This is the definitive Sham collection for those looking for something reasonably complete. Video clip and lyrics Hey little rich boy by Sham 69. The liner notes are rudimentary, but the sound is great and so is the price. The band had a large skinhead and hooligan following, which helped set the tone for the Oi movement.
But it hardly matters, since the early material is in such great quantity. Sham 69 lacked the art school background of many rock bands of the time, and brought in football chants, drinking songs and a sort of inarticulate political populism. Sham 69 formed in Hersham, Surrey in 1976 (the 12 November issue of NME notes they were rehearsing at. It's true there are some reunion cuts here, which are not up to par with the best stuff by a long shot. Disc two focuses primarily on album tracks from the band's Polydor recordings and the last one on live material. Disc one does contain all the wild and unruly hits "Angels With Dirty Faces," "If the Kids Are United," "Borstal Breakout," "Hurry Up Harry," "Hersham Boys," "Unite and Win," "Tell the Children," "Cockney Kids Are Innocent," and ten others. The most notorious omission is the band's first single on the Step Forward label, "I Don't Wanna"/"Rip Off," though awesome live versions of those songs from 1979 are on disc three. While the title here, Complete Collection, is somewhat misleading because it doesn't contain everything they recorded, it really is almost everything (and more) you'd ever want. Everyone from the great leftist working-class bands like the Angelic Upstarts and Newtown Neurotics to Nazi punks Skrewdriver and the 4-Skins claimed Sham 69 as an influence. As reviled as they were celebrated, Jimmy Pursey and company were the original boot boys from London's notorious East End, the true Cockney kids, and the lot who inadvertently inspired the loads of Oi! and skinhead punk bands that followed.
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