WYSIWYG (album)

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WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG cover
Studio album by Chumbawamba
Released April 4, 2000
Recorded 1999-2000
Genre Anarcho-punk, Dance, Sound collage
Length 47:48
Label EMI (UK)
Republic Records/Universal Records (US)
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars link
Chumbawamba chronology
The ABCs of Anarchism
(1997)		 WYSIWYG
(2000)		 Readymades
(2002)

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) is a 2000 album by anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. Released after the massive success of their previous effort, Tubthumper, it commented on various aspects of the pop culture the band had inadvertently become a part of. It achieved this by the heavy inclusion of sound bites, pop culture and commercial culture references and even a small amount of self-parody.

The cover art follows the What You See Is What You Get concept ironically. It appears to be the head of a dog, but is actually a small part of a larger photo of two dogs mating. The expanded photo appeared on postcards sent to fans on the Chumbawamba mailing list.

This was a failure for Chumbawamba, causing them to leave EMI a year later due to disputes. However, in the United States, Republic/Universal handed releases for MUTT Records, especially Readymades, but dropped the band from the label in 2004, allowing them to sign onto Koch Records.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I'm with Stupid" (samples from "Helter Stupid" by Negativland)
  2. "Shake Baby Shake" (samples from the "Perfect Cut" medley on Helter Stupid by Negativland)
  3. "Pass It Along" (used, in a rock-influenced re-recording, in a Pontiac commercial circa 2002)
  4. "Hey Hey We're the Junkies" (a re-recorded version of the Monkees theme song; samples from "Prelude" on Helter Stupid by Negativland)
  5. "The Health and Happiness Show"
  6. "I'm Coming Out"
  7. "I'm in Trouble Again"
  8. "Social Dogma"
  9. "WWW Dot"
  10. "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (an a capella cover of the aforementioned Bee Gees song)
  11. "I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun" (a satire on the events of Woodstock 99)
  12. "Jesus in Vegas"
  13. "The Standing Still" (samples from "Helter Stupid" by Negativland)
  14. "She's Got All the Friends"/"Pass It On (reprise)" (unlisted)
  15. "Ladies for Compassionate Lynching"
  16. "Celebration, Florida"
  17. "Moses with a Gun"
  18. "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Jerry Springer"
  19. "Smart Bomb"
  20. "Knickers"
  21. "Lie Lie Lie Lie"
  22. "Dumbing Down"
  23. Untitled hidden track: a strings-only remix of "I'm in Trouble Again" ending in Alice Nutter saying, "It's me trousers" and laughing and another voice saying, "That's it."

Bonus Tracks

  1. "Just a Form of Music"
  2. "Lest We Forget"
  3. "Passenger List for Doomed Flight 1721"
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