Anarchy is great and all, but you can't have that type of revolution, without violence. And, even if you succeed, do you think people are ready for that kind of responsibility?
@@room2180 exactly what I’ve always thought. Even if it’s non-violent, it would have to be ‘government’ first. And it’ll be called a ‘left wing government’. To get big muscles, you have to go to the gym. Can’t just imagine being huge and suddenly it happens.
Man I can't believe how relavant the lyrics are 40 years later, going to see Crass and listening to there songs and reading the info on the foldout sleeves(which was as important as the music) back in 79-80 changed the way I thought about the world and politics and still do have those views, they were and remain EPIC.
All comments here are spot on. Crass are unquestionably more relevant now than when they were recording these classics. You could say they were visionary but the problems they sang about then weren't generational, but still exist on a more frightening level.
CRASS. They went out to talk straight and confront accepted morality and accepted social attitudes. They went to war on English society from 1977 to 1984 when they broke up. They recorded and produced their own music, so they answered to no one but themselves. Much of their stuff would not have been recorded if corporations were involved. All members of crass, about 6 or 8 of them, all lived in the same huge farmhouse in Epping Forest, near London. Iv visited the place, and met Crass drummer and founder member and song writer, Penny Rimbaud, and his g/f and Crass member, Eve Libertine. The house Crass all lived in, is actually in a forest! Beautiful human beings.
Great stuff mate....Crass could change your whole outlook on life,they were much more than a punk band,cheers for this bud...this has brightened my day😉👍.....it is still as relevant today,if not more...
Saw Crass for the first time when I was 12 years old in '79 in a tiny community centre in my home city. I managed to 'borrow' one of their banners. It hung on my bedroom wall for a while until I moved house then it sat in my folks attic for 40 years. I posted a pic of it on a Crass group on FB and only found out 'the missing banner' was a thing when I got a message from the drummer Penny Rimbaud calling me a thieving bastard and telling me to shove it up my arse. 😆
They make us choose sides in politics, race, and beliefs. We only win when we stand together against them and tell them we ain't playing their games anymore. "Fight wars not war, destroy power not people".
Your pathetic mate They don't make us do anything. You just do what theyv made you believe you should do. Did Boris twist your arm? No! You just thought, 'Boris has given me 2 choices and I must choose one or the other!!!!!! " Idiot You had a 3rd choice all the time Wich was' what's my decision, irrespective of what Boris Karloff, of Frankenstein fame ' wants..........
Crass teach horticulture today, they teach gardening at the exact same house and gardens where they made all these records. I am very happy to see something like this. Well done man. Crass are the best punk.
The truth is the truth no matter how old the message is. That song will be just as relevant 10, 30 or 50 years from now. It's all a big game and we're all just pieces on the board.
Kia Ora hello from Aotearoa New Zealand hay these guys ❤ wearing a crass patch or tee shirt here in Aotearoa New Zealand in the eighties and nineties was a really good way to get ya head kicked in by skinheads but here i am 54 years old and I've still got a Mohawk red at the moment and fuck them hater's were are they now? Nowhere to be seen . I fucking love CRASS
Crass we'll be relevant always bought most of thier albums all the anarcho punk bands they produced back in the early 80s I still listen to them like it's the first time I heard them can't say that with any other band
I’m a very old punk rocker that has been involved in the scene for a very long time, promoting shows and events, I like your reaction and see it genuine, reminds me of putting on shows for my 30 years plus and the personal joy I would get when seeing a person’s first experience with it. Puts a smile on my face. Keep up the good work as I see it as good work helping people cross over and become that much more closer together in understanding. ~Cheif Blackdawg Founder of the World Wide PyratePunx.
My father was in the '80s Orange County punk scene he was also an extra in the independent movie Suburbia they'd cast real punk rock kids not actors the movie free on Tubi. Check out my ReverbNation artist page my father taught me how to play bass guitar the singing came easy to me 😁
You got it, great reaction.Crass made an enemy of Mrs Thatcher with their song 'How does it feel to be the mother of a 1000 dead'. She instructed her police to make life as hard as possible for us punks {as they liked to call us} and they did, it didn't stop us just made us more politically aware. Check out 'the battle of the beanfield', when going to Stonehenge for summer solstice was made illegal in 1985. Thatchers government really did fear a social revolution and like the governments of the 60's they used the media to ridicule punks like they did with the hippies and the police to harass us. Funny thing now is, more people claim to be punks back in the day then there was and a number of them most likely tried to beat us up as that was a common factor we had to put up with too. One thing for sure it was a great time to be alive.
