Crass - Stations Of The Crass

Stations of the Crass is the second album by Crass, released in 1979. The record, originally released as a double 12", includes live tracks from a gig recorded at the Pied Bull pub in Islington, London on August 7, 1979. The first three sides contain the studio tracks and play at 45 rpm, while the final side comprises said live material and plays at 33 rpm. The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were almost a Crass hallmark), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Bond Street tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them.

A remastered edition of 'Stations', complete with new artwork by Gee Vaucher specifically for the small size of a CD case, was due to be released in March 2009, but was delayed due to contentions with former members and the bankruptcy of Crass Records.-wiki-





Genre: Anarcho Punk
Year: 1979









Tracklist:

01. Mother Earth
02. White Punks On Hope
03. You've Got Big Hands
04. Darling
05. System
06. Big Man, Big Man
07. Hurry Up Garry (The Par)
08. Fun Going On
09. Crutch Of Society
10. Chairman Of The Bored
11. Tired
12. Walls (Fun In The Oven)
13. Upright Citizen
14. The Gasman Cometh
15. Demoncrats
16. Contaminational Power
17. Time Out
18. System - Live in Islington
19. Big Man, Big Man - Live
20. System Big Man, Big M.a.n.
21. System - Live in Islington
22. Time Out - Live in Islington
23. Angels What A Shame S
24. They've Got A Bomb - Live
25. Fight War, Not Wars - Live
26. Women - Live in Islington










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Crass - Christ - The Album

Christ - The Album is Crass' fourth album, released in 1982. It was released as a boxed set double vinyl LP package, including one disk of new studio material and another, entitled Well Forked.. but not dead, featuring a live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club in London along with other studio tracks, demos and tape fragments.


The album also included a book, A Series Of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums (which featured Penny Rimbaud's essay The Last of the Hippies [1], telling the story of the suspicious death of his friend Wally Hope) and a large size poster painted by Gee Vaucher.

The album took over a year to record, produce and mix, during which time the Falklands War had taken place. This caused Crass to fundamentally question their approach to making records, for as a group whose very reason for existing was to comment upon political issues, they felt they had been overtaken and made to appear redundant by real world events.

Subsequent releases, including the singles "How does it Feel to Be the Mother of A Thousand Dead" and "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" and the album Yes Sir, I Will saw the band strip their sound 'back to basics' and were issued as 'tactical responses' to political situations.

Re-releases of the album bear the line "With love to Steve Herman who died on the 4th of February 1989" on the back cover. Steve Herman was Crass' guitar player during their first few months.-Wikipedia-


Genre: Anarcho Punk
Year: 1982



Tracklist:

01. Have A Nice Day
02. Mother Love
03. Nineteen Eighty Bore
04. I Know There Is Love
05. Beg Your Pardon
06. Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
07. Reality Whitewash
08. It's The Greatest Working Class Ripoff
09. Deadhead
10. You Can Be Who?
11. Buy Now Pay As You Go
12. Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (pt 2)
13. Bumhooler
14. Sentiment (White Feathers)
15. Major General Despair




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Crass - Penis Envy

Named as a reference to some of Freud's ideas concerning sexuality, this release marked something of a departure from the somewhat 'macho', 'hardcore punk' image that The Feeding of the 5000 and its follow up Stations of the Crass had to some extent given the group, for it featured more obviously complex musical arrangements, as well as exclusively female vocals provided by Eve Libertine and Joy De Vivre (although Steve Ignorant remained a group member and is credited on the record sleeve as not on this recording). The album addressed feminist issues and once again attacked the institutions of 'the system' such as marriage and sexual repression.

One track, not actually listed on the album cover, was a deliberately sacharine (described in fact by the band themselves as pure, unadulterated shit) parody of a "MOR" love song entitled "Our Wedding". This was given away as a flexi disc with a teenage girl's romance magazine called Loving after having been offered it by an organisation calling itself Creative Recording And Sound Services (note the initials). A minor tabloid furore erupted once the hoax was revealed, with the News of the World going so far as to state that the album's title was "too obscene to print" (a leaflet giving the background to this Situationist-style prank was subsequently issued by the band). Now the disc is a collectors item fetching high prices on the collectors market.

During the mid 1980s copies of this album were seized, along with other records by Flux Of Pink Indians and The Dead Kennedys, by Greater Manchester Police from Eastern Bloc record shop, which was charged with displaying "Obscene Articles For Publication For Gain".-Wikipedia-


Genre: Anarcho Punk
Year: 1981



Tracklist:

01. Bata Motel
02. Systematic Death
03. Poison In A Pretty Pill
04. What The Fuck?
05. Where Next Columbus?
06. Berkertex Bribe
07. Smother Love
08. Health Surface
09. Dry Weather
10. Our Wedding



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