Just need some of your knowledge. I watched "This Is England" the other day and really enjoyed the music. What music did the 60's and 80's skinheads listen to mainly, I need names of artists, I have heard that Prince Buster (60's) is a bit special. Any recommendations would be gladly received. What is the difference between the music that soul boys listened to compared to the orignal skinheads?
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http://traditionalskinheads.org/
http://www.skinheadboots.co.uk/
It changed in the late 70's early 80's to be a more right wing thing, although there are a lot of anti racist groups of skins.
Not sure about one of the photos in gallery 3 in the 2nd link
Gary Bushall wrote a good article about "Oi for England" which was about the music of the 1980 skins. Thats still on line somewhere.
By the way, mods were listening to Blue Beat and Ska, Prince Buster etc long before skinheads were even thought of.
It was tradditional that they brought their shoes (Brouges and Gibbsons) from Brick Lane.
In the 80z the was a shop up town called the Last Resort which seemed to be the mecca for the "new skins"
Would have preferred to have been a mod .Now their gear was the bol*o*. Move over Sting you were never The Face.
www.ibcstudio.co.uk/MODS/modmusic.html
As for 60's skins music try "The Harder they Come" film and soundtrack on Island. Both are fantastic. You can get both discs in one package in places like HMV.
There are a million trojan compilations but one called Young Gifted and Black has most of the hits.
As the the 80s Skins there were some pretty bad post punk bands like the Angelic upstarts and the Red Skins and some nasty racist crap from the like of Screwdriver. Worth avoiding IMHO.
The stuff worth getting hold of , again IMHO, is the first two Specials albums THe Specials and More Specials, A good compliation by the Beat called BPM Beats per Minute, some early Madness stuff before they went too pop and any Two Tone compilation.
Your right about Madness Henry, they embraced the skinhead culture early on then went mainstream, never really got into the skrewdriver or 4skins stuff, too heavy a sound for me, preferred the soully music.
Selector were a good band. Mods and Skins would have been into stuff like Otis Reading, Solomon Burke, Tamla Motown and early Ska/bluebeat.
Also CHG worth checking out Northern Soul. Two good compilations Soul Survivors and Soul Survivors II full of up tempo soul dance music from the 60s and 70s. Inspector Sands is our resident Soul Boy.
I envy you CHG. All this great music to discover for the first time.
When you've got into Ska and reggae you can check out some the heavy Roots and Culture that came later. Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown is a good starting off point for the type of music that soundtracked the Notting Hill Riots and inspired the Clash etc etc.
There is a good double Cd of Ska "greatest hits" in the complelation section in HMV i did have it in car but got nicked when car did. Still gets the old feet moving when i hear it.
Wouldnt bother to much with the skin head bands of the 80s to much most just sounded like bad punk or thrash metal.
DA9 remember after the Brighton walk for England the Ex Skinhead bird in Tracks ? now that was reminising , would still be there now chin wagging (although she was totaly mad).
LOL, now I do, kept asking me to remove the Elvis CD's, still, I got the pub singing The Wonder Of You.
Talking of Brighton, none of our lot staying over now, late train back etc.
Agree with Henry on early 80s two-tone, absolute quality. I was only 12-13 at the time so I just liked the music for what it was, all the racial and political stuff went over my head. Later on though I did find it puzzling that the skins were associating themselves with music that seemed dominated by blacks. It just re-affirmed my believe that they were all total knobs.
The original Dance Craze album is one to get hold of - a live compilation of all who were good at the time. Don't get the new version, all the Madness stuff is missing as I found out to my cost. Get hold of a compilation of The Beat too - they were my personal favourites.
Henry, I am looking forward to it, the record shop is going to get hammered this afternoon.
http://www.garry-bushell.co.uk/oi/index.asp
Scroll down a couple of page and you will find the article. Couple of Charlton mentions.
Lot of good bands mentioned in there that I saw ... also some crap I must admit.
My wife was in same class as Buster (Dougie Trendle) at school - Woodbury Down Comprehensive. Met him a couple of times - good laugh but he did like his beer!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7335284.stm