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ARTIST:       Sham 69
TITLE:        The Game
LABEL:        Castle Music
TYPE:         Normal release
GENRE:        Punk
SOURCE:       CD Audio
BITRATE:      198 kbps avg/44100 Hz
ENCODER:      Lame 3.97
SIZE:         65.42 MB
PLAYTIME:     43:55
RELEASE DATE: 1997-XX-XX
RIP DATE:     2010-02-04

Track List
----------

1.  The Game                                    3:01
2.  Human Zoo                                   2:49
3.  Lord of the Flies                           3:08
4.  Give A Dog A Bone                           3:00
5.  In And Out                                  2:59
6.  Tell The Children                           3:41
7.  Spray It On The Wall                        2:29
8.  Dead Or Alive                               2:54
9.  Simon                                       2:52
10. Deja Vu                                     3:26
11. Poor Cow                                    3:25
12. Run Wild Run Free                           2:48
13. Unite And Win                               3:42
14. Daytripper                                  3:41
--------------------------------------------------------
                                  Total Playtime:  43:55

Release Notes:

While most of the early British punk bands spoke of working-class concerns --
primarily unemployment and the shrinking U.K. economy, which was leaving a
generation with nothing to do and nowhere to go -- many of the pioneering groups
had working-class credentials that were suspect at best; the Sex Pistols' career
was being molded by a haberdasher and would-be artist, while the Clash were led
by the son of a diplomat. Sham 69, however, was different; proletarian and proud
of it, Sham 69 was the voice of the people in the first wave of British punk,
and if they were never as fashionable as such contemporaries as the Sex Pistols,
the Clash, Wire, or the Jam (who, in their early days, shared Sham's provincial
outlook and "we're with the kids" fan solidarity), they enjoyed a long run of
chart successes and were a major influence on the street punk and Oi! movements
which followed.

Sham 69 was formed in the working-class community of Hersham (in Surrey) in 1975
by singer and lyricist Jimmy Pursey; the name came from an ancient bit of
graffiti celebrating a local football team's winning season in 1969. From the
start, Sham 69's politics were populist, and their sound accessible;
straight-ahead four-square punk with a hard rock influence and lyrics that often
used sing-along slogans in their choruses, such as "If the Kids Are United" and
"(Gonna Be A) Borstal Breakout." The band went through a revolving cast of
musicians early on before settling on the lineup of Pursey, Dave Parsons on
guitar, Albie Slider on bass, and Mark Cain behind the drums. They began scaring
up gigs where they could, and began playing the notorious London punk venue the
Roxy on a regular basis, where they built up a loyal following. Step Forward, a
small independent label, released the band's first single, "I Don't Wanna," in
September 1977. The success of the single and the band's growing fan base
prompted Polydor to sign the band in the U.K., and their first album, Tell Us
the Truth -- one side recorded live, the other in the studio -- was released in
early 1978. (Sire released the album in the United States, and it would prove to
be the only Sham 69 album released in America until the late '80s.) By the time
the album came out, Albie Slider had left the band and Dave "Kermit" Tregenna
took over on bass. Sham's second album, That's Life, was released in the fall of
1978, and featured two major hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" and "Angels With
Dirty Faces"; and as many of the first wave of U.K. punk bands were beginning to
peter out, Sham 69's popularity continued to grow.

However, there was a fly in the ointment for Sham 69; the band's rowdy,
sing-along attitude began attracting a violent and undiscriminating audience,
and fighting became increasing common at the band's live shows. The group also
found their gigs were becoming recruiting grounds for Britain 's extreme
right-wing (and racist) political party, the National Front; while Pursey often
spoke out against the NF, for some reason it was an association that wouldn't go
away. While the group's third album, The Adventures of the Hersham Boys, was a
commercial success (as were the singles "If The Kids Are United" and "You're A
Better Man Than I"), the increasing violence at concerts made it harder to tour,
and Pursey began producing other bands and investigating new musical directions.

(Drummer Mark Cain also quit the band, with Ricky Goldstein taking over on
percussion.) After the group's fourth album, The Game, received a lukewarm
reception from both reviewers and fans, Pursey opted to split up Sham 69 in
mid-1980. Pursey went on to a solo career, briefly working with former Sex
Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, while Dave Parsons and Dave Tregenna formed a
short-lived band called the Wanderers with former Dead Boys vocalist Stiv
Bators. After "the Sham Pistols" failed to work out, Pursey recorded a series of
ambitious but commercially unsuccessful solo albums, and Tregenna joined the
Lords of the New Church. In 1987, Pursey and Parsons assembled a new edition of
Sham 69; Pursey continues to tour and record with Sham 69, while also pursuing
an acting career and recording solo material.

