Label / Distributor: Captain Oi / Plastic Head; Captain Oi
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 5032556127929
Additional notes
Album Notes: Documenting the trailblazing U.K. Oi band Cock Sparrer's brief 18-month stint on the Decca label, this compilation features its first single, "Runnin' Riot," as well as its entire debut album (which had previously only seen the light of day as a 2006 Spanish release), plus bonus tracks and a color booklet. The band's aggressive, boot-boy sound on the riotous "Trouble on the Terraces" and "What's It Like to Be Old" is tempered by its affinity with such classic 1960s bands as the Who and the Small Faces on cuts like the cheeky "Sunday Stripper," lending Cock Sparrer a distinction among many of its contemporaries.
Titles on disc 1
1.: We Love You
2.: Sister Suzie
3.: Platinum Blonde
4.: Taken For A Ride
5.: Again And Again
6.: Runnin' Riot
7.: Chip On My Shoulder
8.: Watcha Gonna Do About It
9.: Teenage Heart
10.: I Need A Witness
11.: Sunday Stripper (bonus track)
12.: Trouble On The Terraces (bonus track)
13.: What's It Like To Be Old (bonus track)
14.: Run For Cover (bonus track)
15.: What's It Like To Be Old (version 2/bonus track)
Advantages: Very varied collection from an often underrated act Disadvantages: The occasional sub-standard track
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Advantages: Two great bands one CD Disadvantages: Only around 30 minutes, Anti-Flag tracks can drag
...prefer the older punk buy it as you've got Your Buzzcocks and CockSparrer covers and Anti-Flag add that old spirit of how naughty are governments are.
Other BYO Split Series CD's:
Rancid/NOFX
Swingin' Utters/Youth Brigade
Leatherface/Hot Water Music
Other Bouncing Souls albums:
Anchors Aweigh
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Hopeless Romantic
Other Anti-Flag albums:
The Terror State
Underground Network
For Blood and Empire
Bouncing Souls:
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Advantages: Rocks the Ass Of Everything Else Disadvantages: Painfull Listening for 99% of People
...Industrial metal gods Ministry have returned with their side project Revolting Cocks first album in 10 years, and the first album to be released on their own Label 13th Planet Records. The reason for this hiatus was as front man Al Jorgensen put it they had ran out of beer at the party. The Revolting Cocks are infamous for perverse lyrics bordering upon the puerile, forget that statement, the lyrics in the past have been downright puerile and at times vile. This has caused the expected moral backlash Douglas Hurd tried to stop them performing in the UK by refusing the band work permits, and the PMRC put the song "No Devotion" on their blacklist, for a lot of folk antics like this by moral crusaders just heightens our interest.
So after 10 years the question is can the cocks still don their Stetsons and do it? Can they produce albums...
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