The 4 Skins - The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins

Original Release Date

1982

Release Information

UK LP 1982 (Secret - SEC 4)

Studio Side
1 Plastic Gangsters 3:23
2 Jealousy 1:53
3 Yesterdays Heroes 3:08
4 Justice 2:29
5 Jack The Lad 3:31
6 Remembrance Day 3:12
7 Manifesto 2:49
Live Side
8 Wonderful World
9 1984
10 Sorry
11 Evil
12 I Don't Wanna Die
13 A.C.A.B.
14 Chaos
15 One Law For Them

Note: Track listing on rear cover and labels is wrong; the track listing presented above is correct.

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UK CD 2002 (Captain Oi! - AHOY DPX 3)

Studio
1 Plastic Gangsters 3:23
2 Jealousy 1:53
3 Yesterdays Heroes 3:08
4 Justice 2:29
5 Jack The Lad 3:31
6 Remembrance Day 3:12
7 Manifesto 2:49
Live
8 Wonderful World 1:49
9 1984 2:34
10 Sorry 3:21
11 Evil 2:30
12 I Don't Wanna Die 3:13
13 A.C.A.B. 1:52
14 Chaos 3:16
Studio
15 One Law For Them 2:40
Bonus Tracks
16 Low Life 3:05
17 Bread Or Blood 2:49
18 Get Out Of My Life 2:04
19 Seems To Me 3:18
20 Norman 4:33

Chart Placings

UK Indie Hit: 1, 12 wks
(excluded from chart after 12 weeks when CBS took over distribution)
UK Chart Hit: 80, 4 wks

Credits

LP Label Credit:
Produced by John Jacobs and Gary Hitchcock

LP Inner Sleeve Credits:
Produced by The 4-Skins/Tim Thompson
Engineered by Tim Thompson

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CD Credits:

Panther - vocals
Hoxton Tom - bass
John Jacobs - guitar, keyboards
Pete Abbott - drums

Recorded and mixed at Matrix Studios
Produced by Tim Thompson and The 4-Skins

Additional Credits

CD Bonus Tracks:
16-17: Low Life 7", released November 1982
18: B-Side of Yesterday's Heroes 7", released February 1982
19-20: Unreleased 7" single, 1983

Reviews & Opinions

TROUSER PRESS: The studio side of The Good, the Bad & the 4 Skins starts out with a delightful ska-beat tune ("Plastic Gangsters") and then turns angry skinhead generic for shoutalongs like "Justice" and "Yesterdays Heroes." The seven-song live side is equally forbidding (Panther's vocals are especially unpleasant).

DAVE THOMPSON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE: ....an awful lot of fun, a seething, stomping noisebox that clashed primal Sham 69 with classic Slade, and had so many rousing choruses and hooks that they often stuffed two or three into each song. And then there's "Yesterday's Heroes," which could have been a lost Jam jewel; "Remembrance Day," with its Rotten-esque hectoring...the list goes on. This is a great record, and it only gets greater, as side two drops listeners into the seething heart of a 4-Skins concert, and you can smell the denim and boot leather.

SHANE BALDWIN, RECORD COLLECTOR, 2002 [read full review here]

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Images

UK LP 1982 (Secret - SEC 4). Click here for more

UK CD 2002 (Captain Oi! - AHOY DPX 3). Digipak. Click here for more