"greatest hits vol. 1"
Year: 1980
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 33 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Oi!
This is the debut album of Cockney Rejects. Inspired by the critically reviled working-class rock of Sham 69, the
Cockney Rejects helped give voice to the street rock subgenre tagged "Oi!",
partly thanks to the group's 1980 song "Oi! Oi! Oi!" The Rejects' sound
was loud, brash, and crudely performed, with an irreverent sense of
humor and an inclination toward mindless anarchy that made them
appealing to frustrated lower-class youth and, unfortunately, the more
extreme right-wing racist faction among the growing skinhead movement (left-wing and right-wing). The Rejects initial output was voluminous; their first two albums
were both released in 1980 and jokingly titled "Greatest Hits, Vol. 1"
and "Greatest Hits Vol. 2". In 1981 they recorded a false live concert entitled "Greatest Hits, Vol. 3: Live & Loud", featuring false "live" versions of their best-known songs (actually recorded in a studio with
a false audience), and "The power and the glory" still in 1981. The latter
album found the group trying to broaden its approach, employing acoustic
guitars, keyboards, piano and a more melodic orientation closer to new wave or pop music. "The wild ones" (1982) and "Quiet storm" (1984)
marked a shift toward heavy metal; unsure of their direction and the group disbanded late 1984. Cockney Rejects reunited in 1990
for the album "Lethal", a new attempt to suggest heavy metal public which became in a complete commercial failure. In 2002 was the turn of "out of the gutter", "unforgiven" in 2007 and "east end babylon" in 2012, these three albums positively acclaimed by followers, public and medias. ~ Steve Huey
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Year: 1980
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 16
Time: 35 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Oi!
This is the second official album of the band released still in 1980. Despite the title, it is not a compilation at all, but just the second studio album which contains sixteen new songs in the same style as their debut: simple, basic, short and direct Oi! music with lyrics related to: parodies, sense of humor, football, working class pride, etc. It is usually considered better than their debut album because it's maybe better in all senses: technical level, quality sound, lyrics, etc.
"the power and the glory"
Year: 1981
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 34 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Oi!
This is the third studio album of the band, released in 1981 and it
became softer, slower and more melodic and clean than their two
predecessors. A little bit close to new wave or classic pop, but just a
bit. There are even some kind of ballads such as: "It's over", "BYC" or
"On the streets again", using instruments as acoustic guitars, keyboards, piano and also
some kind of electronic effects and sounds, but still keeping their usual lyrical themes: sense of humor, parodies, football, working class pride, etc.
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Year: 2002
Label: CO
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Oi!
after
three attempts into the field of heavy metal and some periods of
inactivity, Cockney Rejects fortunately come back to their roots. After
two decades these "new" Cockney Rejects comes with this "out of the
gutter" in 2002, their best work since 1981. Here the band finally come
back to their roots of pure and simple Oi! music, with perhaps some
touches of classic rock'n'roll, besides on guitars, riffs, vocals and
chorus. Enough of low cost "heavy metal"... Cockney Rejects are come
back!
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Year: 2007
Label: G&R
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 39 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Oi!
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Year: 2012
Label: Cadiz
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Oi!