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Slap!

Studio album by

Chumbawamba

Released

1990

Recorded

1989

Genre

Length

46:20

Label

Agit-Prop (UK, 1990)

(UK, 1998)
Reprise (France)

Chumbawamba chronology

English Rebel Songs 1381-1984
(1988)

Slap!
(1990)

Shhh
(1992)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
DooDah	(favourable) ^[3]

Slap! is the fourth studio album by anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. A radical redefinition of the band's sound and attitude, the songs now inspires dancing more than moshing, and the lyrics are celebratory as opposed to victimist. The cover art is the popular kitsch painting Chinese Girl (1952) by Vladimir Tretchikoff.

Track listing

#	Song Name	Length	Notes
1	"Ulrike"	6:06	Ulrike Meinhof was Red Army Faction founder and left-wing author; contains a sample from the song "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" performed by Elvis Presley.
2	"Tiananmen Square"	5:23	About the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; contains a sample from Philip Glass' song "Serra Pelada" from Powaqqatsi.
3	"Cartrouble"	4:47	About American novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
4	"Chase PC's Flee Attack by Own Dog"	4:14
5	"Rubens Has Been Shot!"	3:56	About an incident in 1921 Dresden when fighting between workers and the German army led to damage to a Peter Paul Rubens painting in the Zwinger Gallery, as the reaction was more critical of the damage to artwork than the loss of life.
6	"Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up"	7:10	Different version, titled "I Never Gave Up" released as single in 1992; inspired by the Primo Levi novel Moments of Reprieve, about life in National Socialist concentration camps.
7	"Slap!"	6:10	About former MP Bernadette Devlin's assault on MP Reginald Maudling, whose policies towards Northern Ireland contributed to the Bloody Sunday incident.
8	"That's How Grateful We Are"	6:16	About the bad working conditions in Soviet-era Hungary that led to the short-lived Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the destruction of a statue of Iosif Stalin, as a metaphor for the conditions of the working class around the world.
9	"Meinhof"	2:14	Instrumental reprise of "Ulrike".

Personnel

Lou Watts – vocals, guitar
Dunstan Bruce – vocals, percussion, soprano saxophone
Harry Hamer – drums, percussion
Alice Nutter – vocals
Danbert Nobacon – vocals
Boff Whalley – guitar, vocals, clarinet
Cobie Laan – live recording
Mavis Dillan – bass, trumpet, vocals
Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon – keyboards, accordion, piano

Additional personnel

Alan Wilkinson – alto and baritone saxophones
Neil Ferguson – keyboards
Dill – whine
Dere – woof
Mia – vocals
Tanja (formerly Tania) – mouth organ, vocals

Also appearing on the album are Carl Douglas, Elvis Presley, Mark E. Smith, Dagmar Krause, Philip Glass, Adam Ant, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, George Gershwin, Penny Rimbaud, Jake Burns, Rob 'n' Raz, Lenny Bruce, Muzsikás Ensemble, Mark Perry, Gang of Four, and Poly Styrene.

References

^ Fuoco, Christina (1998). "Chumbawamba". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 234-235.
^ McDonald, Steven. Slap! at AllMusic
^ DooDah review

v t e Chumbawamba
Boff Whalley Danbert Nobacon Lou Watts Dunstan Bruce Alice Nutter Harry Hamer Mavis Dillon Paul Greco Jude Abbott Neil Ferguson Phil Moody
Studio albums	Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records Never Mind the Ballots English Rebel Songs Slap! Shhh Anarchy Swingin' with Raymond Tubthumper WYSIWYG Readymades Un A Singsong and a Scrap The Boy Bands Have Won ABCDEFG
Soundtrack albums	Revengers Tragedy
Live albums	Showbusiness! Get On with It
Compilation albums	Uneasy Listening
Extended plays	Portraits of Anarchists The ABCs of Anarchism In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher
Singles	"Revolution" "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" "Enough Is Enough" "Timebomb" "Homophobia" "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses!" "Tubthumping" "Amnesia" "Drip Drip Drip" "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)" "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)"
Other songs	"Tony Blair" "Her Majesty"
Video releases	"Going, Going"
Related articles	Discography

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