Angelic Upstarts - 2,000,000 Voices
#244
June 1981 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
Angelic Upstarts
2,000,000 Voices
Genre: Oi Punk
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Ghost Town
Mensi’s Marauders
Last Night Another Soldier
This is a fascinating album. It’s more like an OI manifesto. The songs are loud and scabrous and sometimes delicious. But I am more attracted to the spoken word “Heath’s Lament” and how it leads into “Guns for the Afghan Rebels”. I know that punk dies a swift death in the 80s, it wasn’t a movement designed to be long lasting because it’s reactionary. Which also means that, depending on what artists are reacting to, “punk” will change. It could be spoken word, it could be aggressive, it could be funky, it’s an attitude.
Thing is, this album is more appealing to the ear than the punks of the day, it’s almost Clash-like. Even going so far as to dive into Reggae in “I Understand”. And…fiddle on “Mensi’s Marauders”!
Each track is a bit of a surprise and it really doesn’t have a down spot on it. I swear I’ve heard “Last Night Another Soldier” before. It’s excellent in a way that Jones and Strummer used to be.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/2-000-000-voices/691543291
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