Guilty as Charged (Cock Sparrer album)

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Guilty As Charged
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Studio album by Cock Sparrer
Released 1994
Genre Punk rock
Length43:03
Label Bitzcore
Cock Sparrer chronology
Live and Loud
(1987) Live and Loud1987
Guilty as Charged
(1994)
Two Monkeys
(1997) Two Monkeys1997
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Guilty as Charged is punk rock band Cock Sparrer's fourth studio album, released in 1994 on Bitzcore Records. The album was re-released on 24 February 2009, in a remixed and partially rerecorded form on Captain Oi! Records. [2]

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels and other informal channels.

Cock Sparrer band

Cock Sparrer is a punk rock band formed in 1972 in the East End of London, England. Although they have never enjoyed commercial success, they are considered one of the most influential street punk bands of all time, helping pave the way for early '80s punk scene and the Oi! subgenre. Their songs have been covered by many punk, Oi!, and hardcore bands.

Captain Oi! Records is a punk rock and Oi! record label based in High Wycombe, England. The company has released over 300 albums by many notable punk and Oi! bands of the late 1970s and 1980s. The label was set up by Mark Brennan, former bassist of The Business, who had previously co-run Link Records and the Dojo subsidiary of Castle Records. Brennan's inspiration had been Ace Records, with Captain Oi! targeted at being "the Ace Records of retro punk rock", reissuing material by classic punk bands.

Track listing

  1. "Get a Rope"
  2. "Because You're Young"
  3. "Bird Trouble"
  4. "Don't Blame Us"
  5. "Roads to Freedom"
  6. "Last Train to Dagenham"
  7. "I Fit Central Heating (Working Pt. 2)"
  8. "Strip"
  9. "Crack in the Mirror"
  10. "We Know How to Live"
  11. "Tough Guys"
    2009 reissue bonus tracks:
  12. "Runaway Johnny"
  13. "Why Can't You See?"
  14. "Sunday Stripper" (1995 version)
  15. "Roads to Freedom" (full version)

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