Hey as a 30 year old dad of two who was part of a punk scene ten years ago local some of us weren’t born yet and can’t help that lol better later than never man
@@honourethefire5794 And PLEASE, HONIURTHEFIRE is a magnificent, powerful, inspiring name/tag/handle. But stop using it, relinquish it so a more worthy saracen can adopt it. Your just too defeated and crushed to be worthy of a magnificent handle like that. If you'd called yourself '"Spitfire' I would have elicited equal disdain and disgust. SPITFIRE... LOOK up what she Means to this nation.
1985 I was introduced to Crass at just age 11 permanently strengthening the ability for self thought and question everything. Too this day I still have every 7"-12" released on Vinyl.
Not sure if anybody has pointed it out yet but that marching tune is the French national anthem, its called the marseillaise which was written for the French revolution.
Remember it well,,, shaved women was the first single I had, still got it, still sounds brilliant, along with all their other stuff,,,BIG LOVE TO ALL,,, XXX
Have a listen to “Sheep farming in the Falklands” by Crass if you think that Crass can be outrageous with their lyrics. Your reactions to Big A little a and Bloody Revolutions are great. You get it 👍🏻
the last line about YEAR ZERO is a reference to the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in April 1975. They declared the past extinct and decided to rebuild a revolutionary Maoist society from scratch overnight, and the start of the new way was declared Year Zero. By Year Four, they had killed off roughly 1/3 of the population.
I've subscribed to your channel, having been a punk(skinhead now) and a Crass fan for over 13 years I enjoyed your reaction to them.. basically this song is saying don't choose revolution because what you're fighting to change will come round again, it revolves you become the very system you're fighting against. Crass were an Anarchist band, the whole history of the band and the house they operated from is amazing but I'm not gonna bore you . Basically for me Crass were life changing, in vegetarian 13 years , anti fascist(life lomg) and I see the system for what it is. It suppresses, crushes, starves and murders and in order for it to gain it's wealth it will stop at nothing. Crass hit harder than any other band because they meant it, it wasn't a fad they were not a scene band they existed as agitators teaching us a different way to think, to live and yo act. Through so many channels of resistance and how you can contribute to making a better life, they are a massively inspirational band, as I said life changing. Take care and stay safe man, there is no authority but yourself. (A)//(E)
Gee that takes me back to highschool days around 1980/1 getting into crass, dead kennedys, clash, pistols, the jam, stiff little fingers, cockney rejects. I’ve still big A little a single, and penis envy on vinyl..never had bloody revolutions, but got a tape from a friend. Still holds up today and has as much meaning. Steve ignorant was the best dinger in crass for sure.
30 years ago I heard in crass on cassette, the feeding of the 5000, the soon I heard it I was like this is what I have been looking for all myl live, huge fan still today
Give Antischism "Take your City Back" a listen. American crass-core over urban gentrification. 30+ years later. Still Life is still one of the most relevant punk albums out there in terms of politics.
i dare you to review Christ's Reality Asylum!! I bought the single in 1979 when it came out, when I was 11 years old. Its a spoken word piece about religion and patriarchy, with Eve Libertine on vocals. It has eerily atimospheric sound effects in the background rather than any actual music and frankly it scared the life out me. I can't say I really understood it back than. It was the first release on their own label, Crass Records. I'd previously bought their 17 track 12-inch single, Feeding of the Five Thousand, and it started with 3 minutes of total silence called the Sound of Free Speech. The workers at the vinyl pressing plant (in Ireland) were so shocked by the lyrical content of Christ's Reality Asylum they refused to press the record unless it was taken off. In order to get the record out, they put it out on their own label, featuring really distinctive artwork and a very DIY punk aesthetic. I bought it on my way home from primary school in a record shop on the Kings Rd in Chelsea. Years later, in my early 30s I was briefly a member of a community choir in North London. One night in the pub after a choir practice I found out that a woman who I used to always chat to called Bron was actually Eve Libertine from Crass. I told her about the shocking effect Christ's Reality Asylum had on my younger self. She instantly started reciting it to me, at point blank range, right there in the pub! That eerie voice that had so spooked me as a kid was now attatched to a physical body, right before my eyes. One of those moments when you feel like time stands still....
I had a record by Crass called How does it feel to be the mother of a thousand dead . About Margaret Thatcher sending British troops to the Falklands in 1982.
