“The Feeding Of The 5000” by Crass - album review

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TJR says

Crass were just a name on the back of leather jackets – I was just too young to get them first time around – but I tend to eventually gravitate towards such bands who have held a curious interest for me over a long period of time. Their full-length debut was a spiky 18 song affair, 32 minutes of throaty vitriol, just what I expected really, not all that, but not half bad in places. Top track “They’ve Got A Bomb” goes against the grain somewhat, clocking in at almost four minutes, but has a period of silence within it, inspired by John Cage’s “4’33″”. The band have acknowledged the influence of Cage, and said that the idea of the space in the song, when performed live, was to suddenly stop the energy, dancing and noise and allow the audience to momentarily “confront themselves” and consider the reality of nuclear war. Crass’s message is as relevant today as it was then.

The Jukebox Rebel
28–Aug–2016

Tracklist
A1 [02:06] 0.0.png Crass - The Sound Of Free Speech (n-a) Avant-Garde
A2 [01:24] 7.7.png Crass - Do They Owe Us A Living? (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A3 [02:04] 6.7.png Crass - End Result (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A4 [03:48] 8.0.png Crass - They’ve Got A Bomb (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A5 [01:48] 7.0.png Crass - Punk Is Dead (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A6 [01:08] 6.6.png Crass - Reject Of Society (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A7 [00:59] 6.4.png Crass - General Bacardi (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A8 [02:14] 5.9.png Crass - Banned From The Roxy (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
A9 [00:36] 5.4.png Crass - G’s Song (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B1 [00:42] 4.0.png Crass - Fight War, Not Wars (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B2 [01:15] 4.5.png Crass - Women (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright, Bronwyn Lloyd Jones) Avant-Garde
B3 [02:28] 4.6.png Crass - Securicor (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B4 [01:38] 4.7.png Crass - Sucks (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B5 [01:44] 4.8.png Crass - You Pay (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B6 [02:08] 5.3.png Crass - Angels (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B7 [01:11] 5.8.png Crass - What A Shame (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B8 [03:05] 6.5.png Crass - So What (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk
B9 [01:32] 7.6.png Crass - Well?…Do They? (Steven Williams, Jeremy Ratter, Phil Clancey, Andrew Palmer, Peter Wright) Punk

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