oi! Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/oi/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:56:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Sham 69 “Tell Us the Truth” https://vinylfromthevault.com/sham-69-tell-us-the-truth-1978-promo-copy-with-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sham-69-tell-us-the-truth-1978-promo-copy-with-4 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:34:09 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3622 Sham 69 “Tell Us the Truth” 1978. Promo copy with press info flyer and glossy b&w photo. Today, February 9th, is front man Jimmy Pursey’s birthday (b. 1955). The album reached #25 in the UK. Side A of Tell Us the Truth is a live recording of raw punk energy where “Pursey cajoles and bludgeons audiences into listening [...]

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]]> Sham 69 “Tell Us the Truth” 1978. Promo copy with press info flyer and glossy b&w photo. Today, February 9th, is front man Jimmy Pursey’s birthday (b. 1955). The album reached #25 in the UK. Side A of Tell Us the Truth is a live recording of raw punk energy where “Pursey cajoles and bludgeons audiences into listening to his band, arousing them from the usual inertia…into a frenzied enthusiastic mob” (from the press release). Allmusic reviewer Mark Deming says the live recording “captures the Cockney yob in his native environment, complete with football chants and a spontaneous chorus of “Knees Up, Mother Brown [at the end of “Borstal Breakout”].” It’s precisely this demographic that Sham 69 targets: again from the press release Pursey says, “A punk is a kid in Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Southampton who lives in a grimy industrial estate, wears an old jacket, dirty jeans, pumps, goes out at night, has a game of football on the green, throws a couple of bricks through a window for a bit of cheek, a kick. He likes the things likes, no fucking about…They’re the punks, they’re the kids that this was supposed to get over to.” The attitude, the sound, the chants all solidified Sham 69′s status as first gen Oi! rockers (really before the term was widespread as a musical descriptor).

Side B continues the young punk working class fury with seven studio tracks that decry the British class system (“Hey Little Rich Boy”) and generally the crap hand life has dealt the punks (“Family Life” and “Tell Us the Truth”).

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]]> 7647 Angelic Upstarts “I’m An Upstart” https://vinylfromthevault.com/angelic-upstarts-im-an-upstart-1979-limited-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angelic-upstarts-im-an-upstart-1979-limited-5 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:48:39 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3775 Angelic Upstarts “I’m An Upstart” 1979. Limited edition 12″ single b/w “Leave Me Alone.” Working class Brit oi! punk: fast, rough, political. Though associated with the skinhead movement in Britain, Angelic Upstarts music espoused anti-fasict and anti-racist views. “I’m An Upstart” appears on 1979′s Teenage Warning, the band’s first studio release, and the single charted at #31 [...]

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]]> Angelic Upstarts “I’m An Upstart” 1979. Limited edition 12″ single b/w “Leave Me Alone.” Working class Brit oi! punk: fast, rough, political. Though associated with the skinhead movement in Britain, Angelic Upstarts music espoused anti-fasict and anti-racist views.

“I’m An Upstart” appears on 1979′s Teenage Warning, the band’s first studio release, and the single charted at #31 in the UK. Its chorus is an anthemic rallying cry about the struggle to find individual identity and buck what they viewed as the oppressive class system of 1970′s Great Britain.

We don’t need to be clever to learn your lies
We only have to listen, open up our eyes
Try to be honest, get kicked in the face
But if you cheat you’re just a rat in the race

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

Seek out an identity
You alienate society
Face the facts, why not admit it
How can you be outrageous when your mother won’t allow it?

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

Seek out an identity
You alienate society
Face the facts, why not admit it
How can you be outrageous when your mother won’t allow it?

I’m an upstart
Hey!!
whatcha gonna do?
I’m an upstart
Listen!!
I’m talking to you!

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