![]() | The Feeding of the 5000 by Crass
Buy used from: £16.66 Life-changing album if ever there was one. This is where it all started and an absolute must.
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![]() | Stations of the Crass by Crass
Buy used from: £38.90 Blistering follow-up to their earlier release. Contains many fan favourites - particularly "I Ain't Think, It's Just a Trick!"
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![]() | Penis Envy by Crass
Buy used from: £23.95 Perhaps the pinnacle of music and politics in this absolute blinder of an album. All-female vocals with my all-time favourite "Where Next Columbus."
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![]() | Christ the Album by Crass
Buy used from: £23.95 The beginning of a departure in sound, incorporating much of Rimbaud's earlier Avant-Garde influences. Some superbly challenging tracks nevertheless. The second disc is quirky but quality.
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![]() | Yes Sir, I Will by Crass
Buy used from: £10.99 Some tend to knock this as a the final move into Avant-Garde but I absolutely love this. The intensity of the politics is spellbinding. One for dedicated fans but not novices.
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![]() | Acts of Love [CASSETTE] by Penny Rimbaud & Eve Libertine
I must confess this is a final step over the edge into Avant-Garde EXIT stuff for me. Unfortunately I only have this on vinyl but it emphasises the hippie origins of the band. For die-hards only.
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![]() | 10 Notes on a Summer's Day by Crass
Buy used from: £15.75 Again, like Acts of Love, this is the poetry of Rimbaud set to free-flow jazz. It has actually grown on me but it is definitively not punk. Sounds quite similar to the Ex; a gentle"beautiful frenzy."
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![]() | Best Before 1984 by Crass
Buy used from: £28.68 Collates their EPs and Singles. All the sing-a-long classics on here: "Bloody Revolutions", "Big A, Little a" and "Rival Tribal Revel Revel" among others.
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![]() | Christ the Bootleg by Crass
Gives those of us who weren't around then a brief insight into the live machinations of the band. Mixed quality of recording but a great sample of songs.
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![]() | You'll Ruin It for Everyone by Crass
Buy used from: £14.44 A live album plagued by rabble-rousing violence among the Scottish punks. Good quality and worth its salt.
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![]() | Shibboleth: My Revolting Life by Penny Rimbaud
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £7.94 Rimaud's stylistic take on the whole legend of Crass. Interesting and well-written, but lacks the depth and questioning of Berger's book.
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![]() | The Story of "Crass" by George Berger
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £4.33 Great and interesting read and peels behind the layers of the Crass legend. Very few people I haven't lent this book at some point. Very few.
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![]() | The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980 to 1984 by Ian Glasper
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £10.00 Has a small section on Crass, but conveys the massive impact they had. Just about all the bands said "I liked punk, then heard Crass... and it was never the same again." I know what they mean!
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![]() | Love Songs Crass by "Crass"
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £8.06 All the lyrics and respective composers in this book. Worth having for Rimbaud's introduction as although he is sometimes hard going, he is always worth reading!
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![]() | The Day The Country Died [2007] [DVD] by Various
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £9.99 Bit of a disappointment and has been superseded by "There Is No Authority But Yourself" but is worth a view at least once.
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![]() | Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance by George McKay
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £13.49 Contains a chapter on the impact of Crass. Largely redundant due to the detail on Wikipedia of all things, but one for the diehards.
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![]() | Sense of Solitude by Stratford Mercenaries
Buy used from: £6.74 What Steve did next (well, after Schwartzeneggar). It's alright, but doesn't have anywhere near the same punch as Crass.
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![]() | No Sighing Strains of Violins by Stratford Mercenaries
Buy new: £9.29 / Used from: £4.43 As above.
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![]() | The Death of Imagination by Penny Rimbaud
Buy new: £18.09 Picks up where the Avant-Garde stuff left off. I do love this album though, not politically savvy but inspiring!
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![]() | Penny Rimbaud's How? by Crass Agenda
Buy used from: £36.83 Similar in style and sound to the free-form poetic ramblings of late-Crass and Rimabud/Eve Libertine work (Skating the Side of Violence). It's a grower, not a show-er. The opposite of punk though.
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![]() | Savage Utopia by Crass Agenda
Buy new: £13.98 / Used from: £11.85 The Diamond Signature (Rimbaud's other book) put to music at a live performance. My advice is to listen alongside the book. It helps.
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![]() | Crass Art and Other Pre-postmodernist Monsters by Gee Vaucher
Buy used from: £75.00 You'll be lucky to grab a copy of this, but it contains other similar collage-confronation work of the Crass artist. Provocative and better than Banksy (ish...!).
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![]() | The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance by Penny Rimbaud
Recalls the demise of Wally Hope and Pen's life before it all went black (pardon the pun). Ever heard the Levellers' "Beanfield?" Remember Wally Hope!
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![]() | The Diamond Signature: A Novel in Four Books by Penny Rimbaud
Buy new: £7.16 / Used from: £3.10 Companion book to the aforementioned Avant-Garde performance. Experimental, and very '60s but links the beat-poets to the punks in a roundabout way.
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![]() | 12 Crass Songs by Jeffrey Lewis
Buy new: £10.08 / Used from: £7.05 Anti-folk anarcho-legend Jeffrey Lewis showing his punk colours. I prefer "It's the One's Who've Cracked" but it's not Crass. Listen to everything he's done. Honestly. Do it.
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