L'Odi Social – Que Pagui Pujol + Esventats + Extras CD

L'Odi Social – Que Pagui Pujol + Esventats + Extras CD

How many times did Catalans who were teenagers in the mid and late eighties jump over the entrance fence of the Barcelona metro while saying Que pagui Pujol!…? Undoubtedly many more than the Barcelona City Council would like... if it had investigated, it would have found the origin of such a famous phrase... those punks, marginals, agitators, rabid and ingenious who knew how to intelligently kick the system. That band called L'Odi Social. Maximum exponents of 80s Barcelona punk-hardcore along with bands like Subterranean Kids or GRB, L'Odi Social marked a turning point by singing in Catalan, a language that, apart from the singer-songwriters and some isolated pop groups, is barely known. used among the punks of Barcelona. With a fine sense of humour, as well as a bad milk resulting from a complicated historical moment, L'Odi Social were an indisputable reference point for an entire Catalan social scene, that of the Squats, that of protest festivals, that of the less politicized left, closer to anarchism than to communism, and with its own linguistic conscience. A scene that began to be born in the 1980s and without which Catalan left-wing activism would not exist today at the underground level. That was probably not his intention at all. Probably these punks from Barcelona just wanted to express their disagreement with the system, be it through their corrosive lyrics, their provocative attitude or their extreme music. But they did so with such eloquence and energy that echoes of their legacy can still be heard today. Born in 1982 as Odio social, a name under which they would perform mainly in the areas of Catalonia and Euskadi, they took an unusual turn when, in 1985, Poly, Saina, Gos and Damned decided to rename themselves L'Odi Social and write the first lyrics of a Catalan hardcore group in their mother tongue. In 1986 the famous single Que pagui Pujol would be published, and his performances at festivals such as Nicaragua Rock, Mili KK, etc., would make a dent in an entire generation. After a tour of Germany, in 1990 Basati Diskak would release his first LP, Esventats, and the Potential HC label would release another LP, also called Que pagui Pujol, which would include the homonymous single plus 8 unreleased songs. 1992 saw how the band decided to split up, although there was a fleeting return in 1997 to headline the No Pasarán festival in Barcelona and one last performance at El Laboratorio in Madrid. The story would end with the release of two anthological CDs in 2000 by the El Lokal label and a video, Piel Roja Live.