Crass were the missing link between counterculture hippies and punk's angry rhetoric. The fact they got so big with no radio play and music so uncompromising is testament not just to their communication skills, but also to their generation's willingness to experiment. The band released a series of records that spliced art-school (in the best possible way), avant-garde collage with white-heat, punk-rock anger. "When Crass got mad, they got really mad, and they were ranting and raving at the UK during a mean and miserable time, when Labour buckled and Thatcher took over. The music of Crass can only properly be understood in this context - the decaying nation, state brutality, the miners' strike, the Falklands war, and the death of 60s idealism. Sadly, we're living through similar times now. Are we too cynical to create an answer like Crass did?" - The Guardian
Tracklisting
A1 Mother-Earth
A2 White Punks On Hope
A3 You've Got Big Hands
A4 Darling
Vocals – Eve Libertine
A5 System
A6 Big Man, Big M.A.N.
A7 Hurry Up Garry (The Parsons Farted)
B1 Fun Going On
Vocals – Pete Wright
B2 Crutch Of Society
B3 Heard Too Much About
B4 Chairman Of The Bored
B5 Tired
Vocals – Pete Wright
B6 Walls (Fun In The Oven)
Piano – G*
Vocals – Joy De Vivre
B7 Upright Citizen
Vocals – Pete Wright
C1 The Gasman Cometh
C2 Demoncrats
Vocals – Eve Libertine
C3 Contaminational Power
C4 Time Out
C5 I Ain't Thick, It's Just A Trick
C6 Untitled
D1 System
D2 Big Man, Big M.A.N.
D3 Banned From The Roxy
D4 Hurry Up Garry
D5 Time Out
D6 They've Got A Bomb
D7 Fight War, Not Wars
D8 Women
Vocals – Joy De Vivre
D9 Shaved Women
Vocals – Eve Libertine
D10 You Pay
Vocals – Pete Wright
D11 Heard Too Much About
D12 Angels
D13 What A Shame
D14 So What
D15 G's Song
D16 Do They Owe Us A Living?
D17 Punk Is Dead