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Raise your hand if you don't know the Exploited. For thirty years now, they have been the standard-bearers of hardcore punk made in England, the most imitated, the most famous, more than the various Discharge, GBH, English Dogs, and dubious company. Formed in '79 as a street punk group influenced by the Sex Pistols and oi!, they released in 1981 the manifesto "Punks Not Dead," still their most famous and celebrated album, and the following year this "Troops Of Tomorrow." If in the first album the offer was still firmly anchored to '77 school punk, already here you can notice how the sound has become heavier and more robust in a remarkable way; Wattie Buchanan and company (at the time Big John Duncan on guitar, Gary McCormack on bass, and Steve Roberts on drums) made the first step towards the punk metal that from "Death Before Dishonor" onwards would be their main proposition.
"Troops Of Tomorrow" contains some of the most famous tracks by the Exploited: besides the title track, a Vibrators cover, we find indeed "Alternative", "Sid Vicious Was Innocent", the "U.S.A." dedicated to Jello Biafra, guilty of declaring that there were no longer valid punk bands in England, the very violent "UK 82", the metal-like "Rapist", the opening "Jimmy Boyle", all songs that have their strength in the sonic impact, even more than in the slogans shouted by Wattie with an acid voice. Those made "Punks Not Dead" great; here there is not too much space for oi!, which is left aside (only returning sporadically, see "Alternative"); in that fateful 1982, the Discharge in England released that punch in the stomach which is "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing," Amebix were designing that sonic monster that would be called Crust, Napalm Death was born, even relatively old glories like UK Subs were metalizing their punk. It was necessary to adapt to the wave of musical violence; punk needed an evolution, an extremization, otherwise, it would have remained stagnant within its own limits; groups that were unable to refresh their proposition, like Sham 69, Cockney Rejects, Vibrators, X-Ray Spex, and a thousand others soon ended up in oblivion.
Something that, indeed, did not happen to the Exploited; otherwise, they wouldn't be considered today a point of reference in the scene, despite not having released an album of new material since the now distant 2003 ("Fuck The System"). Anyway, if you really want to look for a motivation for this success, do not search for it in the more recent albums (so to speak; from 1990 until today they have released only three), look for it in albums like this one.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Jimmy Boyle (02:06)
I don't know if they to die
shut 'em up, they may not try
send the medicine in and out
fairly it just motored
Jimmy Boyle
beat the system
how much credits on demand
target kids, are gone again
laughing in a short time
deny them of their human rights
Jimmy Boyle
beat the system
Smuggled toweling, from their cells
pass for all those shitty smells
war claims this sordid despair
trust him, he's the quartermeir
Jimmy Boyle
beat the system
Had some cock on Friday night
showed her how to make a play
showed him how to get it on
do it here just bolt the door
Jimmy Boyle
beat the system
02 Daily News (02:56)
Mother england dressed in her dress
tell your kids
what a bloody mess
come politicians
buttons on their breast
new at ten
go with labour
Daily news daily news we gotta find out
Daily news daily news wanna buy
Maggie thatcher prices on her dress
just can't escape from
and election vest
he's got a chance
so he had to point a gun
he had a bit of pressure
you wouldn't get no parole
Daily news daily news we gotta find out
Daily news daily news wanna buy
I never touch the star
Thats for others,the star
I know maggie thatchers in her dress
telling the civilians
what a fucking mess
one disaster
he did it for free
they're just a bunch of arseholes
they're all a sham
Daily news daily news we gotta find out
Daily news daily news wanna buy
Records in my house
going up in smoke
records are destroyed
what a fucking joke
records end up
mucking up your life
russian soldiers, thekgb
03 Disorder (02:16)
Mother england dressed in her dress
tell your kids
what a bloody mess
come politicians
buttons on their breast
new at ten
go with labour
[chorus:]
daily news daily news we gotta find out
daily news daily news wanna buy
maggie thatcher prices on her dress
just can't escape from
and election vest
he's got a chance
