Slap!

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Slap!
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Studio album by
Released1990
Recorded1989
Genre
Length46:20
Label Agit-Prop (UK, 1990)
(UK, 1998)
Reprise (France)
Chumbawamba chronology
English Rebel Songs 1381-1984
(1988)
Slap!
(1990)
Shhh
(1992)
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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.

Contents

Track listing

#Song NameLengthNotes
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"5:23About the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; contains a sample from Philip Glass' song "Serra Pelada" from Powaqqatsi .
3"Cartrouble"4:47About American novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
4"Chase PC's Flee Attack by Own Dog"4:14
5"Rubens Has Been Shot!"3:56About 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"7:10Different 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!"6:10About 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"6:16About 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"2:14Instrumental reprise of "Ulrike".

Personnel

Additional personnel

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.

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References

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  2. McDonald, Steven. Slap! at AllMusic
  3. DooDah review