The overlooked hits, live and rarities album, Finyl Vinyl, also adds two tracks not on the original CD reissue, but other than that, it’s the straight goods.
Plenty of gang shouts and breakdown parts to warm your high school bully’s heart, but there’s also enough “sad, in an ‘Orion’ by Metallica way” in the riffs.
Slapshot but gone full-on bootboy Oi, wherein Kelly’s more-familiar route is temporarily dropped in favor of subcultural concerns peculiar to skinheads.
There are a few weak links (the debut and Difficult To Cure, both underproduced and confused), no self-respecting metalhead should be without this catalogue.
Fave here is Bent Out Of Shape simply for its cohesion, the record courting relationship depression with the AOR mastery and smash single “Street Of Dreams.”