I was serenaded with Danny Boy every time class started for about 4 months and Tubthumping after a test.

[@laurabailey1054]

Danny Boy is an Irish song.

[@laurabailey1054]

Sounds like you were a cool prof to have had. I took a human s*xuality class in the late 90’s and people would come into class singing the Salt n Peppa song “let’s talk about s*x”.

[@gfaithowens1790]

Isn't it crazy what a difference in perspective a few decades does to a song? When this song was new, I was sure it's just a drinking song with a catchy hook. Also as you say a celebration of not giving up. And although we saw what you describe as the "rainbow community" in the video, that was a reflection of what we saw in the clubs too so it didn't seem out of place or not to make sense. Today you see this video and react to the song and there seems to be so much more focus on that "rainbow community" when really it didn't matter at all to any of us 30 years ago.

[@gstrader73]

True, it is sad how times are changing

[@chiefaberach]

30 years ago, people acted as if trans people didn't exist, and they were only mentioned as the butt of a joke. Chumbawamba had a song called Homophobia, about the horrific abuse gay people were getting at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Sexual orientation mattered to the mainstream media and they would always point out someone's sexuality as some sort of scandal. It wasn't long since being gay was illegal, so those attitudes took a long time to fade. I think the shift that you're talking about is that the more people are openly trans, the more we hear the negative feedback.

[@stevekile1919]

Boff Whalley (Chumbawamba’s lead guitarist), confirmed the above. According to him, the song was inspired by an Irish neighbor of theirs. This neighbor would often return home completely drunk and would fall over while trying to get into his house. However, he apparently would get up again and not give up on his quest to get into the house. And that’s likely where the band got the inspiration for the line: “I get knocked down but I get up again…“. Owing to the above, it is so clear that this same neighbor is the one the narrators are talking about throughout the song when they say he drinks all manners of alcoholic beverages and sings songs that remind him of both the good and bad times.

[@lindaewart5691]

Not specifically political. You have been thrown off the track by that definition. It does not apply. It's a party. It's about getting drunk. It's about being resilient in the face of troubles. That's it you're reading way too much into it man it has nothing to do with sports it's about people knocking you down and you getting back up in their faces........ you try to make more of it than it is

[@jollyrodgers7272]

"...he sings the songs that remind him of the good times - he sings the songs that remind him of the BETTER Times." No singing about 'the bad times'.

[@dawnshaw23]

I have read many comments. This is definitely British. And everyone has got it right..pissing the night away is drinking the night away. This was such a fun song to sing.😊

[@jollyrodgers7272]

I concur wholeheartedly - I personally sang along with this in English pubs and clubs, US taverns, Australian Billabongs and Caribbean beachside bars, with much 'gusto'.

[@Az777]

That 'Don't cry for me, next door Neighbor', I always assumed was a play on 'Don't cry for me, Argentina' From the play Evita!

[@creinicke1000]

Me too

[@beendiggin]

Probably a relevant reference at the time

[@chiefaberach]

They referenced other songs all the time, especially in the album, Shhh! where they recreated iconic beats instead of sampling them.

[@scouseofhorror104]

Right, unless I've quantum leaped here from an alternate reality, I am 100% sure (as my head is full of pointless, obscure facts 😅) that "Don't cry for me nextdoor neighbour" comes from a comedy parody by some forgotten comedian (or duo?) in the late 70s - early 80s. Someone like 'Little & Large' or 'The Chuckle Brothers'. I'm pretty sure they performed it on their show and it became a one-hit-wonder single. I definitely remember thinking the first time I heard Tubthumping I thought that's clever on so many levels as the parody was funny the first time you hear it, but just a bit annoying on repeat listens 😅 However, drunk, in the pub at 10.30 people still sang it thinking it was funny! But for the first time ever, I can't find reference to the original anywhere! I'll keep trying though because I feel like I'm going bonkers! 😩🤣

[@alexhaas9653]

Oh man, that takes me back. Played that up and down...until I got sick of it. Nowadays I can listen to it again. The late 90s...what a great time, I was just around 19 when this came out. Good times. Or to quote the late and great Toby Keith: Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget...

[@davidbenavidez9006]

It was inspired by a night when the guitarist Boff Whalley and his wife watched their drunken next-door neighbor singing "Danny Boy" while stumbling to his front door. Eventually, he found his way into his house. Thus, the song became about presaverance. And that's how it happened 👍

[@Entenluc]

Late at night. 10 Beers drunk. Fall from chair. This is the song.

