Track Listing

1. Bata Motel
2. Systematic Death
3. Poison In A Pretty Pill
4. What The Fuck
5. Where Next Columbus
6. Berkertex Bribe
7. Smother Love
8. Health Surface
9. Dry Weather
10. Untitled

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125704 in Music
• Released on: 1999-05-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
On their third album, the British anarcho-punk band Crass proved they weren't just another macho hardcore group by turning the vocals over to Joy De Vivre and Eve Libertine. The women spew anti-sexist screeds in front of more complex arrangements than the band was known for. Angrier and more thought-provoking than on previous albums, the band uses the freshlineup to break free of musical orthodoxy as well, avoidingtypical punk structure in favor of off-kilter arrangements.In its political content, high spirits, and musical adventurism, PENIS ENVY predicted the early '90s Riot Grrl movementby a decade. Songs like "Bata Motel" take aim at standards of beauty and society's interpretations of femininity, and "Poison in a Pretty Pill" takes a scalpel to conventional sexuality with precise language.

Customer Reviews

Crass at their most musical
This is the most all-round listenable Crass album. Being all female vocals and with a feminist theme, it's different to anything else they've done but still definately Crass. Although Crass have never been about music, this is one that might turn your freinds on to them.

If i had to choose only one Crass album it would be a difficult choice between this and Stations Of The Crass, but taking 'listenability' into account, it would be this one.

CRASS with female vocals.
Not one of their best but still a good album with a few catchy numbers.Best song Where next Columbus?.Cant beat some original punk now and again.