She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy
"She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" | ||||
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Single by Chumbawamba | ||||
from the album WYSIWYG | ||||
Released | 2000 | |||
Recorded | 2000 at Woodlands Studio, Castleford, UK | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, pop | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Writer(s) | Chumbawamba | |||
Producer(s) | Chumbawamba & Neil Ferguson | |||
Chumbawamba singles chronology | ||||
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"She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" is the only single from Chumbawamba's album WYSIWYG.
A version by former Eurovision Song Contest entrants, and fellow West Yorkshire band Black Lace was also recorded in response to UK's BBC Radio 1 declining to play the original "too pop" version. The Black Lace version can be streamed here.
Track listings
US CD single (Republic, 2000)
- "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy (Radio Edit)"
- "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy (Album Version)"
European CD single (EMI, 2000)
- "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy (Single Edit)"
- "Just a Form of Music"
- "Lest We Forget" (featuring John Jones from Oysterband on vocal)
- "Passenger List for Doomed Flight #1721"
Music video
A music video was released to promote the single. It can be seen here.
"Passenger List"
The B-side track "Passenger List for Doomed Flight #1721" can be downloaded for free from the band's website here. The song lyrics consist of a list of the names of many politicians, musicians and other public figures that have drawn Chumbawamba's ire:
- Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
- Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder
- Jack Straw, British Member of Parliament
- Billy Graham, US televangelist
- Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor
- Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
- Boris Yeltsin, Russian President
- Mick Hucknall, Simply Red singer
- Tipper Gore, US Parents Music Resource Center co-founder
- Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland unionist leader
- Pauline Hanson, Right-wing Australian politician
- Courtney Love, American musician
- Garry Bushell, English Music critic
- Paul Condon, London Metropolitan Police commissioner
- Ally McBeal, US TV show character
- Jean-Marie Le Pen, French right-wing National Front founder
- Janet Reno, US Attorney General
- Bill Clinton, US President
- Albert F. Sabo, judge for Mumia Abu-Jamal's trial
- Bono, of U2
- Howard Stern, US Shock jock
- General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
- Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers' lyricist and bassist
- Rupert Murdoch, International media mogul
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