They truly were the first truthers of the long time movement that stands against corruption and crimes against humanity. Popcorn worthy for sure these days
Along with the way you interpreted the song, its also very much a song against other communist ideologies such as marxism, leninism, maoism, etc. Crass were anarchists and the biggest difference between anarchism and these other forms of communism is that anarchism doesn't believe in a dictatorship of the proletariat. The other ideologies believe the workers would run the government and state with socialism and the state would slowly dissolve on its own. Anarchism rejects that idea because any kind of power will corrupt and cause someone to just want more and more power. As we saw with the USSR, after Lenin died and Stalin came into power, Stalin became a power hungry dictator (against Lenin's wishes) and that's what they mean when Crass says that Marx's/Mao's ideas are just oppression now.
Can't tell you how much I enjoyed this review mate ! Made my day.Crass!Crass played our community centre and youth club twice in 1981 in a small Cheshire I was 11 they were first band I saw live. No bar so all the kids were allowed in. They mingled the audience before the gig and gave out badges to the kids.I bought this record too and still own it 70p well spent.
Excellent post. We need this more than ever . If you haven't yet, check out other associated bands like The Poison Girla, Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians and Rudimentary Peni. Thanks and I am glad to have found your channel.
Did not expect to see C.R.A.S.S on this channel. Fair play m8. If you are going down that UK Anarcho punk rabbit hole Can I suggest Conflict - The Ungovernable Force Subhumans - Work Rest play Die Culture Shock - I.S.D
Crass changed my life 40 plus years ago. I think/hope they made me a better person. Really glad to say I met Steve Ignorant on his “Last Supper” tour. Absolute gentleman. Crass were 100% genuine. We need more people like them in the world
Wow, tbf when I bought this 7" single as a teenager the lyrics sounded like sloganeering. Nearly 40 years later I understand it all & how they were trying to educate. As someone else has said on here, refreshing to see it still being played by a different generation who hopefully understand it better than me at a young age.
I saw Crass many times even got to know some of them, they changed the way a lot of us thought and lived, They had their own record label and produced a lot of punk records for bands that would never have managed it by themselves. We were lucky enough to put a record out on their label. It is still happening out there and the bands are still playing old and new young and old, all over the world as nothing has changed since the 80's. People say Music will not change anything well Crass changed me.
@@charlesdufranc9708 Hi Charles I was and still am in Anthrax. Had a 25year rest then came back in 2009 with the original line up, not only were we in the band but we were all friends since 8/9 years old, In the studio Saturday mixing the new album.
The art work and statements from the covers are as important as the music. It's still relevant because life has not changed. ANARCHY & PEACE DESTROY POWER NOT PEOPLE
I'm subscribing, And that's to YOU, 'cos of your reaction and acceptance of CRASS & PunK RoCK. And not the Sissy kind ! Real bands with something to say, And Meaning It ! Cool Bro', Keep On Keepin' On ! ... Up Here in the North of England. Peace&Love, Dalc. P.S. You could sample a bit of early NEW MODEL ARMY. Their song 'VENGEANCE' is a good place to start. [shrugs shoulders] I don't know...see what y' think.
Crass at their finest, still totally relevant today..... check out 'The Story of Crass' if its still in print.... a great read & an insight into people that were more than just a 'band' x
Blew my 13 year old mind in 1980... What an inspiration Crass were to me n a generation. Lyrics Still so relevant , now more than ever,as yer man says there.
Holy Cow, never thought I'd see a CRASS reaction...! Well, I think you've caught on why what's called "punk" nowadays really isn't very punk at all. Green Day is a kick-ass rock-n-roll band, but punk? Labels don't define good music, of course. I remember, late 80s, the punk and hardcore scene where I lived fizzled out, and had been for years; I was left wondering where the hell it went. My best friend put on a cassette and out blared N.W.A. Fuck tha Police... Ah, that's where it went!
I love this guy...The adventures of TNT. He's a massive Crass fan, and a lot of other British Punk bands too. He always says that his mind has been poisoned by "Pop Punk" like green day over the years. Would love to take him to a British Crass gig. X
After loving Crass for 44 years, it is so damn good to see someone react like you do to this incredible song. Wonderful. Glad you liked it so much, man!
Yes, brother. Had these songs on my playlists since the 80s, either cassette compilations or other because they are so so powerful and, now, watching you react had tears of mixed emotion in my eyes. Peace.
Crass created there own record lable to distribute there music there were quite a few anarcho punk bands that went on there label,one band in particular you may want to check out is the- poison girls,especially the song - persons unknown,a very powerful song,also -the offending article,after seeing your reaction to bloody revolutions Im sure you will really enjoy these songs.
