Christ – The Album is Crass

Crass

Crass are an English punk rock band that was formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, way of living, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularised the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism...

' fourth album, released in 1982. It was released as a boxed set double vinyl LP package, including one disk of new studio material and another, entitled Well Forked.. but not dead, featuring a live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club

100 Club

The 100 Club is a music venue in London situated at 100 Oxford Street, W1, originally called The Feldman Swing Club.The 100 Club attained legendary status in modern British music, having played host to live music since 24 October 1942....

 in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 along with other studio tracks, demos and tape fragments.

The album also included a book, A Series Of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums (which featured Penny Rimbaud

Penny Rimbaud

Jeremy John Ratter , better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977.-Biography:Rimbaud Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943,...

's essay The Last of the Hippies http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/text/09438a.html, telling the story of the suspicious death of his friend Wally Hope

Wally Hope

Wally Hope was a name by which Phillip Russell was known.Phil was a visionary and a free-thinker, whose life has had a profound influence on many in the culture of the UK Underground and beyond...

) and a large size poster painted by Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher is a visual artist who was born in 1945 in Dagenham, East London.Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was seminal to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change. In her collection of early works Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist...

.

The album took over a year to record, produce and mix, during which time the Falklands War

Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 had taken place. This caused Crass to fundamentally question their approach to making records, for as a group whose very reason for existing was to comment upon political issues, they felt they had been overtaken and made to appear redundant by real world events.

Subsequent releases, including the singles "How does it Feel to Be the Mother of A Thousand Dead" and "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" and the album Yes Sir, I Will

Yes Sir, I Will

Yes Sir, I Will, released by Crass in 1983 , was the band's last 'official' album. The record consists of one continuous piece of music spread over the two sides of the original vinyl release , making it the longest punk song ever recorded, although this is intercut with two brief interludes; a...

saw the band strip their sound 'back to basics' and were issued as 'tactical responses' to political situations.

Re-releases of the album bear the line "With love to Steve Herman who died on the 4th of February 1989" on the back cover. Steve Herman was Crass' guitar player during their first few months.

The 'Crassical Collection' version of this release, including new artwork by Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher is a visual artist who was born in 1945 in Dagenham, East London.Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was seminal to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change. In her collection of early works Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist...

, remastered sound, liner notes by Steve Ignorant

Steve Ignorant

Steve Ignorant is a singer and artist. He co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass with Penny Rimbaud in 1977. After Crass stopped performing in 1984, he has worked with other groups including Conflict, Schwartzeneggar, The Stratford Mercenaries, Current 93 , US punk band Thought Crime, as well as...

 and Penny Rimbaud

Penny Rimbaud

Jeremy John Ratter , better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977.-Biography:Rimbaud Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943,...

, and bonus material, was released May 2011. It does not contain the original album cover or any of the material from the 'Series Of Shock Slogans' booklet.

Studio Tracks (Christ - The Album)

1. "Have a Nice Day"
2. "Mother Love"
3. "Nineteen Eighty Bore"
4. "I Know There Is Love"
5. "Beg Your Pardon"
6. "Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll"
7. "Reality Whitewash"
8. "It's The Greatest Working Class Ripoff"
9. "Deadhead"
10. "You Can Be Who?"
11. "Buy Now Pay As You Go"
12. "Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (pt 2)"
13. "Bumhooler"
14. "Sentiment (White Feathers)"
15. "Major General Despair"
16. "Have a Nice Day"*
17. "Mother Love"*
18. "Buy Now Pay As You Go"*
19. "Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll"*
20. "You Can Be Who?"*
21. "Reality Whitewash"*
22. "The Greatest Working Class Rip-Off"*

• Out-takes included on the Crassical Collection rerelease.

Live Tracks (Well forked - but not dead)

1. "Banned from the Roxy"
2. "The Sound of One Hand" (titled "One Hand..." on the 2011 remaster)
3. "Punk is Dead"
4. "Nagasaki Nightmare"
5. "Darling"
6. "Bata Motel Blues" (titled "Kind of Who" on the 2011 remaster)
7. "Berkertex Bribe"
8. "Fold It in Half"
9. "Big Hands" (titled "Tony's Big Hands" on the 2011 remaster)
10. "Heart-throb of the Mortuary" (demo) - included as part of track 9 on the 2011 remaster.
11. "Bumhooler"
12. "Big A Little a"
13. "First Woman"
14. "Arlington 73"
15. "Bomb plus Bomb Tape"
16. "Contaminational Power"
17. "I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick"
18. "G's Song"
19. "Securicor"
20. "I Can't Stand It" (demo)
21. "Shaved Women"
22. "A Part of Life" (titled "Not Apart" on the 2011 remaster)
23. "Do They Owe Us a Living"?
24. "So What"?
25. "Salt 'n' Pepper"

Personnel

• Joy De Vivre
  Joy De Vivre
  Joy De Vivre was the second female singer of the anarcho-punk band Crass. She was also one of two lead singers on the Crass album Penis Envy in 1981. She studied at Colchester Arts School, where she met Andy Palmer....
  
   - Vocals
• Steve Ignorant
  Steve Ignorant
  Steve Ignorant is a singer and artist. He co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass with Penny Rimbaud in 1977. After Crass stopped performing in 1984, he has worked with other groups including Conflict, Schwartzeneggar, The Stratford Mercenaries, Current 93 , US punk band Thought Crime, as well as...
  
   - Vocals
• Peeve Libido
  Eve Libertine
  Eve Libertine is a British singer.She was one of the two female vocalists who worked with the influential British anarcho-punk band Crass...
  
   - Vocals
• Phil Free - Synthesizer, Guitar
• $ri Hari Nana B.A. - Rhythm sitar
• Sybil Right
  Pete Wright (musician)
  Peter Wright, better known as Pete Wright, was bass guitar player and vocalist for anarchist punk band Crass from 1977 until 1984. Occasionally he is credited as Pete Wrong on the bands' record covers. After the dissolution of Crass he formed the performance art duo Judas 2.-References:...
  
   - Bass
• Paul Ellis - Strings
• Elvis Rimbaud
  Penny Rimbaud
  Jeremy John Ratter , better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977.-Biography:Rimbaud Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943,...
  
  - Drums, Radio
• Steve Herman - Guitar (on the two demos on 'Well Forked')
• Jean Paul Marat - Liner Notes