It has been forty years since the release of Oi - The Album. Four decades of laughter, defiance and working class rebellion. To celebrate its ruby anniversary, Garry Bushell - who put together that very first Oi compilation in 1980 - has teamed up with Pirates Press Records to present this superb new album: Oi! 40 Years Untamed. This hard-hitting collection features exclusive, unheard songs from the Oi pioneers, and original tracks from younger, up-and coming bands from around the world. Oi was a form of raw working class punk that developed in England as a reaction against the dilution of punks original ethics and energy. Socialist poet Garry Johnson says: Oi wasnt about fashions or hair-cuts or dodgy politics. Oi was the reality of punk mythology. It was the sound of the backstreets, of untamed hooligan youth carving out their own future in a system where the odds were stacked against them. Former rock press writer, Bushell says: I saw Oi as Springsteens lyrics come true - the hungry and the hunted explode in rock n roll bands. It was fresh and exhilarating. Thats why I put the first Oi sampler together. The mainstream media never understood Oi. How could they? The Oi bands and fans came from places they didnt want to go. As early as 1977, street punks were disillusioned with rip-off Kings Road boutiques and the fact that many punk heroes were living a lie. The Cockney Rejects and the Angelic Upstarts were the start of something new, raw and authentic. Bushell called it Oi. The Oi bands did not hate bands like the Clash and Gen X. But they had an authenticity that the punk pioneers could only dream of. Consequently the Oi sound was harder, the choruses bigger, the anger more real. Its message remains the same: The kids, united, will never be defeated. Track List: Disc: 1 1. Cock Sparrer - Take It on the Chin 2. Crashed Out - Against All Odds 3. Bishops Green - We Decide 4. Stomper 98 - Bessere Zeiten 5. Doug ; the Slugz - Friday in Old Town 6. Lions Law - Pathfinder 7. The Old Firm Casuals - Noddy Holder (Bootboy Mix) 8. The Drowns - One More Pint 9. Cockney Rejects - Wish You Werent Here 10. The Last Resort - New Disease 11. The Gonads - Federales 12. Prole - Sawdust Ceasars 13. Gimp Fist - One Shot 14. The Business - You Know My Name 15. Noi!Se - Life in the Shade