Fantastic stuff! Keep up the good work. Maybe try listening to Vex. A great three piece from Bexley in London. They used to tour with Conflict, and were on their Fight Back label. They only released the one 12" EP called Sanctuary. A quite underated band, that sounded more like Killing Joke than any other anarcho-punk band from the early 80's. Great guys and good friends.
The singing on the first part is a bit weird at first, sort of like the '3 little girls' form 'The Mikado', the second part, is very heavy with the agony and the radioactive rain, the third, and angry part, is for us to heed the warning. Great track.
Finding this stuff 40 + years back in my early 20's, gave me the same kinda WOW moment that our friend hosting just had. It would be well worth your time checking out 'Sheep Farming In the Falklands', 'Gotcha' & 'Your'e Already Dead '.
 Steve Ignorant - Systamic death](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zNuBqDLqucw/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks for giving Crass a chance.
Give Crass a chance!
Everyone should give them and RUDIMENTARY PENI a chance.
This isn't just punk, this is Anarcho-punk!
Damn right!
Anarchy is great and all, but you can't have that type of revolution, without violence. And, even if you succeed, do you think people are ready for that kind of responsibility?
@Paul Goodman your funny
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@@room2180 exactly what I’ve always thought. Even if it’s non-violent, it would have to be ‘government’ first. And it’ll be called a ‘left wing government’.
To get big muscles, you have to go to the gym. Can’t just imagine being huge and suddenly it happens.
Fuck! it's so good to see someone getting Crass 40 years later, maybe theres still hope.
lol nothings changed
CRASS... is not a band... it's a way of life.
This is Poetry with Punk and Politic, Love them.
Man I can't believe how relavant the lyrics are 40 years later, going to see Crass and listening to there songs and reading the info on the foldout sleeves(which was as important as the music) back in 79-80 changed the way I thought about the world and politics and still do have those views, they were and remain EPIC.
It's scary how worse it is now. We need CRASS more than ever and people to listen to them.
All comments here are spot on.
Crass are unquestionably more relevant now than when they were recording these classics.
You could say they were visionary but the problems they sang about then weren't generational, but still exist on a more frightening level.
@@zenabi1966 It's scary how many punk songs are no longer warnings about the future but now echo as simple truths of today
@@zenabi1966 yesssssss we do
@beesmonkKia Ora hello from Aotearoa New Zealand ✌️👍👏👏👏 peace right back at ya
CRASS. They went out to talk straight and confront accepted morality and accepted social attitudes. They went to war on English society from 1977 to 1984 when they broke up. They recorded and produced their own music, so they answered to no one but themselves. Much of their stuff would not have been recorded if corporations were involved. All members of crass, about 6 or 8 of them, all lived in the same huge farmhouse in Epping Forest, near London. Iv visited the place, and met Crass drummer and founder member and song writer, Penny Rimbaud, and his g/f and Crass member, Eve Libertine. The house Crass all lived in, is actually in a forest!
Beautiful human beings.
You completely get them pal, great to see. Crass absolutely blew my mind in the same way when I first heard them 35 years ago!
Great stuff mate....Crass could change your whole outlook on life,they were much more than a punk band,cheers for this bud...this has brightened my day😉👍.....it is still as relevant today,if not more...
Its great that your loving this btw Maybe a Xmas number ! for XRass
Still stirs me up that. Crass is a state of mind.
Saw Crass for the first time when I was 12 years old in '79 in a tiny community centre in my home city. I managed to 'borrow' one of their banners. It hung on my bedroom wall for a while until I moved house then it sat in my folks attic for 40 years. I posted a pic of it on a Crass group on FB and only found out 'the missing banner' was a thing when I got a message from the drummer Penny Rimbaud calling me a thieving bastard and telling me to shove it up my arse. 😆
They make us choose sides in politics, race, and beliefs. We only win when we stand together against them and tell them we ain't playing their games anymore. "Fight wars not war, destroy power not people".
Your pathetic mate
They don't make us do anything.
You just do what theyv made you believe you should do. Did Boris twist your arm? No! You just thought, 'Boris has given me 2 choices and I must choose one or the other!!!!!! "
Idiot
You had a 3rd choice all the time
Wich was' what's my decision, irrespective of what Boris Karloff, of Frankenstein fame ' wants..........
@@ravenpupski My pathetic mate what?
@@nigelb4809
Don't like a reality dose, do you?
Congratulations. Youv joined the ranks of the dogmatic. Pathetic.
@@ravenpupski and what was your decision?
Crass teach horticulture today, they teach gardening at the exact same house and gardens where they made all these records.
I am very happy to see something like this. Well done man.
Crass are the best punk.
Been on one of penny’s courses he’s a lovely man!
I've never had a chance to visit Dial house.
That would be cool.
🖤
The truth is the truth no matter how old the message is. That song will be just as relevant 10, 30 or 50 years from now. It's all a big game and we're all just pieces on the board.
Me and my mate went to their farm, and sat in awe and wonderment, as our heroes made cup of tea, and did kitchen stuff.
The Crass! I haven't heard say that name in twenty years. Very underground so, of course, underrated.
Thank you for taking them seriously, they changed my life forever back in 1980 and my world view is still the same now thanks to Crass
They changed my life too. Solidarity from Amsterdam...
Kia Ora hello from Aotearoa New Zealand hay these guys ❤ wearing a crass patch or tee shirt here in Aotearoa New Zealand in the eighties and nineties was a really good way to get ya head kicked in by skinheads but here i am 54 years old and I've still got a Mohawk red at the moment and fuck them hater's were are they now? Nowhere to be seen .
I fucking love CRASS
🖤@@heathcornbeef
@@humdingermusic23 right back at ya ✌️🤘👍👏👏👏💥
Same!
Grew up in southern CA.
Your reaction is spot on only 30 years after me, but im old.
Crass we'll be relevant always bought most of thier albums all the anarcho punk bands they produced back in the early 80s I still listen to them like it's the first time I heard them can't say that with any other band
I’m a very old punk rocker that has been involved in the scene for a very long time, promoting shows and events, I like your reaction and see it genuine, reminds me of putting on shows for my 30 years plus and the personal joy I would get when seeing a person’s first experience with it. Puts a smile on my face. Keep up the good work as I see it as good work helping people cross over and become that much more closer together in understanding.
~Cheif Blackdawg
Founder of the World Wide PyratePunx.
My father was in the '80s Orange County punk scene he was also an extra in the independent movie Suburbia they'd cast real punk rock kids not actors the movie free on Tubi. Check out my ReverbNation artist page my father taught me how to play bass guitar the singing came easy to me 😁
This is the first one of these reaction videos I have enjoyed because the laughing at the realization is the same reaction I have listening to crass
POWER CORRUPTS. ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTELY. That's what this song is about.
You got it, great reaction.Crass made an enemy of Mrs Thatcher with their song 'How does it feel to be the mother of a 1000 dead'. She instructed her police to make life as hard as possible for us punks {as they liked to call us} and they did, it didn't stop us just made us more politically aware. Check out 'the battle of the beanfield', when going to Stonehenge for summer solstice was made illegal in 1985. Thatchers government really did fear a social revolution and like the governments of the 60's they used the media to ridicule punks like they did with the hippies and the police to harass us. Funny thing now is, more people claim to be punks back in the day then there was and a number of them most likely tried to beat us up as that was a common factor we had to put up with too. One thing for sure it was a great time to be alive.
40 years late, but welcome to the revolution, Brother.
Hey as a 30 year old dad of two who was part of a punk scene ten years ago local some of us weren’t born yet and can’t help that lol better later than never man
The revolution won't end until oppression and exploitation does. The fight goes on comrades
Revolution will never work haven't you listened to the lyrics
@@honourethefire5794
And PLEASE,
HONIURTHEFIRE
is a magnificent, powerful, inspiring name/tag/handle.
But stop using it, relinquish it so a more worthy saracen can adopt it.
Your just too defeated and crushed to be worthy of a magnificent handle like that.
If you'd called yourself '"Spitfire' I would have elicited equal disdain and disgust.
SPITFIRE...
LOOK up what she Means to this nation.
@@honourethefire5794 I suggest you use the username/tag/handle..
'Titanic'
1985 I was introduced to Crass at just age 11 permanently strengthening the ability for self thought and question everything. Too this day I still have every 7"-12" released on Vinyl.
Crass were my favourite band as a kid. They had a huge influence on me. Nothing like the poodle pop of today.
I used to go and see crass in the late 90s early 80s and I’m going to see them this Sunday 3rd after a 40 year wait!!!!
Not sure if anybody has pointed it out yet but that marching tune is the French national anthem, its called the marseillaise which was written for the French revolution.
Remember it well,,, shaved women was the first single I had, still got it, still sounds brilliant, along with all their other stuff,,,BIG LOVE TO ALL,,, XXX
Seems like you are now ' One of Us'...
