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Regardless of how compatible this music is to your tastes, Christ--the Album is a great auditory epic of punk, politics, and protest. On each successive album Crass became less of a conventional punk band and more of a balls-out artistic unit. From the beginning, their albums were unconfined by the pressures of commercial appeal and conventional structure. Christ is a Dadaist collage of noise and statement: the utmost expression of the Crass project of multimedia agitprop. Without doubt, this hour-and-a-half monster is sprawling and disorienting. Like all other Crass albums though, this one engages the audience on more than a few levels and refuses to let go.

The first half is a basically a complete studio album in the Crass tradition of snarling belligerence towards church, state, patriarchy, and pretty much everything else. Unfortunately, this batch of songs isn't the best I've heard by the band. It's good Crass if you like the band, but there are no 'White Punks on Hope' or 'Banned From the Roxy'-caliber tracks. Each song commences with an audio clip with some ironic weight and then goes on to blast anarcho-punk venom for two or three minutes.

The second half is a whack-ass compilation of mostly live material and some spooky studio stuff with a liberal sprinkling of weird sound clips for good measure. The rendition of 'Big A Little A' and the early track 'I Can't Stand It' have always been the most engaging for me, but the other tracks are a fascinating/confounding ride through a production studio gone haywire.

I suspect Christ the Album is as close to the Ludovico Technique that a pop album will ever reach. Like all Crass albums, it simply is what it is. They don't care if you like this album or not, and they probably don't even want you to like it either. This just happens to be the largest slice of the anti-art pie that Crass so lovingly baked in the early-80's.

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CD 1:
Christ - The Album
1. Have A Nice Day 2:49
2. Mother Love 2:52
3. Nineteen Eighty Bore 4:10
4. I Know There Is Love 2:47
5. Beg Your Pardon 3:08
6. Birth Control ’N’ Rock ’N’ Roll 2:59
7. Reality Whitewash 3:10
8. The Greatest Working Class Rip-off 3:26
9. Deadhead 2:18
10. You Can Be Who? 3:02
11. Buy Now Pay As You Go 2:22
12. Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (Pt 2) 3:14
13. Bumhooler 3:20
14. Sentiment (White Feathers) 3:36
15. Major General Despair 4:42

CD 2:
Out-Takes
1. Have A Nice Day 3:37
2. Mother Love 2:11
3. Buy Now Pay As You Go 2:37
3. Birth Control’n’Rock’n’Roll 1:57
5. You Can Be Who? 2:49
6. Reality Whitewash 2:42
7. The Greatest Working Class Rip-off 5:04

Well Forked - But Not Dead
8. Banned From The Roxy 3:00
9. One Hand... 1:29
10. Punk Is Dead 1:59
11. Nagasaki Nightmare 4:31
12. Darling 1:50
13. Kind Of Who 0:26
14. Berkertex Bribe 1:42
15. Fold It In Half (Written By–Penny Rimbaud) 0:58
16. Tony’s Big Hands (Lead Guitar–Steve Hermann) 2:15
17. Bumhooler 2:22
18. Big A Little A 4:27
19. First Woman (Written By–Eve Libertine) 1:01
20. Arlington 73 (Written By–Penny Rimbaud) 1:25
21. Bomb Plus Tape 4:13
22. Contaminational Power 1:40
23. I Ain’t Thick, It’s Just A Trick 1:50
24. G's Song 0:22
25. Securicor 1:49
26. I Can’t Stand It (Lead Guitar–Steve Hermann) 1:48
27. Shaved Women 2:43
28. Not Apart 0:28
29. Do They Owe Us A Living? 1:22
30. So What? 1:20
31. Salt ’n’ Pepper 2:15
CD1
CHRIST - THE ALBUM
Southern Studios July 1981 to February 1982

CD2
WELL FORKED - BUT NOT DEAD
Compiled at Southern Studios throughout the recording of Christ - the main body is a 4-track recordig made on 9th June 1981 by the Real Time Music at the 100 Club, London. Voice-over on the track 1 is by Mitch of the now defunct Radio Caroline. One Hand is adapted from a traditional Zen tale. Track 9 which includes Heart-throb Of The Mortuary and track 19 I Can't Stand It were our first efforts in a studio, whose name none of us can remember, recorded in the summer of 1977. Heart-throb was later played on a pirate radio station (whose name we also can't remember) and it was from this broadcast that the track is taken. Heart-throb and I Can't Stand It include Steve Hermann who, before being replaced by Phil Free, was our lead guitarist. Track 18 includes a cassette recording of the band live at Action Space in Central London on November 16, 1977.

This re-issue has been re-mastered from the original tapes and includes additional out-takes and a second disc featuring the live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club in London along with other studio tracks, demos, radio broadcasts and cassette recordings.

Vocals - Joy de Vivre (tracks: 1-6, 14, 2-13), Sri Hana aka N.A. Palmer (tracks: 2-8), Peeve Libido (tracks: 2-4, 2-5, 2-7, 2-12, 2-20), Steve Ignorant
Rhythm Guitar - Sri Hana aka N.A. Palmer
Synthesizer - Phil Free (tracks: 1-14)
Bass Guitar, Vocals - Sybil Right
Drums, Effects [Sound Effects] - Evils Rimbaud aka Penny Rimbaud
Keyboards - Paul Ellis (tracks: 1-14)
Lead Guitar - Phil Free


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