Crass - Stations of the Crass [2LP/ UK Import]

Vinyl LP pressing. "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

A1        Mother Earth    4:11
A2        White Punks On Hope    2:22
A3        You've Got Big Hands    1:42
A4        Darling   1:56
A5        System    0:56
A6        Big Man, Big M.A.N.    2:46
A7        Hurry Up Garry    1:11

B1        Fun Going On   2:16
B2        Crutch Of Society    1:52
B3        Heard Too Much About    1:08
B4        Chairman Of The Bored    1:18
B5        Tired   3:19
B6        Walls   2:59
B7        Upright Citizen   3:15

C1        The Gasman Cometh    3:17
C2        Demoncrats   3:20
C3        Contaminational Power    2:01
C4        Time Out    2:16
C5        I Ain't Thick, It's Just A Trick    4:24
C6        (silence)    0:16
C7        Untitled    1:15

Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, London 7th August 79    
D1        System    1:09
D2        Big Man, Big M.A.N.    2:40
D3        Banned From The Roxy    2:05
D4        Hurry Up Garry    1:05
D5        Time Out    2:01
D6        They've Got A Bomb    2:59
D7        Fight War, Not Wars    0:49
D8        Women   1:59
D9        Shaved Women   2:22
D10        You Pay   1:37
D11        Heard Too Much About    1:11
D12        Angels    2:10
D13        What A Shame    1:24
D14        So What    2:57
D15        G's Song    0:47
D16        Do They Owe Us A Living?    2:05
D17        Punk Is Dead