Artist: Blitz
Album: Voice Of A Generation
Album: Voice Of A Generation
Release: 1982
Label: No Future
Tracklist:
1. We Are The Boys
2. Time Bomb
3. Voice Of A Generation
4. Bleed
5. I Don't Need You
6. T.O.?
7. Propaganda
8. Criminal Damage
9. Vicious
10. Warriors
11. Nation On Fire
12. Your Revolution
13. Scream
14. 4.Q.
15. Escape
16. Moscow
17. Closedown
Yet again the mighty Blitz have been re-captured in the imagination of today's punk. Yet again have another contemporary hardcore band graced on-lookers and listeners by charging through a Blitz anthem. I was lucky to see The Rival Mob do this Saturday with their rendition of "We Are The Boys"; truly we are.
Voice Of A Generation is the first Blitz LP. It is an elegant mixture of gritty, street punk and the chorus-ridden, pop-sensitive licks that mark the band's middle and New Wave periods. In some ways Blitz are a characteristic punk band: lyrically, thematically and certainly in turns of sound and style. Yet their proficiency at crafting mind-controlling, catchy songs enabled them to gain relative success in the mainstream, even spending some time on the pop charts with various singles and LPs. "We Are The Boys", "Never Surrender", "Warriors", "Criminal Damage", "Voice of A Generation" and other songs all attest to the youthfulness and the rebelliousness of this music. At various points Blitz even experiment with dub interludes, but this only serves to solidify the band as comfortable innovators. The songs themselves can appeal to most anyone.
After "New Age" Alan "Nidge" Miller ceased to write songs for Blitz. Thus Second Empire Justice, the band's second LP, has an entirely different feel. The songs on Voice Of A Generation on through "New Age" maintain that wonderful harmony between protest song and pop anthem.
"Nation On Fire" may be my favorite song on the record. It's a dry, rough and angry testament to the restlessness of summer and invokes Watts Riots or 1960s Chicago. Pure punk gem.
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Voice Of A Generation is the first Blitz LP. It is an elegant mixture of gritty, street punk and the chorus-ridden, pop-sensitive licks that mark the band's middle and New Wave periods. In some ways Blitz are a characteristic punk band: lyrically, thematically and certainly in turns of sound and style. Yet their proficiency at crafting mind-controlling, catchy songs enabled them to gain relative success in the mainstream, even spending some time on the pop charts with various singles and LPs. "We Are The Boys", "Never Surrender", "Warriors", "Criminal Damage", "Voice of A Generation" and other songs all attest to the youthfulness and the rebelliousness of this music. At various points Blitz even experiment with dub interludes, but this only serves to solidify the band as comfortable innovators. The songs themselves can appeal to most anyone.
After "New Age" Alan "Nidge" Miller ceased to write songs for Blitz. Thus Second Empire Justice, the band's second LP, has an entirely different feel. The songs on Voice Of A Generation on through "New Age" maintain that wonderful harmony between protest song and pop anthem.
"Nation On Fire" may be my favorite song on the record. It's a dry, rough and angry testament to the restlessness of summer and invokes Watts Riots or 1960s Chicago. Pure punk gem.
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-Colman
5 comments:
love blitz but nothing beats their ignorant oi! athems like someone's gonna die tonight and razors in the night.
^ yup
oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! oi! good post, you keep doing your homework =P KeseYoke from the land of Mambo and Mosh
my favourite thing of this sort is sham 69's borstal breakout/hey little rich boy ep.
Anonymous 2: I love that EP. On the whole, I am less familiar with Sham 69 but I think that Blitz are kind of defining and unparalleled song-writers for the genre.
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