Hey all! As mentioned in the video, I recorded this JUST before Hurricane Ian came through. Pasting this from Twitter to keep you updated: "Sorry for the delay! Overall things are ok here. Minor flooding, roof damage and fence is down, but power is on and everyone is ok. Still plenty of rain/wind, but the worst is behind us. Thanks to everyone for all the well wishes🙏"
This song was released as a split 7" with POISON GIRLS and they perform the track 'Persons Unknown'. POISON GIRLS were friends and tour mates with CRASS back in the day.
Bata Motel by Crass is a song that every girl old enough to get it should hear. Let it stew, keep it in the back of your mind. And the lyricism is just stunning... '' Beautiful mute against the wall, Beautifully mutilated as I fall ''
Use me Don’t lose me I’ve got Five Four Three Two One. Sorry couldn’t help that. Luv it. The whole album is great. But I love all their stuff. I’d like to see JP react to Systematic Death.👍
The lyrics on _Penis Envy_ apparently were mostly by Eve Libertine and are much better than Penny Rimbaud's shallow agitprop. The music's better too. That album is a keeper, but most of the rest of Crass is just tinny-sounding claptrap.
Feeding of the 5000 was a bit tinny but Stations of the Crass was much better. Some lyrics were pretty on point though. Neat little labels to keep us all apart To keep us all divided when the trouble STARTS. Well,here we are?
Off the top of my head, Pete Wright played bass. Penny Rimbaud did the drums and wrote the lyrics. Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine and Joy de Vivre did the vocals. This song has to be somewhere at the very summit of anarcho-punk, if not the actual top. Crass (along with the Dead Kennedys and Subhumans) got me into thinking and asking questions, for which I am unceasingly grateful. Crass' later albums got more and more experimental. Hope you stay safe!
Spot on with the members. Plus Phil Free and Andy (N.A) Palmer on guitars. On of course Mick Duffield on Video and G Sus with her incredible album art.
Nice reaction. Takes me back. As a sixteen year old these guys really helped me align my Moral Compass. I’m so great full I discovered them at that age because my compass has stayed true and boy do I need it to navigate the minefield of propaganda were faced with these days. There is some great stuff here. Glad you’re appreciating it. Hope you’re okay with the hurricane.
This just hasn't lost anything to time as relevant now as it was when i first heard crass as a young 15 year old grommet punkrocker in 1985 now a wrinkled stinky toothless 53 year old grommet punkrocker and will be until they nail the last nail into my coffin lid and bury me 12 feet underground cause deep down I'm not that LOUD STINKY OR BAD.....maybe?
Crass never really resonated with me but I loved this song back int' day. I probably agree more with their message now than I did then, but I was very young. By the time I was taking a more serious interest in lyrics, I'd moved on to more musically extreme bands . It has to be said though, that Crass inspired a branch of Punk that persists to this day.
Wow.. that came out the blue. Takes me back to an angry against the world 17 year old sitting in his bedroom trying to play along on a bass! What I wouldnt give to be him again :) Havent heard that song for many long years but still remembered most of the words... I think I they are probably more relevant to me now than they where then! Viva the revolution! Damn just noticed the hurricaine post.. keep safe.. my best wishes too
also, if you want a great introduction into the other, more experimental side of Crass, I highly recommend listening to the track Reality Asylum. this would be the single version, originally backed with Shaved Women (itself also an interesting track), as opposed to the version that opens their debut full length album, The Feeding Of The 5000, simply titled Asylum (though this version is also notable)
HI JP The tune you hummed after the record , that tune is the "MARSELLEIS",wich is the name of the French National Anthem. Pete wright was the bassist ,Steve Ignorant singer ,Eve Libertine female vocalist,and Penny Rimbaud on drums. Penny was actually co-founder of Crass with Steve , in 1977.Penny wrote ALL the lyrics. Steve just sang them. Hope Hurricane Ian spared you and your loved ones.Here in England , wev seen some dreadful pictures of the aftermath.It was more ferocious than anticipated , apparently God Bless
No, Penny Rimbaud did not write ALL the lyrics. Steve Ignorant also wrote lyrics, including Do They Owe Us a Living? He's got a book called References - Lyrics & Stories, containing all his lyrics and their meaning.
