Oi Polloi's first studio recording was a demo entitled Destroi the System, which is believed to have been released in 1984 or 1985. After the now defunct music weekly Sounds gave their previous home-recorded demo a favourable review, demand increased for gigs further afield. A second studio demo, Green Anarchoi followed before the release of the first vinyl offering, Resist the Atomic Menace. The line-up of the group has starred an impressive fifty members since their formation, making up the countless incarnations of the band. The band is currently based in Scotland.
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Omnicide Lyrics

Oi Polloi

You resurrect the corpse of war
You take the food from the poor
You kill this planet, mine by birth
Your death machines stalk the earth

You create famine for starving millions
Your air attacks upon civilians
Your state police to make us bleed
You are the leech of corporate greed
And you will suck the planet dry
As long as those who care stand by
Not long now till all has died
We watch the global omnicide

The gulf war we now see portayed on our TV screens like an obscene video game is the inevitable
consequence of the greed of big business and a system which sees all life as subordinate to profit, a system which has countless hapless men and women brainwashed, then burned, maimed and blown apart on the battlefield.

NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR

Your system - stench of death
Omnicide - earth's dying breat
Fight back - don't stand by
DONT LET YOUR PLANET DIE