[@woodchuck94og]

But in british

[@chelseahaley8350]

Gotta love all of the one hit wonders of the 90s!! This takes me back! 🙌😆

[@angela4469]

Getting pissed just means getting drunk. Danny Boy is the song people like to sing when they're pissed. Same as Don't cry for me Argentina

[@NilZed1]

It’s just about a night out, people drink, talk, argue, sing. Being pissed is being drunk, pissing the night away is drinking the night away. Not necessarily getting wasted, but drinking etc. the ladies rooms at the pub or club is about the same, the spaces are separate ( except when there’s not enough space given to a ladies room, common in old buildings, and so we use the gents room too until some man needs it) so men in there was just style points on the video. In a small pub there’s likely one all purpose single seater, but girls will still share the time in there, taking turns at the toilet, sink, mirror. Sharing makeup, holding each others hair back if vomiting.

[@eh1702]

This is a huge difference between nights out in the UK and USA. Bars in the US are essentially pick-up places. There isn’t a sense of playfulness at all, or people just talking to each other. I always thought that “Cheers” series was like Americans trying to understand what a pub is. But they’re always basically there alone.

[@nathanclarke2777]

They were so mad how this song became an international hit because they hated the idea that the record company was making so much money! They were an Anarchic group. They used to tell people if they liked the song to just steal it!

[@raymondjohnson2616]

"Tubthumping" Truth is I thought it mattered I thought that music mattered But does it? Bollocks Not compared to our people matter We'll be singing When we're winning We'll be singing I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down Pissing the night away Pissing the night away He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind of the better times Oh, Danny boy Danny boy Danny boy I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down Pissing the night away Pissing the night away He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times Don't cry for me Next door neighbor I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (When we're winning) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down (Ooh-ooh-ooh) I get knocked down But I get up again (We'll be singing) (Pissing the night away) You're never gonna keep me down

[@thenortherner3890]

A song that became an anthem of the working class in the UK, when this came on the juke box everybody sang the chorus - Those who are old enough still reference it when times get hard, and you get knocked back. Oddly got played on the radio if I remember correctly given the lyrics

[@alisonflaxman1566]

In the US it was an anthem at ice hockey games.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

By far this band's biggest hit. The term tubthumping generally means making a lot of raucous noise. The song's about getting drunk, partying, getting depressed but not letting it get to you. Being resilient. You get knocked down, you get up again. Huge British drinking anthem - everyone joins in on the chorus. So damn catchy. "Pissing the night away" has two meanings - being drunk, yes, but also wasting time.

[@SweetSlytherinGirl-Jennifer]

This has been on my 90s playlist for a very long time! Love this song!

[@mandalynn4571]

According to the lead vocalist the song was inspired about a neighbor that would get drunk and fall over and try to get back into his house and wouldn't give up '' I get knocked down and I get back up again''

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

This was such our early 20's party ON song!!! Love it!!🤩

[@karlweir3198]

Me too

[@kevinBarr-gy5go]

back in the day when this song was played at a bar people would be shouting out the lyrics and jumping around it was crazy .

[@MasterJohnMoss]

A throwback to when a song would become HUGE before it was cool to HATE on it. I saw them perform this live on a ski hill when the backlash was in full swing. They were GREAT.

[@messiahsbythesackful6267]

Legendary song! Short explanation...they were a 'serious' band that didn't want to do this track. They're just wasting time at the pub. Tubthumping? British version of standing on a soap box and shouting your views.

[@catserver8577]

Re: Person in bathroom. Which I never noticed before now, which tells you how much it matters to me. Which is zero. They were touching up their makeup, Presumably, they used the facilities. As a female, is that encroaching on my "space"? Weird flex. My space is in my living room. I would be more irked by the usual jerks rubbing on me, hitting on me and in general being gross out on the dance floor. This bar looks fun, safe and inclusive. Only people who absolutely need to remain in their bubble would be uncomfortable. And again, there is always staying in one's own living room.

[@lisas6450]

😊❤ Hi Black P! 😅 OMG this is such a fun song! And fun to watch you trying to figure it out!! LOL 😂 I can laugh cause I sang along for years not having a clue; just a ton of fun! 🤣😍 'Pissing the night away' is synonymous with 'Drinking The Night Away! And 'O Danny Boy' is an old Irish folk song. They pretty much sing it whenever they can; drinking, funeral/wakes, weddings etc!! LOL 😂 Luv ya! 😊❤❤

[@mattdeves1900]

FAIRDINKUM! Another great reaction my man! Seeing you so confused was funny. Youre usually all over it. Keep em coming, ill keep watching and liking!

[@suepoole8323]

This should be our UK anthem at the minute with our new Gov't.. loved it back then, love now too.