Crass the original Anarchist punk band this is a brilliant single & shows how Revolution can never work & the b.side by Anarchist punk band Poison Girls
Great lyrics. Certainly there have been times where facile "solutions" to all problems have been popular in places like universities. Just have a revolution and then happily-ever-after will just automatically follow from that. (I suppose anarchy might count as facile, too, but with anarchy you have "lots of solutions" / lots of "experiments" to questions people are meant to be honest about not having answers for, yet.) It's quite interesting how things have changed when it comes to fashionable accents, since punk. Before punk, a true London accent might have been considered a bit of a "joke" in "artistic" contexts, but today even the princes speak "estuary English". (So back in the day, someone like my dad's mate from England would have his "middle class" accent for "work", but would slip into "bits of London" with friends and family. Odds are his dad spoke like the singer in this song, and so did he, then he got an engineering degree, learned to fit in with people who wouldn't take you seriously if you "spoke wrong". (While in Australia nobody would notice, for instance.) That's from a time long before punk, so very old-fashioned. And then you have one aspect of punk being singers asserting that their own, unadjusted voice is Good Enough, and refusing to "gentrify". (It starts before then, but before, people tended to sing different to how they spoke, often. You could speak "Cockney" - to use the term I've been avoiding - but don't sing it. Sing like "an American" - or in the "Hollywood accent", maybe? - or sing "like a gentleman". With punk you get singers not being like the Beatles, switching from talking "Liverpoolese" (or whatever it is - Scouse, I think) - but "singing in American" - and singing the way they speak. And then more time flows down that river, till the younger Royal Majesties are no longer speaking in an accent that I think began as a form of German accent, and speaking in the new English that this trend has pulled UK English toward. Or middle English. Or middling English. In a way it's not interesting. _Plus ca change, plus c'est la même chose_ to put it all fancy and lah dee bloody dah. As Inspector Grim would say. ua-cam.com/video/NxnZC9L_YXE/v-deo.html
Would love to see you react to more from Crass! I think you would enjoy songs from their 1981 album 'Penis Envy' with Eve Libertine on lead vocals. I recommend 'Systematic Death' or 'Bata Motel'.
Glad you're safe, JP! We didn't even really have much rain here. There was some wind in the evening and a little in the morning and that's it. When I was looking into buying a home I made sure to check flood zones. Anyway, I'm always here for some good old Crass ✌🏽
Now that's a punk song. There's still all the rawness, but by this stage their arrangements were getting more sophisticated. And incorporating themes of the French national athem to colsolidate the 'revolution' angle, nice. Of course, as always with CRASS, it's all about the lyrics. They're clever, meaningful, and inciteful, but such a world we'll never see. Too many vested interests, 'the man' will never let it happen :) *JP, cheers for the shoutout, and having my back when i'm seemingly speaking out of turn, as some (lots, ha) of other commenters have told me. But as I always tell then he/you did ask our opinions, and you've never stipulated only comment if you like the tune as you reiterated here. Where would the conversation be without both sides of the arguement eh. Keep up the good work, and keep your head down during the storm 🙂
This is one of the few places on the internet where you can "speak out of turn," and is all the more valuable for it. Dissenting opinions are frequently more instructive than agreeable ones. I enjoyed that song more than I expected to, particularly the eclecticism of it. I'm not going to seek anything out, but if another track shows up around here, I will definitely give it a listen.
@@delorangeade I like your thoughts on opinions, dissenting, or otherwise. But I can say from experience it can draw flak if you're seemingly having a pop at someones favourite band/song. Luckily i've got broad shoulders 🙂 Re the band they are worth a listen, and i've given JP a bunch of other tunes so hopefully they'll turn up in due course. In the interim, if you've not seen his review of their song 'So What', that's worth a watch too.
@@jfergs.3302 In life, even more than on the internet, I'm always happy to puncture someone's complacency, but I try to pick my battles. You can't really win with unreasonable people, but you can at least spoil their day. I look forward to hearing more from Crass. One of the benefits of the internet is that I am hearing a lot of music that eluded me years ago, and my taste has broadened as a result.
