Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK VOLUME THREE

Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK VOLUME THREE

Compilation, black vinyl

(Obviously) the third instalment in this excellent showcase of current oi!/streetpunk bands from around the world. Although  I’m more up to speed with getting this one, it’s been out for a while. I get’em when I get ‘em.

It’s good to see Garry Bushel’s THE GONADS leading the charge here in typical (lowbrow) style with “Go Motherfucker”, a bass driven oi! singalong number. Great to see these oldies still kicking, as they did on the original 80’s Oi! comps like Oi! Chartbusters.

Thing with compilations is that you get introduced to bands that you may not otherwise heard. With volume three there’s quite a few bands I’m unfamiliar with,  including EPIC PROBLEM and their pop-punk styled “Not dead Yet”. DIRTY FILTHY MUGS are up next, with a slightly faster number “Drinks on me” that also has a pop punk flavour . CRASHED OUT deliver a bit more of an oi!/punk sound with   “Get a Life”. RUNNIN’ RIOT are more straightup punk with “End of the line”. CUSTOM FIT close side one with the female fronted vocals of” Love Hate”, which has a kind of oi!-garage rock sound, which sounds  fresh and unique. 

Side two is perhaps the stronger side overall, and opens up with BAD CO. PROJECT and their punk singalonger “Mission Mohawk”. The first of two Australian bands RAZORCUT are up next with the flat out Oi! of “Combative Attitude” which is a stand out track here. BONECRUSHER have kind of a MISFITS/hardcore sound going on with the rousing “Fight for freedom”. THE SHAME get us back to more of a punk/oi! Sound with “Daytime drinking” for you to singalong next time you skive off work and have a couple of beers. The other  Australian band STRANGLEHOLD is next and I always enjoy their buzzsaw guitars and razor throated female vocals, and  they don’t disappoint with “Trouble” which is one of the stronger songs on this comp, and is also one of the better sounding songs here production wise.  Maintaining the pace are TWOPOINTEIGHT and their melodic punk “Cannibal”. Closing side two is STRONGBOW  with the buzzy and melodic “Almost gone”.   

Another great compilation in this series. Vol 1 had 11 songs, Vol 2 had 12, and with Vol 3 it’s gone up to 13. Maybe Vol 4 will have 14!

Package wise this is slightly disappointing in that it’s again minus a back cover, and there’s no info on the bands, and just a front cover thingy. There’s not even a plastic or paper inner sleeve for the record itself. But hey, ya get what ya get, and ya should know what ya get when it’s the third volume, right? The front is a collage identical to the first two. And there’s a badge included with this one! This one is black vinyl (not sure how many or if any were pressed on coloured vinyl). Overall the sound is good and pretty lively but some cuts are a bit patchier than others, which wasn’t apparent on the other volumes, but all in all a good slab of vinyl. Again, download code for those  interested.