Crass - You'll Ruin It For Everyone
Original Release Date
1993Release Information
UK CD 1993 (Pomona - ONA 002CD)
1 Punk Is Dead 2:43
2 Nagasaki Nightmare 8:12
3 Hello Hero 1:53
4 Anti-Mother 3:20
5 Mother Love 2:06
6 Reality Whitewash 2:20
7 Heard Too Much About 0:57
8 System 2:03
9 Big Man, Big M.A.N. 1:11
10 Health Surface 2:46
11 Big A Little A 4:46
12 Big Hands 2:02
13 Tired 1:11
14 Rival Tribal 3:08
15 Poison In A Pretty Pill 3:16
16 Berkertex Bribe 2:22
17 Bomb 2:37
Chart Placings
NoneCredits
Live in Perth 4 July 1981.
Additional Credits
Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine, Joy De Vivre - vocals
Pete Wright - bass
Phil Free - lead guitar
N.A. Palmer - rhythm guitar
Penny Rimbaud - drums, vocals
Reviews & Opinions
PUNKY GIBBON: The official release of a much circulated bootleg cassette, capturing Crass IN ACTION in 1981, at a venue in Perth where they spend a sizable portion of the show trying to stop the audience beating each other up. A particularly tense, agitated album with more than enough passion (Ignorant clearly in tears, one band member describing a particular thug in the audience as a "twat"). Unfortunately, the sound is only OK, making it for fans only, although you get copious liner notes and a discography.
PAT GILBERT, RECORD COLLECTOR, 1992: At the height of their early 80s success, Crass were, as a concept, exciting, inspiring, revolutionary and maybe even a little dangerous. They championed true anarchy, believing that people didn't need a state but could exist in happy, self-sufficient, politically unbridled groups. They were pacifists and vegetarians, and their label was genuinely independent. Sadly, their music was a relentless a barrage of four-chord, biscuit-tin thrash, topped-off with god-awful, street-punk bawling. What they said was occasionally interesting, but not gripping enough to run out and buy (though thousands of people disagreed!). This 17-track live affair, taped at a gig disrupted by the National Front in Perth in July 1981, shows what noisy so-and-so's Crass were, but, to my mind, the extensive, literate sleeve-notes by those involved with the band at the time say far more than the music.
Additional Notes
Reissued on vinyl in 1995 by Axiome/Pomona (ONA 002).
Images
UK CD 1993 (Pomona - ONA 002CD). Click here for more
