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〕 | Label = Secret, Chappel Music Limited, Captain Oi! (reissue) | Producer = Dave Leaper〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/punks-not-dead-mw0000317297/credits〕 | Last album = | This album = ''Punks Not Dead'' (1981) | Next album = ''Troops of Tomorrow'' (1982) | Misc = }} ''Punks Not Dead'' is the debut studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited, released in April 1981 on Secret Records.〔http://www.discogs.com/Exploited-Punks-Not-Dead/release/1096478〕〔 Strongly working class and loyal to the first impulses of the 1970s punk movement, the album was a reaction to critics who believed the punk rock genre was dead, and went against popular trends such as new wave, hardcore and post-punk.〔Hess Mickey. ''Is Hip Hop Dead?: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most Wanted Music''. Praeger Publishers, 2007. pg 165. ISBN 0-275-99461-9.〕 The album is a reaction to the punk rock band Crass' song "Punk is Dead".〔 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 1970s. ''Punks Not Dead'' peaked at no 20 on the UK charts in May of that year,〔Buckley, Peter. ''The Rough Guide to Rock''. London: Rough Guides Ltd, 2003. pg 350. ISBN 1-84353-105-4.〕 gave the band a national following in the United Kingdom and it was the top selling 1981 independent UK release.〔〔 A staff member of Punknews.org panned the album and called it "simply one of the worst punk albums of all time".〔 ==Legacy== Supported by a tour with the Anti-Nowhere League, the album has underground success and is regarded as one of the definitive Oi! albums, and its popularity gave rise to a variety of punk rock bands including The Business. The Exploited's song "Punks Not Dead" has symbolic significance for the punk movement.〔http://www.stroeja.com/?id=486〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Punks Not Dead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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