Eyes opened, thanks for creating the opportunity for others to see.
Have a listen to “Sheep farming in the Falklands” by Crass if you think that Crass can be outrageous with their lyrics.
Your reactions to Big A little a and Bloody Revolutions are great. You get it 👍🏻
Ah, yes...Sheep Farming in the Falklands will leave you slack-jawed. Not as epic as Bloody Revolutions - a pitiless attack on British imperialism.
the last line about YEAR ZERO is a reference to the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in April 1975. They declared the past extinct and decided to rebuild a revolutionary Maoist society from scratch overnight, and the start of the new way was declared Year Zero. By Year Four, they had killed off roughly 1/3 of the population.
I've subscribed to your channel, having been a punk(skinhead now) and a Crass fan for over 13 years I enjoyed your reaction to them.. basically this song is saying don't choose revolution because what you're fighting to change will come round again, it revolves you become the very system you're fighting against. Crass were an Anarchist band, the whole history of the band and the house they operated from is amazing but I'm not gonna bore you . Basically for me Crass were life changing, in vegetarian 13 years , anti fascist(life lomg) and I see the system for what it is. It suppresses, crushes, starves and murders and in order for it to gain it's wealth it will stop at nothing. Crass hit harder than any other band because they meant it, it wasn't a fad they were not a scene band they existed as agitators teaching us a different way to think, to live and yo act. Through so many channels of resistance and how you can contribute to making a better life, they are a massively inspirational band, as I said life changing. Take care and stay safe man, there is no authority but yourself. (A)//(E)
This is my favourite song of all time. I even have a Crass tramp stamp!
Gee that takes me back to highschool days around 1980/1 getting into crass, dead kennedys, clash, pistols, the jam, stiff little fingers, cockney rejects. I’ve still big A little a single, and penis envy on vinyl..never had bloody revolutions, but got a tape from a friend. Still holds up today and has as much meaning. Steve ignorant was the best dinger in crass for sure.
Circle Jerks got me started but Crass blew the doors wide-open.
Remember buying this vinyl in the 1980's just don't understand the lyrics "I just want anarchy and peace"
30 years ago I heard in crass on cassette, the feeding of the 5000, the soon I heard it I was like this is what I have been looking for all myl live, huge fan still today
Always loved this band. Sadly we're here in 2021 and it's just as relevant.
These punks are real. "They mean it man!"
They didnt know just how mad the world would get ,,,,decades later.
The only choices you have are the choices between things already decided for you by those in power. Yep! still totally relevant today.
Old 30 something punk rocker here. Forgot about Crass, super happy after this reaction.
Give Antischism "Take your City Back" a listen. American crass-core over urban gentrification. 30+ years later. Still Life is still one of the most relevant punk albums out there in terms of politics.
i dare you to review Christ's Reality Asylum!! I bought the single in 1979 when it came out, when I was 11 years old. Its a spoken word piece about religion and patriarchy, with Eve Libertine on vocals. It has eerily atimospheric sound effects in the background rather than any actual music and frankly it scared the life out me. I can't say I really understood it back than. It was the first release on their own label, Crass Records. I'd previously bought their 17 track 12-inch single, Feeding of the Five Thousand, and it started with 3 minutes of total silence called the Sound of Free Speech. The workers at the vinyl pressing plant (in Ireland) were so shocked by the lyrical content of Christ's Reality Asylum they refused to press the record unless it was taken off. In order to get the record out, they put it out on their own label, featuring really distinctive artwork and a very DIY punk aesthetic. I bought it on my way home from primary school in a record shop on the Kings Rd in Chelsea. Years later, in my early 30s I was briefly a member of a community choir in North London. One night in the pub after a choir practice I found out that a woman who I used to always chat to called Bron was actually Eve Libertine from Crass. I told her about the shocking effect Christ's Reality Asylum had on my younger self. She instantly started reciting it to me, at point blank range, right there in the pub! That eerie voice that had so spooked me as a kid was now attatched to a physical body, right before my eyes. One of those moments when you feel like time stands still....
I always love coming back here for your reaction sir.
Brother, your super cool. This was our theme song in 1984. Punk from Toronto.
I won't lie. Saw the thumbnail and thought... A brother finding Crass... YES PLEASE!
Lol these guys are amazing
Huge old school Crass fan here! Glad you enjoy!
I had a record by Crass called How does it feel to be the mother of a thousand dead . About Margaret Thatcher sending British troops to the Falklands in 1982.
