Crass
Crass - Best Before 1984 - Import CD
Crass - Best Before 1984 - Import CD
CD
Rock
Punk/New Wave
17 maggio 2019
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Catalog No.: CCCD007
JAN/ISBN: 5016958094270
Number of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: Import
Credits:
Crass
Description:
Serving as the final Crass album ever, Best Before collects the band's many singles and some rarities into a convenient collection. It covers everything from its first single, "Do They Owe Us a Living?," to a version of that song that concluded the group's final show ever at a benefit for Welsh miners in 1984, with a series of shockingly good high points in between. Generally avoiding the inclusion of their single tracks on albums so as to avoid ripping off the fans, as well as allowing for more immediate responses to outside situations, Crass made the pointed, questioning protest song its own work of art, avoiding easy answers as they went. While the earliest tracks show the band as little more than loud, thinly recorded and somewhat run-of-the-mill punk with an ear for a focused rant or two, by the time the harrowing "Reality Asylum" was composed in 1979, Crass had a much more individual approach going. The song, with what sounds like De Vivre handling the blunt, anti-Christian spoken word vocals, mixes musique concrete and found-sound snippets with spacious, echoing elements and low, strange drones. A more individual approach to what "punk" was supposed to be couldn't easily be found. There are straightforward full-band eruptions that don't stop: the astonishing rip on the political hypocrisy of bands like the Clash, "Bloody Revolutions," or "Sheep Farming in the Falklands," appearing in both extant versions and packaging a revulsion of the war there into an obscenely articulate blast. Other more avant-garde tracks as "Shaved Women" and the scabrous "Nagasaki Nightmare" find them experimenting all the more. Besides all the lyrics, the lengthy booklet contains an impassioned band autobiography that details the group's goals and hopes, their successes, and sometimes cruel failures. As an overview and as an example of politicized music taken to its fullest extent, Best Before remains a worthy, unique release. ~ Ned Raggett
Tracklisting:
1.Thread 1
2.Reality Asylum
3.Shaved Women
4.Thread 2
5.Bloody Revolutions
6.Thread 3
7.Nagasaki Nightmare
8.Big A, Little A
9.Thread 4
10.Rival Tribal Rebel Revel
11.Thread 5
12.Sheep Farming in the Falklands [Flexi]
13.Thread 6
14.Rocky Eyed
15.How Does It Feel?
16.The Immortal Death
17.Don't Tell Me You Care
18.Rocky Eyed, Pt. 2
19.Sheep Farming in the Falklands
20.Gotcha
21.Thread 7
22.You're Already Dead
23.Nagasaki Is Yesterday's Dogend
24.Don't Get Caught
25.Smash the Mac
26.Thread 8
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