[@kerrystoltz3146]

This song brings back some good memories of my clubbing days. glad you did the reaction to it

[@bobbi1972]

We didn’t even care about all that stuff back then…we just all got along…got drunk and peed in each bathrooms 😂

[@R1ch4rd74]

This song was H U G E at all of our sports bars and arenas. every time there was a touchdown in the Tampa bay Buccaneers stadium this would play and the crowd roared like crazy. you could hear them a mile away. It was also a way to pump up the crowd and it worked...a LOT.

[@nette6119]

I googled this. Meaning. So we changed it to Chumbawamba. It meant nothing, signified nothing, and it didn't attach us to any preconceptions.” A more widely accepted story is that the name came from a dream Danbert Nobacon had about gender confusion. In his dream, he found the male and female public bathrooms labeled “Chumba” and “Wamba.”

[@traherne6726]

“Pissing the night away” music, played in every UK pub at one time. Getting pissed drunk. Danny boy is an old Irish song.

[@gaelsomerville5163]

Chumbawamba were a sort of political collective who also made music. Tubthumping is just anyone who expresses opinions loudly and forcibly (such as may happen when drunk) and song is just about drinking (pissing the night away). In a pub, people my well get a bit loud when they are well oiled and may start singing sentimental songs too (such as Danny Boy)....

[@loiskondo8349]

Very relatable, life knocks you down, but you’ve got to get up! Keep on keeping on!😊

[@sjfvet519us]

This is their most "reviewed" song, but they have better ones IMO. "Homophobia", "Farewell to the Crown", "Big Mouth Strikes Again", "We Don't Go to God's House Anymore", and "The Old Barbed Wire". It took the band almost 20 years to get a song that would be played on the radio and become popular. After this album, half the group left while the remaining four members continued making albums using acoustic guitars.

[@petoperceptum]

Chumbawamba are the real deal, and this is about the working class, resiliancy, it is an anthem and a celebration, but I think there is also a warning to not let alcohol and good feelings distract us from the need for change. There is a tradition of solidarity and mutual support between queer campaigners and union action in the UK, based in their shared experience of aggressive policing.

[@grimperpl]

Chumbawamba is very politically active band. This piece is the most famous but very moderate in its lyrics

[@cindyv1401]

Oh Yeah 🤗 Great New Years Eve song 🎉🎉🎉 🥃🍸🍷

[@bertalach]

You want a rebel band that never sold out its Chumba! They kept their Anarchist politics from start to finish. Their album Anarchy is well worth a listen!

[@ellenbakker-w8x]

This was (is) a BANGER!!!!! Thanks for this reaction.

[@Slane583]

I loved this song growing up. I picked up this cd album over the summer at a yard sale for a buck when we went yard sale-ing with my older brother and his wife. I was mainly looking for cd's myself. Amnesia is another one of my favorites from this album. While they were part of the 90's Chumbawamba didn't become overly popular here in the states as this cd was the only album most people knew about, including myself. Tubthumping was also the one song mostly played on the radio. The radio stations didn't really play very many of their songs. I think Amnesia is the only other Chumbawamba song the radio ever played. 90% of the time it was Tubthumping playing.

[@sbjchef]

I love watching your reactions to the music of my formative years as history, merry Christmas to you, yours and the rest of us🎅

[@VickiCampbell-1216]

Yesss!! I'm so happy you reacted to this song. I LOVE IT!! I read years ago the line, "Ask your neighbor" was an inside joke within some of the band members, but I don't remember the context. Pissing the night away is about drinking all night. 🍺Cheers. 😄

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

I always took "tubthumping" as not a literal definition as you just looked up. Tubthumping is British slang for being vocal and boisterous. In America, we would yell, "let's get this party started!!" This song is just a celebration of drinking with friends and living for the moment.

[@delicatefleur]

I lived in the UK in the early nineties and I have to tell you they were pretty color blind and blind to rainbow stuff when I lived there. No one was really talking about or worried about those ID Poll type of things. :

[@eh1702]

Yes, I think in a weird and very American way he got this song more or less inside out. When he said “it’s about the rainbow community overcoming hardship” I just sighed. From the 1970s to 1990s in Britain, it was a sense of ordinary people EXPANDING our sense of community to include everyone that the Establishment - wealthy respectable types - had always made written and unwritten laws to reject and control. About acknowledging and fully accepting that what he calls “the rainbow community” - and other minorities- already are our friends and neighbours. Working class people refusing to be split apart into groups pitched against each other. And everyone having a good time whether wealthier people approve or not.

[@cjcormier8759]

I always thought this was about all kinds of people overcoming diversity. I've always loved the way the parts harmonized. Different voices all coming together..

