@Barely Taupe thanks for explaining what I meant. Also HITTING THE PISS, PISSING ON, PISSING UP. However I also agree with Justin Smith's explanation. And yep,u picked it, fellow AUSSIE in FNQ😁
You have NO IDEA how pervasive this song was when it came out. It was everywhere, all the time, wall-to-wall-to-wall Tubthumping. It got knocked down and then got up again. And then it got knocked down and then got up again.This is not a complaint - this song is so much damn fun. For the record, Tubthumper would be a great name for a cocktail, heavy on the Jagermeister.
You're right! I was backpacking in South America at the time and it was playing everywhere over there. Locals were asking me to translate it into Spanish. Pissing the night away ...not simple to translate with basic Spanish skills 😁
@@Nagoyadog I was 16 when this came out (now 40) here in the UK, I played it over and over soooo many times it was just so awesome. Its about partying and getting slaughtered by alcohol but for me it was also a song to really give you that sort of uplifting, fighting spirit that no matter what happens in life to just disregard anything bad, be strong and soldier on no matter what. Yeah, loved the tune!
You know those modern jukeboxes that are on a network that you can actually control from a website? Dude's wife goes out with the girls and he's home with the kids, hops on the net and starts playing this song over and over, back to back in the bar they're at. He texts. "Having fun?" Yes, she says. Inquires about the kids. "They're fine. Just finished bath time." He says their song knocked their daughter down. She calls the boy a stinker. He says it's no big deal, "she got right up again." Of course. Him: "You'll never get her down." Wife: "Wait! ARE YOU DOING THIS!?" True story.
@@geoffbuck6865 Everyone gets it... I spose we either get a lot of northern nights out down south, or maybe southern nights up north... or maybe it is just nights out :P
Unbelievably, Chumbawamba were actually a political activism group that had been around for years apparently. Tubthumping is the earworm that will send you crazy but you also love it. It was great when it came on at a pub/club. One of those songs EVERYONE sang. Love from Australia.
Thank you. Glad to learn something new. I equated it to beating on random objects like they do in Stomp. Thumping on a tub. Otherwise, I think it would be about depression and dealing with it and otherwise not giving into it and living to fight another day.
I remember this so well. My son is named Daniel and my husband used to sing the “Danny Boy” bit to him in the car (he’s never been called Danny). He was about 9 and is now 30 and still hates this song. I’m going to play this for him later, just to make his day!!
My son Anthony was three when this song came out and I used to whisper to him from time to time, ‘Hey Anthony....Chumbawumba’. He’d laugh and then do it back to me...he’s 26 now and I too and going to remind him of this little game we had
the song was actually ment to be against that mentality of just getting drunk mindlessly. its actually oposed to the yob elelement in society ,to hell with thinking about anything but fun and partying. At that point in the 1990s. there was a culture developing of partying and clubing and raves. Also the euros were being played a huge football tornament, with loutish football chants the order of the day. it was though the 1990s was turning its back on everything before for a while there, the right to party and cease to think about anything else. this band were actually a folk band there other stuff dont sound much like this at all. it was just mean has a reaction to the prevailing times with its anthemic chorus and high emotive feel, lets all be roundy and get drunk and sing along
This is an absolute anthem. It basically encapsulates the spirit of a night out on the lash (drinking) in the U.K. Plenty of drinks, some raucous singing and a scrap at the end of the night. Edited to add that you need to do The Frattelis, Chelsea Dagger next. Another night out anthem.
This song was totally motivational. When my former employer put us all under threat of redundancy and we had a really hard time of it, this song was repeated multiple times on the night of the Christmas party and was sung the loudest by all of us, because we were damn well getting back up again in spite of it all
This makes so much sense then. Getting pissed, getting loud, getting in a bar fight, having a good night out. I mean I knew it wasn't too deep of a song but knowing the meaning of the title, nice haha 😊
It's a song about celebrating the good times & drowning your sorrows in the bad times. It's about the importance of keeping going whatever life throws at you. I remember being made redundant from a job I enjoyed just because some management consultant arse wanted to justify his fat fee. I drove home singing this song all the way & it boosted my spirits.
The female singer is doing a bit of a riff on traditional/ musical songs, like Oh Danny Boy and Don't Cry for me, Argentina. At least that's what I thought when I first heard it.
They put out a whole album of traditional English working class revolutionary songs from the medieval ages to modern time. Its so strange this trad/punk band had a pop 1 hit wonder. Exact same thing that happened with that Gangnam Style guy.
yea her singing that part is what takes the song to the next level. The main riff and verse is super catchy, but the way she sings her part gives the song a bit of nostalgia and sadness or melancholy to contrast with the brash tone of the main verse. The impression I get is that the singer is a young guy spending his days in a probably dead-end lower class life and job, and he drinks the night away with his mates out of boredom, and to dull the pain and struggles of life ("I get knocked down, but I get up again"). He is very proud though, and doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for him.
A few more 90s one-hit wonders: Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something You Get What You Give - New Radicals Closing Time - Semisonic B*tch - Meredith Brooks Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry What is Love - Haddaway Your Woman - White Town
They are a great band and most people have no idea most of their other songs sound nothing like this one. Their version of Bella Ciao is one of my all time favorites.
There rarely is a band that has discovered what music actually means as an art like they have and that remained that true to their principles. Not only is their music artistically brillant and insanely innovative, they also kept changing and experimenting with new styles...all the time music was only a means to express their opinions, and success never measurable by sales; this is why I hate seeing people suggesting "other one-hit wonders" - it sounds like a band that only once could meet the standard of success, while Chumbawamba deliberately chose to not make this their standard.
@@josephrizzo3738 probably true since one of them bumped a bucket of ice water on a politician during an award show performance of this song and changed lyrics to "New labour sold out the dockers just like they'll sell out the rest of us"
That is SOOO cool that a U.S. citizen gets it ! ( Am I assuming too much thinking you are from the U.S. ? No other nation stations their troops here. That is an honour that is only bestowed on our greatest ally )
You’re getting inundated with requests for songs that would NOT get out of my head when they came out 🤣 I can look back on them more fondly now, but when they were popular they haunted my every waking moment, lol.
"Pissing the Night away" means a night of drinking with your friends/mates. "tubthumping" means "to promote something vigorously"; like having a blast with your friends.
The club when this song came on went nuts. Everyone went so hard. Jumpin and going crazy, moshing, bang in’!!! SO FUN!!! “Pissing the night away”!! Yes! Makes me smile watching you relive my 20’s. This was just a crowd, pleasing, funn ass song. Amazing remixes done to it over the years.
Chumbawamba are Anarchists, as in, Anti-Capitalist; Leftist; the people your redpill/walkaway propaganda is levelled against. This song is about moral perseverance in the face of violent, exploitative power structures, such as the one promulgating the brain-rotting pablum you digest
@@whoopdeedoo876 well, I mean, they do. Their politics inspired their music. Is politics some kind of abstract theory to you with no real world application?
Worked in a daycare when this came out. The kids were nuts about it. Let's just say I was the coolest van driver. Loaded the kids up and had this blasting all the way to wherever we were going. Seatbelts on and dancing. Rolled the windows down and other traffic joined us while safely driving.
Another "Ear Worm" to recommend is the Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be" - it was written in 1988 but didn't become popular until 1993. ua-cam.com/video/tbNlMtqrYS0/v-deo.html
For me, this song had many levels. On one level, it was just a catchy song about drinking, but on another, it captured the confidence, defiant atitude, solidarity and culture of the northern working class in the UK at the time
"Don't cry for me next door neighbor." A combination of referring to the song from the musical Evita, "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," and the fact that the neighbors might be concerned that you're drunk.
It's about a funeral of someone he loved. People sing "Danny Boy" (actually called "Don't Cry for Me") at Irish wakes. Irish wakes are celebrations of one's life. It knocked him down and he got plastured to kill the pain, but he'll get up again. He's not going to drink his life away because of it. It's basically an Irish anthem. It's called "tubthumping" because that's what you do when you're puking your guts out in the toilet. Every sound of touching the tub sounds like a loud thump when you're wasted drunk and the world is spinning.
Its as much or more about 1980s Thatcherism and closing of the coal mines and communities by force in the north of England where the band hailed from , some many great songs they did , this was the working class anthem being frustrated by the loss of hope , and the rise of neoliberalism, very ironic that centre right politicians steal it sometimes ! See the film ‘Brassed Off’ for more context !
Loving these 90s reactions me and my mates used to get drunk up the park and listen to this when were 15 ha ha. Quality reliving my school days with these.
Chumbawamba released another single from the same album. It isn't as popular, but I still remember it. It's called Amnesia. It's just as catchy as Tubthumping.
I remember when one of the band members, Alice, I think, went on Politically Incorrect and encouraged everyone to steal the album...lol. The label execs had a stroke 🤔🤔😉😉.
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I think your guess that this chorus can refer to falling down drunk, being knocked down in a bar fight, or a motivational attitude towards difficulties in life is an excellent take on the meaning. You got this one.
Rumor has it is that song is about the Falkland islands war in the ‘80s between Great Britain and Argentina. Danny boy - Great Britain song , Don’t cry for me, next door neighbor. - The islands are off Argentina, the neighbor. Play off of Don’t cry for me, Argentina. The guy is pissing the night away, getting drunk to forget the war. You get knock down, but you get up again. Its the story for every man and woman who have ever survived war. I always reflected it back to my dad and his surviving WWII.
My god this is a throwback, this came out when I was in middle school. "He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink" one of my fave lines I was singing when I was 12 lol
From UK 🇬🇧 here. We used to work hard and played harder. Enjoy our nightsout and live for the weekend. Good times with friends. Those were the days. Lol
This song got me through the end of my exercise routine back in the day. To get back home I had to go up a really steep hill. I sang this the whole way up
The song is just about getting drunk but...... it became the pump up song for sport teams the world over, just the corus . My daughters teams warmed up with this song. 👍🏻
@@JennRighter Lol! Yes, I used to say how in the world this song is popular? Who in the hell can possibly like this ? The moment it started I was immediately singing it 🤦🏻♀️. Glad to know I’m not the only one 🤣
It's about, no matter how you are, what you go through, get out there and have a good time, have fun! Life will knock you down, but you'll get back up again. Get your friends and dance, even in your chair!! You're doing it right now!! Get into it!
It’s hilarious, our kiwi brothers and sisters across the ditch sing it. It’s about drunken fighting. Suppose that’s not really funny, but you’re gonna have it stuck in your head for days lol
@@juliedempsey6011 Chumbawamba (/ˌtʃʌmbəˈwɒmbə/) was an English rock band that formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012. The band drew on genres such as punk rock, pop, and folk. Their anarcho-communist political leanings led them to have an irreverent attitude toward authority, and to espouse a variety of political and social causes including animal rights and pacifism (early in their career) and later regarding class struggle, Marxism, feminism, gay liberation, pop culture, and anti-fascism
@@juliedempsey6011 provoked by the Labour government's refusal to support the Liverpool Dockworkers' Strike, the band performed "Tubthumping" at the 1998 BRIT Awards with the lyric changed to include "New Labour sold out the dockers, just like they'll sell out the rest of us", and vocalist Danbert Nobacon later poured a jug of water over UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who was in the audience.[7
I absolutely love this man, oh my god. I don’t normally like react channels but I subscribed instantly from “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”, he is just so positive and has such good vibes. Keep it up man.
This is a tune I've always sardonically wished would someday be added to "Musak", that background flute music played in elevators. The cheesy flute hanging on the single note melodic line of "I get knocked down..." Love it.
So damn repetitive yet soooooo damn good! This song was perfect for sporting events and just pushing forward in your life no matter how REPETITIVE it might get!
@@barefootanimist Indeed it was! That soundtrack actually had some really good music on it, now looking back. Radiohead, Garbage...I need to listen to it again :)
"I get knocked down, i get knocked down again, yeah you're never gonna knock me out.... ...i drink a whiskey drink, i drink a chocolate drink, and if i have to pee, i use the kitchen sink, im letting everybody know that im a urinating guy......" (You get high props if you can guess the pop culture reference)
This is one of the best examples of a one hit wonder. The group went from 1985 until 1997 with their highest UK chart position of 56 and then this song went to number 2 in the UK chart, 6 in the Billboard 100 and was in the top 10 charts in 14 other countries. They also turned down $1.5m from Nike to use the song in a commercial. The album had to be sold from behind the counter at major retailers because the band told their fans to steal copies if they couldn't afford them. They are far left with their politics and I disagree with almost all their views but this song is certainly a classic and it reminds me of the France 1998 FIFA World Cup PS1 game because it featured on the soundtrack.
It may just be me, but I love the entire album. Can't wait to see your reaction...It was also motivation for my aunt who was battling breast cancer at the time.❤
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 yep, it totally does. It the US piss usually means "peeing" or "mad"... lol, so as a youth that slang went right out the window 🤣
Chumbawamba were a great political band. I remember this being a hit & they went on an American Chat Show and told the host (Letternan?) if people couldn't afford their CD they should steal it. They then read out a list of stores they should steal it from.
you got out with your mates, you drink, you talk, you argue, not seriously, you get more drinks, you start over. week after week. my favorite bit is the girls in the restroom, freshening up their make up, as if it is really going to look that much different than before, or ever. But still, always gotta look her best best, even in a dark bar when everyone is half drunk or worse.
Wooo! 1990s! I love this song, catchy tune too! I know I overplayed this song too many times. It is not fair to you because there is a slang term from another country used in this song. When you hear the female voice sing the words "Pissing the night away" it is like drinking too much alcoholic beverages I gather I could be mistaken or as we would say here in the states "getting wasted or shit faced"😁 I didn't know what this song was about until some months later when I was paying attention HA HA! . 😛 You eventually figured it out though good reaction too! Until the next time! Peace! 😁✌☮
I was 16 when this song came out. It was the first music CD somebody ever bought for me personally (along with a Doors' best of). The whole CD is pretty catchy. Scapegoat is a great song, but each song on the CD runs into the next song, so listening to it all in one sitting I recommend doing in your own time.
Chumbawamba was an English rock band that formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012. The band drew on genres such as punk rock, pop, and folk. The band are best known for their song "Tubthumping", which was nominated for Best British Single at the 1998 Brit Awards. Other singles include "Amnesia", "Enough Is Enough" (with MC Fusion), "Timebomb", "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)", and "Add Me". "Pissing the night away" would translate to "Drinking (alcoholic beverages) all night." To be pissed in England is to be drunk, to be pissed in the US is to be angry. In England, a tubthumper is a politician.
I just wish you would review Kylie Minogues song "SLOW" I really want to see yr face & your reaction to this song! ( btw, Kylie is an Australian actress singer & was ultra popular here in England)
This song has made a killing from licensing to reality show competitions over the years. I love it 🧗♂️🏅🎵🎶 PLEASE react to "Freedom 90" by George Michael, "Luka" by Suzanne Vega, and "Baby Love " by Regina, "Human " by the Human League 😀
In Britain the phrase "Getting pissed" has a completely different meaning. Here it means to get drunk not get angry. Pissing the night away is literally what happens when you drink a lot. This is essentially a drinking song.
"Pissing the night away" means wasting time with your mates. A song about wasting the evening drinking with your mates in the local pub.
