Strength Thru Oi!

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Trotskyist or not, Bushell also managed to exacerbate the problem, not least by masterminding the unfortunately titled 1981 compilation Strength Thru Oi!. "I didn't know!" he protests. "I'd been active in politics for years and had never come across the phrase 'strength through joy' as a Nazi slogan.It was the title of a Skids EP." The second – and most controversial – Oi! album finally gets a vinyl reissue having been unavailable in the format for well over 30 years. That said, I was excited to try working out to something new. And now that I have I can confidently say I do not enjoy working out to Oi! I seriously could not differentiate these songs while they were playing; it all sounded like a cat from the East End of London being beaten with a Stratocaster.” Once labeled “the most evil album ever made”(!) this was the second installment in the highly successful (and controversial) Oi! album series. 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).

If ever a genre of music really didn’t help itself, it was Oi!, the working class strain of punk which emerged at the tail end of the ’70s. Where the original punk music had been born in art schools, Oi! came from the rough-arsed council estates and football terraces. This explosive, early-80s Oi! movement – with more than 40 avowedly working-class bands and a handful of polemicist poets involved – came to an ignominious end in 1981 after a riot at a gig in Southall, west London, that featured the 4-Skins, Last Resort and the Business. The pub venue was burned to the ground by anti-fascists from Southall Youth Movement, predominantly made up of young Asian men, part of a wave of riots that swept through inner-city areas in England that summer. Overall, Oi! music has an aggressive upbeat beat that can give your mind something to stay focused on during an intense workout,” says Francis. “I found myself looking forward to the songs with more catchy hooks. The cons of Oi! music was that I found the tempo too fast for running, so it was hard to stay relatively in synch with the music. It felt like some of the songs were urging me to run faster than I could or wanted to during the workouts.” For Worley, class remains the defining element of Oi!. “The thing that crosses boundaries and why you currently have Oi! scenes around the world, in places such as China and Taiwan, is class identity,” says Worley. “It links all Oi! bands.”Assessing Oi!’s overall fitness benefits, our participants submitted scores of 8 (Kristen), 8 (Francis), and 4 (Spencer). That averages out to 6.3—a respectable number only Spencer would likely argue with.

F.A.V.L.-Il prezzo da pagare (disponibile sia 7" vinile che cd-AVAILABLE ALSO VINYL 7"limited edition 250 copies producer by stratum records) Football “lads” and football violence have had a strong association with Oi!. Taylor is a longstanding face among the modern-day Tottenham hardcore following. “It’s a family there for me and I’d trade it in for absolutely nothing,” he says. “It’s my life.” And like some of the Oi! originals, Crown Court have a smattering of songs detailing a bristling sense of violence at matches among rival fans. The fury Taylor summons in these songs serves as a cathartic, almost desperate howl. Now repressed in a gatefold sleeve that reproduces the original art and comes complete with rare pictures of most of the featured artists.

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Spencer cites the “cool accents” and fact that the music is “better than speed metal” as its major selling points. The cons, he says, are that it “does not provide the workout fuel of James Hetfield/Adam Levine.”