Tom Robinson Band - Up Against The Wall

Tom Robinson Band - TRB for short - was a seventies pub rock band with punk attitude and an inclination for riotous lyrics. Their most famous songs are of course "2-4-6-8 Motorway" and "Glad To Be Gay", but spread over two excellent albums and one EP were loads of great songs, many of them true punk/new wave classics in my book. "Up Against The Wall" was the opening track on the band's 1978 debut album Power In The Darkness, and its vivid imagery of rioting and urban decay is still spooky.

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