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I'm returning with a bang with an album never reviewed on DeBaser, which will spark many controversies due to the "politically incorrect" attitude of the group in question. The Combat 84 were an English Oi! band composed of angry and unemployed young men.
Young people disgusted by the soft and decadent hippie culture, but also by the bourgeois and pseudo-situationist intellectual drifts that punk was taking (familiar with that group of useless students called Crass?). Tired of the "alternative" hypocrisy, in reality fully organic to the system that these bourgeois claimed to fight, the Combat churned out a series of explosive singles where, with great indifference, they expressed their isolated yet sincere ideas.
A bit of Sham 69, a bit of Sex Pistols with something that smells of Stooges. Take an epic track like "Rapist," a shareable pro-capital punishment anthem, and you'll understand. In "1982," the English mimic Iggy Pop's "1969" ("1982: nothing here for me and you"), while in "Right To Choose," they lash out against the conformism of a certain political faction ("better dead than red") and against pacifism.
Raw music, taken directly from vinyl and catapulted onto digital media to gift us all their best tracks.
Unfortunately, in some verses, it seems that the Combat did not disdain speaking well of the Marines and the star-spangled criminals. But putting aside this personal opinion of mine, which perhaps someone will share, it remains a fact that "Orders of The Day" remains the best album to understand this threatening and genuinely working-class entity.
Forget about "Anarcho Punk" and "Alternative Rock"!!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
11 F82123 (01:16)
F82123 dreaming that you are free
f82123 twenty-two hours in a cell
F82123 dreaming that you are free
F82123 Made your life a living hell
Gonna be free one day
Gonna get out some day
dreaming that you are free
twenty-two hours in a cell
dreaming that you are free
Made your life a living hell
Gonna be free one day
Gonna get out some day
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