Thank you for this! I have been listening to to these guys for 30 years. Never gets old or out of context. Habbenings!! Let's see what habbens!!
They truly were the first truthers of the long time movement that stands against corruption and crimes against humanity. Popcorn worthy for sure these days
Haha this is great. I stumbled here somehow. Ive still got all my old CRASS vinyl ive not heard this in years and forgot all about this one. Cheers.
wow, i am feeling my age right now. this is the stuff i grew up listening to.
Crass, so what, a masterpiece of lyrics in this track
Along with the way you interpreted the song, its also very much a song against other communist ideologies such as marxism, leninism, maoism, etc.
Crass were anarchists and the biggest difference between anarchism and these other forms of communism is that anarchism doesn't believe in a dictatorship of the proletariat. The other ideologies believe the workers would run the government and state with socialism and the state would slowly dissolve on its own. Anarchism rejects that idea because any kind of power will corrupt and cause someone to just want more and more power. As we saw with the USSR, after Lenin died and Stalin came into power, Stalin became a power hungry dictator (against Lenin's wishes) and that's what they mean when Crass says that Marx's/Mao's ideas are just oppression now.
Reality Asylum and 'Where next Columbus?' are great crass songs as well
Crass are very intelligent in their philosophy
My favorite Crass songs are You've Got Big Hands, So What, Shaved Women, Nagasaki Nightmare, General Bacardi, and Do They Owe Us A Living
Bata Motel is GOAT'd
One of my all-time favorite songs by Crass is:
'I Know There Is Love',
From
Christ, The Album.
🖤🤓
Can't tell you how much I enjoyed this review mate ! Made my day.Crass!Crass played our community centre and youth club twice in 1981 in a small Cheshire I was 11 they were first band I saw live. No bar so all the kids were allowed in. They mingled the audience before the gig and gave out badges to the kids.I bought this record too and still own it 70p well spent.
Excellent post. We need this more than ever . If you haven't yet, check out other associated bands like The Poison Girla, Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians and Rudimentary Peni. Thanks and I am glad to have found your channel.
You understood that song totally. All the best.
The B side to this single is Poison Girls - Persons Unknown thats a great track as well
Did not expect to see C.R.A.S.S on this channel. Fair play m8. If you are going down that UK Anarcho punk rabbit hole Can I suggest
Conflict - The Ungovernable Force
Subhumans - Work Rest play Die
Culture Shock - I.S.D
On the back of this, zounds, poison girls and flux of pink indians you will also really like
Work rest play die was my jam back in the day!
@@joedivision7148 When the system has you beaten even tho you haven't eaten
@@Disco_Breakin cus you cant afford to eat or drink to keep your brain alive
Crass changed my life 40 plus years ago. I think/hope they made me a better person. Really glad to say I met Steve Ignorant on his “Last Supper” tour. Absolute gentleman. Crass were 100% genuine. We need more people like them in the world
man, crass and you are so right in what you arwe saying
Awesome to see someone turned on to crass! More that do, the better the world can be..
So glad you enjoy CRASS
Crass is so relevant.
Thank you for this video. I’m in my 30s now but heard this back when I was 17 and still hold to the philosophy of this song today.
Another Crass song “Shaved Women”
More Crass!!!!! Eatenbyghouls where you at. Maybe some Joy De Vivre.
Yup you get it. This was great. Record from 40 years ago still sounds amazing
Thanks bro for experiencing real music
Crass' "They've Got Big Hands" was one of the first harder-edged punk tracks I heard. Listen to that one, and you'll certainly remember the chorus.
Yeah, Crass Big Hands is a great tune. White Punks on Hope. Then slide on over into a few CONFLICT cuts... 'This is the ALF'
We were very careful with our Crass stencils in the 80’s
Wow, tbf when I bought this 7" single as a teenager the lyrics sounded like sloganeering.
Nearly 40 years later I understand it all & how they were trying to educate.
As someone else has said on here, refreshing to see it still being played by a different generation who hopefully understand it better than me at a young age.
I saw Crass many times even got to know some of them, they changed the way a lot of us thought and lived, They had their own record label and produced a lot of punk records for bands that would never have managed it by themselves. We were lucky enough to put a record out on their label. It is still happening out there and the bands are still playing old and new young and old, all over the world as nothing has changed since the 80's. People say Music will not change anything well Crass changed me.
Hi what was your band's name if I may ask?
