Band Name: UK Subs
Music Album: Complete Riot
Album Release Date: December 2024
Music Genre: Punk Rock
Record Label: New Red Archives
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 31 Tracks CD
The UK Subs were another group that emerged from the scene at The Roxy in London in 1977. Founder and Lead Vocalist Charlie Harper was playing in R&B and pub rock groups before being influenced by bands like The Damned to turn to punk.
The band initially started in 1976 as "The Subversives" with singer Charlie Harper. When the band line-up was based around Harper's growling Cockney vocals with Nicky Garratt on Guitar, Paul Slack on Bass and a variety of drummers they became the "U.K. subversives", later shortened to "U.K. Subs". Although adopting punk stylings, the bands work was still heavily influenced by R&B, albeit played fast. Their sound was most similar to Sham 69 or The Angelic Upstarts, although without the skinhead following
Whilst never having a big hit, several singles made the lower reaches of the Top 30 in the late 70s, including "Stranglehold", "Tomorrow's Girls", a cover of The Zombies classic "She's Not There" and "Warhead". The first two studio LPs "Another Kind of Blues" and "Brand New Age" also made the lower reaches of the album charts.
In 1983 Nicky Garratt left the band along with bass player Alvin Gibbs and then drummer Kim Wylie leaving Charlie Harper to recruit a whole new band.
Garratt would come back in and out of the line-up over the following 25 years whilst Charlie carried on touring and recording with an almos (...)
| 1 | Jump On It | 0:49 |
| 2 | Your Ego | 1:13 |
| 3 | War On The Pentagon Part 1 & 2 | 4:05 |
| 4 | Quintessentials | 1:37 |
| 5 | State Of Alert | 0:49 |
| 6 | The Day Of The Dead | 1:25 |
| 7 | AK47 | 2:20 |
| 8 | Media Man | 1:33 |
| 9 | Mouth On A Stick | 2:13 |
| 10 | Outside Society | 1:47 |
| 11 | Bitter & Twisted | 2:09 |
| 12 | Accident Prone | 3:11 |
| 13 | Killer Cops | 1:42 |
| 14 | Psychosis | 1:47 |
| 15 | Squat 96 | 2:41 |
| 16 | Dunblane | 3:37 |
| 17 | Cyberjunk | 2:32 |
| 18 | Rebel Radio | 1:42 |
| 19 | Power Corrupts | 1:25 |
| 20 | Preacher | 1:04 |
| 21 | Riot | 2:46 |
| 22 | Chemical War | 1:01 |
| 23 | Paradise Burning | 2:46 |
| 24 | House Of Cards | 1:45 |
| 25 | Human Rights | 1:35 |
| 26 | Guilty Man | 2:02 |
| 27 | Lost Not Found | 1:42 |
| 28 | Music For The Dead | 3:19 |
| 29 | Beggars & Bums | 2:29 |
| 30 | My Little Red Book | 2:09 |
| 31 | Flat Earth Society | 1:59 |
Digipak release. Recorded October 1996 at The Wally Sound, San Francisco, California.
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