Released 1993 | "Timebomb"
(1993) "Homophobia"
(1994) | |
Label One Little Indian (UK, 1993) | ||
"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The single also includes a cover of Leon Rosselson's 1975 song "The World Turned Upside Down", which was originally made popular by fellow English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg.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)