VA - Barricades And Broken Dreams: An International Tribute To Conflict

If, like me, you were a wee whippersnapper (or bigoted snob) when the ferociously political Punk band Conflict were inciting riots & kick-starting a resistance culture then this CD forms an essential guide to one of the most ‘important’ of the UK’s Anarcho Punk bands. As hugely influential as they were controversial, Conflict inspired thousands to question where they stood in life, to reject authority & effect a real change in the world around them. This monumental CD brings together 28 bands from around the world and it’s only when you scroll down the list, from Italy’s Kafka to Pittsburgh’s Aus Rotten to French Punks Disruptive Element to Poland’s Sunrise that you begin to realise the profound effect that Conflict had on world-wide Punk. At this point you may still be thinking ‘well I haven’t heard of ‘em so they can’t have been that important’. (Yeah, yeah I know some of you older readers are staring in disbelief!). But in the 80s their records went straight into the top of the Indie charts, at one time causing DJ Alan Jones to note that this was one band that would “never be stocked in Woolies next to the pick’n’mix.” After preaching intense insurrectionary anarchist politics at their gigs they stirred their audiences into a riotous frenzy. Their sell-out Brixton Academy show made headlines as 52 arrests were made. Leaflets with maps of Brixton showing ‘targets’ such as McDonalds were handed out to the crowd. And they were subsequently banned from the UK.

Barricades And Broken Dreams: An International Tribute To Conflict (2013)

01 - Freebase - Ungovernable Force
02 - Statement - Meat Means Murder
03 - Aus Rotten - Berkshire Cunt
04 - Four Letter Word - Mighty And Superior
05 - Medulla Nocte - Neither Is This
06 - Kismet HC - 1824 Overture
07 - Disruptive Element - From Protest To Resistance
08 - In The Shit - Exploitation
09 - LabRat - The Serenade Is Dead
10 - Engage - The Arrest
11 - Sunrise - A Message To Who?
12 - Silent Season - Tough Shit Mickey
13 - Rotunda - Punk Innit?
14 - Human Error - Positive Junk / The System Maintains
15 - Egg Raid - War Games
16 - Nu Speak - To Whom It May Concern
17 - Kafka - Whichever Way You Want It
18 - Wat Tyler - Young Parasites
19 - Cracked Cop Skulls - 1824 Overture
20 - Unique Freak - Cord Is Cut
21 - Kraynium - No Island Of Dreams
22 - I Oppose Thee - This Is The A.L.F.
23 - Co-Exist - Mighty And Superior
24 - Dogshit Sandwich - A Piss In The Ocean
25 - Driller Killer - Neither Is This
26 - Cornflakes - Ungovernable Force
27 - Litmus Green - Exploitation
28 - M.T.A. - Cruise

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