The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks
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anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
band Flux Of Pink Indians
Flux Of Pink Indians
Flux of Pink Indians were an English anarcho-punk/post punk band, that originated from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.-Biography:...
. It was released as a double album on the band's own Spiderleg Records
Spiderleg Records
Spiderleg Records was an independent record label founded by UK anarcho-punk band Flux Of Pink Indians in 1981.The band set up the label after releasing their first EP on the Crass Records label, which both taught them the skills necessary to run such a project and provided them with the seed cash...
in 1984 as the follow-up to their debut, Strive to Survive Causing the Least Suffering Possible
Strive to Survive Causing the Least Suffering Possible
Strive To Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible is an album by the anarchist punk band Flux Of Pink Indians. The later CD reissue also includes the band's Neu Smell EP as five additional tracks, though in an incorrect track order and listing....
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The album was banned by retailers HMV
HMV
His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...
. Under the direction of James Anderton
James Anderton
Sir Cyril James Anderton CBE is a British former police officer who served as Chief Constable of Greater Manchester from 1975 to 1991.-Career:...
copies were seized, along with other records by 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...
and The Dead Kennedys, by Greater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Police
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from Eastern Bloc record shop. Frank Schofield was charged with displaying "Obscene Articles For Publication For Gain". The album's lyrical content, ironically, concerned violence between men and women, based on the experiences of a band member who had been sexually assaulted. The title was a Dada-style ploy to get attention for this social message. The band, its two record labels and its publishing company were also charged under the Obscene Publications Act, but all charges were dropped. See interview at: http://www.operationphoenixrecords.com/mrrissue64-8FluxInterviewFluxofPinkIndians.pdf
The album also featured artwork by 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...
guitarist Andy Palmer
N. A. Palmer
N. A. Palmer is a British musician and artist, most well known as rhythm guitarist for anarcho punk band Crass.- Crass :He joined the band in 1977 and plays on all their albums and singles...
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Tracklist
- Punk
- Mind Fuckers Fucking Minds
- Hard Sell
- Love Song
- Mickey Tuneoil
- Desire
- Blood Lust Rite
- The Falklands War
- Punk
- Life We Make
- Trouble at the Heart
- The Sun
- Shadow of Abuse
- Very Funny
- Cure for the Coprlite