The CRASS label held its weight right alongside Small Wonder and Stiff!. The early 80s British stuff was really something. The other EP I really enjoy on the crass label is from the snipers. Check out their main track from the ep
Just discovered this two days ago and now I can't get it out of my head. I can't believe I've been listening to punk since the 90's and didn't know ZOUNDS.
This is one of those bands that when UA-cam busted wide open, everybody discovered! Because I had friends that listened to crass and conflict and bands like that but never heard of Zounds until like 2004. I think unless you were in the U.K you probably would've never heard of them
OMG. I am 57 and was (am) punk and I never heard this. I guess it's because I am American and I was denied. This is brilliant. This is my new theme song because it is so damn true and it ROCKS.
Spent an evening with zounds after they played in Birmingham, thanks to Andy for introducing the band to us fans. Great night and great people, Sounds as good today as back then 1980 .
Still so damn good all these years later. Just as relevant and inspiring as the day it came out, perhaps even more so considering the absolute power banksters and large corporations now wield over us and our communities.
@@Eman_Puedama you want to subvert and someday you wake up and realize how the fire inside of you stopped burning. you realize you became what you wanted to destroy, but it might be to late. it was never easier to enslave people than it is today. let us change the matrix instead of waking up, maybe that was the mistake all along. but what do i know
Completely original and genre defying. They had the gift of talent to write, play and sing like no other group. Catchy? Oh you bet! Social message? Profound "yes". Though it hails from a different era, this stuff is timeless, a truly beautiful work of heart.
Couldn't agree more fella. In fact all 3 of these songs show just how little we've learned or evolved in 37 long years. It made me angry when I was a teenager but now just makes me sad.
My mind was blown seeing a punk with a Trenchcoat wearing a plastic bowl on his head. He had U. K. Subs written on his back. Me go record shop snatched their Brand new Age album and a new punk was born. 🤩😊🌪️
And here I thought I was pretty familiar with the obscure anarcho bands of old. But this one escaped me completely. It really holds up. Thanks for posting.
I remember back in highschool some good looking punk rock girl was selling her patches, I can't remember which patch I bought from her but I accidentally took her Zounds patch, she asked me if I took it, I said yes and she told me to keep it not having a clue who these guys are, just last year I looked them up on UA-cam and listen to this EP and instantly loved it..
Remember when this came out, we all had an attitude back then..may not evoke the same feelings as back then, but sure is one of the all time greats of real music.
Have this in my records bought it new from a record stall as a young punk in the 80s cost 45p Awesome band and a awesome ep definitive 80s anarcho punk still love it and still relevant ATB.
Thanks a million fot posting this. A great band ! In the late 70's The band I was in ( SUBURBANS) did the supporting-act for them in the KAASEE-club in Rotterdam ( the Netherlands).
one of the best 7" of ALL time! awesome fold out poster and sentiment, I paid $10 for mine in the 90s, then I had a home invasion when ALL my records walked out the door, I have not been trusting of people since!
ngl I was kinda surprised to find an old anarcho-punk band from my hometown. Reading's radical scene has a surprising amount of history bubbling under the surface. I once stumbled across online some anarchist pamphlets produced here in the early 90s. I keep being pleasantly surprised
As a (classic-Punk-Rocker), myself in the late '70s & the whole-'80's, I never heard this album. (I love-It)-! Thank you, for sharing it with us. I love this sound. It's like punk rock with some Devo and B-52's sound in it. (Two-Thumbs-Way-Up)-!! I just subscribed to your channel... :-D
Yes. Glad to be turned on to what I wasn't aware of in the 70s and 80s. I was young and didn't know. And finding good music in this country was a matter of almost full time dedication and energy, as America is always so fucking backward on shit until they know it will actually sell.
finally got my hands on this ep and curse of zounds, again...it's about the 10th X i've bought copies, lol...what i loved about this band (besides the message) is that Mr Lake has an ear for melody and groove, he is a brillent songwriter...crass had the message but the music was really noisy, not that i have anything against that but zounds had a way more tuneful thing happening...they had a commercial sound i/m/o...and there's nothing wrong w/that either when done the right way.
