The music was just rubbish most of the time. The Last Resort album was practically unlistenable, it sounded like it had been recorded in an outside toilet, which they would probably claim it had been for credibility's sake. There was only one semi-decent tune on the 4Skins first album: Plastic Gangster.
Peter and the Test Tube Babies were more a herbert band than an Oi band and were at least funny. John Peel got death threats from enraged Teds after playing their sensitive tribute 'Elvis' on Radio 1:
Elvis had a heart attack
cos he got too bleedin fat.
He nearly weighed half a ton,
he looked more like a pregnant mum.
In nineteen-seventy-seven
Elvis met his fate.
He went up to heaven
but they couldn't get him through the gate.
A few other bands produced some alright one-offs, eg The Violators' rousing 'Gangland' single (a certain U75 poster's old band who also did some great songs about being from East Anglia and not giving a fuck) and The Business's 'Harry May'.
Peter and the Test Tube Babies were more a herbert band than an Oi band and were at least funny. John Peel got death threats from enraged Teds after playing their sensitive tribute 'Elvis' on Radio 1:
Elvis had a heart attack
cos he got too bleedin fat.
He nearly weighed half a ton,
he looked more like a pregnant mum.
In nineteen-seventy-seven
Elvis met his fate.
He went up to heaven
but they couldn't get him through the gate.
A few other bands produced some alright one-offs, eg The Violators' rousing 'Gangland' single (a certain U75 poster's old band who also did some great songs about being from East Anglia and not giving a fuck) and The Business's 'Harry May'.
