VA - Oi! 40 Years Untamed

 

Pirates Press Records is a punk label from San Francisco, California, USA.

It has been forty years since the release of Oi! - The Album. Four decades of laughter, defiance and working class rebellion. To celebrate its ruby anniversary, Garry Bushell - who put together that very first Oi! compilation in 1980 - has teamed up with Pirates Press Records to present this superb new album: Oi! 40 Years Untamed. This hard-hitting collection features exclusive, unheard songs from the Oi! pioneers, and original tracks from younger, up-and coming bands from around the world. Oi was a form of raw working class punk that developed in England as a reaction against the dilution of punk's original ethics and energy. Socialist poet Garry Johnson says: Oi! wasn't about fashions or hair-cuts or dodgy politics. Oi! was the reality of punk mythology. It was the sound of the backstreets, of untamed hooligan youth carving out their own future in a system where the odds were stacked against them. Former rock press writer, Bushell says: I saw Oi! as Springsteen's lyrics come true - 'the hungry and the hunted explode in rock 'n' roll bands'. It was fresh and exhilarating. That's why I put the first Oi! sampler together. The mainstream media never understood Oi!. How could they? The Oi! bands and fans came from places they didn't want to go. As early as 1977, street punks were disillusioned with rip-off Kings Road boutiques and the fact that many punk heroes were living a lie. The Cockney Rejects and the Angelic Upstarts were the start of something new, raw and authentic. Bushell called it Oi!. The Oi! bands did not hate bands like the Clash and Gen X. But they had an authenticity that the punk pioneers could only dream of. Consequently the Oi! sound was harder, the choruses bigger, the anger more real. Its message remains the same: The kids, united, will never be defeated.

Oi! 40 Years Untamed (2020)

01 - Cock Sparrer - Take It On The Chain

02 - Crashed Out - Against All Odds

03 - Bishops Green - We Decide

04 - Stomper 98 - Bessere Zeiten

05 - Doug & The Slugz - Friday In Old Town

06 - Lion's Law - Pathfinder

07 - The Old Firm Casuals - Noddy Holder (Bootboy Mix)

08 - The Drowns - One More Pint

09 - Cockney Rejects - Wish You Weren't Here

10 - The Last Resort - New Disease

11 - The Gonads - Federales

12 - Prole - Sawdust Ceasars

13 - Gimp Fist - One Shot

14 - The Business - You Know My Name

15 - NOi!se - Life In The Shade

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