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kleinbl00  ·  1333 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Secret Anarcho-Punk History of Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual

    In the liner photographs of the Chumbawamba album Readymades, Boff Whalley is seen to be reading a copy of The Manual. It is a reference to Chumbawamba's earlier success with their hit single, "Tubthumping".

https://freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-by-the-klf/

    Other than achieving a Number One hit single we offer you nothing else. There will be no endless wealth. Fame will flicker and fade and sex will still be a problem. What was once yours for a few days will now enter the public domain.

    In parts of this manual we will patronise you. In others we will cheat you. We will lie to you but we will lie to ourselves as well. You will, however, see through our lies and grasp the shining truth within. We will trap ourselves in our own pretensions. Our insights will be shot through with distort rays and we will revel in our own inconsistencies. If parts get too boring just fast forward – all the way to the end if need be.