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The Very Best of Cockney Rejects
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Track Listing
- Flares 'n' Slippers
- Police Car Sex
- I'm Not A Fool
- East End
- Bad Man
- Headbanger
- Join The Rejects
- Where The Hell Is Babylon
- War On The Terraces
- Oi Oi Oi
- Hate Of The City
- Rocker
- Greatest Cockney
- Rip Off
- We Can Do Anything
- We Are The Firm
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
- Here We Go Again
- Motorhead
- Easy Life
- On The Streets Again
- Power And The Glory
- Teenage Fantasy
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #69556 in Music
- Released on: 1999-08-31
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .16 pounds
Customer Reviews
Post punk urchins' finest moments.
All the best of the much maligned Rejects output is on this CD, with the first ten tracks being particularly indicative of the bands predeliction for fast, brutal choons, that reflected the working class street-ethic of the late 1970's. Micky Geggus guitar is often reminiscent of Steve Jones and these are well matched by the lyrical polemics of Stinky Turner.
The highpoint of the album being "Bad Man" which represents an anthem to a yob culture that whilst possessing its own, often hypocritical, morality, struck a chord on the terraces as well as in the dancehall. The 1980 FA Cup final hymn "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is almost a cultural zeitgeist.
Classic tunes
"The Very Best of Cockney Rejects" is a fine compilation of a fine band - and it's good how these tunes have stood the test of time, especially "Flares & Slippers", "I'm Not A Fool", and "The Power & The Glory".
All class stuff. But I've got two major problems with this compilation:
It sounds like it was mastered by an idiot.
The packaging is worse than those DVDs people try and sell in the pub.
The Rejects deserve better than this shoddy pish.
Sort it ahht or I'll set my dug onto ye.
Real Music for real people
If you have ever enjoyed punk/oi/rowdy music then this album is for you. It reminds me of wonderful nights of cider, bleached jeans and frustration-fuelled rucks with the police in my younger days. Although I now lead a (moderately) sedate and normal life, this reminds me of my truly mis-spent yoof. God bless the rejects! "'Ere comes the new punk!". Everything else is b...ocks as afr as I'm concerned!
