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Description
Rather than easing into their message, 'Stations of the Crass' captures Crass at their most confrontational and uncompromising. Originally released in 1979, the album sharpened the band’s anarcho-punk ethos into a blistering mix of raw sound, political urgency, and DIY fury. Studio tracks like “System,” “Hurry Up Garry,” and “Crutch of Society” deliver fast, abrasive blasts of social commentary, while shifting vocal performances from Eve Libertine, Joy De Vivre, and Pete Wright give the record a dynamic, communal intensity. The production is intentionally stark and immediate—every jagged guitar line, shouted phrase, and rhythmic collapse serves the band’s mission to reject complacency and expose hypocrisy.
The album's second half, recorded live at the Pied Bull in Islington, captures the chaotic electricity of Crass in their natural environment. These performances showcase the collective’s ability to turn political protest into cathartic noise, with classics like “Banned from the Roxy,” “Women,” and “Do They Owe Us a Living?” delivered with feral urgency. 'Stations of the Crass' remains one of the defining statements of anarcho-punk: a fierce, unpolished, and unrelenting document of a band using sound as a weapon—and refusing to compromise.
Tracklist
- Mother Earth
- White Punks on Hope
- You've Got Big Hands
- Darling
- System
- Big Man, Big M.A.N.
- Hurry Up Garry
- Fun Going On
- Crutch of Society
- Heard Too Much About
- Chairman of the Bored
- Tired
- Walls
- Upright Citizen
- The Gasman Cometh
- Demoncrats
- Contaminational Power
- Time Out
- I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick
- Prime Sinister
- System (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Big Man, Big M.A.N. (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Banned from the Roxy (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Hurry Up Garry (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Time Out (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- They've Got a Bomb (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Fight War, Not Wars (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Women (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Shaved Women (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- You Pay (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Heard Too Much About (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Angels (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- What a Shame (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- So What (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- G's Song (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, London 7th August 79)
- Do They Owe Us a Living? (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
- Punk Is Dead (Live At The Pied Bull, Islington, 1979)
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