Hope it’s not the Zappa stuff you bag out. I’d be pretty disappointed in you. You’ve definitely set the musical pedigree bar high with this selection.👍
@@andrewmantle7674 Nope, me and Frank are good. In fact you've reminded me, looking at JP's subs board, think I'll propose FZ's 'Roxy and Elsewhere' be added for his 35k subscriber celebration. It ties in 1st place on my all time top live albums list. ICYI, I have it tied with Steve Hillage's 'Live Herald', LP 🙂
Justin!!! I love that you are listing to punk more often!!! It makes me so happy!!! I have nothing to recommend right now, but you just keep going!! There is so much good stuff that awaits!! 🤘🔥🤘
@@JustJP Thanks for your reaction of this Crass song from the A side of this spit single. On the B Side you will find "Poison Girls" with their haunting song "Persons Unknown". I love to hear your reaction.
I liked it more than I thought I would, although it's not the kind of thing I'd listen to a lot. Glad to hear you've got through the hurricane with only minor damage.
I think you left out of the most BITING and TRUE lyrics of this song that boils it all down in pure simplistic yet heavy hitting explanations of what it is in a response almost to what the person may think which is the very first line of the lyric and how its NOT going to be like that: 'You're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you What's the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few? That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million Jews Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use' When I was 19 in 1995, this was amazing. The split this was on was another great song, maybe one of the best by the band Poison Girls with the song - Persons Unknown.
just to clarify a bit...... Crass had full length albums (the discography of which should be easy to find), but they also had a pretty extensive amount of singles and EPs, which were originally not on any particular full length album, but mostly considered to be of equal importance to the full lengths in terms of both music and message. the compilation album Best Before...1984 is a compilation album comprised of the most important of these singles and EPs. Bloody Revolutions is on it, which is why you see this listed as a single, and on Best Before 1984, but not one of the "main" full length albums. the Bloody Revolutions single was originally a split single with the band Poison Girls, with PG's track Persons Unknown appearing on the other side. for what it's worth, I consider the Poison Girls to be very interesting, if a bit overlooked, in the history of punk, for both artistic and socio-political reasons, and highly recommend checking out their side of the split. a note to avoid confusion: in the early 2000s, there was a major reissue series of Crass entitled The Crassical Collection. that series ended up appending a number of Crass's early singles as bonus tracks to their contemporaneous full length albums. so when the Crassical Collection version of Best Before 1984 was reissued, all of those particular singles were left off the new reissue, on the hope you would acquire them on the other reissues. in their place, a couple of singles that had been left off the original Best Before were added, along with some compilation tracks, some of their media prankster works (particularly the infamous "Thatchergate Tapes") and more, making it a much more experimentally-focused release, though ultimately it may be criticized for not being the career-spanning retrospective that the original Best Before compilation was. anyway, hope this helps
A little David Bowie steal there at the end. An entertaining musical collage I enjoy more now than I did at the time. What if Peter Gabriel had been a punk? A bit too earnest for me to take it seriously but I appreciate the sentiments.
Hello JP, i promised myself , on the next punk song you'd play, I'd ask u to play "Life in London" by Pat Travers. This? they were, along with Throbbing Gristle , the very antithesis of and then there were 3 G Boy MOR Prog , which I loved hof course. Nevertheless, I always knew that Crass had Principles and hearing this now, I hear 4 or even 5 progressive mini-sections. How ironic? Great Fun.
The Khmer Rouge communist revolution in Cambodia 'reset the clock' to 'year zero' to signal the beginning of a 'glorious' new era in Cambodias history. Unfortunately, for the poor Cambodians who did not support (or who were merely suspected of not supporting) that supreme wanker Pol Pot, the truth of revolution brother, was year zero and the 'killing fields' You can also hear, throughout the track, parts of The Marseillaise, the French national anthem, obviously referencing the French revolution.
That was bloody rude, I like it! Great engineering, and mixing. Sounds almost like the antithesis of The B-52's, quite inventive. Peace & Love till the sh*t hits the fan! Stay safe.
If I had encountered this as a youth I would have embraced it fully. As it is I do like and appreciate it. I don't want to go into the politics of it because this is a music channel so I am abstaining from discussing sex politics and religion as much as possible.
