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regarded the album as "transient punk-style agitprop with announcements," awarding the album two honourable mention stars, and praising "Timebomb" and "Mouthful of Shit" as highlights. Gina Morris gave it 2 out of 5 in the June 1994 issue of
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Its graphic cover, depicting a baby's head emerging from a vagina, prompted the record to be banned from some shops and stocked in plain sleeves in others. The
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and called it "disappointingly uninspired, pretty rather than poignant and flooded with lame clichés and, for the most part, feeble subjects."
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version, as well as the Japanese physical edition of the album replaces the baby picture with a painting of red roses.
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tells him "They're calling you an anarchist now", to which Dylan replies "Give the anarchist a cigarette".
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The album was a commercial success, giving the group their first top-40 album on the
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a photo of a baby’s head emerging from a vagina. “Chumbawamba” is written in red all-caps on a blue background in the upper left corner; “Anarchy” is written in the same style in the lower right corner.
Studio album
Chumbawamba
Genre
Alternative rock
anarcho-punk
pop
Label
One Little Indian
London
Producer
Chumbawamba
Shhh
Showbusiness!
Singles
Enough Is Enough
Timebomb
Homophobia
anarcho-punk
band
Chumbawamba
homophobia
strikes
fascism
Spotify
iTunes
Allmusic
Robert Christgau
(2-star Honorable Mention)
(2-star Honorable Mention)

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