taken from allmusic.com



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ARTIST:       Sham 69
TITLE:        The Game
LABEL:        Castle Music
TYPE:         Normal release
GENRE:        Punk
SOURCE:       CD Audio
BITRATE:      198 kbps avg/44100 Hz
ENCODER:      Lame 3.97
SIZE:         65.42 MB
PLAYTIME:     43:55
RELEASE DATE: 1997-XX-XX
RIP DATE:     2010-02-04

Track List
----------

1.  The Game                                    3:01
2.  Human Zoo                                   2:49
3.  Lord of the Flies                           3:08
4.  Give A Dog A Bone                           3:00
5.  In And Out                                  2:59
6.  Tell The Children                           3:41
7.  Spray It On The Wall                        2:29
8.  Dead Or Alive                               2:54
9.  Simon                                       2:52
10. Deja Vu                                     3:26
11. Poor Cow                                    3:25
12. Run Wild Run Free                           2:48
13. Unite And Win                               3:42
14. Daytripper                                  3:41
--------------------------------------------------------
                                  Total Playtime:  43:55

Release Notes:

While most of the early British punk bands spoke of working-class concerns --
primarily unemployment and the shrinking U.K. economy, which was leaving a
generation with nothing to do and nowhere to go -- many of the pioneering groups
had working-class credentials that were suspect at best; the Sex Pistols' career
was being molded by a haberdasher and would-be artist, while the Clash were led
by the son of a diplomat. Sham 69, however, was different; proletarian and proud
of it, Sham 69 was the voice of the people in the first wave of British punk,
and if they were never as fashionable as such contemporaries as the Sex Pistols,
the Clash, Wire, or the Jam (who, in their early days, shared Sham's provincial
outlook and "we're with the kids" fan solidarity), they enjoyed a long run of
chart successes and were a major influence on the street punk and Oi! movements
which followed.

Sham 69 was formed in the working-class community of Hersham (in Surrey) in 1975
by singer and lyricist Jimmy Pursey; the name came from an ancient bit of
graffiti celebrating a local football team's winning season in 1969. From the
start, Sham 69's politics were populist, and their sound accessible;
straight-ahead four-square punk with a hard rock influence and lyrics that often
used sing-along slogans in their choruses, such as "If the Kids Are United" and
"(Gonna Be A) Borstal Breakout." The band went through a revolving cast of
musicians early on before settling on the lineup of Pursey, Dave Parsons on
guitar, Albie Slider on bass, and Mark Cain behind the drums. They began scaring
up gigs where they could, and began playing the notorious London punk venue the
Roxy on a regular basis, where they built up a loyal following. Step Forward, a
small independent label, released the band's first single, "I Don't Wanna," in
September 1977. The success of the single and the band's growing fan base
prompted Polydor to sign the band in the U.K., and their first album, Tell Us
the Truth -- one side recorded live, the other in the studio -- was released in
early 1978. (Sire released the album in the United States, and it would prove to
be the only Sham 69 album released in America until the late '80s.) By the time
the album came out, Albie Slider had left the band and Dave "Kermit" Tregenna
took over on bass. Sham's second album, That's Life, was released in the fall of
1978, and featured two major hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" and "Angels With
Dirty Faces"; and as many of the first wave of U.K. punk bands were beginning to
peter out, Sham 69's popularity continued to grow.

However, there was a fly in the ointment for Sham 69; the band's rowdy,
sing-along attitude began attracting a violent and undiscriminating audience,
and fighting became increasing common at the band's live shows. The group also
found their gigs were becoming recruiting grounds for Britain 's extreme
right-wing (and racist) political party, the National Front; while Pursey often
spoke out against the NF, for some reason it was an association that wouldn't go
away. While the group's third album, The Adventures of the Hersham Boys, was a
commercial success (as were the singles "If The Kids Are United" and "You're A
Better Man Than I"), the increasing violence at concerts made it harder to tour,
and Pursey began producing other bands and investigating new musical directions.

(Drummer Mark Cain also quit the band, with Ricky Goldstein taking over on
percussion.) After the group's fourth album, The Game, received a lukewarm
reception from both reviewers and fans, Pursey opted to split up Sham 69 in
mid-1980. Pursey went on to a solo career, briefly working with former Sex
Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, while Dave Parsons and Dave Tregenna formed a
short-lived band called the Wanderers with former Dead Boys vocalist Stiv
Bators. After "the Sham Pistols" failed to work out, Pursey recorded a series of
ambitious but commercially unsuccessful solo albums, and Tregenna joined the
Lords of the New Church. In 1987, Pursey and Parsons assembled a new edition of
Sham 69; Pursey continues to tour and record with Sham 69, while also pursuing
an acting career and recording solo material.

taken from allmusic.com



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