The Exploited
| The Exploited | |
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 Wattie Buchan (2018) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Edinburgh (Great Britain) |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore punk , crossover , street punk , Oi! |
| founding | 1980 |
| Website | www.the-exploited.net |
| Founding members | |
| Wattie Buchan | |
Guitar, vocals |
"Big John" Duncan |
Bass , vocals |
Gary McCormack |
| Drew "Dru Stix" Campbell | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Wattie Buchan |
Bass, vocals |
Irish Rob |
Drums |
Willie Buchan |
Guitar, vocals |
Robbie "Steed" Davidson (since 2016) |
| former members | |
Guitar, vocals |
Gav (until 2009) |
Guitar, vocals |
Matt McGuire (2010-2016) |
The Exploited (Eng .: "The exploited") is a British punk band.
history
The Exploited was founded in early 1980 by Wattie Buchan, John Duncan, Gary McCormack and Drew "Dru Stix" Campbell in Edinburgh , Scotland . In 1981 her debut album Punks Not Dead was released , which reached number 20 in the British charts and sold 150,000 copies. In the summer the band went on the Apocalypse Now tour with Discharge , where they performed in London on the day after the Brixton riots. In October, the band made it to the charts with the EP Dead Cities and to an appearance on Top of the Pops , which The Exploited was often accused of in the scene. Another tour of Great Britain followed.
On the album Let's Start a War… Said Maggie One Day , the band used a skull with a mohawk as the cover for the first time . This Pushead motif was later taken up again and is the band's trademark a. popular on fan tees. Pushead says he was not paid for this work.
After The Massacre , published in 1990, The Exploited was quiet for a while. In 1996 the band reported back with Beat the Bastards , with the line-up consisting of Wattie Buchan, his brothers and bassist Jim Gray. In 2003 Fuck the System followed .
In February 2014 Wattie Buchan suffered a heart attack during a concert in Lisbon . After a year, he was able to resume his stage work, but was hospitalized again with heart problems in April 2017 after a concert in Ghent, Belgium .
style
music
Rainer Schmidt from Rolling Stone attested Wattie Buchan a beautiful "battered voice". Jan Jaedike from Rock Hard, on the other hand, wrote that Buchan sounded “like a moody teenager” on the debut album Punk's Not Dead , even though he was over 20 years old. Jaedike also criticized the production as powerless. The album is considered a punk classic and pieces such as SPG , Out of Control and I Believe in Anarchy are early models of future US hardcore . Shortly after its release, the EP Dead Cities was described by the Musikexpress as a "stylish attack", which confirmed the claim of the band "op band of today's punks [...] to the throne of the Cockney Rejects ", previously the UK Subs .
The band's style became increasingly metallic . Jaedike describes the The Vibrators cover Troops of Tomorrow from the second album of the same name as a “dark-metallic apocalypse” and the They Won't Stop, which is also included on the album, as a “proto- thrash metaller ”. 1982 was with the "three absolute ten-point god gifts" Troops of Tomorrow , Discharges Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing and GBH's City Baby Attacked by Rats "THE year of British hardcore punk". The Attack single was described by the Musikexpress as "[h] art as always, but already close to hard rock " and The Exploited as "ex-punk heroes". Insanity from the following album Let's Start a War ... Said Maggie One Day he described as a "metal / punk hybrids".
On Horror Epics, the band works with an atypical reverberation of vocals, which Buchan says “takes some of his power”, and according to Jaedike “typical for the eighties, but uncool sterile for a punk band -artificial drum sound “. Laut.de, on the other hand, writes that Live at the Whitehouse and Horror Epics have “lost none of the directness and hardness of the band”. Although “it is now clear to everyone that The Exploited will never surprise you musically, but that's what the is about Band not at all ”. Politicians from the EP Jesus Is Dead on the other hand comes, according to Jaedike, "with the crassest vocal performance that Wattie has ever put on, and a couple of formidable guitar solos", Privacy Invasion from the same EP is "also an unjustly forgotten pearl in the band's catalog".
The Death Before Dishonour , which opened with "two metallic mid-tempo numbers" scrubbed down, was, according to Jaedike, "the pubescent forerunner of the steel racing car" The Massacre and suffered from "a semi-mad, undifferentiated production" behind the previously released "killer EP" Jesus Is Dead remained behind and where "one can often only guess at the very successful guitar work". Jaedike also highlighted the “up-tempo melancholy” Driving Me Insane on this album , the “rough planed down” Adding to Their Fears , the “furious” Police Informer and the Sex and Violence from the debut album with “Eighties Goth Metal Post Punk as well as chick- backings “pairing sexual favors .” Laut.de also admitted that the musicians had proven on this album “with a clear metal side” and the female vocals in sexual favors that they “are not as predictable as is commonly assumed ". On the following album, The Massacre , producer Colin Richardson pushed The Exploited “more than ever towards metal”, “without taking away the necessary snot. The structures stay punk, the riffs are razor sharp and the solos are great. Thrash metal finesse and punk aggro were (and still are) on par with any other act. According to Jaedike, Beat the Bastards is lifting the path taken on The Massacre "to an absolute high and at the same time (!) Belongs to the best hardcore punk and thrash records of all time". Discharge has been dreaming of pieces like System Fucked Up for 30 years. Fuck the System, on the other hand, tended more towards punk musically. Laut.de wrote that with this album it “quickly became clear that the band has still not lost any of its topicality and importance, even if they will never get out of their corner musically [sic!]. A damn important anachronism. "
Texts
The EP Army Life features the song Fuck the Mods , which calls for violence against members of the mod subculture . Wattie Buchan's declaration of war on the Mods, when a The Exploited and The Jam concerts were held on the same street, sparked brawls outside the venue. Because of their "violent attitude" the band of The Edge of U2 was criticized against the Musikexpress . That is "nothing but a goddamn pose".