"Pissing" actually is slang for drinking.
@@lucidloon it does in oz
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 It does what?
@Barely Taupe Also "on the piss" = getting drunk
@Barely Taupe thanks for explaining what I meant. Also HITTING THE PISS, PISSING ON, PISSING UP. However I also agree with Justin Smith's explanation. And yep,u picked it, fellow AUSSIE in FNQ😁
You have NO IDEA how pervasive this song was when it came out. It was everywhere, all the time, wall-to-wall-to-wall Tubthumping. It got knocked down and then got up again. And then it got knocked down and then got up again.This is not a complaint - this song is so much damn fun.
For the record, Tubthumper would be a great name for a cocktail, heavy on the Jagermeister.
That's why I was expecting him to say oh yeah I've heard this song before.
You're right! I was backpacking in South America at the time and it was playing everywhere over there. Locals were asking me to translate it into Spanish. Pissing the night away ...not simple to translate with basic Spanish skills 😁
@@Nagoyadog I was 16 when this came out (now 40) here in the UK, I played it over and over soooo many times it was just so awesome. Its about partying and getting slaughtered by alcohol but for me it was also a song to really give you that sort of uplifting, fighting spirit that no matter what happens in life to just disregard anything bad, be strong and soldier on no matter what. Yeah, loved the tune!
Jagermeister? No that isn't a Tubthumper. You make it with whiskey, vodka, lager and cider. You will fall down but don't worry. You'll get up again!
You know those modern jukeboxes that are on a network that you can actually control from a website? Dude's wife goes out with the girls and he's home with the kids, hops on the net and starts playing this song over and over, back to back in the bar they're at.
He texts. "Having fun?" Yes, she says. Inquires about the kids. "They're fine. Just finished bath time." He says their song knocked their daughter down. She calls the boy a stinker. He says it's no big deal, "she got right up again." Of course. Him: "You'll never get her down."
Wife: "Wait! ARE YOU DOING THIS!?"
True story.
It's a night out in Northern Brit city encapsulated in song.
Doug O'Neill : I just wonder if anyone who isn't a northerner really gets it...
@@geoffbuck6865 Everyone gets it... I spose we either get a lot of northern nights out down south, or maybe southern nights up north... or maybe it is just nights out :P
Lee Hambly : very good 👍🏻
Catchy music.
It’s a night out in most Brit pubs isn’t it? Lol
Unbelievably, Chumbawamba were actually a political activism group that had been around for years apparently.
Tubthumping is the earworm that will send you crazy but you also love it. It was great when it came on at a pub/club. One of those songs EVERYONE sang. Love from Australia.
Definition of tubthumping - "the expression of opinions in a loud or dramatic way.
Thank you. Glad to learn something new. I equated it to beating on random objects like they do in Stomp. Thumping on a tub. Otherwise, I think it would be about depression and dealing with it and otherwise not giving into it and living to fight another day.
@@gentillygirl545 That's exactly what I always thought it meant - Banging on a tub. Also happy to learn the expression.
Like standing on your soap box banging a drum (or wash tub) to get people to listen to you.
I did not know the meaning. Thanks
Perhaps a British term- we see a lot of tubthumping when pissed.
it's the typical nineties song: catchy, danceable and sticks with you...FOREVER.
A typical 90's song made by Punk band with far-left anarcho-socialist politics that lasted for thirty years.
Since you’re on a roll with all the absurdly 90s songs, finish em off with the behemoth: Blue by Eiffel 65
YEEESSSS.
Wot, no Crazy Frog ??
I guess we are trying to find all of the most irritating songs of the 90s that get stuck in your head... lol.
I legit like that song!
EP!C one ... !!! ♥ love this song! ♥
I remember this so well. My son is named Daniel and my husband used to sing the “Danny Boy” bit to him in the car (he’s never been called Danny). He was about 9 and is now 30 and still hates this song. I’m going to play this for him later, just to make his day!!
My son Anthony was three when this song came out and I used to whisper to him from time to time, ‘Hey Anthony....Chumbawumba’. He’d laugh and then do it back to me...he’s 26 now and I too and going to remind him of this little game we had
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@Kyle Reese Incel From The Future A tremendous song. You love it really..
@@jameslocopo4742 I played it for Daniel. He was not happy and asked me politely to go away!! (Please stop it mum!). Hahahaha!!
this comment could almost be about me lol. I'm a Daniel who is now 30 and my dad used to play me this song. I used to dance to it lol
My 20 year old legs loved this song. My 40 year old legs, not so much.
We can still tap our foot to the beat lol 😁
@@udownwito.p.p4153 Haha. For sure!
