All skrewed up
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| Studio album by Skrewdriver | ||||
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1977 |
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| Label (s) | Chiswick Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
25 min 54 s |
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Roger Armstrong |
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Studio (s) |
Riverseide Studios |
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All Skrewed Up is a music album by the group Skrewdriver . It was released on Chiswick Records in 1977 . The later right-wing rock band around singer Ian Stuart Donaldson was at that time still a punk band that had no political ambitions.
background
After attending a Sex Pistols concert, Tumbling Dice members Donaldson, Phil Walmsley and Kevin McKay decided to turn their school band into a punk rock group. With a demo recording , which was recorded in the factory of Donaldson's father, you secured a recording contract with the independent label Chiswick Records from Camden Town . The band name Skrewdriver was chosen in collaboration with the record company. The band played more demos and Chiswick chose You're So Dumb as their first single . After the release, the band moved to London and played their first concerts, including with Johnny Moped and the then unknown The Police . In June the band played at the Marquee Club , a recording was later released as a bootleg .
After the group gained live experience and was allowed to rehearse regularly in Studio 51, the recordings for the debut album began . Ian Stuart Donaldson and Phil Walmsley wrote most of the songs. The recordings took place at night (since it was so cheaper) in the Riverside Studio. The sound engineer was Neil Vishmond, and the producer at the label was Roger Armstrong. The vocals were recorded in two tracks to give them more power. The recording was made with transistor amplifiers that were overdriven to achieve distortion.
After the recordings were completed, the group played a few concerts with 999 and Boomtown Rats . When the album was about to be released, Donaldson and Walmsley argued over royalties. Donaldson claimed that Walmsley's input into the songwriting was too little. After a physical argument, Walmsley decided to leave the group. For him, the skinhead Ron Hartley joined the group. After the release, Streetfight was announced as the third single for April 1978, but it never came out because Chiswick dropped the group.
publication
The album was finally released in November 1977. Since the group played very quickly and only had a relatively short playing time of about 25 minutes, the album was released on vinyl at 45 instead of the usual 33 rpm . The album was released in 1977 in several versions with green, yellow and orange record covers .
Record cover
The picture shows the band Skrewdriver itself, which, in contrast to the debut single, had meanwhile taken on a skinhead outfit. Although Phil Walmsley played the guitar on the album, he is not on the cover photo. However, he is mentioned in the credits to the album. Antisocial was released as a single , on the B-side is the Rolling Stones - Cover 19th (Nervous) Breakdown . On the back cover are the opening lyrics of the song Skinhead Moonstomp by the British ska band Symarip .
Music style and lyrical content
Although the band took on a skinhead outfit, the music was typical 77-punk rock in the style of the models Sex Pistols. The lyrics of the album shows little Oi! -Typical style elements, instead, it's about a strong anarchist influenced individualism that is still no evidence of Donaldson's turn to right-wing extremism and Nazism are. Instead, the state ( government action , anti-social ) is criticized from a punk perspective. Other tracks deal with "good old fashioned dirty teenage fun" ( The Only One ), the feeling of being different and not belonging anywhere ( Jailbait , Anti-social , The Only One ). The only real Oi! Song is 9 Till 5 , which contains the skinhead-typical “Working Class” theme. A The Who cover closes the album with Won't Get Fooled Again .
reception
The album received a number of benevolent reviews in the UK press. Even a peel session for the BBC was recorded with Skrewdriver in 1977. The group was also well received, but an incident involving Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats, who was beaten up by a Skrewdriver fan at a concert, meant that the group was regularly ignored by the concert organizers.
The neo-Nazi Joe Pearce, former confidante of Stuart and leader of the Young National Front later tried to reinterpret the texts of the group as "the birth of Stuart's political awareness" ( the birth of Ian Stuart's political awareness ).
Track list
- Where's It Gonna End? - 2:32
- Government Action - 1:34
- Back Street Kids - 1:39
- Gotta Be Young - 2:00
- I Don't Need Your Love - 2:02
- I Don't Like You - 1:56
- An-ti-so-cial - 1:26
- (Too Much) Confusion - 2:34
- 9 till 5 - 2:05
- Jailbait - 1:14
- We Don't Pose - 1:50
- The Only One - 2:50
- Won't Get Fooled Again - 2:25
Re-releases
Because of Skrewdriver's transformation into the most famous right-wing rock band in Great Britain, an official new edition of the album was never released. The group was also deliberately left out of the compilation The Chiswick Story . Instead, numerous bootlegs of the album, some with bonus material and including titles ( The Early Years 1977 - 1979 , 1977-1983 - The Complete Studio Collection ) were released on relevant right-wing rock labels. Song material from this period also appeared again and again on Skrewdriver compilations.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Phil Walmsley Sets the Record Straight - Skrewdriver 1976-78. punk77.co.uk, accessed June 3, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Stewart Home: Cranked up really high . Codex, Hove 1995, ISBN 1-899598-01-4 , pp. 96 .
- ↑ a b Stewart Home: Cranked up really high . Codex, Hove 1995, ISBN 1-899598-01-4 , pp. 94 .
- ↑ All Skrewed Up. Discogs , accessed June 4, 2010 .
- ^ Antisocial. Discogs , accessed June 4, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Stewart Home: Cranked up really high . Codex, Hove 1995, ISBN 1-899598-01-4 , pp. 95 .
- ↑ Skrewdriver's profile. Allmusic , accessed June 4, 2010 .
- ↑ 10/19/1977 - Skrewdriver. BBC , accessed June 4, 2010 .
- ↑ Boomtown Rats vs Skrewdriver. Retrieved June 4, 2010 .