Readymades is Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music...

's first release on their own label MUTT. It continues the eclectic mix of techno, rock and folk of their former albums, albeit to a less ambitious scale than WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG (album)

WYSIWYG is a 2000 album by anarcho-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 also features vocal samples from contemporary and traditional folk artists, some of whom Chumbawamba would go on to work with in the future.

A special version of the album, Readymades And Then Some was released in 2003. It came with bonus track–peace anthem "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" and a bonus DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

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The album's title refers to the use of everyday objects as art by Marcel Duchamp

Readymades of Marcel Duchamp

The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". By simply choosing the object and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the object became art...

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Track listing

All tracks written, arranged and produced by Chumbawamba, except where noted.

#	Song Name	Length	Sample(s)	Notes
1	"Salt Fare, North Sea"	4:28	Lal Waterson Lal Waterson Lal Waterson was an English folksinger and songwriter. She sang with, among others, The Watersons, The Waterdaughters and Blue Murder. She was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and died suddenly in Robin Hood's Bay, of cancer diagnosed only ten days before...  & Olly Knight ("Salt fare, north sea"), from their song "Some Old Salty"
2	"Jacob's Ladder"	2:52	Harry Cox Harry Cox Harry Fred Cox , was a Norfolk farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style.... 's vocals from the song "The Pretty Ploughboy" the album A Century of Song ("And they sent him down into the war to be slain, be slain... / And they sent him down into the war to be slain.") Guitar from Davey Graham Davey Graham David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham, originally spelled Davy Graham, , was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival... 's song "Anji Anji (Song) "Anji" is an acoustic fingerstyle guitar piece composed and recorded in 1961 by noted folk guitarist Davey Graham. The piece is one of the most well-known acoustic blues-folk guitar pieces ever composed, with many notable artists covering it, including Bert Jansch, Simon and Garfunkel and Harry... "	"(Not in My Name) Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name) "Jacob's Ladder " is an anti-Iraq War single from Chumbawamba. This version, different from the one on their album Readymades, is remixed and contains new anti-war lyrics.It contains two major samples:... " version released as single; Written by Chumbawamba & Davey Graham Davey Graham David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham, originally spelled Davy Graham, , was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival...
3	"All in Vain"	4:15	Janet Russell ("I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain...")
4	"Home with Me"	3:56	Originally used a sample of the opening line of Elliott Smith Elliott Smith Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity... 's song Say Yes Say Yes (Elliott Smith song) "Say Yes" is the final track of Elliott Smith's 1997 album Either/Or, and one of three tracks from Either/Or that was used in the soundtrack of Good Will Hunting."Say Yes" is one of Smith's widely recognized songs... : "I'm in love with the world". The band couldn't secure the rights, and replaced the sample with themselves singing "Your world, my world".
5	"If It Is to Be, It Is Up to Me"	4:42	Coope, Boyes & Simpson Coope Boyes and Simpson Coope, Boyes and Simpson are an English vocal folk trio, formed around 1990. Their sound is rich and often has unusual vocal harmonies.The group comprises singers Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson, and almost all of their music is sung entirely a capella, although they have occasionally... , lyrics ("And as we sail, blows wild the gale") from the poem "Bound for Van Diemen's Island" by Jock Purdon Jock Purdon Jock Purdon , a poet and songwriter, was born George Purdon in the village of Nitshill near Glasgow. Although Nitshill had been a coal mining village, the mine had closed before Purdon grew up and it was a strange twist of fate that saw him spend most of his life as a coal miner in a pit in...
6	"Don't Try This at Home"	4:02
7	"Song for Len Shackleton"	3:36	Belle Stewart Belle Stewart Belle Stewart became known as a Scottish traditional singer.The general public knew little about Belle Stewart until 2006, when her daughter, Sheila Stewart, wrote the biography Queen Amang the Heather: the Life of Belle Stewart.Sheila Stewart corrects the frequently cited birthdate 17 July to the...	See Len Shackleton Len Shackleton Leonard Francis Shackleton, was an English footballer of the post-World War II period. Known as the Clown Prince of Football, he is generally regarded as one of English football's finest ever entertainers....
8	"Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)"	3:45	Joe Heany Janet Russell ("I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain...") Spoken introduction by Jeremy Hardy Jeremy Hardy Jeremy James Hardy is a British alternative comedian who is also known for his socialist politics.-Career:Hardy was born in Farnborough, Hampshire. He attended Farnham College and studied Modern History and Politics at the University of Southampton...	See Harry Stanley Harry Stanley Harry Stanley was a painter and decorator who was fatally shot by police in controversial circumstances.-Background:...
9	"Don't Pass Go"	4:18	Coope, Boyes & Simpson Coope Boyes and Simpson Coope, Boyes and Simpson are an English vocal folk trio, formed around 1990. Their sound is rich and often has unusual vocal harmonies.The group comprises singers Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson, and almost all of their music is sung entirely a capella, although they have occasionally...  ("Didn't he know it was a waste of time / All stitched up by a thin blue line")
10	"One Way or the Other"	4:02	Dick Gaughan Dick Gaughan Richard Peter Gaughan usually known as Dick Gaughan is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs.-Early years:... 's song "Prisoner 562", written by Oswald Andrae ("Peace won't come by words alone")
11	"When I'm Bad"	4:21	Coope, Boyes & Simpson Coope Boyes and Simpson Coope, Boyes and Simpson are an English vocal folk trio, formed around 1990. Their sound is rich and often has unusual vocal harmonies.The group comprises singers Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson, and almost all of their music is sung entirely a capella, although they have occasionally... , lyrics ("They try in vain our minds to chain") from the poem "Bound for Van Diemen's Island" by Jock Purdon Jock Purdon Jock Purdon , a poet and songwriter, was born George Purdon in the village of Nitshill near Glasgow. Although Nitshill had been a coal mining village, the mine had closed before Purdon grew up and it was a strange twist of fate that saw him spend most of his life as a coal miner in a pit in...	Vocals by Sally Riozzi
12	"Sewing Up Crap"	3:45		Vocals by Michelle Plum & Abi Riozzi
13	"After Shelley"	4:29	Kate Rusby Kate Rusby Kate Anna Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times...  ("Sho lo, lu la lo, sho lo, lu la")	Written by Chumbawamba & Kate Rusby Kate Rusby Kate Anna Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times...

