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Bad man - classic
I cannot believe that none of you journos have paid homage to this bastard
― Fer Ark, Sunday, 30 March 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)
Haven't really listened to them since their heyday, but I remember some pretty fierce singles, and I suspect they're underrated. They were supposed to support Morrisey at Meltdown. Can't imagine what that must have been like, and I didn't see any reviews.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 30 March 2008 14:07 (eighteen years ago)
Their first single ("Flares & Slippers" / "Police Car" (1979)) was fantastic, the second and third ("I'm Not A Fool" (1979) and "Bad Man" (1980)) not quite as good, and by the time their first album (Greatest Hits Vol. 1) and their fourth and fifth singles ("The Greatest Cockney Rip Off", "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles") were released they were already starting to descended into moronic self-parody (thanks in no small part imho to the influence of mentor Jimmy Pursey).
Managed to release a further 2 singles ("We Can Do Anything" and "We Are The Firm") and a second album (Greatest Hits Vol. 2) all within the space of 1 year (1980), although none of these did anything to alter the band's downward trajectory and it was clear that the well of inspiration had run dry.
Became associated very early on with the nascent Oi! scene with all that that entailed (gigs that were regularly disrupted by gangs of seig-heiling nazi dickheads kicking the crap first of all out of anyone they didn't like the look of before truning on each other) and I believe the band eventually (but too late) tried to escape from this and move on by re-branding themselves as what they had, in fact, already become - a (bad) Heavy Metal band.
― Stewart Osborne, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:11 (eighteen years ago)
Surely invented Oi!? (Flares and Slippers itself has the oi! chant) 'Oi!Oi!Oi! of Vol 2
Volume 1 was the real street deal.
After football.Pissed up. Raise the fist and chant along like the moron you are. Guilty as charged quite recently. It's at those moments when, say, The Red House Painters are not required
It's hardly surprising that the Rejects have reformed.Oh dear
Their' metal ' was truly awful
As dumb as The Ramones or Dickies but not as knowingly.
― Fer Ark, Monday, 31 March 2008 22:21 (eighteen years ago)
Bad Man is one of my faves. Greatest Hits 1 & 2 are great. The third (studio) album is still in Oi style rather than metal but it's a bit shit. Never listened to later stuff. I listen to the 1st 2 albums all the time though!
I'm going to see them this summer. Have no idea what that will be like.
Most stories I've read of the early gigs say they were plagued by football-related violence due to the West Ham connection rather than the NF, although obviously NF and football hooliganism goes hand in hand.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:56 (eighteen years ago)
West Ham in the '80's > the notorious Inter City Firm
― Stewart Osborne, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 16:14 (eighteen years ago)
I'M A BAD MAN
What happened to Fer Ark?
― someone who is ranked fairly highly in an army of poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 22 August 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)