Hit by Hit by The Godfathers

Hit by Hit, the Godfathers' debut album, landed in November 1986, and it's less a studio album than a round-up of the fight so far: the three singles they'd put out themselves on their own Corporate Image label in 1985 and 1986, "I Want Everything", "This Damn Nation" and "Lonely Man", plus a previously unreleased crack at John Lennon's "Cold Turkey". Vic Maile produced those singles, and he gets the band sounding like a clenched fist.

The Coyne brothers, Peter singing and Chris on bass, had started the band after the Sid Presley Experience fell apart, with Mike Gibson and Kris Dollimore on guitars and George Mazur on drums. This is R&B and punk with the safety off: slashing riffs, sneering vocals and songs spitting fury at life in Thatcher's Britain. Trouser Press rated it an essential debut, and in 1987 Epic signed them.

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