Came across the 4skins and oi when i was 15 im now 57 and still a huge 4skins and proudly wear their tshirts and all oi music at home and car !! Its the best music scene ever !!!
Wrong pic lil buddy this is the much later 1983 lineup with Roi Pearce on the far left of pic as vocalist. This recording is Gary Hodges on lead vocals from 1981 if not before….
Reading a lot of comments here, need to clear something up :- This song is CRITICISING slobs who don't say sorry. 4-skins are not apologists for yobs, they are decent, normal, rough people. They are saying people who don't say sorry are slobs and yobbish behaviour is weak. His voice is mocking it's not 1-dimensional.
Exactly! Be true to yourself. Don't ever pretend to be something you're not like a phoney. This was an excellent time, but at the time kind of boring. You only realize how great something was in hindsight. Back then it was just how we dressed. IT wasn't "skinhead" it was just our thing - probably most similar to Urban kids now. It was just fashion, fashion and music. It wasn't contrived or thought about, it was just what we did. No-one studied what it meant forensically like nerds now, just moving fashions and good music.
Katonian upwelling The carrot juice is swelling A raver he would never be Thrash metal fusion The Hirax solution Bladers he truly hates K.W.D.P. Max wants to bare A child so fare The father would be Katon "Hate, Fear & Power" At the baby shower Is what I'd like to hear
Whaaaha.. im a true skin and a proud punk...still after 47 years ..so please i've seen it all. Do not give us BULLSHIT,WEST SKINS UNITED,GELDERMALSEN,THE NETHERLANDS!!
take it back from who ?, we dont have a coutry never have the upper class elite own most of it cant even go for a walk in england unless it is on a proper path !!
Some of their songs were SKA. A kind of reggae mixed with early punk similar to Madness and The Specials. They are the best band out there for eclectic music. 4 Skins = 4 Skinheads which back in the day was as much a style of dress. Boots braces and rolled up jeans. Popular Doc Martens, Fred Perry and Ben Sherman shirts. The look was hijacked by Facists and is taking a long time to shed the stereotype of racism and violence. Check out Plastic Gangster. Radically different sound to this song.