Album Detail

"When we decided to mimic Moby's sampling of traditional black American blues singers on his album Play, we turned to British folk music and its great voices. Kate Rusby, Dick Gaughan, Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Harry Cox. Our album Readymades was put together in a skewed homage to some of those voices. We half expected criticism from the folk world for messing around with the music, but found that the folk audience is assuredly open to change and diversity. Since then - even in the last four or five years - the modern folk voices and players have multiplied and expanded, folkies are looking younger and cooler and there are loads of new folk albums out every month. Good or bad, the music's often inspiring and exciting. That there's still a radical voice in folk music (and especially in its audience) makes it easy for us to write and play the way we're doing right now. Trying to be part of a radical tradition that, for us, encompasses our own histories (mostly northern working towns, The Beatles and punk rock!) and the history of rebel songs in the places we've lived." (description from here).

Personnel

• Jude Abbott - Trumpet, Vocals
• Dunstan Bruce - Vocals, Bruitist sound collages
• Lou Watts - Vocals, Keyboards
• Boff
  Boff Whalley
  Allan Mark "Boff" Whalley is the lead guitarist for the band Chumbawamba.-Early life and education:Whalley was born Allan Mark Whalley in 1961 in Burnley, Lancashire...
  
   - Guitar, Merz
• Neil Ferguson - Bass, Mouse
• Alice Nutter - Vocals, Propaganda
• Harry Hamer - Drums, Programming
• Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon was a vocalist and occasional keyboard player in the Leeds based anarchist band Chumbawamba...
  
  - Vocals, Ukelele

with

• Simon Pugsley - Trombone
• Toby Greenwood - Saxophone
• Rrose Selavy - Acoustic guitar
• James Reiss - Scratching
• Richard Mutt - Tea-chest bass
• Michelle Plum (credited as Michelle Plumb), Abi Riozzi, Sally Riozzi & Janet Russell - vocals