Put simply,The Exploited’s first album is perfect evidence of a band being so much more influential in terms of their concept than the music itself. Thirty odd minutes of simple, fast paced, furious punk rock may not sound like much to the common listener, but it’s with these thirty minutes and seventeen songs that Punk’s not Dead is surely proved to be a worthwhile album.

Comprised of no other than an aggressive ex-soldier from Scotland in Wattie Buchan, alongside three other equally as politically correct musicians who barely sound as if they so much as knew what the names of their respective instruments were, The Exploited began as a political statement. That statement can safely be summed up as follows:

PUNK IS NOT FUCKIN’ DEAD!

Whatever you would expect from a punk rock album released in 1981 can probably be found in spades on this particula