I feel you on that one! haha
🤣🤣🤣 same
Hard same lol
This was a song everyone could sing along with in the bar when everyone was drunk out of their minds. That's pretty much it.
the song was actually ment to be against that mentality of just getting drunk mindlessly. its actually oposed to the yob elelement in society ,to hell with thinking about anything but fun and partying. At that point in the 1990s. there was a culture developing of partying and clubing and raves. Also the euros were being played a huge football tornament, with loutish football chants the order of the day. it was though the 1990s was turning its back on everything before for a while there, the right to party and cease to think about anything else. this band were actually a folk band there other stuff dont sound much like this at all. it was just mean has a reaction to the prevailing times with its anthemic chorus and high emotive feel, lets all be roundy and get drunk and sing along
It's a drunken rowdy version of Sweet Caroline, then. #lol
Yeah or Heroin but ok
This is an absolute anthem. It basically encapsulates the spirit of a night out on the lash (drinking) in the U.K. Plenty of drinks, some raucous singing and a scrap at the end of the night. Edited to add that you need to do The Frattelis, Chelsea Dagger next. Another night out anthem.
Jaundice! Liver failure!
This song was totally motivational. When my former employer put us all under threat of redundancy and we had a really hard time of it, this song was repeated multiple times on the night of the Christmas party and was sung the loudest by all of us, because we were damn well getting back up again in spite of it all
Well, they are Anarchists, so you were doing what they advocate; getting back up after being knocked down by asymmetric power structures
It's British slang,
tubthumping
expressing opinions in a loud and violent or dramatic manner.
"a tub-thumping speech"
Chumbawamba has since become a folk sinning group last time I checked. Saw a vid of them in concert, and yes they performed this song.
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Oh great. Now I have that stuck in my head.
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save the night
Oh hell yeah
No please no
Oh, yes! Brimful of Asha!
To tubthump is to express your opinions loudly and violently 😏🤭
This makes so much sense then. Getting pissed, getting loud, getting in a bar fight, having a good night out. I mean I knew it wasn't too deep of a song but knowing the meaning of the title, nice haha 😊
@@rowanthomas9181 and what song do they always sing in the pub by the end of the night? Oh Danny Boyyyyyy 🤭🤣🥰
More than 20 years living with that doubt. Thanks!
Lol i thought it meant thumping the tub while you're having a vomit 😂
It's a song about celebrating the good times & drowning your sorrows in the bad times. It's about the importance of keeping going whatever life throws at you. I remember being made redundant from a job I enjoyed just because some management consultant arse wanted to justify his fat fee. I drove home singing this song all the way & it boosted my spirits.
If you're doing music from this time period, you have to do How Bizarre by OMC.
When "The Rock" was a singer,great suggestion
That, and then The Way by Fastball
Yes please! A Kiwi classic!!
Dude was a rea life gangster.
Yes!!!!
The female singer is doing a bit of a riff on traditional/ musical songs, like Oh Danny Boy and Don't Cry for me, Argentina. At least that's what I thought when I first heard it.
100% right. This was actually intended to be a working class anthem.
They put out a whole album of traditional English working class revolutionary songs from the medieval ages to modern time. Its so strange this trad/punk band had a pop 1 hit wonder. Exact same thing that happened with that Gangnam Style guy.
@@kevintipcorn6787 But *Psy* was a 2 hit wonder, and *Chumbawamba* had 3 top 40's, and 6 top 75's.
yea her singing that part is what takes the song to the next level. The main riff and verse is super catchy, but the way she sings her part gives the song a bit of nostalgia and sadness or melancholy to contrast with the brash tone of the main verse. The impression I get is that the singer is a young guy spending his days in a probably dead-end lower class life and job, and he drinks the night away with his mates out of boredom, and to dull the pain and struggles of life ("I get knocked down, but I get up again"). He is very proud though, and doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for him.
A few more 90s one-hit wonders:
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Closing Time - Semisonic
B*tch - Meredith Brooks
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
What is Love - Haddaway
Your Woman - White Town
Oh Your Woman for sure !!!
Semisonic had a hit with Secret Smile too!
I love Meredith Brooks singing Bitch. It's a great song
Have you heard “How Bizarre” by a New Zealand band called OMC?
I was just thinking of the same song! Love that song :)
Oh that song is the best, so sad the lead singer died a few years ago. That song was a college jam for me
@Flashheart OMC = Otara Millionaires Club
They're actually a punk band. This was by far their catchiest and most "commercial" release. Still worth exploring though, if only for their politics.
They are a great band and most people have no idea most of their other songs sound nothing like this one. Their version of Bella Ciao is one of my all time favorites.
They wrote it to prove the could write a hit.
There rarely is a band that has discovered what music actually means as an art like they have and that remained that true to their principles. Not only is their music artistically brillant and insanely innovative, they also kept changing and experimenting with new styles...all the time music was only a means to express their opinions, and success never measurable by sales; this is why I hate seeing people suggesting "other one-hit wonders" - it sounds like a band that only once could meet the standard of success, while Chumbawamba deliberately chose to not make this their standard.
@@BandOfHarjaps I read they wrote this song to support striking miners in their home city. Knowing the band though, bolth or neither could be true
@@josephrizzo3738 probably true since one of them bumped a bucket of ice water on a politician during an award show performance of this song and changed lyrics to "New labour sold out the dockers just like they'll sell out the rest of us"
This came out my freshman year in college... a lot of pissing the night away that year.
Same here...I think this was my sophomore year. Loved blasting this in the dorms while we drank.
Same! This song blasts me back to every frat party I was ever at!
Yup same here! Good ole college days! 🙂🥳
Haha same!
