The Last Resort/Combat 84 "Death Or Glory/Charge Of The 7th Cavalry"

History: Released On CD by Step-1 1993,

Info: Holy Fuck! You've got 31 tracks of some hard nosed no b/s Oi. It kicks off with 8 tracks from the Last Resort. The first 4 tracks are from the first line up with Saxby on vocals singing about beating people down, Tories, Iranian terrorists, wreaking havoc, and living on "8 Pounds A Week" The other 4 have Roi on vox singing "Stormtroopers In Sta-press" "Resort Boot Boys" and "King Of The Jungle" and closing off is a studio goof off out take "Oi Oi Skinhead."

The next 11 tracks are some slick studio recordings by the anti pinko Combat 84 singing about their contempt for poseurs, psychos, rapists, unemployment, Argentinians, Tories and Commies. Yes the famous "Right To Choose" is on this with famous line "When you're on your knees with a gun to your head it's better to be dead than fucking red" and Rapist with "Bring back capital punishment! Hang em high, you watch those fucking bastards die" That'll get the commies crying for their mommies.

Finally the last 11 tracks are from Combat 84's "Charge Of The 7th Cavalry" LP. They're recorded live at 2 locations doing what they know best without any slick production values. So don't raise your expectation of hearing some quality assed crap. Oh well you can't go wrong with 2 albums for the price of one with 31 songs altogether. What a fucking value!

Best Tracks:Tracks All The Last Resort Songs/ Combat 84: Right To Choose/ Rapist/ Barry Prudom/ Violence/ Combat 84/ Trouble/ World War (Live)

Rating:*****

The Cockney Rejects: "Greatest Hits Volume 1"

History: Originally Released in 1980 By EMI/Zonophone Records; Rereleased by Dojo

Info:This album followed their big hit singles "Flares N Slippers," "I'm Not A Fool" and "Bad Man." It was recorded around November and December 1979 in 4 days and produced by Sham 69's Jimmy Pursey.

Included is a rerecorded version of "Police Car" (From The "Flares n Slippers" ep) which kinda blows chunks compared to the original. There's some good solid numbers on this album which also appeared on singles (Like "East End" and "The New Song") but a few of the rest are crude jams which don't stand up well to the rest. The album wraps up with "Where The Hell Is Babylon" which begins with a straight up reggae intro and goes into a great sing-a-long ruck anthem. You got to hear it to beleive it. As a bonus with Dojo reissue, the songs "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (The Official West Ham UTD song) and "West Side Boys" are tossed in.

Best Tracks: I'm Not A Fool / Headbanger/ Bad Man/ East End/ Join The Rejects/ Fighting In The Street/ Where The Hell Is Babylon Rating:***3/4

The Cockney Rejects: "Greatest Hits Volume 2"

History: Originally Released By EMI/Zonophone Records; Rereleased by Dojo

Info:This album was released in October 1980 and recorded in 14 days.

In my humblelest opinion this is my fave Rejects album? Why? Cuz all the songs are much better written and performed than their first album . They all stand up much better on their own quite well . For instance "Oi! Oi! Oi!" which became the opening track to "Oi! The Album" and more great anthemic songs with great sing-a-long choruses like "War On The Terraces," and "The Greatest Cockney Rip Off." My fave song on this album is "The Rocker" with its killer guitar solos. The Dojo reissue comes with the songs "We Are The Firm" and "15 Nights" as a bonus. Yeah!

Best Tracks: War On The Terraces/ In The Underworld/ Oi! Oi! Oi!/ Hate Of The City/ With The Boys/ The Rocker/ The Greatest Cockney Rip Off/ We Can Do Anything

Rating:*****

Blitz: "All Out Attack" LP

History: Recordings originally released by No Future from 1981 to 1982. Rereleased by Get Back.

Info: This album contains tracks from the Voice Of A Generation LP, All Out Attack EP, Never Surrender EP and Warriors EP. There's a total of 20 tracks of some of the best (Undeniably the Best to some individuals) brickwall punk from a band that a lot of bands name drop on their list of influences . Included is a rerecorded version of "Nation On Fire" from their first LP which sounds much different than their contribution to the "Carry On Oi!" compilation. No gentle shit here kids! Can you beleive in 1983 these guys turned into a new wave band?

Best Tracks:Someone's Gonna Die/ Fight To Live/ 45 Revolutions/ Voice Of A Generation/ Nation On Fire/ Your Revolution/ Scream/ 4Q/ Escape/ Never Surrender/ Razors In The Night/ Youth

Rating:*****

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