Oi! didn’t do itself any favours, with song titles and lyrics frequently glorifying violence, which might have been the reality of life on the estates the bands came from, but played into the hands of the tabloid press. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems. Southall’s legacy – with 61 police officers injured and 70 people arrested – would prove disastrous for Oi!. The gig was interpreted by some as being a deliberate provocation in one of the most racially diverse areas in London. Among the Oi! scene it was no secret there was a vociferous and violent racist element, often tied to the National Front or British Movement. The Southall Youth Movement had been formed in 1976 in the wake of the stabbing of a local teenager by a National Front-inspired gang. In 1979 the anti-racist protester Blair Peach was killed in a riot that ensued when the National Front decided to hold an election meeting in the area. On the night of the Oi! gig, there were reports of skinheads acting up in local shops, rumours circulating of abuse aimed at women and elderly people, of windows smashed and racist slogans chanted and spray-painted on buildings. The album was the sequel to Oi! The Album (1980), and itself was followed by Carry On Oi! ( Oi 3!, 1981) and Oi! Oi! That's Yer Lot! ( Oi/4, 1982). It was the beginning of the end for the movement really, as from now on the press painted all skinheads as National Front supporters (which wasn’t true).

Assessing Oi!’s overall fitness benefits, our participants submitted scores of 8 (Kristen), 8 (Francis), and 4 (Spencer). That averages out to 6.3—a respectable number only Spencer would likely argue with. That said, I was excited to try working out to something new. And now that I have I can confidently say I do not enjoy working out to Oi! I seriously could not differentiate these songs while they were playing; it all sounded like a cat from the East End of London being beaten with a Stratocaster.”

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Strength Thru Oi! is a 1981 Oi! compilation album, featuring various artists and released by Decca Records, released in collaboration with Sounds magazine. Now repressed in a gatefold sleeve that reproduces the original art and comes complete with rare pictures of most of the featured artists. Overall, Oi! music has an aggressive upbeat beat that can give your mind something to stay focused on during an intense workout,” says Francis. “I found myself looking forward to the songs with more catchy hooks. The cons of Oi! music was that I found the tempo too fast for running, so it was hard to stay relatively in synch with the music. It felt like some of the songs were urging me to run faster than I could or wanted to during the workouts.” Oi! might also be good for the core muscle groups, as Kristen has emerged from the experience “definitely inspired to create a Pilates punk playlist.”

Once labeled “the most evil album ever made”(!) this was the second installment in the highly successful (and controversial) Oi! album series.

Trotskyist or not, Bushell also managed to exacerbate the problem, not least by masterminding the unfortunately titled 1981 compilation Strength Thru Oi!. "I didn't know!" he protests. "I'd been active in politics for years and had never come across the phrase 'strength through joy' as a Nazi slogan.It was the title of a Skids EP." If ever a genre of music really didn’t help itself, it was Oi!, the working class strain of punk which emerged at the tail end of the ’70s. Where the original punk music had been born in art schools, Oi! came from the rough-arsed council estates and football terraces. Oi! is far too boneheaded to warrant scientific study—even a half-assed one like this. This whole thing might have been a complete waste of time. Wanna fight? F.A.V.L.-Il prezzo da pagare (disponibile sia 7" vinile che cd-AVAILABLE ALSO VINYL 7"limited edition 250 copies producer by stratum records) Originally released in 1981 this was the album that launched the careers of the likes of Last Resort, Infa Riot and The 4 Skins as well as establishing the whole Oi! movement on an international arena.