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4 unusual facts about The Exploited


Community Charge

In popular culture, the punk band The Exploited featured the song "Don't Pay The Poll Tax" in their album The Massacre.

Gary McCormack

Gary was previously bassist for Scottish punk band The Exploited between 1980 and 1983 and can be heard on their first two albums Punks Not Dead and Troops of Tomorrow.

Stay Out of Order

#Hidden Track (starts at time 6:14 on last track): Dead Cities (The Exploited cover)

The Virus

A month later they went to Morecambe, England to play at the Holidays In The Sun festival alongside bands like The Exploited, The Partisans, Charged GBH, U.K. Subs, Resistance 77, Threats and Cock Sparrer.


Final Warning

Among them: Dead Kennedys, Scream, Dr. Know, The Exploited, Charged GBH, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, D.R.I. and Mercyful Fate, but they never played outside the Pacific Northwest.

Let's Start a War

Let's Start a War, or Let's Start a War... (Said Maggie One Day), is the third album by the punk band The Exploited, released in 1983 through Pax Records.


see also

Death Before Dishonor

Death Before Dishonour, the fifth studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited

Sir Reg

They've also shared the stage with Danko Jones, Thin Lizzy, Fiddler's Green, The Real McKenzies, Talco, HEAT, The Exploited and The Meteors.