Strength Thru Oi!

Strength Thru Oi!
Compilation album by various artists
Released	May 1981
Recorded	Various
Genre	Oi!, punk rock
Label	Decca

Strength Thru Oi! is a controversial 1981 Oi! compilation album, featuring various artists and released by Decca Records, released in collaboration with Sounds magazine.

The album was the sequel to Oi! The Album (1980), and itself was followed by Carry On Oi! (Oi 3!, 1981) and Oi! Oi! That's Yer Lot! (Oi/4, 1982).

When Strength Thru Oi! was released, it was controversial because its title was a play on a Nazi slogan ("Strength Through Joy"), and the cover featured Nicky Crane, a British Movement activist who was serving a four-year sentence for racist violence. Rock critic Garry Bushell, who was responsible for compiling the album, insists its title was a pun on The Skids' album Strength Through Joy and that he had been unaware of the Nazi connotations. He also denied knowing the identity of the skinhead on the album's cover until it was exposed by the Daily Mail two months later. It was not so easy to deny the album cover's glorification of violence and the sinister tone of its sleeve notes:

A mass of boots, straights, and combat jackets, skins and boot boys, grins and hoots and oy-oy's, young blood on the prowl.... Getting nicked for wearing steel caps, a flick blade flashing in the moonlight.

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