Track Listing
All tracks written, arranged and produced by Chumbawamba except where indicated.
| # | Song Name | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "When an Old Man Dies" | 0:54 | |
| 2 | "Add Me" | 3:27 | Featuring the Charlie Cake Marching Band |
| 3 | "Words Can Save Us" | 1:52 | |
| 4 | "Hull or Hell" | 3:31 | With vocals by Oysterband |
| 5 | "El Fusilado" | 2:32 | With vocals by Ray Hearne, Barry Coope & Jim Boyes, also based on the story of Wenseslao Moguel |
| 6 | "Unpindownable" | 1:22 | A song about Evolution, particularly that of the Peppered Moth. |
| 7 | "I Wish That They'd Sack Me" | 4:10 | Music traditional, arranged by and lyrics by Chumbawamba |
| 8 | "Word Bomber" | 2:13 | Lead vocals by Roy Bailey; Refers to the 7/7 suicide bombings in London, 3 of the 4 attackers who came from Chumbawamba's hometown, Leeds. |
| 9 | "All Fur Coat & No Knickers" | 2:12 | Refers to 'Lord Bono' and The Edge; The 'Theatre of Dreams' is Old Trafford, Manchester United's football stadium |
| 10 | "Fine Line" | 0:39 | |
| 11 | "Lord Bateman's Motorbike" | 3:34 | The characters, Lord Bateman and John Barleycorn, are metaphors for the British upper class and working class, respectively, Barleycorn being a common character in folk music; Hull KR is a rugby league team from Hull, UK; The A65 is a major road from West Yorkshire to Cumbria and Quarry Hill is an area in Leeds. |
| 12 | "A Fine Career" | 0:47 | Lead vocals by Robb Johnson |
| 13 | "To a Little Radio" | 1:08 | Based on a poem written by Bertolt Brecht while in exile from the Nazi regime in 1933 as he listened daily for news of the war; Music by Hanns Eisler for his "Holywood Songbook" song cycle, which put famous poems to music, under the title "An Meinen Kleinen Radioapparat" or "To My Little Radio", a clip of which can be heard here; English translation by Eric Bentley |
| 14 | "(Words Flew) Right Around the World" | 2:15 | Featuring the Charlie Cake Marching Band; The song was written 'especially for a performance at the annual Brecht Festival in Bertolt Brecht's birthplace, Augsburg'; 'The line "Bert told Brecht. Brecht told Bert" was taken from a poem by Leeds poet Ronald Arthur Dewhirst' |
| 15 | "Sing About Love" | 1:39 | |
| 16 | "Bury Me Deep" | 1:37 | |
| 17 | "You Watched Me Dance" | 0:58 | |
| 18 | "Compliments of Your Waitress" | 2:43 | |
| 19 | "RIP RP" | 1:26 | About the decreasing influence of 'standard' RP pronunciation of British English. The phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis noted the irony that the song was sung in an RP accent. |
| 20 | "Charlie" | 2:12 | Music traditional, arranged by and lyrics by Chumbawamba; About Charles Darwin |
| 21 | "The Ogre" | 0:53 | Inspired by the poem "August 1968" by W. H. Auden, which can be found here |
| 22 | "Refugee" | 2:42 | A 'modern-day version' of Frank Higgins' song "The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw" (see for original lyrics) concerning mining conditions during the British Industrial Revolution, from which it borrows the lyrics "It's kind of you to ask me sir / To tell you how I spend my day" |
| 23 | "Same Old Same Old" | 0:59 | |
| 24 | "Waiting for the Bus" | 2:44 | About Gary Tyler, in prison for over 34 years despite his "fundamentally unfair" conviction for murder. (See FreeGaryTyler.com ) |
| 25 | "What We Want" | 0:47 |
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