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Someone's Always Telling You...

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Chumbawamba ‎– (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave Agit Prop ‎– AGIT 666 Vinyl, 12", Maxi-Single, UK, 1992 info Ahem. Ok, let's deal with a few things up front.  1. Yes, they are the same band that did that one song in the late '90s .  2. No, that isn't their only song. They were together for 30 years, roughly 15 on either side of their one bonafide international hit. Started as a punk band before discovering samples and dance music and ended their career as a legit folk music group, but had a good long run as an anarchist pop band in the middle.  3. Yeah, I got it- you remember their song being  about drinking booze and getting up again . But I swear, they spent decades as serious radicals playing music . They funded and supported 100 causes, have the only 1990s pop music video I know of about shooting racists , and kept trying to figure out what a pop band could contribute to the movements . (It's not in the video, but at that same awards show, after