@@charlesdufranc9708 Hi Charles I was and still am in Anthrax. Had a 25year rest then came back in 2009 with the original line up, not only were we in the band but we were all friends since 8/9 years old, In the studio Saturday mixing the new album.
@@gorty43 Thank you for your answer, I'm on your music now. Great hardcore anarcho style.
@@charlesdufranc9708 Hi have a look at our record label Grow your own records lots of up to date stuff on there from bands playing now,
F you’re Amazing for reacting to Crass .✌🏽💗
The art work and statements from the covers are as important as the music. It's still relevant because life has not changed.
ANARCHY & PEACE
DESTROY POWER
NOT PEOPLE
By far my favourite Crass song. Both musically and lyrically.
I'm subscribing, And that's to YOU, 'cos of your reaction and acceptance of CRASS & PunK RoCK. And not the Sissy kind ! Real bands with something to say, And Meaning It ! Cool Bro', Keep On Keepin' On ! ... Up Here in the North of England. Peace&Love, Dalc. P.S. You could sample a bit of early NEW MODEL ARMY. Their song 'VENGEANCE' is a good place to start. [shrugs shoulders] I don't know...see what y' think.
The Hunt, or 51st State, surely
First time I heard this in 1985 it blew my head off. Probably the most memorable lyric of the 80s for me, to be honest.
Same adventure I had when first heard these...blows your mind 😎
Still one of my favourie bands .seen them 6 times 79/80 .more relevant now ..
old punk music is so good at awakening
Crass at their finest, still totally relevant today..... check out 'The Story of Crass' if its still in print.... a great read & an insight into people that were more than just a 'band' x
Good book
I have a copy. Very interesting read.
Blew my 13 year old mind in 1980... What an inspiration Crass were to me n a generation. Lyrics Still so relevant , now more than ever,as yer man says there.
Holy Cow, never thought I'd see a CRASS reaction...! Well, I think you've caught on why what's called "punk" nowadays really isn't very punk at all. Green Day is a kick-ass rock-n-roll band, but punk? Labels don't define good music, of course. I remember, late 80s, the punk and hardcore scene where I lived fizzled out, and had been for years; I was left wondering where the hell it went. My best friend put on a cassette and out blared N.W.A. Fuck tha Police... Ah, that's where it went!
I love this guy...The adventures of TNT. He's a massive Crass fan, and a lot of other British Punk bands too. He always says that his mind has been poisoned by "Pop Punk" like green day over the years. Would love to take him to a British Crass gig. X
After loving Crass for 44 years, it is so damn good to see someone react like you do to this incredible song. Wonderful. Glad you liked it so much, man!
I've been waiting for people to get Crass xx
Still as good as it ever was. Listening to this when I was sixteen and still am. Glad you liked it. You got good taste ❤️
You need to do Crass - Do they owe us a living?
Yes, brother. Had these songs on my playlists since the 80s, either cassette compilations or other because they are so so powerful and, now, watching you react had tears of mixed emotion in my eyes.
Peace.
Crass created there own record lable to distribute there music there were quite a few anarcho punk bands that went on there label,one band in particular you may want to check out is the- poison girls,especially the song - persons unknown,a very powerful song,also -the offending article,after seeing your reaction to bloody revolutions Im sure you will really enjoy these songs.
I am so glad you listened to this song! Crass is an incredible band. Check out Penis Envy, it's a mindblowing album.
Fantastic stuff! Keep up the good work.
Maybe try listening to Vex. A great three piece from Bexley in London. They used to tour with Conflict, and were on their Fight Back label. They only released the one 12" EP called Sanctuary. A quite underated band, that sounded more like Killing Joke than any other anarcho-punk band from the early 80's. Great guys and good friends.
if you want a really impactul Crass song, react to "nagasaki nightmare", still blows my mind everytime i listen to it
The singing on the first part is a bit weird at first, sort of like the '3 little girls' form 'The Mikado', the second part, is very heavy with the agony and the radioactive rain, the third, and angry part, is for us to heed the warning. Great track.
Finding this stuff 40 + years back in my early 20's, gave me the same kinda WOW moment that our friend hosting just had. It would be well worth your time checking out 'Sheep Farming In the Falklands', 'Gotcha' & 'Your'e Already Dead '.
Old Crasshole here dude, I'm glad you enjoyed it
I saw them in a small club it blows and the people who love the lead singer like lead singer of Rolling Stones and lot celebrity
Seems this song is just as relevant as the first time I heard it in1993. More so even.
Mad magazine & punk rock shaped my political views. Good to see people getting into crass!