WYSIWYG is a 2000 album by anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

 band 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...

. Released after the massive success of their previous effort, Tubthumper

Tubthumper

Tubthumper is an album by the band Chumbawamba, and is the album that catapulted them into the mainstream, released by EMI Electrola GmbH and in the US by Universal Records...

, it commented on various aspects of the pop culture the band had inadvertently become a part of. It achieved this by the heavy inclusion of sound bites, pop culture and commercial culture references and even a small amount of self-parody.

The 23 tracks (some songs being fully formed, some short, experimental and sample heavy) flow into one another almost without stop, and musical and lyrical themes are repeated throughout causing the album to much more tighly constructed than previous efforts and could be considered a concept album

Concept album

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.

The cover art follows the 'What You See Is What You Get

WYSIWYG

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' concept. It appears to be the head of a dog, but is actually a small part of a larger photo of two dogs copulating when the insert is opened up fully.

This was a commercial failure for Chumbawamba, causing them to leave EMI

EMI

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 a year later due to disputes. However, in the United States, Republic/Universal handled releases for MUTT Records, especially Readymades

Readymades

Readymades is Chumbawamba'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...

, but dropped the band from the label in 2004, allowing them to sign onto Koch Records

Koch Records

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Track listing

All songs written by Chumbawamba (except as noted). Unlisted tracks appear in italics.

1. "I'm with Stupid"
2. "Shake Baby Shake"
3. "Pass It Along"
4. "Hey Hey We're the Junkies"
5. "The Health & Happiness Show"
6. "I'm Coming Out" / "Dumbing Down (Piano Version)"
7. "I'm in Trouble Again"
8. "Social Dogma"
9. "WWW Dot"
10. "New York Mining Disaster 1941
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    " (Barry
    Barry Gibb
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    /Robin Gibb
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    )
11. "I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun"
12. "Jesus in Vegas"
13. "The Standing Still"
14. "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy
    She's Got All The Friends That Money Can Buy
    "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" is the only single from Chumbawamba's album WYSIWYG.A version by former Eurovision Song Contest entrants, and fellow West Yorkshire band Black Lace was also recorded in response to UK's BBC Radio 1 declining to play the original "too pop" version...
    
    " / "Pass It On (Reprise)"
15. "Ladies for Compassionate Lynching"
16. "Celebration, Florida"
17. "Moses with a Gun"
18. "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Jerry Springer"
19. "Smart Bomb"
20. "Knickers"
21. "Lie Lie Lie Lie"
22. "Dumbing Down"
23. Hidden track: "I'm in Trouble Again (Reprise)"

Bonus tracks on some versions

• "Just a Form of Music"
• "Lest We Forget"
• "Passenger List for Doomed Flight 1721" (see She's Got All The Friends That Money Can Buy
  She's Got All The Friends That Money Can Buy
  "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" is the only single from Chumbawamba's album WYSIWYG.A version by former Eurovision Song Contest entrants, and fellow West Yorkshire band Black Lace was also recorded in response to UK's BBC Radio 1 declining to play the original "too pop" version...
  
   single for more information)

Song Notes

• "I'm with Stupid", "Hey Hey We're the Junkies", "Shake Baby Shake" and "The Standing Still" contain samples from Helter Stupid
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  by Negativland
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• A rock remix of "Pass It Along" was used in a Pontiac
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   commercial circa 2002
• "New York Mining Disaster 1941" is an a capella cover of the Bee Gees
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   single
• The hidden track ends in Alice Nutter saying, "It's me trousers" and laughing, and another voice saying "That's it"

Personnel

• Lou Watts - Vocals, Keyboards
• Harry Hamer - Drums, Vocals, Programming
• Danbert Nobacon
  Danbert Nobacon
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   - Vocals, Banjo
• Dunstan Bruce - Vocals
• Jude Abbott - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Vocals
• Boff Whalley
  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, Vocals
• Alice Nutter - Vocals
• Neil Ferguson - Bass, Keyboards, Mouse

Also appearing

• DJ White Child Rix (from Gunshot
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  ) - Scratching
• Simon - Trombone
• Toby - Saxophone
• B. J. Cole
  B. J. Cole
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   - Pedal steel guitar
• Simon Lanzon - Additional vocal
• The Complimentary Peanuts - Vocals on "Health & Happiness Show"
• Armley Community Orchestra - Strings, woodwind
• One Minutes's Silence - Snare Drum
• Seething Wells
  Steven Wells
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  - "That's It"