Chumbawamba - Readymades

If “Tubthumping,” with its riotous refrain “I get knocked down, but I get up again,” hadn’t become a huge hit (and a staple at hockey games), Chumbawamba might have remained an obscure anarcho-syndicalist collective, spouting polemics and living in a filthy squat in Leeds. As it is, they’re a major-label act churning out folk-flavored, politically correct albums like their latest. If this is revolution rock, god help the working class. It’ll put the masses to sleep, rather than have them storming the barricades.