If the kids are United
| If the kids are United | |
|---|---|
| Sham 69 | |
| publication | July 1978 |
| length | 3:18 |
| Genre (s) | Street punk , punk rock |
| Author (s) | Dave Guy Parsons, Jimmy Pursey |
| Label | Polydor |
If the Kids Are United is a song by Sham 69 that was first released in July 1978.
The song was released as a 7 "vinyl single together with the title Sunday Morning Nightmare on the B-side . The single reached number 9 on the UK Singles Charts in July 1978. The title was also on the 1980 Best Of as song number 5 -Album The First, the Best and the Last .
The British band's song, which emerged at the height of the street punk movement, calls on rival youth gangs to unite. According to the music magazine Rolling Stone , the song clarified the "clear, ideological and political views" of the music group, which, according to Jimmy Pursey, saw itself as the "voice of the people".
The punk rock anthem has been covered several times, including in 1991 by the band Die Toten Hosen on the album Learning English Lesson One together with Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69 himself. Other covers are from The Kids (1982), Mama's Boys (1984), 7 Seconds (1985), Bérurier Noir (1989), The Dirty Scums (1992), Wat Tyler (1994), Oi Polloi (1996), The Casualties (1998), DJ Paul Elstak with Teenage Warning (1998), Rancid (1999), In-Line (1999), Red Alert (1999), Angelic Upstarts (2001), Manic Hispanic (2001), BBQ Chickens (2003), The Black Tartan Clan (2008), The Duke Spirit (2010), Les Ramoneurs de menhirs (2010), Tim Timebomb (2013) and Jarvis Cocker (2014). The 1995 song "Kids are United" by Atari Teenage Riot is based on "If the Kids are United", but adds a lot of other statements to it. Also named after the song is the book “If the kids are united. From punk to hardcore and back. ”By Martin Büsser .
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin C. Strong: The Great Rock Discography . 5th edition. Mojo Books , Edinburgh 2000, ISBN 1-84195-017-3 , pp. 869 (English).
- ↑ Christian Menhorn: Skinheads: Portrait of a subculture . Nomos Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7890-7563-6 , p. 44 .
- ↑ Klaus Farin: The Skins: Myth and Reality . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-933773-12-8 , pp. 39 .
- ↑ VICE 20th: Jarvis Cocker - "If the Kids Are United". VICE, accessed January 30, 2017 .
- ↑ If the Kids Are United by Sham 69 - Versions. SecondHandSongs, accessed January 30, 2017 .
- ↑ If the Kids Are United. Who Sampled, accessed January 30, 2017 .