- The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins
Infobox Album
Name = The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins
Type =Album
Artist =The 4-Skins
Released = June, 1982
Recorded = Matrix Studios, London
Genre =Punk rock ,Oi!
Length = 41:40
57:29 (2007 CD reissue)
Label =Secret Records
Producer = Tim Thompson/The 4-Skins
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins"
(1982)
Next album = "A Fistful Of...4-Skins "
(1983)"The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins" is the debut album by English
punk rock /Oi! band,The 4-Skins . Released in June 1982 on Secret Records, the album topped the UK independent and punk charts, and entered the Top 100 of theUK Albums Chart . [ [http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/albums.htm Indie Hits - Albums ] ] [ [http://the4skins.tripod.com/id3.html The Music of the 4Skins ] ] Side A of the original LP contained studio recordings, and Side B featured live versions of several previously-released songs. The album was later combined with follow-up release, "A Fistful Of...4-Skins " (omitting the track "One Law for Them" due to space limitations) and released on a single CD by Link Records in 1987 as "A Few 4-Skins More, Vol.1". [ [http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=4_skins TrouserPress.com :: 4 Skins ] ]Despite being The 4-Skins' debut LP, it was in fact recorded by the third stable line-up of the band, with bassist
Hoxton Tom McCourt being the sole member of the original 1979 line-up. However, the group's original drummer (and manager at that point), Gary Hitchcock wrote and performed vocals on the album's2 Tone -styleska punk lead track.Track listing
(all songs written by The 4-Skins except where noted.)
#Plastic Gangsters (Hitchcock)
#Jealousy
#Yesterday's Heroes
#Justice
#Jack the Lad
#Remembrance Day
#Manifesto
#Wonderful World (live)
#1984 (live)
#Sorry (live)
#Evil (live)
#I Don't Wanna Die (live)
#A.C.A.B. (live)
#Chaos (live)
#One Law For Them
#: CD reissue bonus tracks:
#Low Life
#Bread or Blood
#Get Out of My Life
#Seems to Me
#NormanCredits
*Tony 'Panther' Cummins - lead vocals
*Hoxton Tom McCourt - bass guitar
*John Jacobs - guitar, keyboards
*Pete Abbot - drums
*Gary Hitchcock - lead vocals on "Plastic Gangsters"References
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