Timebomb (Chumbawamba song)

"Timebomb"

Single by Chumbawamba

from the album Anarchy

Released

1993

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 Stephen 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The single also includes a cover of Leon Rosselson's 1975 song "The World Turned Upside Down", which was originally made popular by fellow English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg.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

Timebomb (4:09)
Techno Timebomb (4:22)
The World Turned Upside Down (2:15) (written by Leon Rosselson)

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Chumbawamba

Boff Whalley Danbert Nobacon Lou Watts Dunstan Bruce Alice Nutter Harry Hamer Dave Dillon Paul Greco Jude Abbott Neil Ferguson Phil Moody

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 and soundtracks	Uneasy Listening (1998) Shhhlap! (2003) Revengers Tragedy (2003)

Live albums	Showbusiness! (1995) Get On with It (2006)

Singles and EPs	"Revolution" (1985) "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" (1988) "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave (1992)" "Enough is Enough" (1993) "Timebomb" (1993) "Homophobia" (1994) "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" (1995) "i - Portraits of Anarchists" (1996) "Just Look at Me Now" (1996) "Tubthumping" (1997) "Amnesia" (1998) "Drip Drip Drip" (1998) "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" (1998) The ABCs of Anarchism (1999) "Tony Blair" (1999) "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" (2000) "Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over)" (2000) "Her Majesty" (2002) "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" (2002)

Related	Discography Agit-Prop Records One Little Indian Records No Masters Records Credit to the Nation The Ex Oysterband Coope, Boyes & Simpson Noam Chomsky Negativland

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