Oi!
 

"Oi! is working class, and if you're not working class you'll get a kick in the bollocks." Stinky Turner of Cockney Rejects, 1980.

No "Borstal Breakout?"

No, but I could have put it in the comedy punk poll.

Zing!

none of the oi i've ever heard has been any good. or maybe i'm just too middle class to understand.

You're probably not hard enough either.

I get confused by oi! Isn't it just hardcore but not very trendy (and equally as shit)?

No, it's basically working class British skinhead/punk.

"Oi! is also the name given to a sub-genre of punk music that sought to return punk to a working-class "street level" following. It began in the latter part of 1977, fusing the styles of early punk bands such as the Clash and the Ramones with early British rock like the Rolling Stones and The Who, and was seen as promoting unity between punks and skinheads. Originally, the style was called "streetpunk" or "reality-punk"; it wasn't until the early 1980s that music journalist Gary Bushell labeled the movement "Oi!", supposedly derived from the Cockney Rejects song "Oi! Oi! Oi!".

The original Oi! bands included Cock Sparrer, the Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, Slaughter and the Dogs, Skrewdriver, The Lurkers, and Sham 69. They were followed by The Business, The Last Resort, The 4-Skins, Combat 84, Infa-Riot, and others."

it's worse than hardcore.

Fucking Bushell. "I'm not a racist, I just think that all those rag-heads should fuck off back to where they came from or be shot".

Yes, pretty much all the Oi I have heard has been rubbish....

I used to like Sham 69 a lot as a teen.
Does "Someone's Gonna Die" by Blitz count as Oi? It certainly has a lotta Oi Oi Oi going on. That is a great tune.

It all sounds kinda funny/dated to me now.

Blitz would certainly count as Oi!

I can't stand Oi! punk from what I've heard, except Chaotic Dischord's "Anarchy in Woolworths" and "Who killed ET".

i like sham 69. that's about it.

i also haven't liked any oi i have heard. it all seems to sound pretty similar, so i can't see myself liking anything else?

but sham isn't oi! it's more like proto oi! halfway between the early clash and the exploited.

can't say i like most of that stuff, the only really good britpunk from that era was the crust stuff and mostly it was meh. but it did spawn rudimentary peni and discharge.

Sham 69 were just comedy punk.

there are too many categories of punk for me to keep up with.

Can I just interrupt this thread for a moment?