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One of the best Oi! albums of his time. We’re talking about the debut work “Patriotic Voice”, the first American Oi! Band Arresting Officers from 1989, with which the musicians played a combination of “eggs” and melody. You can say a lot about the band, that they were “right-wing” or even went a little further in their own way. The fact is that the boys from Philadelphia were American patriots in the best sense. Therefore, they did not want to spread the message of US imperialism, for which patriotism is now known to be abused by the transatlantic establishment.

Due to the increasingly narrow corridor of opinion in the Federal Republic of Germany in 2019, accompanied by politically desired criminal prosecution, two songs unfortunately had to be removed compared to the original CD. The tracks “The boat is full” and “Why do you stay silent?” are NOT included on this record!

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The official Body Checks Tattooed & Shaved Head re-release! No pirated printing, no “private edition” and no “imported fan edition” from dubious scene crooks at brothel prices!

The legendary LP by the band from the Lower Rhine (Duisburg / Kamp-Lintfort) from 1984 heralded the era of German-speaking, patriotic skinhead music. Now finally legally available again on the original label Rock-O-Rama Records. Compared to the original, three songs on this recording had to be replaced by two songs from the demo tape. Of course, the whole thing has been digitally remastered to let the old tunes sound fresh!

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When this disc first saw the light of day in 1992, the album hit like a bomb. The musical comparison was too blatant in contrast to what had previously populated the sound grooves and CDs of the relevant labels, no strumming and noise, but razor-sharp guitar riffs and rock-hard drum sounds. And with a vehemence that the inclined consumer was only used to from heavy metal groups from professional studios up to this point. It’s been a long time! Anyone who wasn’t there back then is welcome to grab it today and treat themselves to these pleasant metal showers again (or for the first time?).

Due to the increasingly narrow corridor of opinion in the Federal Republic of Germany in 2019, accompanied by politically desired criminal prosecution, two songs unfortunately had to be removed compared to the original CD. The tracks “The boat is full” and “Why do you stay silent?” are NOT included on this record!

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The disc contains a total of 14 songs by the Bergisch combo, which was the first German skinhead band ever to release an album on Rock-O-Rama Records, which was not without controversy in the politicizing scene at the time, as the record contained the piece “Blinder “Hass” a song that clearly took a position against racism and anti-Semitism. Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t exactly met with approval from some hardliners. Curiously, in an interview at the time, the band basically apologized for the lyrics, which were attributed to the “too liberal” guitarist, who is said to have been kicked out of the band a short time later. Insightful analysis: Back then, “political correctness” and “cancel culture” worked the other way around .

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How-please-what?! Rock-O-Rama Records has re-released “Der Clou” and surely half of the songs are missing? Nope, just a song. Four songs had to be minimally edited digitally. Prosecutors, youth protectors and “democracy promoters” (all male/female/male) will vomit. And with what? Rightly! Please move on, there is nothing to see or find anything criminally relevant here.

With “Der Clou” in 1987, Endstufe released a real album of the century in the Oi! / Skinhead music sector, but the distribution of the record was abruptly stopped a few years later. A federal authority responsible for morality and decency found in the 12 panel that this record was unsuitable for young people and “socio-ethically disorienting.” Or as we would say: “The Clou” is the ultimate soundtrack for everyone who has and lives the feeling that they don’t fit into the norm and celebrate their non-conformity hard!

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Originally released in 1996, the classic Endstufe album is available again on LP with his original artwork.

Rock-O-Rama Records import.

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Uncompromising German rock production from the band from the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda. Life-affirming texts with identification potential to the power of 10 plus professional music that sticks in your ear canal. The disc was first released on CD in 1999 and marked the second album by the musicians who previously made the instruments sound in Bollwerk. The boys have mastered their musical craft and therefore clearly do not fall under the label “rumpel rock”, but rather deliver solid melodies and snappy guitar solos.

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The Holstein boys followed up their second work with this release in 1997. The debut album “Back on the Streets” had already been released a year earlier, which received a lot of positive feedback. As is well known, the Holsteiner Jungs were another band of Freikorps frontman Kai Stüwe. The Holstein boys’ music sounded similar, but less melodic than Freikorps, but it came across as a bit harder and snottier. Compared to the main band, the lyrics were more street-oriented and socially critical. All in all, the rough lyrics are characterized by anger at the bourgeois world with a good dose of bite!

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Ian Stuart Donaldson’s first and best solo album from 1989. The “No turning back” LP was released shortly after the “After the Fire” album, and like that LP it is punkier than most of Skrewdriver’s later material. And while much of this LP is hard rock, some songs are Oi!-heavy: “Fortress Europe”, “Battle Cries” and especially “Firepower” sound like what Skrewdriver played on the “Hail the New Dawn” LP. Even the title track, despite being based on a metal riff, is less than two minutes long and has a lot of punk anger. “Campaign in the East” is one of Ian Stuart’s best hard rock compositions, not only on this album but in general.

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Officially available on vinyl for the first time since 1986 on Rock-O-Rama Records! Founded in 1981, the then young patriotic musicians sang about their own life experiences and the things that were happening around them. The fact that they had to watch their once great country violently decline under the Tory government of Margaret Thatcher tore their hearts.

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Their first, long-awaited album “Reveal All!” was only released in 1985, after the band had released a double A-side single called “Riots/A Matter of Time” on their own label “IndEx Records” at the end of 1983. “Reveal All!” is classic Oi! Music in its rawest form with titles like “A Way of Life” and “Bank Holiday” to harder songs like “I won’t let my Country die” and “Save the Nation”. In 1985/86 the local Oi! Scene has probably reached its lowest point. At a gig in Tufnell Park, North London, singer Steve Reeve got into an argument with hardliners in attendance. One of these idiots threw a bottle while Indecent Exposure were playing their set, Steve’s head was hit and slashed. In Hardcore Oi! Indecent Exposure finished their concert in a similar manner and then jumped into the crowd to find the bottle thrower. But in true low-life fashion, the culprit had crawled back into the hole he came from. Later that night, Steve was taken to the hospital where he received twelve stitches in his head.

RAC/OI!

Officially available on vinyl for the first time since 1985 on Rock-O-Rama Records! Founded in 1981, the then young patriotic musicians sang about their own life experiences and the things that were happening around them. The fact that they had to watch their once great country violently decline under the Tory government of Margaret Thatcher tore their hearts.