I was and still am big into the indie movie making scene and there was a book written by a guy whose largest claim to fame was being in a rock band that was shown as a poster in the background of a few frames in the movie Demolition Man.
In the book they talked about working with Chumbawumba on their recording sessions and how Chumbawumba was, as a whole, a bunch of dirty smelly lazy hippies with terrible entitled attitudes that got lucky with the advent of looping.
The anarchists that released albums such as Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records, Never Mind the Ballots, A Singsong And A Scrap, and The Boy Bands Have Won "got lucky"?...
English rock band Chumbawamba has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two extended plays (EPs), 23 singles, 9 music videos, and a variety of miscellaneous releases.[1]
That is pretty cool, and it is possible that the author of the book was wrong, or had some personal grievance against them.
Even with that, it's also possible that they've changed since then.
I'm not relaying personal information that I have on them. I'm relaying my memory of what I've read in a book about a person who had personal information about them.
One, not remembering the full details of an anecdote that a bit of information triggered off in my brain from a book that I read 10 years ago does not make me a coward, and it's a pretty cunty thing to call somebody a coward when you don't know them.
Two, the band's name was Bomb. The musician that wrote the book is Michael W. Dean. The book is called The $30 Film School.
Maybe they have changed since then. Maybe the person who wrote the book viewed them unfavorably for some reason.
If I remember correctly, the writer was one of the members of the band Bomb, but I do not have the book anymore and I can't remember which musician it was.
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I was and still am big into the indie movie making scene and there was a book written by a guy whose largest claim to fame was being in a rock band that was shown as a poster in the background of a few frames in the movie Demolition Man.
In the book they talked about working with Chumbawumba on their recording sessions and how Chumbawumba was, as a whole, a bunch of dirty smelly lazy hippies with terrible entitled attitudes that got lucky with the advent of looping.
The anarchists that released albums such as Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records, Never Mind the Ballots, A Singsong And A Scrap, and The Boy Bands Have Won "got lucky"?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbawamba_discography
Lazy?
What utter bollocks.
That is pretty cool, and it is possible that the author of the book was wrong, or had some personal grievance against them.
Even with that, it's also possible that they've changed since then.
I'm not relaying personal information that I have on them. I'm relaying my memory of what I've read in a book about a person who had personal information about them.
"This isn't my opinion but I'm going to spread it anyways. Also I'm not going to cite the book I referenced or the author."
Coward.
One, not remembering the full details of an anecdote that a bit of information triggered off in my brain from a book that I read 10 years ago does not make me a coward, and it's a pretty cunty thing to call somebody a coward when you don't know them.
Two, the band's name was Bomb. The musician that wrote the book is Michael W. Dean. The book is called The $30 Film School.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14489._30_Film_School
They seem cool as fuck to me.
It could be that your Demolition Man simply equates “Political” with “Dirty hippy”.
I'm just relaying the impression that they had.
Maybe they have changed since then. Maybe the person who wrote the book viewed them unfavorably for some reason.
If I remember correctly, the writer was one of the members of the band Bomb, but I do not have the book anymore and I can't remember which musician it was.
I didn’t mean to tie you to their view, my apologies.