Timebomb (Chumbawamba song)

"Timebomb"
Single by Chumbawamba
from the album Anarchy
Released 1993
Genre Anarcho-punk
Label One Little Indian (UK, 1993)
Chumbawamba singles chronology
"Enough Is Enough"
(1993)		 "Timebomb"
(1993)		 "Homophobia"
(1994)

"Timebomb" is a single from Chumbawamba's album Anarchy. It reached #59 on UK Charts in 1993. It was supported by a music video which can be seen here. The album version of "Timebomb" combined elements of both the main single version and the "Techno Timebomb" remix, which included as a B-side on this single.

The chorus of the song is derived from Steven Stills' Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth" .

The single also includes a cover of Leon Rosselson's 1975 song The World Turned Upside Down, which was originally made popular by fellow English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg. The song is a song about the 17th Century Digger Commune's struggles against their landowners, and shares a lot of lyrical themes with the 1649 Gerrard Winstanley composition Diggers' Song, which was also recorded by Chumbawamba on their English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 album

Track listing

  1. Timebomb (4:09)
  2. Techno Timebomb (4:22)
  3. The World Turned Upside Down (2:15) (written by Leon Rosselson)
Chumbawamba
Lou Watts • Boff Whalley • Neil Ferguson • Jude Abbott • Phil Moody
Dunstan Bruce • Danbert Nobacon • Alice Nutter • Harry Hamer • Paul Greco • Mavis Dillon
Albums
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) • Never Mind the Ballots (1987) • English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 (1988) • Slap! (1990) • Shhh (1992) • Anarchy (1994) • Swingin' with Raymond (1995) • Tubthumper (1997) • WYSIWYG (2000) • Readymades (2002) • Un (2004) • A Singsong and a Scrap (2005) • The Boy Bands Have Won (2008) • ABCDEFG (2010)
Compilations
& Soundtracks
First 2 (1994)  • Uneasy Listening (1998)  • Shhhlap! (2003)  • Revengers Tragedy (2003)
Live albums
Showbusiness! (1995)  • Get On With It! (2006)
Singles and EPs
"Revolution" (1985) • "We Are the World?" (1986) • "Let It Be" (1987) • "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988) • "I Never Gave Up" (1990)  • "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (1992)"  • "Enough is Enough" (with MC Fusion) (1993)  • "Timebomb" (1993)  • "Homophobia" (1994)  • "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995)  • "i - Portraits of Anarchists" EP (1996)  • "Just Look at Me Now" (1996)  • "Tubthumping" (1997)  • "Amnesia" (1998)  • "Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)" (1998)  • "Tony Blair" (1999)  • "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000)  • "Pass It Along" (2000)  • Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over)" (2000)  • "Her Majesty" (2002)  • "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)  • "Tubthumping (Remix)" (2003)  • "Home with Me" (2003)  • "Salt Fare North Sea" (2003)  • "On eBay" (2004)  • "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (2004)  • "Add Me" (2007)
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