[@PanTranPhee]

I have to be honest. I've been watching a bunch of your videos this month and seriously I just love it cause you're frequently adorable.

[@margaretervin8895]

Great sing along back in my day !

[@dionnedevillierssmith9582]

While tubthumping has its origins in politics, its meaning has evolved to anybody basically expressing an opinion loudly and vigorously. A similar expression would be “getting on your soapbox” from when politicians would stand on a box/platform to deliver a speech. “Tubs” is slang for drums, so if you are tub thumping, you are banging a drum to get attention for your message. I hope that clarifies for you a bit. Others in the comments have mentioned the rest of the allusions, pissed/ drunk etc.

[@stephaniewarthen]

I am currently fighting illness and facing surgery. This song is one of my anthems ... so funny!

[@Renkk17]

In a Bar/Pub I Get knocked Down, But I get up again....aint nothing gonna keep me down.......No Politics and no rainbows???? Not everything that applys today would apply to years ago, times were much different!

[@carefreescot]

Another one of those songs where cultural differences cause huge confusion across the pond 😂 The list of drinks at the start I take as a reference to a quaint British habit of mixing different drinks (Pissing the night away) to get pissed as a newt/ drunk as a skunk etc, then being involved in fights (Getting knocked down and back up again), and ending up singing ( Danny Boy, a well known old Irish lament) to the world in general.

[@delicatefleur]

Kory is right, getting pissed is a British way of saying getting drunk.

[@eh1702]

Yes, getting pissed is getting drunk. Pissing something *away* is wasting it. (In both countries, I think.) Getting pissed *off* is getting angry in the UK But in the USA getting pissed = getting angry

[@MissSJ4429]

The song was inspired by the guitarist’s witnessing neighbour come home drunk and trying to open his front door singing’Danny Boy.’ He struggled but eventually got the key in the hole and made it into his house. The band were political and the song was about perseverance.

[@kenbrandon6434]

In both the US and in Britain, town meetings and political rallies were often held in large public spaces, like bars. It kept the meetings short because the bar couldn’t start serving until it was over, though I think the Irish would be a little more liberal about it and the “tub thumping” got more enthusiastic with round of drinks.

[@Kidrodeo1000]

I’m Australian 63 years old. I was in my late 30s when this song came out and I still haven’t figured out what this song is about. So you’re not on your own brother ! Try not to overthink it, enjoy it for what it is. Great reaction though. This song is definitely a banger and was a huge hit in Australia at the time. 👍🏻

[@Jinty92]

I remember this being played all the time in 1997. Was such a good song when out on the lash - getting pissed. I was 26 and we all sang along and jumped like crazy whenever it came on and we sang and shouted like crazy in the pub, club and in the car.

[@christina9841]

Such a fun vibe... reminds me of a band called "Len" and their song "Steal my sunshine"which I think you'd like.

[@lindab424]

I loved this song when it was first released but soo tired of it as it was played everywhere constantly. Not having heard it for years I once again enjoyed it. Looked seeing your face at the start, very amusing.

[@BeccaM24]

I've always ❤'d this song.

[@billsanderson1442]

I like the outro where the band is singing different tunes at the same time. I usually sing along with the "We'll be singing, when we're winning, we'll be singing, yeah ooo ooo ooo"

[@Deeme67]

I am so glad more people are expanding their music experiences. I was wondering if you have come across this really fun one. Indigenous Siberian band, using some traditional instruments... rocking the jazz. Otyken - Khan's Blues. Or anything by Otyken is pretty mind blowing.

[@jamesharvey-p6v]

The lyrics to Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" are about the resilience and tenacity of ordinary people, especially the working class

[@conniekungfu206]

I heard that the group or one of the band had an old Irish neighbor that when he would drink would start singing Danny Boy at the top of his lungs. Lol Danny Boy is a heartbreak old Irish song. So, don't cry fir me neighbor.

[@CHILLknowsfootball]

When I was young, I liked this song so much that I traded my "Men In Black" soundtrack for the Chumbawamba album. I dont think I ever listened to any other song from that CD.

[@Drakonis.Imperial]

My opinion is that this is kind of an anthem/protest song ... no matter how bad "The World" screws you over you can always go "pub-crawling" and hang with your friends. The song is deceptively simple ... because you're supposed to sing it while you're drunk. And "tubthumping" can also be seen as "getting on your soap-box" or "preaching to the choir"... you WILL be heard. What I remember, from the clubs, this song involved a lot of people jumping up and down while fist-pumping ... IYKYK. . And, looking over the comments ... a lot of people agree with me, so I guess I am "preaching to the choir" ... lol.

