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ALBUM\nREVIEW: The Outcasts – 1978-85 (Captain Oi!\/Cherry Red)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

One of the best punk bands to come out of Northern Ireland have all their original releases brought together in a 3CD set by Cherry Red subsidiary Captain Oi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nThe\nlate ’70s contemporaries of Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones,\nRudi and Protex have been compiled before, but this is the first time\nall the songs their original incarnation recorded have been available\nin one set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It consists of two studio albums, a mini album, all their singles, tracks from compilations, their swansong EP, plus two sessions recorded for legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe\nOutcasts story is one of unfulfilled promise, overcoming setbacks\nwhich would have finished lesser bands, and a career spent hopping\nfrom one label to another. It didn’t stop them making some great\nmusic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDisc\none is their first album, Self Conscious Over You<\/strong>. Released in\nAugust 1979, for me it’s never really had the credit it deserves as\none of THE<\/strong> greatest punk debuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original 11 tracks are expanded to 17 by the inclusion of all the sides from their first two singles (including different, rough and ready versions of You’re A Disease and Love is For Sops, which were re-recorded for the album), and the first version of The Cops Are Comin’, their contribution to the four-track Battle Of the Bands EP on Good Vibrations Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe\nalbum, also on Good Vibrations, opens with the glorious title track –\nan example of how The Outcasts could sing with real conviction about\neveryday things like falling in love while The Troubles were raging\naround them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nLove\nYou For Never and The Princess Grew Up A Frog are just as good, while\nthe aforementioned You’re A Disease was their answer to the religious\ndivide which was proving so divisive in their homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nPerhaps\nbest of all on the first disc is Justa Nother Teenage Rebel \u2013 the\ndouble A-side of the Love Is For Sops single. Its insistent, dominant\nbassline and fuzzy guitar make it the perfect angsty anthem for\ndisaffected youth everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDisc\ntwo is second album Blood And Thunder,<\/strong> which belatedly emerged\nin November 1982 on Abstract Records, by which time more than half\nits 12 tracks had been released on singles and an EP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nIt\nwas a tempestuous time for the band, who acquired a second drummer\nfor their April 1981 single Magnum Force\/Gangland Warfare, then\nsuffered the trauma of losing their original one, when Colin Cowan\nwas tragically killed in a car accident just over a year later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThere’s\nno doubt this album is better produced than the debut, and that the\nband had become better players, but it lacked the raw excitement and\nnaivety which made the first so thrilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cover of The Glitter Band’s Angel Face<\/strong> was released as a single, which makes sense when you consider many of their fans would have grown up listening to glam rock. It still failed to give them the commercial breakthrough it was aiming for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThis\ndisc is filled out with five bonus tracks, including the excellent\nNowhere Left To Run (whose instrumental version Nowhere would make a\ngreat spaghetti western soundtrack), and Ruby, their take on the Mel\nTillis song made famous by country crooner Kenny Rogers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nBy\nthe time The Outcasts released their final mini album Seven Deadly\nSins<\/strong> on the New Rose label in 1984 the fast-changing music scene\nhad moved on. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their attempts to keep up saw them issue a five-track release whose title track was more rockabilly than punk, and also included a cover of David Bowie’s Five Years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDisc\nthree is rounded out by their final release, three songs from the\n12in version of The Stooges’ 1969, an edited version of the same\nsong, and a couple of alternative versions. Finally, and happily for\ncompletists, there’s eight Blood And Thunder-era songs they recorded\nover two Peel sessions in 1981 and 1982 \u2013 the first time they’ve\nbeen officially released. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThese\nversions of songs like Gangland Warfare, Machine Gun and Magnum Force\nare better in many ways than the ‘proper’ recorded versions, but I\nwish he’d invited The Outcasts in earlier in their career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s perhaps fitting that the final disc closes with the Peel version of Frustration, a track from their very first single, which is represented here with versions from each phases of their career. They never did better the first one \u2013 and frustration sums up The Outcasts in a nutshell. 7.5\/10.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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