Not related to the comment, but if that’s you in your profile picture you kinda look like a grown up version of Sherminator from American Pie
It's British! When I heard this I knew what they were singing about as I was stationed in England and I love this song.
That is SOOO cool that a U.S. citizen gets it ! ( Am I assuming too much thinking you are from the U.S. ? No other nation stations their troops here. That is an honour that is only bestowed on our greatest ally )
You’re getting inundated with requests for songs that would NOT get out of my head when they came out 🤣 I can look back on them more fondly now, but when they were popular they haunted my every waking moment, lol.
"Pissing the Night away" means a night of drinking with your friends/mates. "tubthumping" means "to promote something vigorously"; like having a blast with your friends.
The club when this song came on went nuts. Everyone went so hard. Jumpin and going crazy, moshing, bang in’!!! SO FUN!!! “Pissing the night away”!! Yes! Makes me smile watching you relive my 20’s. This was just a crowd, pleasing, funn ass song. Amazing remixes done to it over the years.
Chumbawamba are Anarchists, as in, Anti-Capitalist; Leftist; the people your redpill/walkaway propaganda is levelled against. This song is about moral perseverance in the face of violent, exploitative power structures, such as the one promulgating the brain-rotting pablum you digest
@@willywonka7812 You people sure know how to ruin the fun in everything. Nobody cares what their politics are.
@@whoopdeedoo876 well, I mean, they do. Their politics inspired their music. Is politics some kind of abstract theory to you with no real world application?
@@willywonka7812 ah yes, nothing says "fuck capitalism" like releasing a chart topping song that rakes in tons of cash
@@Grizzlox ok, that's probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Well done I guess
Worked in a daycare when this came out. The kids were nuts about it. Let's just say I was the coolest van driver. Loaded the kids up and had this blasting all the way to wherever we were going. Seatbelts on and dancing. Rolled the windows down and other traffic joined us while safely driving.
Everybody needs this song in their life LMAO 🤣 cause we all get knocked down but we get up again 😂
This song is more infectious than the Coronavirus
Aight naarmil...
Lol
Another "Ear Worm" to recommend is the Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be" - it was written in 1988 but didn't become popular until 1993. ua-cam.com/video/tbNlMtqrYS0/v-deo.html
It's a harmless drinking song designed to be fun and sung at full blast 😁
For me, this song had many levels. On one level, it was just a catchy song about drinking, but on another, it captured the confidence, defiant atitude, solidarity and culture of the northern working class in the UK at the time
You don’t tell time… time tells you ;)
Tubthumping is an Irish slang term for going out, singing and having drinks after protesting.
It's about drinking, hence the line "pissing the night away"
Nothing too deep really
Like getting shit faced in America, only it sounds way funnier to get pissed over sea! 😜
@@sandidandy72 Yeah "getting pissed" in America means something quite different.
Who sang that song about tequila. They were from Yorkshire as well.
@@LunchSays Terrorvision.
@@jedislap8726 thanks
"Don't cry for me next door neighbor." A combination of referring to the song from the musical Evita, "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," and the fact that the neighbors might be concerned that you're drunk.
Such an underrated band. I love their whole first album.
It's about a funeral of someone he loved. People sing "Danny Boy" (actually called "Don't Cry for Me") at Irish wakes. Irish wakes are celebrations of one's life. It knocked him down and he got plastured to kill the pain, but he'll get up again. He's not going to drink his life away because of it. It's basically an Irish anthem. It's called "tubthumping" because that's what you do when you're puking your guts out in the toilet. Every sound of touching the tub sounds like a loud thump when you're wasted drunk and the world is spinning.
Its as much or more about 1980s Thatcherism and closing of the coal mines and communities by force in the north of England where the band hailed from , some many great songs they did , this was the working class anthem being frustrated by the loss of hope , and the rise of neoliberalism, very ironic that centre right politicians steal it sometimes ! See the film ‘Brassed Off’ for more context !
I recommend EMF - "Unbelievable"
How about Fastball's "The Way". I was totally obsessed with that song and that group back in the late 90's.
Good choice!
Great song!
Such a good song. Hope he sees this!
Good song , sounds like Delilah
I love that song.
Earworm time! You can't help bopping to it. You have to listen to something else now, to get it out of your head.
Gen-X was so fortunate...so many earworms in our day.
Yep!
lol. When this song came out about 1997, lots of people would say, “I get no doubt,” instead of “I get knocked down.”
Probably because the band No Doubt was huge at about the same time.
Loving these 90s reactions me and my mates used to get drunk up the park and listen to this when were 15 ha ha. Quality reliving my school days with these.
Chumbawamba released another single from the same album. It isn't as popular, but I still remember it. It's called Amnesia. It's just as catchy as Tubthumping.
I remember when one of the band members, Alice, I think, went on Politically Incorrect and encouraged everyone to steal the album...lol. The label execs had a stroke 🤔🤔😉😉.
Five finger discount
Your channel is the soundtrack to my life. Every decade, every genre, & every amazing artist that so many people your age have no idea exist. Thank you for taking me back to places I haven’t gone for a very long time.
This is going to get into your head.
