# Chumbawamba discography

English rock band Chumbawamba has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two extended plays (EPs), 23 singles, and 8 music videos.

## Albums
### Studio and live albums

List of studio and live albums, with selected chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | UK | UK Indie | AUS | CAN | US | Certifications |
| Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records | Released: 1986 (UK) Label: Agit Prop Formats: CD, LP, digital download Released on CD by One Little Indian in 1994 as First 2 | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| Never Mind the Ballots | Released: May 1, 1987 (UK) Label: Agit Prop Formats: CD, LP, digital download Released on CD by One Little Indian in 1994 as First 2 | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 | Released: 1988 (UK) Label: Agit Prop Formats: CD, LP, digital download Reissued 1993 and re-released on CD by One Little Indian in 1995 | — | 13 | — | — | — | |
| Slap! | Released: 1990 (UK) Label: Agit Prop Formats: CD, LP, digital download Reissued 1995 & 1999 by One Little Indian. Re-released on double CD by MUTT in 2003 as Shhhlap! | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Shhh | Released: 1992 (UK) Label: Agit Prop Formats: CD, LP, digital download Re-released in 1994 on Southern Records. Re-released on double CD by MUTT in 2003 as Shhhlap! | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Anarchy | Released: April 25, 1994 (UK) Label: One Little Indian/London Records Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 29 | — | — | — | — | |
| Showbusiness! | Released: 1994 (UK) Label: One Little Indian Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Swingin' with Raymond | Released: October 23, 1995 (UK) Label: One Little Indian Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 70 | — | — | — | — | |
| Tubthumper | Released: September 1, 1997 (UK) Label: EMI/Universal Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 19 | — | 78 | 2 | 3 | RIAA: 3× Platinum |
| WYSIWYG | Released: April 4, 2000 (UK) Label: EMI/Universal Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Readymades | Released: June 18, 2002 (UK) Label: MUTT Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Revengers Tragedy | Released: March 24, 2003 (UK) Label: MUTT Formats: CD, LP, digital download Soundtrack to Alex Cox movie Revengers Tragedy | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Un | Released: June 8, 2004 (UK) Label: MUTT/Koch Records/Edel Records Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| A Singsong and a Scrap | Released: October 11, 2005 (UK) Label: No Masters/Edel Records Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Get On with It | Released: 2006 (UK) Label: No Masters Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Boy Bands Have Won | Released: March 3, 2008 (UK) Label: No Masters Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |
| ABCDEFG | Released: March 1, 2010 (UK) Label: No Masters Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | |

### Compilation albums

List of compilation albums with notes :
| Title | Release details | Notes |
| First 2 | Released: 1992 Label: Agit-Prop Formats: CassetteCDLP | Box set including the original album releases of Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records and Never Mind the Ballots. |
| Uneasy Listening | Released: 1998 Label: EMI Formats: CassetteCD | A 23-song compilation album that includes songs released from 1986 to 1998. The album primarily features songs from Anarchy and Swingin' with Raymond. |
| Shhhlap! | Released: 2003 Label: Mutt Formats: CD | Box set including the original album releases of Shhh and Slap! |

## Singles

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
| Year | Single | UK | UK Indie | AUS | CAN | FRA | US | Certifications | Album |
| 1985 | "Revolution" | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | | singles only |
| 1986 | "We Are the World?" (split single with A State of Mind) | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | | singles only |
| 1988 | "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | | singles only |
| 1990 | "I Never Gave Up" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Slap! |
| 1992 | "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Shhh |
| 1993 | "Enough Is Enough" | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | | Anarchy |
| 1993 | "Timebomb" | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | | Anarchy |
| 1994 | "Criminal Injustice" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | single only |
| 1994 | "Homophobia" | 79 | — | — | — | — | — | | Anarchy |
| 1995 | "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | | Swingin' with Raymond |
| 1996 | "Just Look at Me Now" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Swingin' with Raymond |
| 1997 | "Tubthumping" | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 38 | 6 | ARIA: 2× Platinum BPI: 2× Platinum GLF: Gold IFPI Norway: Platinum RMNZ: 2× Platinum | Tubthumper |
| 1998 | "Amnesia" | 10 | — | 34 | 7 | — | — | | Tubthumper |
| 1998 | "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | | singles only |
| 1999 | "Tony Blair" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | singles only |
| 2000 | "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | WYSIWYG |
| 2003 | "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Readymades |
| 2003 | "Home with Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Readymades |
| 2003 | "Salt Fare North Sea" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Readymades |
| 2004 | "On eBay" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Un |
| 2004 | "The Wizard of Menlo Park" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Un |
| 2006 | "Fade Away (I Don't Want To)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | A Singsong and a Scrap |
| 2013 | "In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher" | — | — | — | — | — | — | | EP only |

