Oi!
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Karen Roberts32 said:I don't really listen to much from that specific movement, but I know enough about it to have an opinion... honestly, that whole connection with skinheads bugs me a little bit. I’ve never been a fan of them, so I find it kind of stupid how they got tangled up in the punk scene in the first place. It was a great move for the working-class kids to unite with the rest of the crowd, sure, but there were just way too many stylistic details getting mixed together. Personally, I prefer street punk—which used to be called Oi!—but street punk eventually branched out from Oi! as its punk offspring, just without all those skinhead elements... plus, their music is just way harder. 🙂
Oh, please, you're really going to sit there and claim there aren't skinheads in street punk? If you actually understood skinhead culture and its history, you wouldn't be throwing around terms like "skinheads" so casually. Is that how people like you operate? You see a shaved head and some Doc Martens and immediately label someone a skinhead, instantly associating them with those Nazi skinheads who salute with their right hands—you know, the actual racists and fascists. It’s nothing but pure prejudice.
But looking at the big picture, I think Oi! music is absolutely killer; it's pretty much all I listen to. And if you ask me, the European scene totally dominates this stuff—especially the bands coming out of Spain, Italy, and the UK. As for here in the States, it's not like we don't have anything, it's just that we don't have a legitimate, top-tier Oi! band. It's a damn shame... Oi!