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0:00 - Can't Cheat Karma
2:39 - War
4:10 - Subvert
The CRASS label held its weight right alongside Small Wonder and Stiff!. The early 80s British stuff was really something. The other EP I really enjoy on the crass label is from the snipers. Check out their main track from the ep
Respect to crass for putting out great records by other bands.
Crass started it all
They sure released some classic tracks by classic bands. Flux Of Pink Indians, Conflict, The Mob, essential stuff.
@@antonhaq3503theres some good ones on conflicts label too
Respect to Crass, full stop! 🙂
Apathetic public 😂 go dyi your hair 😂
Some of the best guitar playing I've heard in punk. They were seriously good musicians.
it sounds good. but that explains why its sounds "different" lol
@@fafdus oh, what is this 'difference'
@@thomasevans7410 skill
@@thomasevans7410 They weren't Crass clones; a refreshing change at the time.
I haven’t heard this in over 40 years 😆 Just realised I still know the words
PunksNotDead , Funny how things never leave you....
I've been listening to this since the 80s and it never gets old
Was born in ‘87 and discovered this in the early 2000’s and NEEDED to hear this EP today in 2020, still know the words and it’s just perfect.
Sanja Pisker too true friend
Like riding a bike bruv! 🏍
Remembering James Barrett Lennard ~ Forever 18 ~ R.I.P
Thankyou for introducing me to such wonderful, timeless music my friend x
Such an underrated band, from my hometown of Reading. One of the best punk records of all time. Lyrically brilliant.
Belta 😍
Stiff little fingers, gota gota get away and Johnny was a good man.
Old but true , 59 years young, still Fecking Real, Bless an be U !
Just discovered this two days ago and now I can't get it out of my head. I can't believe I've been listening to punk since the 90's and didn't know ZOUNDS.
This is one of those bands that when UA-cam busted wide open, everybody discovered! Because I had friends that listened to crass and conflict and bands like that but never heard of Zounds until like 2004. I think unless you were in the U.K you probably would've never heard of them
I had a whole ass lp of theirs in PHX AZ USA in the mid 80s. And Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Still sounds fresh like yesterday, damn strong&good ep!! Hail&thanx 2 the ZOUNDS!!! ~grtz J. 🐈⬛....🇧🇪
OMG. I am 57 and was (am) punk and I never heard this. I guess it's because I am American and I was denied. This is brilliant. This is my new theme song because it is so damn true and it ROCKS.
Steve Lake is still going
The States had stuff going on that Europe now know via documentarys, and vice versa. Keep on rocking in the free world sister!
One of the best E.P.'s ever recorded.
you're goddamn right...great EP.
This is amazing. How did I never hear this before and I'm 50!!!!!!
Spent an evening with zounds after they played in Birmingham, thanks to Andy for introducing the band to us fans.
Great night and great people, Sounds as good today as back then 1980 .
+arch stanton Saw them when I worked Solfest 2005, still great but the weather was atrocious!
Still so damn good all these years later. Just as relevant and inspiring as the day it came out, perhaps even more so considering the absolute power banksters and large corporations now wield over us and our communities.
Yup.
The weird thing is that most punks and lefty bohemians these days tend to support the agendas the banksters and corporations are pushing.
@@Eman_Puedama you want to subvert and someday you wake up and realize how the fire inside of you stopped burning. you realize you became what you wanted to destroy, but it might be to late.
it was never easier to enslave people than it is today.
let us change the matrix instead of waking up, maybe that was the mistake all along. but what do i know
great to hear this again after so many years... gives me lovely nostalgic punky goosebumps ❤
Great lyrics. Great band. Crass have turned me on to so many bands. Love it. Anarchy and freedom is what I want.
War
Crass have a lot to be proud of.
I remember taping this off the radio when I was in my teens, playing off a college station in Boston. I still remember the words.
a college station in Boston is how i was first introduced to Zounds!
Cool that the US played real punk ;)
@@ChawkDeeboston in the uk not usa haha i see why you got it mixed up tho
Completely original and genre defying. They had the gift of talent to write, play and sing like no other group. Catchy? Oh you bet! Social message? Profound "yes". Though it hails from a different era, this stuff is timeless, a truly beautiful work of heart.
My son introduced this song to his bandmates and friends in the 2000s.
Oh my god! How havent I heard these guys before?! They're perfect.
