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Track Listings
| 1. Asylum | |||
| 2. Do They Owe Us a Living? | |||
| 3. End Result | |||
| 4. They've Got a Bomb | |||
| 5. Punk is Dead | |||
| 6. Reject of Society | |||
| 7. General Bacardi | |||
| 8. Banned from the Roxy | |||
| 9. G's Song | |||
| 10. Fight War Not Wars | |||
| 11. Women | |||
| 12. Securicor | |||
| 13. Sucks | |||
| 14. You Pay | |||
| 15. Angels | |||
| 16. What a Shame | |||
| 17. So What? | |||
| 18. Well, do They? | |||
| 19. Do They Owe Us a Living? Unrel | |||
| 20. Blackburn Rovers. Unrel | |||
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...a nasty and worthless little record. --NME - Tony Parsons, 1978.
...it sounds as revolutionary and poisonous today as it did a quarter of a century before. --Metal Hammer - Tommy Udo, 2004
...one of the most influential bands in the history of rock... --Sounds - George Berger 1990
...it sounds as revolutionary and poisonous today as it did a quarter of a century before. --Metal Hammer - Tommy Udo, 2004
...one of the most influential bands in the history of rock... --Sounds - George Berger 1990
...it sounds as revolutionary and poisonous today as it did a quarter of a century before. --Metal Hammer - Tommy Udo, 2004
...one of the most influential bands in the history of rock... --Sounds - George Berger 1990
...it sounds as revolutionary and poisonous today as it did a quarter of a century before. --Metal Hammer - Tommy Udo, 2004
...one of the most influential bands in the history of rock... --Sounds - George Berger 1990
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The Crassical Collection is finally here, and the first release is the newly remastered The Feeding of the Five Thousand. After many years of being out of print, this legendary album has been been restored from the original analogue studio tapes, repackaged and bolstered by rare and unreleased tracks, and stunning new artwork from Gee Vaucher, who has lovingly created what could only be considered a real artefact. Included in this package is a 64-page booklet featuring all lyrics along with extensive liner notes from band members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, which shed light on the making of the record. Also included is CD-sized recreation of the iconic original fold-out poster sleeve. First released in 1978 on Small Wonder Records, and later rereleased on the band's own Crass Records, The Feeding of the Five Thousand showed Crass as an anti-establishment and highly uncompromising act, and one that would influence countless other bands to follow. This signals the first in a series of remastered versions of each of Crass' now legendary albums, each one including bonus tracks and brand new artwork.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The cartoonish, puppet-mastered posturing of the Sex Pistols and their ilk served its purpose, but Crass were always so much more punk than a few safety pins and a spiky hair-do. Formed by members of an anarcho-pacifist co-operative in late-Seventies Essex, and often dismissed as middle-class hippies, they embraced the DIY `anyone-can-do-it' ethos of punk and utilised it to advocate anarchy both as a way of life, and a way of being, a freedom of self independent from the constrictions of society-imposed conformity, convention and conditioning.
The Feeding of The 5000, their first record, released in 1978, remains their most accessible and the obvious place to start for the uninitiated. It opens with Asylum, a still-shocking spoken-word religious diatribe ('Jesus died for his own sins not mine') now infamous for being replaced by two minutes of silence on early copies after the Irish pressing plant refused to handle it.
The album rattles along at a fair old pace, and there is hardly a pause for breath between the next sixteen tracks (Yes, sixteen - this was released as a 12" EP retailing at just £2.00 - you always did get value for money with Crass) and while they often created catchy and memorable tunes, Crass' music will not be to everyone's taste. Music aside, take the time to pore over the lyrics printed on the sleeve, frighteningly truthful and probably more relevant today than they ever were. This is an uncompromisingly bleak and all-too-familiar picture of a corrupt and degenerate modern society in which school, church, corporation and government conspire to create a nation of un-thinking zombies bowed under by the rat-race, army, religion, and television.
They've Got a Bomb ('they can't wait to try it out'), Fight War Not Wars and the excellent General Bacardi (`the generals sip Bacardi while the privates feel the pain') all remain horribly topical. Banned from the Roxy describes a society built on fear (`a conspiracy to stop you feeling real') and You Pay informs us how we are all contributing to the `system's...political pollution'. `Don't just take it', Crass urge us, `use your own head'.
Women introduces the feminist message that the group would develop on later albums, (`we pay with our bodies') and Angels is an onslaught on the `grey puke' of television which keeps us all in line. Punk Is Dead even rejects punk itself, dismissing it as just another mindless fashion, feeding off the society it purports to reject.(`CBS promote the Clash/but it ain't for revolution, it's just for cash')
So good it appears twice, the album ends with a reprise of the marvellously anthemic Do They Owe Us a Living? perhaps best summing up the Crass philosophy: `Of course they do, of course they do'!
