| By the time
these funsters came punk was already being sidelined. It had run out of
steam, and the cry was going up 'Punks not dead' You have to say Crass
managed to fracture it more. To
the anything goes, imagination and the colour of punk they
gave us black clothes with rigid austere stencilled
slogans. To the vibrant record sleeves they gave us...
yep more black and white sleeves with yep more stencilled
slogans and grim collages.
Religion, meat
eaters, marriage, politics, war all received the benefit
of their wisdom..... worse than this they spawned
imitators who also made our lives misery.
And
what did Crass achieve.... fuck all... they preached to the converted with their uncompromising stance and yet for one
brief minute had a chance of influencing people when the
single Bloody Revolutions
was going to be on the TV music programme Top Of The
Pops. I wanted it to be on.... out of curiosity.... you
know the same sort of thing when you throw an aerosol can
into a bonfire just to see if it explodes. And what was
the song about ... an 8 minute diatribe in the tradition
of Led Zeppelin's
Stairway To Heaven against
revolutionary Marxists... Wow tell 'em like it is Crass.
Another Crass target was
religion... ooh pick a hard one. They chose all the
white targets that don't fight back... in our multi
ethnic society of which they were trying to forge a new
society notice they missed out Islam and other cultures
coz those cultures don't take kindly to it and tend to
respond with equal fanaticism. Or more likely the right
on Crass didn't want to be perceived as racist. How can such an overtly political group miss out
such a large but integral section of our population ?
.... Why .. coz they talked a load of bollocks !
Anarchy and peace my arse!
|
Crass's
Shaved Women ...its a great poster for livening up your
bedroom.
From
their smash hit 'Bloody Revolutions' |