Still have this 7" also like No Choice 7"1983 .....great musicians
The lyrics to subvert still resonate today. Even maybe more so than 36 yrs ago!
Couldn't agree more fella. In fact all 3 of these songs show just how little we've learned or evolved in 37 long years. It made me angry when I was a teenager but now just makes me sad.
Absolutely right. Fucking shame though!!
Find your fire
@@MuppetBasher and wiser
🙁
Really really well recorded! Great song .. one of my favourites from the squatting/convoy days back in the 80's!
100% mate the best days of my life , it'll never happen again sadly ✌️✌️✌️
I thought I was listening to flux of pink Indians at first. I've been an LA street pink nearly my entire life.... This band is awesome 👍👍👍
Somebody (I know not who to this day) handed this to me on a cassette at a show in 1993 or so, and it blew my goddamned teen aged mind.
I love tapes, that luvvly chunky feel..................Blessings........
My mind was blown seeing a punk with a Trenchcoat wearing a plastic bowl on his head. He had U. K. Subs written on his back. Me go record shop snatched their Brand new Age album and a new punk was born. 🤩😊🌪️
@@f.dmcintyre4666 p0l
And here I thought I was pretty familiar with the obscure anarcho bands of old. But this one escaped me completely. It really holds up. Thanks for posting.
im still a subvert , still a great song/ band . thank you . may your god be with you.........
What a great record, played it over and over again.
Very good ambiant rock. Find and technical sound, you make some à little SKA very find....
never heard before this is lovely,.............................
Such a classic single & band still remember buying it when it came out sound a as good now as then glad I still have it.
I remember back in highschool some good looking punk rock girl was selling her patches, I can't remember which patch I bought from her but I accidentally took her Zounds patch, she asked me if I took it, I said yes and she told me to keep it not having a clue who these guys are, just last year I looked them up on UA-cam and listen to this EP and instantly loved it..
The cover of this folded out into an awesome poster!
Nice. 😎
My bf is Edward Feltch from Youthkorps and he turned me on to this band, their message resonates today, great band!!
Ah, que de souvenirs ! I had maybe 50 EP from Crass record and friends. But somebody stole all long time ago, grrrrr !!!!
Thanks for that.
Remember when this came out, we all had an attitude back then..may not evoke the same feelings as back then, but sure is one of the all time greats of real music.
One of the Best Bands...grüsse aus Germany
40+ years took me to discover this EP. Love it
Still loving it..after all these years i keep coming back to this sound.
What a great sound
awesome!!! brilliant stuff!!! sound of their own in a league of their own!!! pure class!!!
The Best Anarcho Punk Band !
Reminds me of when I was 13 and I loved this stuff. I still do and I always will.
I still got it. But not played it for maybe 30 years. A forgotten jem of punk
Have this in my records bought it new from a record stall as a young punk in the 80s cost 45p Awesome band and a awesome ep definitive 80s anarcho punk still love it and still relevant ATB.
Thanks a million fot posting this. A great band ! In the late 70's The band I was in ( SUBURBANS) did the supporting-act for them in the KAASEE-club in Rotterdam ( the Netherlands).
Suburbs ,from mound mn ?
Lols I went to grade school and freshman year,hung around a punk band called noise fatigue on the island lols I was 10 in 83
Reminds me of times long ago sat in my bedroom sniffing EVO stick out of a bag listening to this.
Was ist los, EVO? What is this strange substance, do tell?
@@kellytyner2611 it sticks things
@@vodaploda Thanks, got it! Cheers Vaughanie.
yeah i did that a few times
last time i did it i lost four hours and woke up on the pavement 100 yards from my house
never did it again after that
Evo stick huh??? Does it go well with speed and PCP?
Still got this love it ❤
An old favourite. It’s so apt even more so so for now!
I had this ep back in the day....wow....I have not heard this for years....thanks for putting it up.....
Flash back to the 80's, I never forgot these lyrics, either. Anyone else hear the "Let's do the time warp" riff in Can't Cheat Karma?
zoundz like a crass-label pearl. oh, what i missed them all.
h.m.
Just bought this one! Still brilliant.
one of the best 7" of ALL time! awesome fold out poster and sentiment, I paid $10 for mine in the 90s, then I had a home invasion when ALL my records walked out the door, I have not been trusting of people since!