[@sdw3355]

I never knew what it was all about. I just connected with the "gettin' knocked down and gettin' back up again." I never even paid attention to the "pissin the night away' because I've heard that term. Even though I'm from Texas, I never got hung up on that. It was a fun song to me.

[@rwoodey68]

The title derives from British slang for aggressive political protesting. It was inspired by a night when guitarist Boff Whalley and his wife watched their drunken next-door neighbor singing “Danny Boy” while stumbling to open his front door. Eventually, he found his way inside the house. Thus, the song became about perseverance.

[@librarylady13]

Been a while since I heard this. LOVE IT! If you haven't reacted to it yet, try OMC's "How Bizarre".

[@paulcaskey]

"Chumbawamba" was Frodo's Ewok name when he was deployed on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

[@runyunhyde4373]

😂

[@98wytebird]

This was played nonstop on the radio back in its prime

[@Really-hx7rl]

This song was apparently inspired by a old guy the band lived next-door to. The guy was an alcoholic and the band would frequently hear him at night getting drunk and falling over.

[@Anguisette]

When this song hit the US, it was everywhere, being played constantly on the radio... Another of Chumbawamba's songs I really enjoy is called Amnesia

[@josheldridge8546]

I mean, Dennis on Its Always Sunny was right; Chumbawumba is the greatest band ever.

[@caitlinbell5462]

Still plays in pubs and clubs here, everyone sings and jumps, few hype songs like that here

[@bethgooch6243]

My Poppop used to sing along to this & his lyrics were my favorite. “I get no cow, but I get up again, you’re never gonna get no cow.”

[@FightingPaddys]

Oh Danny Boy is an old Irish song often sung in bars, hence, he sings the songs that remind him of the good times.

[@3DJapan]

You could not get away from this song when it came out.

[@katjawege6886]

Yes, we had hard party nights with that one 🎉🎉🎉

[@thesteadingoffranya4423]

Tubthumping was one of my favorites from the moment it came out. It gave me saturday night at the bar vibes. Now it makes sense as in the politics of saturday night. lol

[@lisalovemc717]

Oh one of the biggest drinking songs of the 90s. This would come on at the bars and everyone went nuts.

[@colindeane9759]

When this came out it became the challenge of all challenges to do on a pub crawl.... Drinking each drink in the song!!! If you got half way and were not as Blind drunk as ever you were doing well.... and when you get to the toilet you really are "Pissing the night away"!!!!

[@adellegregory4433]

I can remember to getting down to this in the club great times🎉❤

[@SadieWatchman]

Ooooh I can remember some big nights out in the 90s dancing or jumping to this song...lol :)

[@ArkticDark]

This was that skating rink jam when i was a kid! This and the Mortal Kombat movie theme song!!!

[@jockeyladjockeylad8492]

This, along with Pulp's 'Common People', are Working Class anthems in the UK, both highlighting the fact that whatever the powers that be throw at us the Working Class will adapt, improvise & overcome, spirit unbroken.

[@sgrabtune3950]

Next song you should listen to is (Savage Garden - I Want You) there is 2 versions of the video version 2 is the Australian mix, it's got the same type of singing😎😍🎵🎶🎤🎹🥁🎸💖

[@lailachopperchops9290]

Saw em live in Dudley in the Black Country UK ,Mid 1990s Brilliant night , man we got pissed that night . Its title derives from British slang for aggressive political protesting. It was inspired by a night when guitarist Boff Whalley and his wife watched their drunken next-door neighbor singing “Danny Boy” while stumbling to open his front door. Eventually, he found his way inside the house. Thus, the song became about perseverance.

[@mil2k11]

I just had two beers while watching this. Two or three more and I'm good to go!

[@graemerigg4029]

When played on the BBC the line was sanitised to 'Sipping the night away'

[@AubergineJacket]

America kinda lost out with Chumbawamba in the sense that Tubthumping was really the only song of theirs to make it here. They have a REALLY good library of excellent songs though. Even a lot of folk songs believe it or not. I would very highly recommend "El Fusilado"; a true story of Wenceslao Moguel. Although... I would recommend The Longest John's version of the song even more because I'm incredibly biased. XD

[@stevehamilton8824]

Party anthem of the 90's. Pissed a lot of nights away! Pissed in England means to be drunk and in the US it is to be angry. They are a British band so they are drunk. Tubthumping is the equivalent to campaigning. I read that the group got its name from a member who told a story about Chumbas (men) and Wumbas (women) and they took their name from it. Crazy shit! Getting pissed will bring about some crazy shit.

[@coreenavenn4235]

This sing was used by the national rugby league in Australia for its promotional song one year. Very appropriate