Anyone know?

[Posse Leader]

I'm a big fan of Anthrax. Huge fan in fact if you take size into consideration... but recently debated with a friend who said that Anthrax was responsible for making "oi" popular. He then proceeded to hum the rythem of a song and sing "oi" in rythem. Now, I told him he was mistaken and even named the song, "I'm the Man", and pointed out that it wasn't "oi" but "not" that he heard. He said that he knew Anthrax was responsible for "not" but wouldn't budge on the "oi" thing. Did Anthrax do any "oi" songs?

 

[prime666]

NO! There was another band in the eightys called Anthrax. From what I remember they had a punk sound. Perhaps thats who your thinking of.

 

[lespaulbass666]

hmmmm.... i remember TNT by AC/DC "cuz i'm tnt oi. oi. oi." and i'm pretty sure that's 70's maybe early 80's. i'll have to check and get back to you.

 

[lespaulbass666]

copyright 1975, soooooo i think ac/dc is responsible.

 

[mexicola]

oi! has nothing to do with anthrax.
the "word" is brittish slang meaning hey, I guess.

btw the music style is pretty silly and bad.

 

[johnnieCzech]

Got The Time can be considered musically as an "oi" song. But it´s not Anthrax, it´s Joe Jackson actually.

 

[lespaulbass666]

does it really mean "hey"??? i thought it was a skinhead punk thing but never really knew.

 

[johnnieCzech]

exactly, a skinhead punk...that´s how all Anthrax guys look like now

 

[lespaulbass666]

not true...........charlie has hair, and i really can't see scott joing the nazi movement.

 

[johnnieCzech]

Skinhead doesn´t necessarily mean "nazi", I thought this stereotype is being held only in our country.

 

[Posse Leader]

I know that "oi" does mean "hey" in europe. I guess we would get it if we had more bar songs. As for Scott being a skinhead, I was always wondering if he was a SHARP? True skinheads aren't racists, that's a stereotype brought about by the Neonazi movement to confuse the two. It would be like saying that just because I'm white I'm in the klan or just because I'm a big dude, I like Hostess cupcakes. Does anyone know if Scott is a SHARP?

 

[lespaulbass666]

what is a SHARP?? is that anything like a sharpie??? i use those when i'm roughing out chord charts for my band to follow when we're writing new songs.

 

[Posse Leader]

Though it is an acronym, no one ever actually punctuates it properly. S.H.A.R.P. is short for: Skin Head Against Racial Prejudice. If i didn't like having my hair long, I would be a Sharp. As it is, I should form a group L.H.D.A.D.A.R.P. or Long Haired Dudes And Dudettes Against Racial Prejudices. Or I could call the group S.H.W.R.L.H.A.R.P. which means Skin Heads With Really Long Hair Against Racial Prejudices.

 

[johnnieCzech]

I think Scott just doesn´t give a shit about this. He´s just a bald headed Jewish metalhead.

 

[lespaulbass666]

i think scott was just realistic about his thinning hair and bic'ed it.

 

[AjDeath]

i think scott was just realistic about his thinning hair and bic'ed it.

This is correct.