Drip Drip Drip

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

"Drip Drip Drip"
Single by Chumbawamba
from the album Tubthumper
B-side"Drip Drip Drip (album version)"
Released1998
FormatCD single
GenrePop rock, electropop[1]
Length3:57 (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)

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. "Chumbawamba Tubthumper". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. "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. Flick, Larry. "Singles". Billboard. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  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. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  11. Larkin, Colin (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music. Virgin. p. 89. ISBN 0753504278. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  12. Wolk, Douglas (July 1999). "Review: The ABC's of Anarchism". CMJ New Music Monthly (71): 68. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
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