Drip Drip Drip

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"Drip Drip Drip"
Chumbawamba Drip Drip Drip.jpg
Single by Chumbawamba
from the album Tubthumper
B-side"Drip Drip Drip (album version)"
Released1998
GenrePop rock, electropop[1]
Length5:08 (album version)
3:43 (single edit)
LabelEMI (UK)
Universal (US)
Songwriter(s)Chumbawamba
Producer(s)Chumbawamba, Neil Ferguson[2]
Chumbawamba singles chronology
"Amnesia"
(1998) 		"Drip Drip Drip"
(1998) 		"Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)"
(1998)

"Drip Drip Drip" (sometimes stylised as "Drip, Drip, Drip") is a song by British alternative band Chumbawamba, from their eighth studio album, Tubthumper.[3]

Composition[]

"Drip Drip Drip" is an alternative rock song with a speed of 105 beats per minute.[4] It is written in the key of C.[5] The album version of the song is five minutes and eight seconds in length, whereas the single version is three minutes and forty-three seconds long.[3][4][6]

The song's lyrics have been noted for their "political subtext."[6]

Release[]

The song was initially included on the group's eighth studio album, Tubthumper.[3] In May 1998, it was released as the third and final single from Tubthumper in the United States in 1998, as a follow-up to "Amnesia," which had reached number 1 on the United States' Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart on 9 May 1998.[7][8] It was made available as a cassette single from Republic/Universal.[6]

Whereas the group's two previous singles — "Tubthumping" and "Amnesia" — had peaked within the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, "Drip Drip Drip" never charted in the United Kingdom.[9]

Despite the failure of "Amnesia" on modern rock radio stations, Universal Records still released "Drip, Drip, Drip" to the stations; it received little play.[10]

Critical reception[]

Larry Flick of Billboard magazine called the song, which he thought "oozes with a political subtext" and was "clever," though he felt the song didn't have what it took to be a hit and that the "instrumental energy doesn't always quite match the intensity of the vocals and chants."[6] The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music commented that the song, as well as "The Good Ship Lifestyle" and "Mary Mary", "lay(s) a strong bite in the lyric".[11]

Remix[]

The song was reworked on "The ABC's of Anarchism." The new version, titled "Smelly Water," discussed water pollution.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Chumbawamba Drip, Drip, Drip Composed by Chumbawamba". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ^ "CHUMBAWAMBA - DRIP, DRIP, DRIP (translated)". Austrian Charts. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Chumbawamba Tubthumper". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "BPM for Drip, Drip, Drip". GetSongBPM. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Song Key of Drip Drip Drip". GetSongKey. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Flick, Larry (20 June 1998). "Singles". Billboard.
  7. ^ "Chumbawamba Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Latest Chumbawamba Single Hits Stores". MTV. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  9. ^ "UK Albums Chart history". Official Singles. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  10. ^ Carter, Kevin; Coveney, Janine; Ross, Sean (18 April 1998). "Radio, Labels Debate 'Ownership'". Billboard. 110 (16): 70–71.
  11. ^ Larkin, Colin (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music. Virgin. p. 89. ISBN 0753504278.
  12. ^ Wolk, Douglas (July 1999). "Review: The ABC's of Anarchism". CMJ New Music Monthly (71): 68.

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