Limecell and Sons of liberty - AO tribute Split 7'' (2005)

Tracklist:
01. Limecell - Evil has landed (Arresting officers cover)
02. Sons of liberty - Slum river (Arresting officers cover)

Released by Dim Records in 2005.

This is a wierd album to say the least. This is basically the same band with different drummer and vocalist in all three. As metioned before Steve and Bob used to play guitar and bass in Arresting officers and after the breakup of the band they started Limecell and around 2001 they started the band Sons of liberty as another project.
It feel a lot like singing "happy birthday" for yourself but its nice to see that they are not ashamed off their earlier musical roots.

Limecells side is the better one (since i always liked Kevins vocals better then Lon's) but i dont understand their changing off the lyics. They make a song about illegal immigrants and replace the word immigrant with terrorists. I dont understand nothing since the last time i checked terrorists didnt undermine the security off the workingmans rights or leech off taxmoney. They are often somewhat financially stable lunatics that like to blow things up.
If this is some kind off way to cash in on the "war on terror" i think its a stupid move but great cover anyway. Fun to hear Kevins voice to this old classic.
Sons of liberty covers one off my favourite tracks but thanks to Lon's voice it sounds like rubbish. This band has some great songs but not this track.

(Update March 2010) By accident Dim records added a track by Hated and proud instead of SOL's song. This mistake resulted in 3 ugly (but from what i have heard great sounding) copies from the testpressing. After noticing the mistake the SOL track was added and this was the result. As you might understand i would really like to get my hands on one off these 3 testprintings so if you have it e-mail me.
6/10

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Arresting officers - Land and heritage (1990)

Tracklist:
01. Victory in our time
02. Celtic cross
03. Working class patriot
04. Lone wolf
05. Another blackout
06. Terrorist bombs
07. Your money or your life
08. Shes a warrior
09. Defend us in battle
10. The hammer and the raven
11. Stop red action
12. United skins for victory

Released by Rock-O-Rama Records in 1990.

(Updated 16 March 2012: Uploaded the album again with better coverart this time)

Second and last album by these Philly boys. The album title and cover will scare of most people but dont worry this is no album talking about racial genocide. Even if the lyrics are a bit harder on this album its just WP like most Oi! back in the days (hell even Guns and roses was into to that around this time).
Even if i liked the sound on the first album better and have a hard time digesting anything with lyrics about norse mythology its a solid album and tracks like Another blackout shows that they could have gone way further if they could have just dropped the politics.

After this album they broke up and Rock-O-Rama lost their only good American band (well maybe except for The Rouges).
Steve and Bob would a few years later start the nonpolitical band Limecell and Brian that had the most musical experience left the industi all together and became a police officer in Philladelphia (this worries me a lot since i know the lyrics for the song Deserve).
8/10

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Lyrics for Disorderly conduct by Arresting officers

Well the suns going down and we're drunk again
We stumble on the train with a case in hand
Police wont stop us they never have
There will be many more beers and a place to crash
In between the cars of a speeding train
trying to take a piss on the undercar chain
Passengers pass with fear on their face
Without even trying were a public disgrace

Disorderly conduct! We're guilty as charged!
Disorderly conduct! `Cos now we went to far!
Disorderly conduct! 30 drunk Oi! skinheads!
Disorderly conduct! Locked up before the night's begun!

Well the subway slows and we're ready to run
Gotta make it to the party before the alcohols gone
Philly bootboys are gonna see some action
Conquering the city like general Patton
Crashing through the crowd and there forced to flee
Everythings a blur and i cant see straight
Someone said the enemy was in the sight
Looks like the party's over `cos its time to fight

Disorderly conduct! Were guilty as charged!
Disorderly conduct! `Cos now we went to far!
Disorderly conduct! 30 drunk Oi! skinheads!
Disorderly conduct! Looked up before the nights begun!

Well a couple more blocks 'til the battleground
But what are those lights and whats that sound?
Trapped like rats and the cops are comming
Gotta get away gotta keep on running
Im up against the car with cuffs on tight
They threw me in the van and they took my knife
Sign on the line and pay the fine
Gotta get some more beer and forget about this night

Disorderly conduct! Where guilty as charged!
Disorderly conduct! `Cos now we went to far!
Disorderly conduct! 30 drunk Oi! skinheads!
Disorderly conduct! Looked up before the nights begun!

Arresting officers - Patriotic voices (1988)

01. Evil has landed
02. Deserve
03. Left out
04. Slum river
05. Get the reds out
06. Disorderly conduct
07. Falling to bits
08. Dont you wish
09. Disarm never
10. Stars and stripes
11. Little terrors
12. Changing of the

Released by Rock-O-Rama Records in 1988.

(Updated 16 March 2012: Uploaded the album again)

Ok so this is the point of my "blogg-carrer" where i loose a lot of readers and get a lot of new once that i never really wanted in the first place. It is also that time and place where a lot of my friends will wonder if i have completely lost it to the "dark side" and them tough kids with strong political beliefs start googling my e-mail to find out my home adress. But when shit has to be done it has to be done.
This band is one of the greatest punk bands in history and what they did for todays street punk and Oi! is something no other band from US have done. What i could have left out was that they also did songs for a compilation album with Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack and Young bloods.
I will not try to defend the guys in any way. They where pro-white, they where nationalist and they made songs with facists tendensies. Basicaly they where as far to the right you can get without becoming nazi. But this was in 1988. Fucking 88 just look at the date. Get over it.
Why i have to upload such a political band to this non political site is that the members went on to play in some of todays best ppunkbands. Both Bob Shelfer and Steve McCarthy would later go on to play in Limecell and later on in Sons of Liberty.

Their drummer Brian also played in the whitepower band Break the sword before joining this band (which doesnt really give them any more points on the PC scale).

The sound is a one of a kind (atleast back in 1988) and you can so clearly hear where a lot of todays American Oi!bands have taken their inspiration. There is not a single bad track on the album and even if i might be tired of a hard week at work and not thinking straight i think i can say that the song Dont you wish is the most most groundbreaking song ever in US Oi! history.
10/10

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