Be prepared for an earworm fer shure 🤟♥️🎶
Jude Abbot, who provided the trumpet bit you liked so much, was also the female vocalist in the 'Oh, Danny Boy' and 'pissin the night away' interludes
Just a really fun dance song. Everybody loved singing the hook.
I think your guess that this chorus can refer to falling down drunk, being knocked down in a bar fight, or a motivational attitude towards difficulties in life is an excellent take on the meaning. You got this one.
Falco- Rock Me Amadeus would be a great 1985 jam to react to.
Rumor has it is that song is about the Falkland islands war in the ‘80s between Great Britain and Argentina. Danny boy - Great Britain song , Don’t cry for me, next door neighbor. - The islands are off Argentina, the neighbor. Play off of Don’t cry for me, Argentina. The guy is pissing the night away, getting drunk to forget the war. You get knock down, but you get up again. Its the story for every man and woman who have ever survived war. I always reflected it back to my dad and his surviving WWII.
My god this is a throwback, this came out when I was in middle school. "He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink" one of my fave lines I was singing when I was 12 lol
From UK 🇬🇧 here. We used to work hard and played harder. Enjoy our nightsout and live for the weekend. Good times with friends. Those were the days. Lol
This song got me through the end of my exercise routine back in the day. To get back home I had to go up a really steep hill. I sang this the whole way up
The song is just about getting drunk but...... it became the pump up song for sport teams the world over, just the corus . My daughters teams warmed up with this song. 👍🏻
I hated this song but always sing it when I hear it anyway. It just grows on you!🤷🏻♀️
Omg, same! I kind of like it now, but despised it when it was popular. Haunted me.
It's one of the Great Earworms of History. :D
@@JennRighter Lol! Yes, I used to say how in the world this song is popular? Who in the hell can possibly like this ? The moment it started I was immediately singing it 🤦🏻♀️. Glad to know I’m not the only one 🤣
@@Serai3 💯 you nailed it on that!!! 👆🏻
Same!
Lol, up next: ROCK ME Amadeus.
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Yes please, 😁
Followed by Der Kommissar!
Yes yes yes
Yes, please! 💜
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I forgot about this song! It's fun and contagious. Thank you for playing it! I always love your reactions.
It's about, no matter how you are, what you go through, get out there and have a good time, have fun! Life will knock you down, but you'll get back up again. Get your friends and dance, even in your chair!! You're doing it right now!! Get into it!
Please do THE MIGHTY MIGHT BOSSTONES - THE IMPRESSION THAT I GET!
Ohhhhh I love that song.
This song has been in my head for a month
Yes please!
That's one I don't mind having stuck in my head.
Someday I Suppose
It’s hilarious, our kiwi brothers and sisters across the ditch sing it. It’s about drunken fighting. Suppose that’s not really funny, but you’re gonna have it stuck in your head for days lol
its actually about the liverpool dock workers and the closing down of the docks
Did not know that and I'm from Liverpool,how embarrassing
@@juliedempsey6011 lol itnwas an older song the group is about 40 strong
@@juliedempsey6011 Chumbawamba (/ˌtʃʌmbəˈwɒmbə/) was an English rock band that formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012. The band drew on genres such as punk rock, pop, and folk. Their anarcho-communist political leanings led them to have an irreverent attitude toward authority, and to espouse a variety of political and social causes including animal rights and pacifism (early in their career) and later regarding class struggle, Marxism, feminism, gay liberation, pop culture, and anti-fascism
@@juliedempsey6011 provoked by the Labour government's refusal to support the Liverpool Dockworkers' Strike, the band performed "Tubthumping" at the 1998 BRIT Awards with the lyric changed to include "New Labour sold out the dockers, just like they'll sell out the rest of us", and vocalist Danbert Nobacon later poured a jug of water over UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who was in the audience.[7
This is a MUST in my late '90s playlist. It's relentless in its catchiness, and easy to sing when you're drunk, lol
Add this to the list of songs that'll make a british pub go nuts
This song has been stuck in my head, rising to the surface on occasion. I only recently remembered to find out about it. I’ve always liked it.
I absolutely love this man, oh my god. I don’t normally like react channels but I subscribed instantly from “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”, he is just so positive and has such good vibes. Keep it up man.
Speaking catchy earworms, check out "Lovefool" by the Cardigans. Same era.
Check out the band No Doubt, if you haven’t. “Don’t Speak”, “I’m just a girl”, “It’s my life”, any of those really.
He's done the first 2 and they're great reactions! I think you might be able to find it in his Playlist. Enjoy! 😊
Ohh this song gets stuck in your head so easy. It is hard to stop singing it once you hear it.
Its a song about forgetting all your problems by going to the pub and getting drunk with your mates and having a laugh.
This kickass song is part of my workout playlist. Never ceases to get me moving!
This is a tune I've always sardonically wished would someday be added to "Musak", that background flute music played in elevators. The cheesy flute hanging on the single note melodic line of "I get knocked down..." Love it.
I now want to throw the entire Todd in the Shadows "One Hit Wonderland" playlist at you.
I love the vibe of the music! Great times!
The way the leader singer sings remindes me of Falco in the song Amadeus.
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So damn repetitive yet soooooo damn good! This song was perfect for sporting events and just pushing forward in your life no matter how REPETITIVE it might get!
