The first word is “Oi!” That sets the stage for the next 30 minutes of hard, rawkus, working-class punk about unity, the streets, and fighting for what’s yours.
Originally released on IFA in 1995. Where Streets… was their ball of fury, these songs were some of their more soulful tunes, like their other early EPs.
Hot on the heels of the Styrenes’ first record in close to a decade, the smash We Care, So You Don’t Have To, comes this compilation of difficult-to-find work.
Their lyrics’ll make ya chuckle (a sample, from “Too Many Nights in the Gin Mill”: “Spend half my money on women and booze, the rest I spend foolishly”).