so he had to point a gun
he had a bit of pressure
you wouldn't get no parole
[chorus]
i never touch the star
thats for others,the star
i know maggie thatchers in her dress
telling the civilians
what a fucking mess
one disaster
he did it for free
they're just a bunch of arseholes
they're all a sham
[chorus]
records in my house
going up in smoke
records are destroyed
what a fucking joke
records end up
mucking up your life
russian soldiers, thekgb
[chorus]
still 12 deaths
extra extra read all about it
04 Alternative (02:04)
Something's happened what's gone wrong
Going down the dole got to sign on
Millions of kids with nowt to do
You better watch out they're after you
Alternative
I don't wanna join the army
Alternative
I know it's a waste of time
Alternative
No alternative is what they say
Alternative
The choice is mine
Politicians what do they care
They're all money grabbers they're after their share
They don't even care if you get shot
Cause there ain't no way they'll be there
Do you really want to die
Alternative
Kill other people just to survive
Alternative
Only the dead have their freedom
Alternative
It's the living that's got to suffer most
Alternative
05 U.S.A. (03:20)
There really is nothing nice about USA
You go to the hospital you have to pay
The dollar is the language that they all speak
they don't really bother about the radiation leak
FUCK THE USA
They keep their secrets undercover
the rich don't bother about those that suffer
this ain't the land of milk and honey
cause all they want is money money money
FUCK THE USA
Nuclear bombs are fuck all new
you'd better start running when they drop on you
run into a shelter, play hide and seek
cause when you die your body reeks
FUCK THE USA
There really is nothing nice about USA
You go to the hospital you have to pay
The dollar is the language that they all speak
they don't really bother about the radiation leak
FUCK THE USA
06 Rapist (01:25)
The rapist is back again in town
got those demons dead
you just don't show that film boy
why not sell the stage
in spite of you not going there
strangled like the rest
like in that new dirty stuff
murderers never had
in spiked nails and rubber gloves
burned them to the ground
he's seen the virgins images
we gotta get the last sound
we haven't seen no woman yet
you ask for me in bed
soldier boy i'll burn the ship
something for your friend
07 Troops of Tomorrow (04:50)
We're troops of tomorrow
We're hanging round today
We're playing tough music
Cos it's hard time money
We need a new solution
We want it quick
We're getting frustrated
It's making us sick
We ain't got bright future
We bought it on the never never
Don't want to be city prisoners
We ain't gonna live forever
We gotta stop that dreaming
We've gotta pick up that gun
We're troops of tomorrow
We've got a new vision
08 UK 82 (02:47)
At first those brothers tried to pass away this land
now this is on the edge of town
and all run down
UK 82
making love in her flat
doesn't say you got class
you don't feel but you know its wrong
so are they americans
UK 82
my guess is that you are so under stress
well i really know fucking best
some of them play around
what's wrong with russian lads
UK 82
just throw the body on the scale
you play the game but it's real
why don't you find out where she lives
go dressed in your best you'll still be taxed
UK 82
09 Sid Vicious Was Innocent (02:58)
Sid shot dope and then got drunk
he did it his way "punk"
he didn't have a problem
till he met that bloody cunt
Sid Vicious was innocent (repeat 4 times)
they say he killed her it can't be so
the fucking queen should know
heroin and anarchy
ah ah ahah.............
innocent, innocent, innocent, innocent
it's not his fault that she died
he liked his chick fried
now his face is on my shirt
we won't forget his famous smirk
innocent, innocent, innocent, innocent!!
Thanks to sara308@msn.com for these lyrics
12 So Tragic (01:48)
Fuck disco!
Fuck fashion!
Fuck you!
Check up with the acrobatic
warms it up i get you back
what a fucking toss bastard
why the fuck did you come here
All you boys are so so tragic
Yesterday i got so nervous
yesterday i fucking bugged
that's the day of rockabilly
what a fucking stupid song
All you boys are so so tragic
We are the boys for the titanic
we'll get there whenever it's down
we're the match for the head task
watch that bloke behind your back
All you boys are so so tragic
All you boys are so tragic
standing in your poxy fasion gear
and your little fucking wankers
why the fuck do you come in here
All you boys are so so tragic
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