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Following the lead of first-wave British punk bands Cock Sparrer and Sham 69, in the late 1970s second-wave units like Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, The Exploited, and The 4-Skins sought to realign punk rock with a working class, street-level following.
For that purpose, they believed, the music needed to stay " accessible and unpretentious ", in the words of music historian Simon Reynolds.
Their style was originally called " real punk " or street punk ; Sounds journalist Garry Bushell is credited with labelling the genre Oi!
bands ' lyrics sought to reflect the harsh realities of living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
bands dubbed " punk pathetique "— including Splodgenessabounds, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, and Toy Dolls — had a more humorous and absurdist bent.
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