Sunday, July 25, 2010

100% British Oi!

Artist: Various
Title: 100% British Oi!
Release: 1997
Label: Captain Oi! Records

Track List:
Disc 1
1. ABH - Don't Mess With the SAS
2. Angelic Upstarts - Victory in Poland
3. Anti-Establishment- 1980's
4. Anti-Social - Official Hooligan
5. Attak- Today's Generation
6. Barbed Wire - The Age that Didn't Care
7. Blitz - Warriors
8. The Blood - Such Fun
9. The Burial - Friday Night
10. The Business - Product
11. Cockney Rejects - Beginning of the End
12. Cock Sparrer - Chip on My Shoulder
13. Combat 84 - Poseur
14. Condemned 84- Oi! Ain't Dead
15. Crack - Going Out
16. Fighting the System - Criminal Class
17. Crux - C. I. A.
18. Ejected - Have You Got 10p?
19. 5ive-O - Dr. Crippins
20. The 4-Skins - Sorry

Disc 2
1. Gonads - Jobs Not Jails
2. The Guttersnipes - Addicted to Love
3. Infa-Riot - Riot Riot
4. Intensive Care - Ghost Town
5. The Last Resort - Resort Bootboys
6. Menace - Screwed Up
7. The Oppressed - White Flag
8. The Partisans - 17 Years of Hell
9. Peter & The Test Tube Babies - Up Yer Bum
10. Prole - Generation Landslide
11. Red Alert - Take No Prisoners
12. Section-5 - For the Love of Oi!
13. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
14. Skin Deep - Football Violence
15. Slaughter & The Dogs - Situations
16. Splodgenessabounds - Pathetique
17. Strike - Skinhead
18. Subculture - Loud & Clear
19. Vicious Rumors - Anytime Day or Night
20. The Warriors - Horror Show

I'm not really a big oi fan. That doesn't mean I don't like what I've heard. It's just that where I'm from it's a pretty underrepresented subgenre of punk so it's not something I'm exposed to that often. As such I've never really made much of an effort to really delve in too deep into the world of shaved heads and boots (I'm more of a long hair indoor desk job kind of guy anyways). This compilation seems like as good a place to start as any based on what little I know.

I can't really comment on whether or not this compilation good. I mean I like it, but aside from Sham 69 there isn't anything else on here that I've heard more than a few songs of. And outside of this compilation the only oi band I've really heard is On File. I know how annoying it is when someone who knows next to nothing about a type of music that is important to you starts singing the praises of thoroughly mediocre bands that play that type of music and when asked don't know any of the genre defining bands. I think I'd run the risk of being that guy when it comes to oi. So I'll just say this, as someone who knows little about oi this is a pretty cool compilation. Big fans of oi may or may not like it, but they probably already know about it anyways.

Download: 100% British Oi! Disc 1 (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

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Download: 100% British Oi! Disc 2 (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

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