## Compilation appearances

(not including top-single compilations)
| Song Name | Compilation Title | Record Label | Year | Notes |
| "I'm Thick" | Back on the Streets EP | Secret Records | 1982 | recording as 'Skin Disease', a mock skinhead/Oi! band |
| "Three Years Later" | Bullshit Detector Volume 2 | Crass Records | 1982 | |
| "The Police Have Been Wonderful", "Fitzwilliam" | Dig This: A Tribute To The Great Strike LP | Forward Sounds International Limited | 1985 | Liner notes list Margaret Thatcher on vocals and Neil Kinnock on lead guitar |
| "Rich Pop Stars Make Good Socialists" | | Red Rhino Records | 1986 | Free flexi with June edition of independent trade magazine The Catalogue. 3 other artists including The Mekons. |
| "Kinnochio" | Ideal Guest House cassette | Secret Records | 1986 | |
| "Knit Your Own Balaclava" | Mindless Slaughter | Anhrefn Records | 1987 | Re-released in 1989 on "The Liberator" compilation LP |
| "Younger Moralists" | A Vile Peace | Peaceville Records | 1987 | |
| "Tearing Up Zoo" | The A.L.F. Is Watching | No Master's Voice | 1988 | |
| "Harry Goldthorpe" | Wild And Crazy Noise Merchants | 1 in 12 Records | 1990 | Benefit CD for the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford, UK |
| "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" | No Compromize | Delerium Records | 1996 | Benefit CD for the Campaign for Free Education; Cover of U2 song |
| "Homophobia (Live)" | Milkshake | timmi-kat ReCoRDS | 1998 | Benefit CD for the Harvey Milk Institute; Can be purchased here. |
| "Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole)" | Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole! | Columbia Records | 1998 | Official album for 1998 FIFA World Cup in France |
| "We Don't Go To God's House Anymore (Acoustic)" | No Ocean Separating Our Desire For Justice | Esan Ozenki Records | 1998 | Benefit CD for Mumia Abu-Jamal; Performed by Chumbawamba & Alabama 3 |
| "Unilever" | This Is The Animal Liberation Front | Mortarhate Records | 1998 | Benefit CD for the Animal Liberation Front |
| "Misbehave" | Return of the Read Menace | G7 Welcoming Committee Records/AK Press | 1999 | |
| "Mary Mary (Stigmata Mix)" | Stigmata - Original Soundtrack | Virgin | 1999 | Remix of song; Featured in opening credits of Stigmata |
| "Bella Ciao" | Article 14 | Irregular Records | 2001 | Benefit CD for the medical foundation for victims of torture in support of their work on behalf of asylum seekers |
| "Smart Bomb" | Dropping Food On Their Heads is Not Enough: Benefit For RAWA | Geykido Comet Records | 2002 | Benefit CD for the Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan |
| "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" | With a Little Help From My Friends | Pirate Records | 2002 | German benefit CD for dolphin aid; Beatles cover |
| "Without Reason Or Rhyme (Acoustic)" | Kitestringing: The Prison Literature Project Benefit | AK Press | 2006 | Benefit CD to raise money to buy books for prisoners |

## Related releases

| Artist | Song title(s) | Album title | Record label | Year | Notes |
| Chimp Eats Banana | | Cardboard Box | N/A | 1980 | Cassette only release by proto-Chumbawamba group |
| Boffo | "Garageland" | Bullshit Detector Volume 2 | Crass Records | 1982 | aka Boff Whalley; Cover of a song by The Clash |
| Passion Killers | "Start Again" | Bullshit Detector Volume 2 | Crass Records | 1982 | Featuring Chumbawamba members Mavis Dillon, Boff Whalley and Harry Hamer |
| Passion Killers & Chumbawamba | See here | Be Happy Despite It All | Sky and Trees | 1983 | Cassette only release; featuring hand coloured cover |
| Passion Killers | | It's Up To You | Sky and Trees | 1984 | Cassette only release |
| Passion Killers & Chumbawamba | | Let Us Show Them Our Hearts | Sky and Trees | 1984 | Cassette only release |
| Antidote | See here | Destroy Fascism! | Loony Tunes | 1986 | Features members of Chumbawamba & The Ex |
| Chumbawamba & Dona Nobis Pacem | See here | Still Fighting The Fences | Y.U.R.A. Kollektief | 1987 | Cassette only release |
| Sportchestra! | See here | 101 Songs About Sport | Agit Prop | 1988 | 2 LP release; Collaborations with various other musicians |
| Passion Killers | See here | Whoopee, We're All Gonna Die EP | Rugger Bugger Discs | 1991 | 7-inch EP of cover songs |
| Credit to the Nation | See here | "Sowing the Seeds of Hatred" | One Little Indian | 1994 | 12-inch single; Production and remixes by Boff, Harry & Neil |
| Oysterband | "Jam Tomorrow" & "One Green Hill" | "Jam Tomorrow / One Green Hill" | Running Man Records | 1996 | 12-inch single; Remixes by Chumbawamba |
| Negativland & Chumbawamba | See here | "The ABCs of Anarchism" EP | Seeland Records | 1999 | Collaboration that extensively samples Chumbawamba |

## Miscellaneous cassettes

* Another Year of the Same Old Shit (Sky and Trees, 1982)
* "Common Ground" (Sky and Trees, 1984) (Benefit single for striking miners)
* It Could Be So Much More (Acid Rain Products, 1984) (Joint with Flux of Pink Indians, recorded live at the Conway Hall, London)
* History Luddite, (Homebrew Tapes, 1984) (Live at Luton Library, May 1985)
* To Thine Own Self Be True (Sky and Trees, 1984)
* In the Cellar (Sky and Trees?, 1984)
* Know Your Enemy (Doomsday Tapes, 1986) (Live material recorded at the Bull and Gate, London)
* Feed the World, 1986 (Live material recorded in Birmingham)
* Un Toast a la Democratie, 1986 (Early live incarnation of "Never Mind the Ballots")
* There Comes a Time, 1987 (Recordings of two shows)
* Raising Heck with Chumbawamba (Peaceville Records, 1989) [recorded 1983/4](Live material plus songs by Simon Lanzon)

## Music videos

| Year | Video | Album |
| 1993 | "Enough Is Enough" | Anarchy |
| 1993 | "Timebomb" | Anarchy |
| 1994 | "Homophobia" | Anarchy |
| 1995 | "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses" | Swingin' with Raymond |
| 1997 | "Tubthumping" | Tubthumper |
| 1998 | "Amnesia" | Tubthumper |
| 1998 | "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" | non-album |
| 2000 | "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" | WYSIWYG |