Musically, more interesting than expected. An ark, key to the survival of the human race, will not insure peace, cuz there’s always someone(s) who want more or it all. Crap flingers…
THE LYRICS THEY ARE GREAT!! Imo, lyrics could be about Anti-Fa* and Woke movement*. (*They say they are Anti-Fa, but they act as a mob of fascists! Imo, they have to learn to ask questions, learn to debate, and... learm to take criticism.)
Hmmm... Crass. Musically, they're tosh - various punk tropes trotted out and sung in a comedy London accent. Lyrically, I disagree with 95% of their 'anarchy' lyrics. They're fools if they think that anarchy is any more of an answer to the world's problems than the violent revolution that they, on this occasion, criticise. I enjoy a lot of punk. I don't enjoy Crass (though I suspect you're not supposed to enjoy their music - it's purely an attempt to forward their political thoughts)
Hey all! As mentioned in the video, I recorded this JUST before Hurricane Ian came through. Pasting this from Twitter to keep you updated:
"Sorry for the delay! Overall things are ok here. Minor flooding, roof damage and fence is down, but power is on and everyone is ok. Still plenty of rain/wind, but the worst is behind us.
Thanks to everyone for all the well wishes🙏"
Glad to hear that all is well, considering the circumstances. Good luck with the move this weekend, too! 👍
😅 glad you’re all okay 👍. Good luck with the not too severe hopefully repairs
Thank you.
This song was released as a split 7" with POISON GIRLS and they perform the track 'Persons Unknown'. POISON GIRLS were friends and tour mates with CRASS back in the day.
Bata Motel by Crass is a song that every girl old enough to get it should hear. Let it stew, keep it in the back of your mind. And the lyricism is just stunning... '' Beautiful mute against the wall, Beautifully mutilated as I fall ''
Ah and Berketex Bribe... If you don't get the ASMR thing, the beginning of that song is the only thing that does it for me, maybe give it a whirl...
Use me Don’t lose me
I’ve got Five Four Three Two One.
Sorry couldn’t help that.
Luv it.
The whole album is great.
But I love all their stuff.
I’d like to see JP react to Systematic Death.👍
The lyrics on _Penis Envy_ apparently were mostly by Eve Libertine and are much better than Penny Rimbaud's shallow agitprop. The music's better too. That album is a keeper, but most of the rest of Crass is just tinny-sounding claptrap.
Feeding of the 5000 was a bit tinny but Stations of the Crass was much better.
Some lyrics were pretty on point though.
Neat little labels to keep us all apart
To keep us all divided when the trouble STARTS.
Well,here we are?
As a dude and reading the lyrics carefully really hit hard.
Off the top of my head, Pete Wright played bass. Penny Rimbaud did the drums and wrote the lyrics. Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine and Joy de Vivre did the vocals. This song has to be somewhere at the very summit of anarcho-punk, if not the actual top. Crass (along with the Dead Kennedys and Subhumans) got me into thinking and asking questions, for which I am unceasingly grateful. Crass' later albums got more and more experimental.
Hope you stay safe!
Spot on with the members. Plus Phil Free and Andy (N.A) Palmer on guitars. On of course Mick Duffield on Video and G Sus with her incredible album art.
Nice reaction. Takes me back.
As a sixteen year old these guys really helped me align my Moral Compass. I’m so great full I discovered them at that age because my compass has stayed true and boy do I need it to navigate the minefield of propaganda were faced with these days.
There is some great stuff here. Glad you’re appreciating it.
Hope you’re okay with the hurricane.
This just hasn't lost anything to time as relevant now as it was when i first heard crass as a young 15 year old grommet punkrocker in 1985 now a wrinkled stinky toothless 53 year old grommet punkrocker and will be until they nail the last nail into my coffin lid and bury me 12 feet underground cause deep down I'm not that LOUD STINKY OR BAD.....maybe?
@@heathcornbeefjust as relevant because nothing ever changes
@@twizzm. Sucks ah the filthy rich get richer and we fight each other for the scraps
Wow, was great to see you reacting to this, I think was one of the first música that I listened to them and I was very impressed.
