Band sham 693/4/2023 ![]() Jimmy Pursey has a fairly good voice and works well on all the songs. The album does have some comedy in it as sometimes there is some dialogue before or after songs, even though sometimes I can't understand what they are saying it is still pretty entertaining. It kind of brings the record down a bit, but it is not too bad. The record doesn't feature the greatest sound quality, though I wasn't expecting it too. That's Life, was released the same year as their debut in 1978. Sham 69 was also the first of the punk bands from the UK to feature a song that made it on the charts with their hit and top ten UK single Hurry Up Harry. Something that is noticeable in almost every song is that they always have a very catchy and sing along chorus, most of the time with backing vocals which works very well, influening a great many of Oi!/street punk bands after them. ![]() ![]() They sing some songs about politics and the working class, like many punk bands did and still do, but they also have some humorous songs in which the lyrics are just plain funny. They formed in 1975 by frontman and singer/songwriter Jimmy Pursey and guitarist Dave Parsons, but didn't release their debut album, Tell Us The Truth until 1978 on Earmark record labels. While they play raw punk and rock music, they have hard rock influences, and on some songs they include different types of instruments, something that many punk bands didn't do, with the obvious exception of The Clash and a few others. However, I wouldn't consider them just another punk band that sounded like many other bands at that time. Sham 69 was one of the many bands to come out of England during the punk movement between the mid to late seventies.
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