A Fistful Of...4-Skins

Infobox Album
Name = A Fistful of...4-Skins
Type = Album
Artist = The 4-Skins


Released = 1983
Recorded = Alaska Studios, London
Genre = Punk rock, Oi!
Length = 45:37
51:28 (1993 CD reissue)
Label = Syndicate Records
Producer = Ian O'Higgins
Reviews =
Last album = "The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins"
(1982)
This album = "A Fistful Of...4-Skins"
(1983)
Next album = "From Chaos to 1984"
(1984)

"A Fistful of...4-Skins" is the second studio album by English punk rock/Oi! band, The 4-Skins, released in 1983 by Syndicate Records. In comparison to The 4-Skins' previous material, "A Fistful Of...4-Skins" featured a slower, heavier, more melodic, hard rock-based sound.

Less successful than its predecessor, the album charted outside the Top 30 on the UK independent chart. The band members claimed that this was due to chart manipulation. [ [http://the4skins.tripod.com/id3.html The Music of the 4Skins ] ] The album was later combined with debut LP, "The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins" (omitting the track "One Law for Them" from that album due to space limitations) and released on a single CD by Link Records in 1987 as "A Few 4-Skins More, Vol.1".

Following the breakup of the line-up that recorded the band's previous album, "The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins", Hoxton Tom McCourt had assembled a new line-up (the fourth overall) including former The Last Resort singer Roi Pearce, and future Skrewdriver guitarist, Paul Swain.

Track listing

(all songs written by McCourt/Pearce/Bransom/Swain.)
#Five More Years
#Waiting for a Friend
#Johnny Go Home
#The Gambler
#I'll Stick to My Guns
#On File
#Forgotten Hero
#The Spy from Alaska
#H.M.P.
#No Excuse
#Betrayed
#City Boy
#New War
#: CD reissue bonus tracks:
#On the Streets
#Saturday (Demo)

Credits

*Roi Pearce - lead vocals
*Hoxton Tom McCourt - bass guitar, lead vocal on "New War"
*Ian Bransom - drums
*Paul Swain - guitar
*Keith Bollock Brother - backing vocals
*Neil Barker - backing vocals

References