This is the definitive Sham collection for those looking for something reasonably complete. The liner notes are rudimentary, but the sound is great and so is the price. But it hardly matters, since the early material is in such great quantity.
It's true there are some reunion cuts here, which are not up to par with the best stuff by a long shot. Disc two focuses primarily on album tracks from the band's Polydor recordings and the last one on live material. Disc one does contain all the wild and unruly hits "Angels With Dirty Faces," "If the Kids Are United," "Borstal Breakout," "Hurry Up Harry," "Hersham Boys," "Unite and Win," "Tell the Children," "Cockney Kids Are Innocent," and ten others. The most notorious omission is the band's first single on the Step Forward label, "I Don't Wanna"/"Rip Off," though awesome live versions of those songs from 1979 are on disc three. While the title here, Complete Collection, is somewhat misleading because it doesn't contain everything they recorded, it really is almost everything (and more) you'd ever want. SHAM 69 Punk Singles Collection 1977-80 (2011 Japanese 26-track CD album compiling 3 years work from the Pursey-led Hersham punkers, including Angels With. Everyone from the great leftist working-class bands like the Angelic Upstarts and Newtown Neurotics to Nazi punks Skrewdriver and the 4-Skins claimed Sham 69 as an influence. The Complete D Singles, Volume Six, continues Bear Familys chronological reissue of every single issued on Pappy Dailys famed, Houston-based D Records, picking up where Volume Five left off in the Fall of 1965 to the last issue in 1980. 1: Borstal Breakout: 2: Angels With Dirty Faces. 4-CD box (LP-size) with 40-page book, 114 tracks.
Album: The Punk Singles Collection 197780. The Punk Singles Collection 197780 Album. Includes Album Cover, Release Year, and User Reviews. As reviled as they were celebrated, Jimmy Pursey and company were the original boot boys from London's notorious East End, the true Cockney kids, and the lot who inadvertently inspired the loads of Oi! and skinhead punk bands that followed. Features Song Lyrics for Sham 69s The Punk Singles Collection 197780 album.
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