"Tubthumping"—Chumbawamba
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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The Oyoi Football Lads
It's got this kind of very angelic sounding folk bit with a quoting Danny Boy and it's got this Oyoi football lads chorus. It just strikes you as a completely new thing. I think they were trying to be maybe more about people, more or less explicitly political. Every sporting event I've ever been to in America for the last 20 years has played this song. Well, maybe it's like Blur's song too. It's like if you're not just any right, your sports rock. Yeah, then that will work in America.
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