2022 and I’m just now hearing this masterpiece thank you to the girl at the bar who suggested this band after I played the cure
An absolute classic. Message still as relevant as ever.
They don't seem to make music like this anymore;)
Yes they fucking do. Punk is still alive, somewhere
@@paulwilson4189 "Somewhere" lol
They fucking do but it's hiding and you could still find some way to make it work
@@paulwilson4189 inner terrestials are good ... its nice to get awat from metal and hardcore that crossovers
Love this so much.. after all those years
Then, now, an forever fucking brilliant ep. An absolute classic.
saw them in 2019 great set in newcastle
Challege of the week - find this for 75p.
Challenge for the day , find 75p
Simple yet brilliant.
ngl I was kinda surprised to find an old anarcho-punk band from my hometown. Reading's radical scene has a surprising amount of history bubbling under the surface. I once stumbled across online some anarchist pamphlets produced here in the early 90s. I keep being pleasantly surprised
brilliant !! still got this ep.. :)
+Charlie Dingle doobie boob agrees
top banana !! glad you do.. thought it was only me?.. ;)
Cross between crass and the minute men from america and i swore i heard hints of funk wow great stuff
That drummer though
What a blast from my wild past!
Probably one of the best EP`s ever produced and all for 75p.
Definitely won of the best 7 inch records ever.
The coordination is incredible.
I dig this tune.
Thanks for posting this.....my teenage years on ep
I luv zoundz and this ep
As good not, as back in the day, an old punk!!!!
pizzas gonna come and i could be wrong i know
LMAO
there's an awful lot pizzas on the street today
bee88ism I sing the same thing. haha
pizza 30 mins or else it's free I know
Thin crust punk
Great band; love the various styles of music infused here!!!
agree with you !
Punketeria1369 there's a bit of the MONOCHROME SET chucked in for good NO.... GREAT MEASURE.
got this stuff on cassette, and never listen too it since they get wrapped around the head. Thanks for the post!
As a (classic-Punk-Rocker), myself in the late '70s & the whole-'80's, I never heard this album. (I love-It)-!
Thank you, for sharing it with us. I love this sound. It's like punk rock with some Devo and B-52's sound in it.
(Two-Thumbs-Way-Up)-!!
I just subscribed to your channel... :-D
Same here.
Yes. Glad to be turned on to what I wasn't aware of in the 70s and 80s. I was young and didn't know. And finding good music in this country was a matter of almost full time dedication and energy, as America is always so fucking backward on shit until they know it will actually sell.
What a song.
Been going back to my punk roots!!! This is fucking rad!!!
Absolutey Fantastic band
If a change is gonna come I'm gonna help it on its way!
This peace punk stuff had always been punk rock hip hop to me... Really it was hip hop before hip hop was even born
Mozart was a Glam-Punk, Wagner was Black Metal....
I'm 13 again...love it
Great tune
Proud of your boy!
TRUE ! 🏴☠️ I Love this album it's GREAT MAN I have listened to it thousands of times and it's still great , SUBVERT !
pretty good and interesting. the sounds similar to the band Brat from the same era.
I love this song ... :-)
Same here...bloody hell i m getting old
Fantastic peace of work
so inspiring. and this was happening so many years ago. contemporary bands can just get inspired or barely try to copy this
Theres total dullness in the air today.. most r successfully lobotomized today
top 10 of the best Punk singles period ! oi-nk
so , so
great!
Punk rock deluxe 🎶🎵🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Hahaha yes true story still listening love U all from down Under not a dude hahaha xxx
finally got my hands on this ep and curse of zounds, again...it's about the 10th X i've bought copies, lol...what i loved about this band (besides the message) is that Mr Lake has an ear for melody and groove, he is a brillent songwriter...crass had the message but the music was really noisy, not that i have anything against that but zounds had a way more tuneful thing happening...they had a commercial sound i/m/o...and there's nothing wrong w/that either when done the right way.
ahhh love it! love 80's.
pretty cool you can hear the bass and it is punk
Classic!
Zounds forever xox
The Clarences love & support Zounds!
Super bass!!
Only cost 75 pence back then .still worth a listen brill