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"Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)", is a song released by the British anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba on 11 August 1997. It was their most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and peaked at number six on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100.〔()〕 At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. ==Overview== The term "tubthumper" is commonly used for someone, often a politician, seeming to "jump on the bandwagon" with a populist idea. The liner notes on the album ''Tubthumper'', from which "Tubthumping" was the first single, put the song in a radical context, quoting a UK anti-road protester, Paris 1968 graffiti, details about the famous McLibel case and the short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". "Tubthumping" was placed at number 12 in ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 20 Most Annoying Songs. Conversely, "Tubthumping" was voted as the second-best single of 1997 on ''The Village Voice''s Pazz & Jop annual critics' poll, after Hansons "MMMBop". The cover art for the single is based on the logo for the manufacturing company of Arm & Hammer. The song consists of lead vocals by Dunstan Bruce and Lou Watts, and features Jude Abbott on trumpet. The band has performed the song with alternative lyrics on numerous occasions. When performing on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'', a chant of "Free Mumia Abu-Jamal" accompanied only by a drumbeat preceded the final chorus. At the 1998 BRIT Awards, the band performed the song with the added line "New Labour sold out the dockers, just like they'll sell out the rest of us" in protest at the New Labour government's refusal to support the Liverpool dockers' strike. A French version of the song was produced for the French Canadian market. The song was played as the Flight Day 4 "wake up call" during the final Space Shuttle STS-135 mission and flight of Atlantis in July 2011 for astronaut Sandy Magnus. The band received an offer of $1.5 million from Nike to use the song in a World Cup advertisement.〔Klein, Naomi ''No Logo'' New York. Picador. 2000. pg 301〕 According to the band it took about "thirty seconds to say no."〔 They did, however, license the song to American video game company Electronic Arts for use as the opening theme of the game ''World Cup '98'', and in television advertisements for the National Accident Helpline, a profit-making firm specialising in personal injury lawyers. It featured in the ''Knocked Down'' advertisement for the National Accident Helpline in 2012 which features the Underdog character. It was also used as a theme song for ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''. The album version of the song opens with a sample of a monologue performed by Pete Postlethwaite in the 1996 film ''Brassed Off''. In 2011, the UK Independence Party used the song at a political conference to accompany the arrival of Nigel Farage. The band stated that this was a "gross misuse of a band's music", described their own reaction as "total and absolute outrage and horror", and said that UKIP was "a grubby little organisation" which was "stealing (the) song to use for their own ends".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tubthumping」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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