The 90s - yes! If you haven't already, you should to the Cardigans "Love Fool." Big 90s song :) Great content - thanks!
Wasn't that in the soundtrack to "Romeo + Juliet?"
@@barefootanimist Indeed it was! That soundtrack actually had some really good music on it, now looking back. Radiohead, Garbage...I need to listen to it again :)
Why an NFL Team has not adopted that phrase ‘I get down, but I get up again, you’re never gonna keep me down’ is beyond me. 🤣
"I get knocked down, i get knocked down again, yeah you're never gonna knock me out....
...i drink a whiskey drink, i drink a chocolate drink, and if i have to pee, i use the kitchen sink, im letting everybody know that im a urinating guy......"
(You get high props if you can guess the pop culture reference)
@Rampage Phoenix It's Homer's Simpson's version from "The Simpsons": Season 13 Episode 20 "Little Girl in the Big Ten"; first aired May 12, 2002.
If you're feeling the '90s and want another unique song, please react to "Your Woman" by White Town. You honestly will not expect what it is. At all.
This is one of the best examples of a one hit wonder. The group went from 1985 until 1997 with their highest UK chart position of 56 and then this song went to number 2 in the UK chart, 6 in the Billboard 100 and was in the top 10 charts in 14 other countries. They also turned down $1.5m from Nike to use the song in a commercial.
The album had to be sold from behind the counter at major retailers because the band told their fans to steal copies if they couldn't afford them.
They are far left with their politics and I disagree with almost all their views but this song is certainly a classic and it reminds me of the France 1998 FIFA World Cup PS1 game because it featured on the soundtrack.
It may just be me, but I love the entire album. Can't wait to see your reaction...It was also motivation for my aunt who was battling breast cancer at the time.❤
Man this was huge back in 97 we were rockin out to it so hard. Listening to this again makes me feel sad for late millennials and zoomers
Growing up I was like "of course you're pissing all night with all those drinks!" Doh.
I'm With Phil Young . I take it to mean getting drunk & wasting yr time in the pub doing nothing constructive
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 yep, it totally does. It the US piss usually means "peeing" or "mad"... lol, so as a youth that slang went right out the window 🤣
Chumbawamba were a great political band. I remember this being a hit & they went on an American Chat Show and told the host (Letternan?) if people couldn't afford their CD they should steal it. They then read out a list of stores they should steal it from.
It’s about the drinking culture in the U.K.
As a Brit I love watching your reaction to some of our gem tunes and to see a man that likes to get in the groove
Have you ever heard “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground? That’s my vote for the next one.
Haven't thought of that one in a looong time!
Agreed!!
All Around The World Same Song
Do the Humpty Hump!
you got out with your mates, you drink, you talk, you argue, not seriously, you get more drinks, you start over. week after week. my favorite bit is the girls in the restroom, freshening up their make up, as if it is really going to look that much different than before, or ever. But still, always gotta look her best best, even in a dark bar when everyone is half drunk or worse.
This is actually a great album
Wooo! 1990s! I love this song, catchy tune too! I know I overplayed this song too many times. It is not fair to you because there is a slang term from another country used in this song. When you hear the female voice sing the words "Pissing the night away" it is like drinking too much alcoholic beverages I gather I could be mistaken or as we would say here in the states "getting wasted or shit faced"😁 I didn't know what this song was about until some months later when I was paying attention HA HA! . 😛 You eventually figured it out though good reaction too! Until the next time! Peace! 😁✌☮
All About alcohol culture lol.
I like how he instantly starts bobbing along to the chorus🎶
Hi Jay 👋. I would love if you listened to a 90's song called Closing time. It's by a band called Semisonic.
I was 16 when this song came out. It was the first music CD somebody ever bought for me personally (along with a Doors' best of). The whole CD is pretty catchy. Scapegoat is a great song, but each song on the CD runs into the next song, so listening to it all in one sitting I recommend doing in your own time.
“I get knocked down...”
Chumbawamba was an English rock band that formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012. The band drew on genres such as punk rock, pop, and folk. The band are best known for their song "Tubthumping", which was nominated for Best British Single at the 1998 Brit Awards. Other singles include "Amnesia", "Enough Is Enough" (with MC Fusion), "Timebomb", "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)", and "Add Me". "Pissing the night away" would translate to "Drinking (alcoholic beverages) all night." To be pissed in England is to be drunk, to be pissed in the US is to be angry. In England, a tubthumper is a politician.
I just wish you would review Kylie Minogues song "SLOW"
I really want to see yr face & your reaction to this song!
( btw, Kylie is an Australian actress singer & was ultra popular here in England)
And confide in me-
This song has made a killing from licensing to reality show competitions over the years. I love it 🧗♂️🏅🎵🎶 PLEASE react to "Freedom 90" by George Michael, "Luka" by Suzanne Vega, and "Baby Love " by Regina, "Human " by the Human League 😀
In Britain the phrase "Getting pissed" has a completely different meaning. Here it means to get drunk not get angry. Pissing the night away is literally what happens when you drink a lot. This is essentially a drinking song.
21 in a club pissing the night away now 41 sitting my my pjs trying not to piss myself when I cough 🙌🏻
😂 😂 😂