The 4-Skins - Clockwork Skinhead (CD)

All Music Guide

A sixteen song compilation rounding up one possible vision of the best of the 4 Skins, Clockwork Skinhead stomps through the band's three year, two album career with little regard for chronology and is, in fact, little more than a slimmed down version of the earlier Best Of The 4 Skins collection. All but two of Clockwork Skinhead's contents appeared on that set, while the absence of such staples as "Norman", "Brave New World" and "Five More Years" is a definite drawback. Still, in the years before Captain Oi set about restoring the band's full glory to the shelves, this was a neat introduction to one of the finest of all Eighties Oi bands.

- Dave Thompson, All Music Guide