The debut album Punks Not Dead was directed against the development of the punk scene at the time. The title song is the answer to Punk Is Dead from the debut album The Feeding of the 5000 by the English anarcho-punk band Crass . in Singalongabushell from the Rival Leaders EP , re-released as Wankers on the album Let's Start a War… Said Maggie One Day , the band referred to the “renegade ' Oi! -Inventor ' Garry Bushell "as" wanker ":" Bushell said that punk was dead / Wanker ". On the albums, the band also dealt with the Falklands War . During a gig in Argentina, the band declared that the Falkland Islands were forever British. Among others in Maggie from Horror Epics “with his eloquent 'Maggie! You cunt'- Hookline ”and on The Massacre the band spoke out against Margaret Thatcher , whom Jaedike described as Buchan's“ favorite target ”. The title song of the EP Jesus Is Dead , which was " crowned with a fancy blasphemous cover", is, according to Jaedike, " nagging aimed at the Irish civil war [...] ('Was Jesus a Catholic or a Protestant? He was a Jew!')" that "a few cardboard noses immediately wanted to get it wrong", "like some of the statements from Mr. Buchan". Religion also referred to Fuck Religion from the album The Massacre . The Exploited also sang with Police Informer from Death Before Dishonour and Police Shit from The Massacre against the police, there also government, war, the upper class and in Sick Bastard against sex offenders, Porno Slut "again manifests Buchan's disinterest in politically correct scene conventions" . Among the "sometimes very personal texts" on Fuck the System are the "relationship therapy" Was It Me and Holiday in the Sun about death camps. The album also contains songs with the self-explanatory titles Never Sell Out and Chaos Is My Life according to the band's biography . The Exploited also criticized the Criminal Justice Act and video surveillance systems , among other things , with the band always taking a position against authority and war. In the song "Blown To Bits" the band goes against the IRA's struggle for independence . At a concert in Glasgow in 1981, Buchan described the IRA activist Bobby Sands, who died in the same year, as a "wanker" before voicing the piece .
During his career, Buchan was repeatedly caught in the crossfire by critics who accused him of promoting dull stereotypes and a fascist attitude - due to the many National Front supporters who came out as exploited fans, especially in England in the 1980s . However, the band released a statement in which they denied the allegations (see below). Laut.de wrote that “the boys are anything but neo-Nazis ”.
reception
Jello Biafra , described by Buchan as a "two faced cunt" (English: "double-faced cunt"), attested the band a "brainless level".
Discography
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Albums
- Punks Not Dead (1981)
- Troops of Tomorrow (1982)
- Let's Start a War ... Said Maggie One Day (1983)
- Horror Epics (1985)
- Death Before Dishonour (1987)
- The Massacre (1990)
- Beat the Bastards (1996)
- Fuck the System (2003)
- 25 Years of Anarchy and Chaos (compilation album, 2005)
Singles and EPs
- Army Life , 7 "- single (1980)
- Exploited Barmy Army , 7 "single (1980)
- Dogs of War , 7 "single (1981)
- Dead Cities , 7 "- EP (1981)
- Don't Let 'Em Grind You Down , 7 "- Split EP with Anti-Pasti (1981)
- Britannia Waives the Rules , 12 "split EP with Chron Gen and Infa-Riot (1982)
- Attack / Alternative , 7 "single (1982)
- Computers Don't Blunder , 7 "single (1982)
- Troops of Tomorrow Promo -12 "(1982)
- Rival Leaders , 7 "EP (1983)
- Jesus Is Dead , 12 "-EP (1986)
- War Now , 12 "EP (1988)
Web links
- Official website
- The Exploited at laut.de
- The Exploited at Discogs (English)
- The Exploited at MusicBrainz (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Morat: The Exploited History. The Exploited, January 2003, accessed February 27, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Jan Jaedike: Dissecting table . The Exploited. In: Rock Hard . No. 332 , January 2015, p. 93 .
- ↑ a b c d e f The Exploited. laut.de , accessed on February 27, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.metal-hammer.de/news/mektiven/article538073/herzinfarkt-auf-der-buehne-exploited-saenger-im-krankenhaus.html
- ↑ Blabbermouth.net: The Exploited Frontman Hospitalized With 'Very Serious Heart Condition'. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
- ^ A b c Rainer Schmidt : The Exploited . Punk's Not Dead. In: Rolling Stone . Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, Berlin July 2011, p. 62 .
- ^ A b Johnny Loftus: Punks Not Dead - The Exploited. Allmusic , accessed on January 31, 2015 .
- ↑ New singles . In: Musikexpress . No. 2 , February 1982, p. 55 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Jan Jaedike: Dissecting table . The Exploited. In: Rock Hard . No. 332 , January 2015, p. 92 .
- ↑ New singles . In: Musikexpress . No. 6 June 1982, pp. 82 .
- ↑ Steve Lake: Apocalypse in Dublin . U2. In: Musikexpress . No. 4 , April 1982, pp. 45 .
- ^ "Troops Of Tomorrow" - "Apocalypse Tour 1981" - double CD, Anagram Records 2008
- ↑ https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/the-exploited-henry-rollins-jello-biafra-and-green-day-are-all-like-two-faced-cnts/ , accessed on October 16, 2019
- ↑ https://www.ox-fanzine.de/web/itv/799/interviews.212.html , accessed on October 16, 2019
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK