A Fistful Of...4-Skins

      A Fistful of...4-Skins
      Studio album by The 4-Skins
      Released 1983
      Recorded Alaska Studios, London
      Genre Punk rock, Oi!
      Length 45:37
      51:28 (1993 CD reissue)
      Label Syndicate
      Producer Ian O'Higgins
      The 4-Skins chronology
      The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins
      (1982)
      A Fistful Of...4-Skins
      (1983)
      From Chaos to 1984
      (1984)

      A Fistful of...4-Skins is the second studio album by English punk rock/Oi! band, The 4-Skins, released in 1983 by Syndicate Records. In comparison to The 4-Skins' previous material, "A Fistful Of...4-Skins" featured a slower, heavier, more melodic, hard rock-based sound.

      Less successful than its predecessor, the album charted outside the Top 30 on the UK independent chart. The band members claimed that this was due to chart manipulation.[1] The album was later combined with debut LP, The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins (omitting the track "One Law for Them" from that album due to space limitations) and released on a single CD by Link Records in 1987 as A Few 4-Skins More, Vol.1.

      Following the breakup of the line-up that recorded the band's previous album, The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins, Hoxton Tom McCourt had assembled a new line-up (the fourth overall) including former The Last Resort singer Roi Pearce, and future Skrewdriver guitarist, Paul Swain.

      Track listing

      Source: Amazon[2]

      All songs written and composed by McCourt/Pearce/Bransom/Swain. 

      No. Title Length
      1. "5 More Years"   3:20
      2. "Waiting For A Friend"   3:36
      3. "Johnny Go Home"   2:59
      4. "The Gambler"   3:30
      5. "I'll Stick To My Guns"   2:53
      6. "On File"   3:57
      7. "Forgotten Hero"   4:01
      8. "The Spy From Alaska"   2:57
      9. "H.M.P."   3:10
      10. "No Excuse"   3:33
      11. "Betrayed"   3:40
      12. "City Boy"   3:51
      13. "New War"   4:10
      CD reissue bonus tracks
      No. Title Length
      14. "On The Streets"   2:46
      15. "Saturday" (Demo) 3:05
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      Credits

      • Roi Pearce – lead vocals
      • Hoxton Tom McCourt – bass guitar, lead vocal on "New War"
      • Ian Bransom – drums
      • Paul Swain – guitar
      • Keith Bollock Brother – backing vocals
      • Neil Barker – backing vocals
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      References

      1. ^ "The Music of the 4Skins". Retrieved 13 April 2011. 
      2. ^ "A Fistful Of...4-Skins". Amazon.com. Retrieved 13 April 2011. 
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