Crass's lyrics....what a bundle of laughs
they were !!!!
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at the words to 'White Punks on Hope'..."
They said that we were trash, well the name is Crass not
Clash. They can stuff their punk credentials cause it's
them that takes the cash. They won't change nothing with
their fashionable talk, their RAR badges and their
protest walk, thousands of white men standing in a park,
objecting to racism's like a candle in the dark. Black
man's got his problems and his way to deal with
it...." Sums Crass up.
They slam violent protest etc but the black mans answer
was ( and in my view legitimate) the Notting Hill riots.
Why do they separate out the black man from us ?? In
their utopian society are we not going to co-exist ?
For all their faults at least The Clash made a difference
to peoples lives with music. Crass gave us nothing but
hot air and in a world of politicians there was never any
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| I don't hate Crass
in fact I still play tracks like 'Shaved Women', 'Bloody Revolutions', 'Berketex Bride', 'Gasman Cometh 'and 'Do
they Owe Us A Livin' and enjoy them but take them
seriously... I don't think so. Rock'n'Roll don't
change sod all ! It just came into my head tho an
event in Rock'n'Roll that did make people think and
react. Remember Queen playing in Brazil to massive
hundreds of thousand audience. They started playing 'I Want To Break
Free' and Freddie Mercury came on in drag
and the crowd rioted. They thought he was taking the
piss coz they revered that song as a symbol of freedom
for the downtrodden in a continent overrun with dictators.
Now That is real life not Crass singing 'Banned from The
Roxy'......Puts it all into context . What were Crass...
just another name on the back of a jacket.... preaching
to their converted.... file them along with Sham 69. Back
then and even more so now I don't need someone telling me
how to live my life .... and the day I believe something
on a record I'll have shit for brains.
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