Released May 1981 Release date May 1981 Genres Oi!, Punk rock | Recorded Various | |
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Similar Carry On Oi!, Oi! The Album, Oi! Oi! That's Yer Lot!, A Way of Life: Skinhead, The Good - The Bad & The 4‑Ski |
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Strength Thru Oi! is a 1981 Oi! compilation album, featuring various artists and released by Decca Records, released in collaboration with Sounds magazine.
Contents
- Strength thru oi deidre is a slag toy dolls
- Strength thru oi part 1
- Track listing
- Controversy
- Songs
- References
The album was the sequel to Oi! The Album (1980), and itself was followed by Carry On Oi! (Oi 3!, 1981) and Oi! Oi! That's Yer Lot! (Oi/4, 1982).
Strength thru oi part 1
Track listing
- "National Service" - Garry Johnson
- "1984" - 4 Skins
- "Gang Warfare" - The Strike
- "Riot Riot" - Infa-Riot
- "Dead End Yobs" - Garry Johnson
- "Working Class Kids" - The Last Resort
- "Blood on the Streets" - Criminal Class
- "She Goes to Fino's" - The Toy Dolls
- "Best Years of Our Lives" - Barney Rubble
- "Taken for a Ride" - Cock Sparrer
- "We Outnumber You" - Infa-Riot
- "The New Face of Rock'n'Roll" - Garry Johnson
- "Beans" - Barney Rubble
- "We're Pathetique" - Splodge
- "Sorry" - 4 Skins
- "Running Riot" - Cock Sparrer
- "Johnny Barden" - The Last Resort
- "Isubaleene (Part 2)" - Splodge
- "Running Away" - Criminal Class
- "Skinhead" - The Strike
- "Deidre's a Slag" - The Toy Dolls
- "Harbour Mafia Mantra" - The Shaven Heads
Controversy
When Strength Thru Oi! was released, it was controversial because its title was a play on a Nazi slogan ("Strength Through Joy"), and the cover featured Nicky Crane, a British Movement activist who was serving a four-year sentence for racist violence. Rock critic Garry Bushell, who was responsible for compiling the album, insists its title was a pun on The Skids' album Strength Through Joy and that he had been unaware of the Nazi connotations. He also denied knowing the identity of the skinhead on the album's cover until it was exposed by the Daily Mail two months later. It was not so easy to deny the album cover's glorification of violence and the sinister tone of its sleeve notes:
A mass of boots, straights, and combat jackets, skins and boot boys, grins and hoots and oy-oy's, young blood on the prowl.... Getting nicked for wearing steel caps, a flick blade flashing in the moonlight.
Songs
1National ServiceGarry Johnson1:03
21984The 4-Skins2:12
3Gang WarfareThe Strike2:16