Punks Not Dead is the debut studio album by the punk rock band The Exploited, released in 1981 on Secret Records. Strongly working class and loyal to the first impulses of the 1976 punk movement, the album was a reaction to critics who believed the genre was dead, and against popular trends such as New Wave, hardcore and post-punk. It contains the double A side singles "Army Life/Fuck the Mods" and the later follow up "I Believe in Anarchy". "Army Life" details the experiences of Wattie Buchan when he was a 17 year old squaddie on a tour of duty in Belfast in the late 1970s.
Supported by a tour with the Anti-Nowhere League, the album was a commercial success and is regarded as one of the definitive Oi! albums, and its popularity gave rise to a variety of traditional punk bands including Angelic Upstarts, Peter and the Test Tube Babies and The Business. Punks Not Dead peaked at no 20 on the UK charts in May of that year, gave the band a national following (although it was centered in the north of England, not the south) and it was the top selling 1981 independent release.
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“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.”
—William, Lord Shawcross (b. 1902)