Oi is a style wedding to a particular time and place. That is the UK during the late ’70s and the Thatcher era. It’s basically been locked in the time capsule of our collective memory since then. Bands have attempted to revive the genre in the US and elsewhere with mostly dismal results. There was just something about the working-class milieu that Sham 69, Cockney Rejects, and others came out of that made that style sweaty, sloppy, drunken and contagiously hooky rock and roll feel urgent and real. And when you remove it from that context, it just sounds like a shoddier version of hardcore or power-pop. The association that the genre eventually acquired with skinhead culture and the infiltration of the far-right and fascist movement into that culture didn’t win the genre a...
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