Revenge Recommends: "Back With a Bang" by Skrewdriver

Skinhead Oi band Skrewdriver were mixed up with some pretty controversial street politics and "bad optics" in the 70s and 80s. "Back With a Bang" was their 1982 response to what they saw as "mischaracterisation" of skinheads by the media.

Instead of writing songs about it, maybe they should have listened to some of the criticism, and avoided the Nazi imagery they became associated with. But they were working class kids from the 1960s and 1970s -- that wasn't going to happen! Anyway, all that misunderstood and misunderstanding energy made a classic Oi song.

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!