Crass tell it how it is, and it is not pretty. If you are easily offended, get over it: the society they describe is far more obscene than a few swear words. For once it is true to say this record really could change your life; at the very least you will never see things in quite the same way again.
The Feeding of The 5000, their first record, released in 1978, remains their most accessible and the obvious place to start for the uninitiated. It opens with Asylum, a still-shocking spoken-word religious diatribe ('Jesus died for his own sins not mine') now infamous for being replaced by two minutes of silence on early copies after the Irish pressing plant refused to handle it.
The album rattles along at a fair old pace, and there is hardly a pause for breath between the next sixteen tracks (Yes, sixteen - this was released as a 12" EP retailing at just £2.00 - you always did get value for money with Crass) and while they often created catchy and memorable tunes, Crass' music will not be to everyone's taste. Music aside, take the time to pore over the lyrics printed on the sleeve, frighteningly truthful and probably more relevant today than they ever were. This is an uncompromisingly bleak and all-too-familiar picture of a corrupt and degenerate modern society in which school, church, corporation and government conspire to create a nation of un-thinking zombies bowed under by the rat-race, army, religion, and television.
They've Got a Bomb ('they can't wait to try it out'), Fight War Not Wars and the excellent General Bacardi (`the generals sip Bacardi while the privates feel the pain') all remain horribly topical. Banned from the Roxy describes a society built on fear (`a conspiracy to stop you feeling real') and You Pay informs us how we are all contributing to the `system's...political pollution'. `Don't just take it', Crass urge us, `use your own head'.
Women introduces the feminist message that the group would develop on later albums, (`we pay with our bodies') and Angels is an onslaught on the `grey puke' of television which keeps us all in line. Punk Is Dead even rejects punk itself, dismissing it as just another mindless fashion, feeding off the society it purports to reject.(`CBS promote the Clash/but it ain't for revolution, it's just for cash')
So good it appears twice, the album ends with a reprise of the marvellously anthemic Do They Owe Us a Living? perhaps best summing up the Crass philosophy: `Of course they do, of course they do'!
Crass tell it how it is, and it is not pretty. If you are easily offended, get over it: the society they describe is far more obscene than a few swear words. For once it is true to say this record really could change your life; at the very least you will never see things in quite the same way again.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Plenty of people are up in arms over this release but I am happy it exists. This album, originally released in 1978, was unlike anything else at the time and has spawned a whole movement. Crass can't be blamed for that, they were asking us to think for ourselves, but that is easier said than done at times. What Crass did for me was expose the lies, hypocrisy and 'threat' of society, ourselves and rock 'n' roll. Whether any new comers can get past the music contained herein is another matter. This comes from another time and place. But with the added demo tracks and clearer mastering of the original 12" single we can see that there was sophistication in the mess. The message is also depressingly relevant even today. There are many people lining up to slate this reissue but I'm sure there are many more who welcome the chance to listen to this life changing record, (and it really was at the time), and remember that the fight still continues over 30 years later.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I rarely review anything, but this I have to.
Back in my late teens and early twenties Crass had a huge influence on me. I had all their vinyl records, and their artwork up on my walls. Without exaggeration they changed my life, such was the power of their influence. They continued to colour my view of the world up to this day. The Feeding of the 5000 was the first installment, and it was a shock ! At last, here was someone screaming out the things that I couldn't, or was too afraid to, and at breakneck speed. The Pistols and The Clash were brilliant, but they were already drifting, and somehow they hadn't said enough of what I wanted to hear. The Feeding was something else altogether, End Result, They've Got a Bomb, Banned from the Roxy, So What?, so many powerful songs, and the shocking black and white imagery of the sleeves. And they were doing it all on their own terms, apparently independent of the money making machine, even telling people what to pay on the sleeves, how were they doing that ?
Over the intervening years, with work, kids, and so on, they slowly slipped to the back of my mind. But their influence was still there in my attitudes to the world, my continued belief in the hope of anarchism. Then recently someone told me about Jeffrey Lewis, Steve was suddenly taking The Feeding on tour, and now this, the whole collection re-issued. I know there is much disagreement about all this, questions of money and principles, but I for one am delighted to see it all happening. Some compromise is unavoidable in a capitalist world, but what counts for me is getting the message out again to a whole new generation. As many people have said, it's probably more relevant today than it ever was.
