Oi! The Album
Oi! The Album
History: Originally Released in 1980 on EMI Records Currently licensed to Captain Oi!
Info: The first of many subsequent Oi! comps compiled by Garry Bushell. The Captain Oi! re-release has replaced Cock Sparrer's "Sunday Stripper" with a newer version and Slaughter and The Dogs "Where have all the bootboys gone" with "Cranked Up Really High" due to licensing rights.
Featured Artists:Cockney Rejects
,Peter and The Test Tube Babies, The 4 Skins,
The Postmen, The Exploited, Terribe Twins,
Angelic Upstarts, Cock Sparrer,
Max Splodge & Desert Island Joe,
Slaughter and The Dogs,
and Barney and The Rubbles
Best Tracks:
Cockney Rejects - "Oi Oi Oi"/
Peter and The Test Tube Babies - "Rob a Bank"/
4 Skins - "Wonderful World" & "Chaos"/
Exploited - "Daily News" & "I Still Beleive in Anarchy"/
Slaughter & The Dogs - "Cranked Up Really High"/
Cock Sparrer - "Sunday Stripper"/
Angelic Upstarts - "Guns For The Afghan Rebels" & "Last Night
Another Soldier"
Rating:*****
Realaudio - "Rob a Bank" /Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Realaudio - "Last Night another Soldier" /Angelic Upstarts
Realaudio - "Oi Oi Oi"/ Cockney Rejects
Strength Thru Oi!
History: Originally Released By Decca in 1980.
Re-released (Bootleggged?) on Pure Impact
Info:
Featured Artists:
Garry Johnson, 4-Skins, The Strike, Infa Riot, Last Resort,
Criminal Class, Toy Dolls, Barney Rubble, Cock Sparrer,
Splodge, The Shaven Heads
Best Tracks
4 Skins - "1984" & "Sorry"/ The Strike - "Gang Warfare" & "Skinhead"/
Infa Riot - "Riot Riot" & "We Outnumber You"/ Last Resort - "Working
Class Kids" & "Johnny Barden"/ Toy Dolls - "She Goes To Fino's" &
"Deidre's a Slag"/ Cock Sparrer - "Taken For A Ride" & "Running Riot"/ Splodge - "We're Pathetique"/
Rating: ****
History:Originally Released in 1981 By Secret Records.
Currently licensed to Step-1, Get Back, and Captain Oi.
Info:
Featured Artists:
Garry Johnson, JJ All Stars, The Business, Infa Riot, The
Partisans, The Ejected, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Blitz, Last Resort, The Gonads, 4 Skins, Red Alert, Oi! The Comrade, Oi!
The Chorus
Best Tracks:
JJ All Stars - "Dambusters March"/ The Business - "Suburban Rebels"
& "Product"/ Infa Riot - "Each Dawn I Die"/ Partisans - "Arms Race"
& "No U Turns"/ The Ejected - "East End Kids" & "What Am I Gonna
Do?"/ Peter & The Test Tube Babies - "Transvestite" & "Maniac"/ Blitz - "Nation On fire" & "Youth"/ Last Resort "King Of The Jungle"/ Gonads - "Tuckers Ruckers Ain't No Suckers"/ 4 Skins - "Evil"/ Red Alert - "SPG"
Rating:*****
History:
Info:The fourth in the series. Features some Spoken
word from Atilla the Stockbroker, and your usual mixed bag
of ruck. Note - The Step-1 Re-release has replaced the Black
Flag track with the Scottish band The Strike's "Victims"
The second in the series, and the rarest to find
in its original LP form as it was pulled off the shelves
soon after its release.
Maybe it was due to the revalation that cover boy Nicky Crane
was discovered to be a member of the National
Front and his nationalist tattoos were airbrushed off for
the final product. I also heard that this LP was released
around the time of the famous Southall riot (Any historians
out there to correct me?). Now on to the contents. My biggest
beef with this album is the ratio of spoken word tracks
(3 By Garry Johnson, 2 by Barney Rubble and a chanting chorus by
The Shaven Heads.) You know the old saying "Less talk, More Rock."
My CD copy just reeks of being a bootleg
(No address , no acknowledgement of it originally appearing
on Decca)
Carry On Oi!
The third in the series. I think this one was the
biggest seller of the series. I'm glad that there's only
3 spoken word tracks to 16 fucking smoking punk/Oi! tracks.
ALL the music tracks on this album have been staples for almost
every one of Oi's
greatest hits type compilations. Personally this one is my favorite
of all the 6 "Oi!" compilation albums.
Oi!Oi! That's Yer Lot!
Originally Released in 1982 By Secret
Records
Currently licensed to Step-1