(no subject)
"Well even things that come across as apollitcal are completely political.
You know, I think politics are in everything.
The problem is that we look at politics as if they're somewhat over the other side.
You know they're some little compartment that you can walk into at any point and walk out again. But politics aren't like that, they affect every aspect of your life you know?
The way that you deal with people is politcal.
Like sex is politcal.
All the things that you realllly like doing.
I think pleasure is political.
You know...
What you do with your leisure time, how much you get out of your life.
Politics aint going to a meeting, I hate going to meetings.
So in that sense theres no place for politics in music.
And we're kidding ourselves, cos I don't think politics in music is people getting up on stage and singing 'no more war.'
You know
thats rubbish.
Thats just like a throw away three line easy statement.
Three word, NO MORE WAR.
Don't mean anything to people.
[......]
Like other people say ' musics about having a good time', as if politics and having a good time can't ever be together.
You know, and I found that reallly weird.
Its like if you're politcal you've gotta be a matyr.
Lock yourself away, and read a few big books, read Bakunin and Kropotkin and you're there.
I've tried all them big books.
I've even gotten through them.
But they don't mean anything to me.
You know, politics is how I treat you.
And how you treat me.
Its what I actually do with the rest of me life.
Its not like locking myself away in a little cupboard and saying 'well, I'll only stay in me ghetto of friends.'
Because thats another problem I think.
People think if you're political, you should stay in this little ghetto where you meet like minded people.
You know, I don't want to live in a ghetto, and neither does the rest of Chumbawamba.
We don't want to live in a musical ghetto either.
We don't want to play music that bores people to death but
....[ garbled by backing music and her accent]....
We want to play music that we get off on ourselves, and we want to talk about the things that we get off on.
....[completely garbled and taken over by the band starting to play]...."
-Interview sample with Alice Nutter used as the intro track on a live bootlegg
called How to Get Your Band on Television
" you can't freeze, you should never try to freeze music. And to try and maintain a song in that form and say
'this is exactly how it was'
is a silly way of looking at things."
- sample from ' When an Old Man Dies' from the Boy Bands Have Won by CHUMBAWAMBA
"Change it, mutate it, absorb it. Its a creative process."
- sample from ' unpindownable' from the Boy Bands Have Won
"whats happened to the music is that its changing. Its changing to suit people's needs NOW."
- sample from 'What We Want' from The Boy Bands Have Won
" I remember riding in the car with my parents..and..they turned on the car radio and were flipping through the dial and there was some kind of a rythmn and blues song that was....that was startling to me. I'd never heard anything like that before. And they wanted to turn the channel they didn't want to listen to it."
- sample from 'I Wanted to Be With You' from UN by CHUMBAWAMBA
The full title of the Boy Bands Have Won 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. '
You know, I think politics are in everything.
The problem is that we look at politics as if they're somewhat over the other side.
You know they're some little compartment that you can walk into at any point and walk out again. But politics aren't like that, they affect every aspect of your life you know?
The way that you deal with people is politcal.
Like sex is politcal.
All the things that you realllly like doing.
I think pleasure is political.
You know...
What you do with your leisure time, how much you get out of your life.
Politics aint going to a meeting, I hate going to meetings.
So in that sense theres no place for politics in music.
And we're kidding ourselves, cos I don't think politics in music is people getting up on stage and singing 'no more war.'
You know
thats rubbish.
Thats just like a throw away three line easy statement.
Three word, NO MORE WAR.
Don't mean anything to people.
[......]
Like other people say ' musics about having a good time', as if politics and having a good time can't ever be together.
You know, and I found that reallly weird.
Its like if you're politcal you've gotta be a matyr.
Lock yourself away, and read a few big books, read Bakunin and Kropotkin and you're there.
I've tried all them big books.
I've even gotten through them.
But they don't mean anything to me.
You know, politics is how I treat you.
And how you treat me.
Its what I actually do with the rest of me life.
Its not like locking myself away in a little cupboard and saying 'well, I'll only stay in me ghetto of friends.'
Because thats another problem I think.
People think if you're political, you should stay in this little ghetto where you meet like minded people.
You know, I don't want to live in a ghetto, and neither does the rest of Chumbawamba.
We don't want to live in a musical ghetto either.
We don't want to play music that bores people to death but
....[ garbled by backing music and her accent]....
We want to play music that we get off on ourselves, and we want to talk about the things that we get off on.
....[completely garbled and taken over by the band starting to play]...."
-Interview sample with Alice Nutter used as the intro track on a live bootlegg
called How to Get Your Band on Television
" you can't freeze, you should never try to freeze music. And to try and maintain a song in that form and say
'this is exactly how it was'
is a silly way of looking at things."
- sample from ' When an Old Man Dies' from the Boy Bands Have Won by CHUMBAWAMBA
"Change it, mutate it, absorb it. Its a creative process."
- sample from ' unpindownable' from the Boy Bands Have Won
"whats happened to the music is that its changing. Its changing to suit people's needs NOW."
- sample from 'What We Want' from The Boy Bands Have Won
" I remember riding in the car with my parents..and..they turned on the car radio and were flipping through the dial and there was some kind of a rythmn and blues song that was....that was startling to me. I'd never heard anything like that before. And they wanted to turn the channel they didn't want to listen to it."
- sample from 'I Wanted to Be With You' from UN by CHUMBAWAMBA
The full title of the Boy Bands Have Won 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. '