The package itself is smartly presented with new artwork, some nice photos ( Crass smiling ! ) and a great little booklet with all the lyrics in, it was always hard to make out what they were singing ! In the intros Steve is down to earth and funny, Penny is full of himself as usual, but you forgive him almost immediately ! It's just a shame that not all the ex-members were involved in this. I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but I hope they can patch things up. My only other moan would be that everything seems to have shrunk in the wash, the old sleeve/poster is midget size, and the print is tiny - my eyes aren't what they used to be ! I have no idea what it should cost, but I know I trust the people behind it, and I'm happy to pay their price. I was thrilled to see it on Amazon in its smart new form, and I hope it sells by the lorry load ! Looking forward to Stations of the Crass very soon.
Anarchy and Peace.
Back in my late teens and early twenties Crass had a huge influence on me. I had all their vinyl records, and their artwork up on my walls. Without exaggeration they changed my life, such was the power of their influence. They continued to colour my view of the world up to this day. The Feeding of the 5000 was the first installment, and it was a shock ! At last, here was someone screaming out the things that I couldn't, or was too afraid to, and at breakneck speed. The Pistols and The Clash were brilliant, but they were already drifting, and somehow they hadn't said enough of what I wanted to hear. The Feeding was something else altogether, End Result, They've Got a Bomb, Banned from the Roxy, So What?, so many powerful songs, and the shocking black and white imagery of the sleeves. And they were doing it all on their own terms, apparently independent of the money making machine, even telling people what to pay on the sleeves, how were they doing that ?
Over the intervening years, with work, kids, and so on, they slowly slipped to the back of my mind. But their influence was still there in my attitudes to the world, my continued belief in the hope of anarchism. Then recently someone told me about Jeffrey Lewis, Steve was suddenly taking The Feeding on tour, and now this, the whole collection re-issued. I know there is much disagreement about all this, questions of money and principles, but I for one am delighted to see it all happening. Some compromise is unavoidable in a capitalist world, but what counts for me is getting the message out again to a whole new generation. As many people have said, it's probably more relevant today than it ever was.
The package itself is smartly presented with new artwork, some nice photos ( Crass smiling ! ) and a great little booklet with all the lyrics in, it was always hard to make out what they were singing ! In the intros Steve is down to earth and funny, Penny is full of himself as usual, but you forgive him almost immediately ! It's just a shame that not all the ex-members were involved in this. I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but I hope they can patch things up. My only other moan would be that everything seems to have shrunk in the wash, the old sleeve/poster is midget size, and the print is tiny - my eyes aren't what they used to be ! I have no idea what it should cost, but I know I trust the people behind it, and I'm happy to pay their price. I was thrilled to see it on Amazon in its smart new form, and I hope it sells by the lorry load ! Looking forward to Stations of the Crass very soon.
Anarchy and Peace.
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Amazing LP. Horrible CD
I was really looking forward to this being reissued as it was one of my faves from back then. Unfortunately, it also falls victim to the sound wars. Read more
Published 14 months ago by S. Com
good and wanting more
haven't had time to give proper attention to this, however, initial thoughts are that is angry, funny, sincere and much more
Published 18 months ago by Steve
Crass 2010 THERE IS NO AUTHORITY BUT YOURSELF
I can't say I noticed a vast difference in sound quality [I never do] but the additional material and the lovingly created packaging were enough to tempt me and they didn't... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Blitzkrieg Bopper
Minimalistic Brilliance
This is rough, raw, minimalistic sonic punk ok - frankly I am certain not many people could pull this off as brilliantly as they did. Plus this album stands the test of time. Why? Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2008 by Furthur
7
I'm no anarchist, not me! Yet I do question the system often & agree with many of the things spat out on this crazed record. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2008 by 77
My idea of Heaven?
When I first heard this album I was more than impressed. In fact I have been so impressed with this album that I thought I would share a few thoughts. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2006 by C. Muscillo
CRUSTIEST AND PUNKIEST !!!
of all of Crass'albums-and the first of em all,for all of you who don't know.The drumming is incredible,the singing-more of a statement delivery,really-is unique and
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Published on 10 Feb 2004 by JUAN MARTIN GABASTOU
Nostalgia for an age yet to come!!
Having listened to this album for the first time in over 20 years it sounds much better now than it did then. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2004
Punk: The Alternative Punk
Crass took anarchy seriously. Where the Sex Pistols revelled in alcohol and general abuse, Crass injected a little ecology into their chaotic punk. Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2001 by p.davies@rhul.ac.uk
No, they don't owe us a living!
I'm not sure that 5000 is my favorite album of all time but it's certainly my most listened to! Let's face it, Crass and commonsense just didn't mix, but, who cares? Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2000
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