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Never a mere rock group, Crass was a collective of sorts, with a political agenda and an artistic unity of vision. FEEDING OF THE 5000 is a welcome reissue of Crass's first album, originally released in 1978. While the songs here are perhaps not the most mature of Penny Rimbaud, Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine and the gang's oeuvre, they are nevertheless focused and energy-filled.
Crass's targets here include the Church, the media, the government, and punk rock itself which it declares to be dead. The recording is raw and energetic. The band lays down riff after riff without even pausing to tune its instruments. The resulting music sounds very good, in a very subversive way. Here, Crass strips punk down to a new, revitalizing level; this sound would become their trademark. While the message, not the music, is perhaps the band's greatest concern, the songs on FEEDING OF THE 5000 stand on their own and represent an interesting point in the early history of DIY punk.
Live Recording
Personnel: Pete Wright, Steve Ignorant (vocals); Phil Free (guitar, background vocals); Penny Rimbaud (drums); N.A. Palmer (background vocals).
Recording information: Southern Studios, London, England (10/29/1978).
Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #27 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums". Feeding Of The 5000 Music Crass Feeding Of The 5000 Songs | 1. | Asylum |
| 2. | Do They Owe Us a Living? |
| 3. | End Result |
| 4. | They've Got a Bomb |
| 5. | Punk Is Dead |
| 6. | Reject of Society |
| 7. | General Bacardi |
| 8. | Banned from the Roxy |
| 9. | G's Song |
| 10. | Fight War, Not Wars |
| 11. | Women |
| 12. | Securicor |
| 13. | Sucks |
| 14. | You Pay |
| 15. | Angels |
| 16. | What a Shame |
| 17. | So What |
| 18. | Well?...Do They? |
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Feeding Of The 5000 Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   I tried...
I bought this album because I had heard of Crass for a long time, and a lot of bands I like list them as a heavy influence. That said, I can't say that I enjoyed this album too much from a musical point of view. The politcs are along my lines, and the music can be good, but I kept waiting for the part in every song where they would up it a notch and really start kicking ass, and it never came.
Submitted by Tom (Windsor, ON, Canada)
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 The best UK anarchist peace punk out there.
This is the record that burried the corporate punk rock of "Should I Stay or Should I Go" and "God Save the Queen." Crass is one those bands not afraid to say it like it is. Biting sarcasm, highly critical of national pride, war, sexism, and government, this album mynever be officially listed as a gold record, but it went gold yeas ago. The singing is bitter but honest, and it is in true 1976 punk rock quality. The music is staccato and the drums almost military-esque, but is still very likeable. Before MTV, before corporate punk rock, we all had crass to claim "Punk is Dead" and call for something new already. If you like UK punk, Roots punk, and/ or Anarchist punk, then this is THE seminal record you should buy. It doesn't get much better than this.
Submitted by Andrew (Cincinnati, OH USA)
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OH YEAH!
This is the debut by Crass. Their best songs are "Do They Owe Us A Living?", "Punk Is Dead", and also "Reality Asylum" are the best songs off this record. I had this record since I went to high school or college.
Submitted by bigfat (Long Island, NY USA)
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