A real controversial one here. "Strength Thru Oi!" i first heard when it just was out at a friends house who got the record in England. He told me the record would be soon forbidden because of the guy on the cover. (Now we all know the story, back then we didn't... we didn't had as much information easily accessable as we have now!) I never paid attention to the story, i just didn't believe everything that was told back then. 2 weeks later i returned for a beer at my friends house, and all his room was filled with swastika banners and Hitler posters. I told him what i thought of that and ended up kicked, bruised and bleeding on the street...
From Wikipedia:
When Strength Thru Oi! was released, it was controversial because its title was a play on a Nazi slogan ("Strength Through Joy"), and the cover featured Nicky Crane, a British Movement activist who was serving a four-year sentence for racist violence. Rock critic Garry Bushell, who was responsible for compiling the album, insists its title was a pun on The Skids' album Strength Through Joy and that he had been unaware of the Nazi connotations. He also denied knowing the identity of the skinhead on the album's cover until it was exposed by the Daily Mail two months later. It was not so easy to deny the album cover's glorification of violence and the sinister tone of its sleeve notes: "A mass of boots, straights, and combat jackets, skins and boot boys, grins and hoots and oy-oy's, young blood on the prowl.... Getting nicked for wearing steel caps, a flick blade flashing in the moonlight."
GARRY JOHNSON, 4 SKINS, THE STRIKE, INFA RIOT, THE LAST RESORT, CRIMINAL CLASS, TOY DOLLS, BARNEY RUBBLE, COCK SPARRER, SPLODGE, THE SHAVEN HEADS.
Article from "The Sun" Newspaper 1992
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