When punk wasn't pop s**t! 🏴❤️
Propagandhi isnt pop shizz
Crass never really resonated with me but I loved this song back int' day. I probably agree more with their message now than I did then, but I was very young. By the time I was taking a more serious interest in lyrics, I'd moved on to more musically extreme bands . It has to be said though, that Crass inspired a branch of Punk that persists to this day.
Wow.. that came out the blue. Takes me back to an angry against the world 17 year old sitting in his bedroom trying to play along on a bass! What I wouldnt give to be him again :)
Havent heard that song for many long years but still remembered most of the words... I think I they are probably more relevant to me now than they where then! Viva the revolution!
Damn just noticed the hurricaine post.. keep safe.. my best wishes too
These songs are Old Friend's I'm really happy to catch up with AND THEY UNFORTUNATELY ARE STILL RELEVANT PROBABLY MORE SO 🤬😡
also, if you want a great introduction into the other, more experimental side of Crass, I highly recommend listening to the track Reality Asylum. this would be the single version, originally backed with Shaved Women (itself also an interesting track), as opposed to the version that opens their debut full length album, The Feeding Of The 5000, simply titled Asylum (though this version is also notable)
HI JP
The tune you hummed after the record , that tune is the "MARSELLEIS",wich is the name of the French National Anthem.
Pete wright was the bassist ,Steve Ignorant singer ,Eve Libertine female vocalist,and Penny Rimbaud on drums.
Penny was actually co-founder of Crass with Steve , in 1977.Penny wrote ALL the lyrics.
Steve just sang them.
Hope Hurricane Ian spared you and your loved ones.Here in England , wev seen some dreadful pictures of the aftermath.It was more ferocious than anticipated , apparently
God Bless
No, Penny Rimbaud did not write ALL the lyrics. Steve Ignorant also wrote lyrics, including Do They Owe Us a Living?
He's got a book called References - Lyrics & Stories, containing all his lyrics and their meaning.
Crass the original Anarchist punk band this is a brilliant single & shows how Revolution can never work & the b.side by Anarchist punk band Poison Girls
Great lyrics. Certainly there have been times where facile "solutions" to all problems have been popular in places like universities. Just have a revolution and then happily-ever-after will just automatically follow from that. (I suppose anarchy might count as facile, too, but with anarchy you have "lots of solutions" / lots of "experiments" to questions people are meant to be honest about not having answers for, yet.)
It's quite interesting how things have changed when it comes to fashionable accents, since punk. Before punk, a true London accent might have been considered a bit of a "joke" in "artistic" contexts, but today even the princes speak "estuary English". (So back in the day, someone like my dad's mate from England would have his "middle class" accent for "work", but would slip into "bits of London" with friends and family. Odds are his dad spoke like the singer in this song, and so did he, then he got an engineering degree, learned to fit in with people who wouldn't take you seriously if you "spoke wrong". (While in Australia nobody would notice, for instance.)
That's from a time long before punk, so very old-fashioned. And then you have one aspect of punk being singers asserting that their own, unadjusted voice is Good Enough, and refusing to "gentrify". (It starts before then, but before, people tended to sing different to how they spoke, often. You could speak "Cockney" - to use the term I've been avoiding - but don't sing it. Sing like "an American" - or in the "Hollywood accent", maybe? - or sing "like a gentleman". With punk you get singers not being like the Beatles, switching from talking "Liverpoolese" (or whatever it is - Scouse, I think) - but "singing in American" - and singing the way they speak.
And then more time flows down that river, till the younger Royal Majesties are no longer speaking in an accent that I think began as a form of German accent, and speaking in the new English that this trend has pulled UK English toward. Or middle English. Or middling English. In a way it's not interesting. _Plus ca change, plus c'est la même chose_ to put it all fancy and lah dee bloody dah.
As Inspector Grim would say. ua-cam.com/video/NxnZC9L_YXE/v-deo.html
Would love to see you react to more from Crass! I think you would enjoy songs from their 1981 album 'Penis Envy' with Eve Libertine on lead vocals. I recommend 'Systematic Death' or 'Bata Motel'.
