samedi 18 mai 2019

V/A - STRENGTH THRU OI!


Le second volume de la série initiée par Garry Bushell et Sound Magazine parait en 1981 chez Deram. En dépit de la volonté farouche d'affirmer une identité streetpunk et la qualité certaine de cette compilation, Garry Bushell commet deux erreurs: La première en utilisant la photo de Nicky Crane, skinhead d'ultra-droite bien connu pour ses violences sur les émigrés (sera renié par ses pairs pour son homosexualité cachée le jour et débridée la nuit, acteur dans des films pornos gays... décèdera du SIDA en 93). La seconde, le titre "Strength Thru Oi!" dérivé du précepte nazi "Strength Thru Joy" (Kraft Durch Freude) qui vise à contrôler le temps libre, les loisirs du peuple. Bushell a assuré ne pas connaitre Nicky Crane et que le titre était inspiré de l'album "Strength Thru Joy" des Skids...Mais la pilule ne passera pas et des émeutes ne tardent pas autour des concerts impliquant les groupes inclus dans la série comme à Southall, où l'Hambrough Tavern qui hébergeait un concert des 4-Skins, Last Resort et Business a été incendiée...Mais pour le reste, la controverse mise de côté, faut tout de même admettre que ce disque est une fuckin' tranche d'histoire, de rage et d'illusions, un produit purement brit souvent copié mais jamais égalé...


Dead end Yobs got football, boxing or rock n roll,
if they're any good at, to save 'em from the dole,
but even if ya make it, certain people will say,
you're still no good and you'll be no other way.
'cos ya don't talk proper, ya accent ain't true blue,
born in a house in Hackney, with an outside loo.
Dead end yobs, - kids like me and you,
Dead end yobs, - just do what you wanna do,
Dead end yobs, - we don't any notice of you.
We could be gangsters, we could rob a bank,
we could join the army, we could drive a tank,
no hope, no future, when you're down and out,
when you're at the bottom, nobody hears you shout.
an authority, keeps knocking on ma head,
from the day you're born, 'til the day you're dead.
Dead end yobs, - kids like me and you,
Dead end yobs, - they tell us what to do,
Middle class people, look down on me and you.
The school report read, he's a dead end yob,
might just make it, in a dead end job,
so I broke all the rules, in and out of school,
got into trouble, nothing else to do,
and when they nick us, don't they bleeding' love,
sod the system, got to rise above it.
Dead end yobs, - kids like me and you,
Dead end yobs, - always at the back of the queue,
It's us v them, the middle class and the boys in blue.


V/A - STRENGTH THRU OI! (1981)

A1_Garry Johnson - National Service
A2_4-Skins - 1984
A3_Strike - Gang Warfare
A4_Infa-Riot - Riot Riot 
A5_Garry Johnson - Dead End Yobs
A6_Last Resort - Working Class Kids
A7_Criminal Class - Blood On The Streets
A8_Toy Dolls - She Goes To Fino's
A9_Barney Rubble - Best Years Of Our Lives
A10_Cock Sparrer - Taken For A Ride (We Think You Don'T)
A11_Infa Riot - We Out Number You
A12_Garry Johnson - The New Face Of Rock'N'Roll

B1_Barney Rubble - Beans
B2_Splodge - We're Pathetique
B3_4-Skins - Sorry
B4_Cock Sparrer - Running Riot
B5_Last Resort - Johnny Barden
B6_Splodge - Isubaleene (Part 2)
B7_Criminal Class - Running Away
B8_Strike - Skinhead
B9_Toy Dolls - Deidre's A Slag
B10_Shaven Heads - Harbour Mafia Mantra (An Acapella Delight)

1 commentaire:

  1. That aggro skinhead on the front cover was notorious at the time as a right wing thug but it later emerged that he was secretly homosexual which saw him ostracized from the nazi skin community. Karma rules!

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