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 Published on October 30th 2005
To start with a lame cliché, Crass is a band that you either love or think is total crap. I, personally, am one of the people that love it. Since I’m not old enough to ever have actually seen them play, I can’t give you a review in context of late-`70s Britain, or the response to this album. All I can give is what it means to me.
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Obviously a very important album, but my favorite is still the epic "Yes Sir, I Will." I owe a lot of my musical and political influence to Crass. Great, great band. This CD is a classic. This is the band that got me into real punk. Sure, the music is... different... But, the message is still relevant today. Crass took punk to a whole new level Crass is the first full band to truly define the word "punk." Ghandi was prolly the first person to do that Their music is great, their politics is fucking awful. The "I hate the living dead" rant in "End Product" is unbelievably classist and offensive. Although their recording quality is all hell, Crass is definetly the most influential punk band in my book. Their idea of Anarchy made tons more sense than Sex Pistols or Clash. They were made offers to big labels multiple times, and every time they turned it down. Their drummer wrote an autobiography of his life and half of it is about his time in Crass. Great book. I recommend it to all who respect Crass. It's called 'Shibboleth - My Revolting Life.' I wasn't calling him black and I've never pretended to be in a horrible situation. I was just pointing out if you're 'poor' in America, that's still a 100 times better than being poor in another country. And the score is for the album. I love Crass. I was planning on buying this album as soon as I get some money. FuckYouOiOi, you've got a case of the pot calling the kettle black Dear GreenVandal, Dear Green Vandal, I'd respond to you Will but you would just name drop like thirteen bands that no one else has heard of to prove how much better you are then me, because we all know that knowing obscure thrash bands is the determining factor of how a argument is won. "Wah Wah Wah: The Life and Times of Green Vandal" See how great a band Crass is? They can spark a debate about philosophy and human nature. NOFX could never do anything like that. Neither could the Clash, whom everyone seems to love. ""Everyone should care exclusively about their interests and no one elses because you are responsible for your own productive capacity and the fulfillment of your own dreams and that weight should not be given to anyone else nor should you have to bear anyone elses unwillingly. Everyone should pull for themself." its good to see an ethics argument on the internet. This album is the biggest piece of garbage i have ever heard "Everyone should care exclusively about their interests and no one elses because you are responsible for your own productive capacity and the fulfillment of your own dreams and that weight should not be given to anyone else nor should you have to bear anyone elses unwillingly. Everyone should pull for themself." Also...trading is the essence of human existence. Everything you do is a exchange for something else. Every gesture is a bargain and every hug is barter. Everything in this world has weight and value and human beings try to advance themselves by pitching the wares they have available to them as best as they can. Whether that be money, good looks, or a great personality doesnt matter. Everything is done for a reason and everything is done with hopes for a positive consequence...or at least it should be. Otherwise you are just wasting your resources on futility and I dont see that as a particuarly fulfilling way to live. have any of you ever stopped to think what is wrong with being greedy or selfish? There is nothing wrong with being greedy or selfish outside of some sort of ethical imprint that is made on all of us from the day we are born. You're against a crap band because kids might like them? Isn't the fact that they're a crap band enough? Plenty of kids enjoy Crass, too, you know... I know I got into them at age 14. I totally sparked a debate on human nature on a punk website that isn't even really an MB. Cool. Oh, and the anti-MCR thing is just because of the whole "if something is more accesible to kids, it must suck" thing that music eliteist assholes (like me?) have. And I personally cannot tell if MCR's singer is male or female. It's like a Davey Havok of the 2000's. They were great when they tried to write songs, not so much when they just talked over feedback. although I no longer fuly agree with much of their politics, this is a great album in the end, i do sort of agree with you. but also remeber i'm not saying this whole selfish-gratification thing sis bad at all, in fact, i think it's good. there needs to be something ingrained in us that makes us want to be accepted and be a part of our cultures self-preservation, regardless of what culture it is. a society of every person for themselves would not work very well. even some of histories most violent cultures were still very relient on the helpfulness of their own people to each other. Well then I guess that's just what you think from your experiences and I feel sorry for you. You can kind of say that about anything, but when it comes down to it, if you do something to help someone/something else and you don't expect any sort of reward, I think that would defy your own logic. I'm sure a lot of people do nice things for self-gratification, but that's not really a bad thing weighed against the possibility of them doing nothing at all to help. WIll, i do think the fundamental nature of people is greed, just not always materialistic greed. very many people will do things for others and not require anything physical in return, but they still get that feeling of accomplishment for helping that they want, which sometimes is as important as any tangible thing. again, this is much better than demanding $100 for helping a little old lady cross the street, but i still find it to be people simply feeding their own ego. "have to say, personal attacks about my various inconsistencies are almost as good as the posts that say "dude crass sucks ass they r posers only mcr is real punk". oh, here's another personal fault: I'm what you would call a "n00b". do I need to get "pwnd"?" Hm, I guess I just don't think that the fundamental nature of all people is greed. I think that might be the nature of opportunists, but that only constitutes a minority of people. The current state of the Ex are what punk could be. This is what punk is at its rawest. I don´t know if someone mentioned that the title of this record was "feeding of the 5000" since the first pressing was in that quantity and they thought they couldn´t sell them all. I think superdude died... Capitalism actually doesn't have much to do with an exchange economy, it's about ownership of the means of production. Oh, and the basic way that people operate is through capitalism. Humanity is driven by greed. If we do a favor for someone, it is because we expect something in return; ie, an excahnge:capitalism. i think fuckyouoioioi shoulda reviewed this...he's gotta crass mouth on him You CRASS fat ass you stupid steroid fuck..... Sorry about the apparant bias of this review. I got the album...2 years ago? It has really, REALLY changed my tastes in music. This and "Repeater" are probably my two favorite albums, closely followed by "Blind Roaches..." by the False Prophets. I'm a flaming fairy fucking faggot. This is a pretty sweet album, it sounds like the weirdest fucking thing the first time you hear it. I dunno, the band's willingness to live their political stance is certainly laudable but it seems like people mention that more than the fact that the music by itself would be very very unique. I like it, though. have to say, personal attacks about my various inconsistencies are almost as good as the posts that say "dude crass sucks ass they r posers only mcr is real punk". oh, here's another personal fault: I'm what you would call a "n00b". do I need to get "pwnd"? ok. here's a funderful example: Jello Biafra. As a human being, he's about a million times better than me. He calls himself an "anarchist", yet he still ran for office, operated within the legal system, and has repeatedly said that humanity, as a whole, is not ready for anarchy. There you go. So you're an anarchist, but don't believe that it's possible? ok. look at all the people on this site. how many of them are fucking teenage nerds sitting in their rooms, trying to rebel against their parents? what do you think i am? i'm not exactly "punk" or a real "radical", i'm just trying to find a "philosophy", or whatever that will make me fell less like the rich, white, lazy, slefish, capitalist shit that I am. "even though I would consider myself an anarchist" ANOK4UOK? means "anarchy (an-okay) for you, okay?" even though I would consider myself an anarchist, Crass is naive becasue they belive/d that anarchy is possible. Its a great ideal, but REALLY hard to implement. Ok. Did anyone catch on that the "meathead-punk" thing was an explicit reference to the Exploited? First. Just like everybody, the message is better/more important than the music. i'll stick with the subhumans. Eh, they're better as an idea than as a listenable band. If they didn't exist, punkers would have to invent them. Still, if it's a choice of love or hate, mark me down as hate. Musically, too varied for the sake of being diverse instead of writing consistently good tunes. the feeding of the 5000 is when you eat out a girl with a yeast infection (bread and fish, HAHAHAHA GET IT) Crass weren´t always good but in the punkworld of cliché s Feeding was a brilliant album , was lucky enough to see Crass live in Perth City Hall Scotland , great gig , General Bacardi is as honest as a song you will ever hear , " the general sips bacardi and the private feels the pain " ....... oh man, i love crass. one of the only punk bands i cant stand I recently dug though my LP collection and found I owned Best Before I was pretty excited. You need to understnad most of my LP's come from when our college station was closing so I didn't pick or chose, I grabbed. Anyhow, Crass was one of those bands I always heard about and liked what I heard but never had any of their stuff. I'll probably get this (and a few others) when the cash flow starts again. Still always impressed by what this band stood for, even if ya don't like the music. So are these guys a hip hop band, or what? Crass - The Feeding of the 5000 Notice how this review is made by a guy named Feeding5000. Personally I prefer the Subhumans to these guys, but Crass were still decent. "hahahaha i love how some people on this site (like Will) insist that the Clash was still punk even though they were on a major because it was "acceptable" in those days. Penis Envy was probably my favourite album by them content/music wise. Not a perfect album, even for fans. I'm really tired of hyper-fanboy scores... don't people have any concept of critical thinking? Yes. Perfect. 19th review that gives a perfect score. Hmmmmm. One of the only punk bands I can stand. Great album. "The enduring “Punk Is Dead,” which (apparently) sparked a wave of meathead-punk backlash, laments the acceptance of bands like the Sex Pistols and the Clash into the mainstream." finally an actual punk album gets reviewed "Crass is a band that you either love or think is total crap. I, personally, am one of the people that love it." If the music sounds good who gives a fuck how simple it is....the Ramones weren't exactly playing difficult stuff but their songs were the greatest and they wrote great songs. Crass have some really great songs....."Punk Is Dead" is a TRUE punk anthem, which embodies everything I love about punk....as ironic as that is.......unlike the Exploited's "Punk's Not Dead"....which embodies everything I hate about "punk" lol Influential, they were alwys more about the content then the music, and they made that known. great band, i don't know how anyone could hate this album, it's sooo goood. They had some interesting lyrics but the music was as shitty as they come this is a classic.. it amazes me how the writing can still relate nearly 30 yrs later. I love Crass. CrAsS iS HaRdKorE! U DrY CuNts!! U PoSeUr AsS JaGs!!! "naive anarchist lyrics (ANOK4UOK?)," Um anyone else sense a little bias when you read the reviewers name? Say what you will about their "music" (which I think is fucking awesome), but you can't argue with the power of their lyrics, even on this release... And they would only get better. |
