Christ – The Album
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| Studio album by Crass | ||||
| Released | 1982 | |||
| Recorded | July 1981 - February 1982 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock/Anarcho punk | |||
| Length | 95:07 47:44 (original studio disc) 47:23 (live disc) |
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| Label | Crass | |||
| Producer | Crass | |||
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Cover of the remastered Crassical Collection re-release
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Christ – The Album is Crass' fourth album, released in 1982. It was released as a boxed set double vinyl LP package, including one disk of new studio material and another, entitled Well Forked.. but not dead, of a live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club in London along with other studio tracks, demos and tape fragments. The box also included a book, A Series Of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums (which featured Penny Rimbaud's essay "The Last of the Hippies", telling the story of the suspicious death of his friend Wally Hope) and a large size poster painted by Gee Vaucher. The album was well received and the band considered it their best.
There's always something exciting about such raw passion; anger which hits you so hard that every idea in your head gets shook up, violently. - Paul Du Noyer's review in NME
Unlike previous Crass albums, Christ took almost a year to record, produce and mix, during which time the Falklands War had taken place. This caused Crass to fundamentally question their approach to making records. As a group whose very reason for existing was to comment on political issues, they felt they had been overtaken and made to appear redundant by real world events.
For subsequent releases, including the singles "How does it Feel to Be the Mother of A Thousand Dead", "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" and the album Yes Sir, I Will, the band stripped their sound "back to basics" and they were issued as "tactical responses" to political situations.
Re-releases of the album bear the line "With love to Steve Herman who died on the 4th of February 1989" on the back cover. Steve Herman was Crass' guitar player during their first few months.
The Crassical Collection version of this release, including new artwork by Gee Vaucher, remastered sound, liner notes by Steve Ignorant and Rimbaud, and bonus material, was released May 2011. It does not contain the original album cover or the Series Of Shock Slogans booklet.
*Out-takes included on the Crassical Collection rerelease.
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