I would recommend SUBHUMANS' 'Human Error' and 'Religious Wars'...great trax from a great british punk band!!!
Glad you're safe, JP! We didn't even really have much rain here. There was some wind in the evening and a little in the morning and that's it. When I was looking into buying a home I made sure to check flood zones.
Anyway, I'm always here for some good old Crass ✌🏽
I liked that one a lot. A specially when that bit came in that sounded like Renaissance. Yeah man good one. Thanks JP
60 next year. Nothing changes. X
When I want to concert there was a lot big stars it was like they coming to themselves
Great band excellent track! Stay safe and take care buddy
Your comment on the circularity motif is apt. A part of the Crass logo is an ouroboros-a snake eating itself which of course is also circular.
Now that's a punk song. There's still all the rawness, but by this stage their arrangements were getting more sophisticated. And incorporating themes of the French national athem to colsolidate the 'revolution' angle, nice. Of course, as always with CRASS, it's all about the lyrics. They're clever, meaningful, and inciteful, but such a world we'll never see. Too many vested interests, 'the man' will never let it happen :) *JP, cheers for the shoutout, and having my back when i'm seemingly speaking out of turn, as some (lots, ha) of other commenters have told me. But as I always tell then he/you did ask our opinions, and you've never stipulated only comment if you like the tune as you reiterated here. Where would the conversation be without both sides of the arguement eh. Keep up the good work, and keep your head down during the storm 🙂
This is one of the few places on the internet where you can "speak out of turn," and is all the more valuable for it. Dissenting opinions are frequently more instructive than agreeable ones. I enjoyed that song more than I expected to, particularly the eclecticism of it. I'm not going to seek anything out, but if another track shows up around here, I will definitely give it a listen.
@@delorangeade I like your thoughts on opinions, dissenting, or otherwise. But I can say from experience it can draw flak if you're seemingly having a pop at someones favourite band/song. Luckily i've got broad shoulders 🙂
Re the band they are worth a listen, and i've given JP a bunch of other tunes so hopefully they'll turn up in due course. In the interim, if you've not seen his review of their song 'So What', that's worth a watch too.
@@jfergs.3302 In life, even more than on the internet, I'm always happy to puncture someone's complacency, but I try to pick my battles. You can't really win with unreasonable people, but you can at least spoil their day. I look forward to hearing more from Crass. One of the benefits of the internet is that I am hearing a lot of music that eluded me years ago, and my taste has broadened as a result.
Hope it’s not the Zappa stuff you bag out. I’d be pretty disappointed in you. You’ve definitely set the musical pedigree bar high with this selection.👍
@@andrewmantle7674 Nope, me and Frank are good. In fact you've reminded me, looking at JP's subs board, think I'll propose FZ's 'Roxy and Elsewhere' be added for his 35k subscriber celebration. It ties in 1st place on my all time top live albums list. ICYI, I have it tied with Steve Hillage's 'Live Herald', LP 🙂
Congrats on 25k!
Best Before 1984 is a compilation of non--album stuff, mostly singles.
Released after they broke up in '84.
This is more the Crass I still enjoy very much.
Justin!!! I love that you are listing to punk more often!!! It makes me so happy!!! I have nothing to recommend right now, but you just keep going!! There is so much good stuff that awaits!! 🤘🔥🤘
Ty Damon :) I'm enjoying it!
@@JustJP Thanks for your reaction of this Crass song from the A side of this spit single. On the B Side you will find "Poison Girls" with their haunting song "Persons Unknown". I love to hear your reaction.
I liked it more than I thought I would, although it's not the kind of thing I'd listen to a lot.
Glad to hear you've got through the hurricane with only minor damage.
I think you left out of the most BITING and TRUE lyrics of this song that boils it all down in pure simplistic yet heavy hitting explanations of what it is in a response almost to what the person may think which is the very first line of the lyric and how its NOT going to be like that:
'You're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
What's the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few?
That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million Jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use'
When I was 19 in 1995, this was amazing. The split this was on was another great song, maybe one of the best by the band Poison Girls with the song - Persons Unknown.
Like the sound!
