Recorded Late 2009 Release date 1 March 2010 | Artist Chumbawamba Label No Masters | |
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Released 1 March 2010 (2010-03-01) Genres Folk music, Pop music, Anarcho-punk Similar The Boy Bands Have Won, Swingin' with Raymond, Pictures of Starving Children, A Singsong and a Scrap, Never Mind the Ballots | ||
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ABCDEFG is the 14th and final studio album by Chumbawamba. It was officially released on 1 March 2010, but copies ordered from the band's website arrived the week before.
Contents
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Album information
ABCDEFG continues the five person line up of Lou Watts, Jude Abbott, Neil Ferguson, Boff Whalley and Phil 'Ron' Moody. The album's lyrical content focuses mainly on themes to do with music and singing.
"Wagner at the Opera" refers to a concentration camp survivor who disrupted a Wagner recital by swinging a football rattle.
"Torturing James Hetfield" is a response to James Hetfield's approval of the use of Metallica's music as a torture device against Iraqi prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The song was described as depicting a "wonderful image" by Stefan Appleby in BBC Review. Boff Whalley listed the song as one of his favourites in July 2011.
Track listing
All tracks written by Chumbawamba except where noted.
Personnel
Songs
1Introduction1:02
2Voices - That's All3:31
3Pickle2:44