{"id":9416,"date":"2023-07-18T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:31:01","slug":"oi-the-singles-gathers-the-best-and-the-rest-of-the-original-street-punk-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=9416","title":{"rendered":"Oi! The Singles gathers the best and the rest of the original street-punk movement&#8217;s 7ins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">BOXSET REVIEW: Oi! The Singles (Captain Oi!\/Cherry Red Records)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than any other musical genre, Oi! has been unfairly maligned over the years, and has had to reinvent itself in a bid to rid itself of unwanted connotations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Punk&#8217;s younger brother &#8211; snottier, grittier and born in council estates and tower blocks rather than art schools &#8211; emerged, briefly flourished and then scurried back under its rock amid a storm of negative press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s worked hard to rid itself of right-wing associations over the years, and, largely thanks to the scene in the US, has successfully re-branded itself as street-punk, and amassed a healthy following worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the pioneers who made the music in the first place and brought its boisterous sound to us are the subjects of this 101-track boxset, spread over four CDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s accompanied, as ever, by the usual in-depth Captain Oi! booklet, full of info and pictures of what are now fairly scarce and pricey records (I still wince when I recall how little I sold some of my originals for\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The set included the A and B-sides of 37 Oi!-related singles released between 1977 (before Oi! was even a thing) and 1985 (when it had largely disappeared in the wake of the infamous Hamborough Tavern riot which marked the beginning of the scene&#8217;s tabloid-driven demise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It kicks off with<em> Runnin&#8217; Riot<\/em>, the first single by <strong>Cock Sparrer<\/strong>, who are now rightly regarded as godfathers of the whole street-punk movement (and recently had their 50th anniversary marked by their label Pirates Press records with a special tribute album, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=8394\">reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s more oi! royalty here, in the shape of <strong>Cockney Rejects<\/strong>, <strong>The Business<\/strong>, <strong>The 4-Skins<\/strong>, and <strong>The Last Resort<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just in case you&#8217;re thinking Oi! was a strictly London thing, there&#8217;s strong representation here from &#8216;up north&#8217; too, with some stonewall classics from Derbyshire&#8217;s <strong>Blitz<\/strong>, who did more than most to bring punks and skins together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From even further north we&#8217;ve got the first two <strong>Angelic Upstarts<\/strong> singles (<em>Liddle Towers<\/em> and <em>I&#8217;m An Upstart<\/em>) and a strong contribution from their North East neighbours <strong>Red Alert<\/strong> (<em>In Britain<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Oi! The Singles<\/em> is something of a companion set to <em>Oi! The Albums<\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=4428\"> (reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>), and <em>Oi! The Albums Vol 2<\/em> (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=7270\">reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>), and like those collections, some of the bands labelled as Oi! leave me mystified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Menace<\/strong>, <strong>Crux<\/strong>, <strong>The Crack<\/strong>, <strong>Antisocial <\/strong>and <strong>Case <\/strong>were all surely punk bands, rather than Oi!, and there&#8217;s no sign of <strong>Sham 69<\/strong>, who can be considered as much of an early influence as <strong>Cock Sparrer<\/strong> and <strong>Slaughter &amp; The Dogs<\/strong>, who are both included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a third of the tracks here were included on <em>The Oi Singles Collection<\/em>, which Cherry Red released over four volumes between 1996-1997, but there&#8217;s lots of material which wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Classics include <em>Harry May<\/em>, the first single by <strong>The Business<\/strong>, <strong>The 4 Skins<\/strong>&#8216; immaculate <em>One Law For Them<\/em> and all sides of the <strong>Cockney Rejects<\/strong>&#8216; first two singles, the <em>Flares &#8216;N&#8217; Slippers<\/em> EP and the still-blistering <em>I&#8217;m Not A Fool<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other standouts include the A and B sides of Cambridge oi! band <strong>Subculture<\/strong>&#8216;s only 7in, all three tracks from <strong>The Last Resort<\/strong>&#8216;s cassette debut <em>Violence In Our Minds<\/em>, and <em>Work Together<\/em> by Cardiff&#8217;s staunch antifascists <strong>The Oppressed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s also the original version of <em>Voice Of A Generation<\/em> by <strong>Blitz <\/strong>from the <em>Total Noise #1<\/em> EP, and another of T<strong>he Business<\/strong>&#8216;s best songs, <em>Loud Proud &amp; Punk<\/em>, from the same release. 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