Crass - How Does It Feel?
Original Release Date
1982Release Information
UK 7” 1982 (Crass - 221984/6)
1 How Does It Feel (To Be The Mother Of A Thousand Dead)? 4:25
2 The Immortal Death 3:58
3 Don't Tell Me You Care 3:34
Chart Placings
UK Indie Hit: 1, 23 wksCredits
Recorded and mixed in August 1982 at Southern Studios, London.
All material C.P.A. Crass 1982
Additional Credits
Steve Ignorant - lead vocals on 1Eve Libertine - lead vocals on 2-3
Pete Wright - bass, backing vocals
Phil Free - lead guitar
N.A. Palmer - rhythm guitar
Penny Rimbaud - drums, tape
Gee - artwork
Reviews & Opinions
TIM YOHANNAN, MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL #3, NOVEMBER 1982: Coming so close on the heels of their Christ - The Album, it's almost too much to digest. The title song is a catchy headbanging attack on the jingoistic British attitude towards the Falklands/Malvinas crisis. It has created a hoopla in the English press, who amazingly have supported CRASS against Parliament's crises of "treason". The flip features Eve and will please fans of Penis Envy. CRASS may be accused of preachiness, but their unrelenting critiques are having an impact.
ROBIN EGGAR, DAILY MIRROR: However distasteful the Sex Pistols appeared to be in 1977, their songs were a chilling warning of the coming recession. But anarchist band Crass have gone too far. They released last week the most revolting and unnecessary record I have ever heard. How Does It Feel To Be The Mother of 1,000 Dead? is a vicious and obscene attack on Margaret Thatcher's motives for engaging in the Falklands war. It bears little relation to reality.
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