The Boy Bands Have Won

The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won, yleisesti lyhennetty muotoon The Boy Bands Have Won, on Chumbawamban vuonna 2008 julkaisema albumi. Albumi jatkaa yhtyeen aiempaa yhteiskuntatietoista linjaa, ja kappaleiden aiheina esiintyvät muun muassa Philip Larkin, itsemurhapommittajat ja sosiaalisen median Internet-sivustot. Levyllä esiintyy Chumbawamba-yhtyeen lisäksi useita muita artisteja kuten Oysterband.

The Boy Bands Have Won Chumbawamba
Studioalbumin tiedot
Äänitetty	2007
Julkaistu	3. maaliskuuta 2008
Tyylilaji	folk, pop
Kesto	49.32
Levy-yhtiö	No Masters, Westpark Music
Chumbawamban muut julkaisut
Get on with It 2006	The Boy Bands Have Won 2008	ABCDEFG 2010

Albumin koko nimessä on 865 merkkiä ja se on elokuuhun 2009 mennessä historian pisin musiikkialbumin nimi.

Kappaleet

1. When an Old Man Dies – 0.54
2. Add Me – 3.27
3. Words Can Save Us – 1.52
4. Hull or Hell – 3.31
5. El Fusilado – 2.32
6. Unpindownable – 1.22
7. I Wish That They'd Sack Me – 4.10
8. Word Bomber – 2.13
9. All Fur Coat & No Knickers – 2.12
10. Fine Line – 0.39
11. Lord Bateman's Motorbike – 3.34
12. A Fine Career – 0.47
13. To A Little Radio – 1.08
14. (Words Flew) Right Around the World – 2.15
15. Sing About Love – 1.39
16. Bury Me Deep – 1.37
17. You Watched Me Dance – 0.58
18. Compliments of Your Waitress – 2.43
19. RIP RP – 1.26
20. Charlie – 2.12
21. The Ogre – 0.53
22. Refugee – 2.42
23. Same Old Same Old – 0.59
24. Waiting for the Bus – 2.44
25. What We Want – 0.47

Arviot

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