A Fistful Of...4-Skins

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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 Records
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.

[edit] Track listing

(all songs written by McCourt/Pearce/Bransom/Swain.)

1. Five More Years
2. Waiting for a Friend
3. Johnny Go Home
4. The Gambler
5. I'll Stick to My Guns
6. On File
7. Forgotten Hero
8. The Spy from Alaska
9. H.M.P.
10. No Excuse
11. Betrayed
12. City Boy
13. New War

    CD reissue bonus tracks:

14. On the Streets
15. Saturday (Demo)

[edit] 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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