The positive activism and creativity reminds me of the also great Chumbawamba
just to clarify a bit...... Crass had full length albums (the discography of which should be easy to find), but they also had a pretty extensive amount of singles and EPs, which were originally not on any particular full length album, but mostly considered to be of equal importance to the full lengths in terms of both music and message. the compilation album Best Before...1984 is a compilation album comprised of the most important of these singles and EPs. Bloody Revolutions is on it, which is why you see this listed as a single, and on Best Before 1984, but not one of the "main" full length albums. the Bloody Revolutions single was originally a split single with the band Poison Girls, with PG's track Persons Unknown appearing on the other side. for what it's worth, I consider the Poison Girls to be very interesting, if a bit overlooked, in the history of punk, for both artistic and socio-political reasons, and highly recommend checking out their side of the split. a note to avoid confusion: in the early 2000s, there was a major reissue series of Crass entitled The Crassical Collection. that series ended up appending a number of Crass's early singles as bonus tracks to their contemporaneous full length albums. so when the Crassical Collection version of Best Before 1984 was reissued, all of those particular singles were left off the new reissue, on the hope you would acquire them on the other reissues. in their place, a couple of singles that had been left off the original Best Before were added, along with some compilation tracks, some of their media prankster works (particularly the infamous "Thatchergate Tapes") and more, making it a much more experimentally-focused release, though ultimately it may be criticized for not being the career-spanning retrospective that the original Best Before compilation was. anyway, hope this helps
Sting said that there is no bloody revolution.
A little David Bowie steal there at the end. An entertaining musical collage I enjoy more now than I did at the time. What if Peter Gabriel had been a punk? A bit too earnest for me to take it seriously but I appreciate the sentiments.
Loved that, give Crass's Demoncrats, a listen to, crazy good.
CRASS would 110% vote against 120% of Repubicans if you want to play stupid games
Hello JP, i promised myself , on the next punk song you'd play, I'd ask u to play
"Life in London" by Pat Travers.
This? they were, along with Throbbing Gristle , the very antithesis of and then there were 3 G Boy MOR Prog , which I loved hof course. Nevertheless, I always knew that Crass had Principles and hearing this now, I hear 4 or even 5 progressive mini-sections. How ironic? Great Fun.
ha u agree!
I still have this single, check the other side Poison Girls-Persons Unkown
The Khmer Rouge communist revolution in Cambodia 'reset the clock' to 'year zero' to signal the beginning of a 'glorious' new era in Cambodias history.
Unfortunately, for the poor Cambodians who did not support (or who were merely suspected of not supporting) that supreme wanker Pol Pot, the truth of revolution brother, was year zero and the 'killing fields'
You can also hear, throughout the track, parts of The Marseillaise, the French national anthem, obviously referencing the French revolution.
The band,.
That was bloody rude, I like it! Great engineering, and mixing. Sounds almost like the antithesis of The B-52's, quite inventive. Peace & Love till the sh*t hits the fan! Stay safe.
R.I.P John Loder. Southern Studios.
Like !
If I had encountered this as a youth I would have embraced it fully. As it is I do like and appreciate it. I don't want to go into the politics of it because this is a music channel so I am abstaining from discussing sex politics and religion as much as possible.
What’s sex got to do with it… may be old but I ain’t dead yet.
How about reality asylum by crass?
Musically, more interesting than expected. An ark, key to the survival of the human race, will not insure peace, cuz there’s always someone(s) who want more or it all. Crap flingers…
the song was cut short
THE LYRICS
THEY ARE GREAT!!
Imo, lyrics could be about
Anti-Fa* and Woke movement*.
(*They say they are Anti-Fa,
but they act as a mob of fascists!
Imo, they have to learn to ask
questions, learn to debate, and...
learm to take criticism.)
Hmmm... Crass. Musically, they're tosh - various punk tropes trotted out and sung in a comedy London accent. Lyrically, I disagree with 95% of their 'anarchy' lyrics. They're fools if they think that anarchy is any more of an answer to the world's problems than the violent revolution that they, on this occasion, criticise. I enjoy a lot of punk. I don't enjoy Crass (though I suspect you're not supposed to enjoy their music - it's purely an attempt to forward their political thoughts)