Christ – The Album

Infobox Album
Name = Christ - The Album
Type = Album
Artist = Crass


Background = orange
Released = 1982
Recorded = July 1981 - February 1982
Genre = Punk rock/Anarcho Punk
Length = 95:23
Label = Crass
Producer = Crass
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4kvsa9qgb23a link]

Last album = "Penis Envy"
(1981)
This album = "Christ - The Album"
(1982)
Next album = "Yes Sir, I Will"
(1983)

"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", featuring a live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club in London along with other studio tracks, demos and tape fragments.

The album also included a book, "A Series Of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums" (which featured Penny Rimbaud's essay "The Last of the Hippies" [http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/text/09438a.html] , telling the story of the suspicious death of his friend Wally Hope) and a large size poster painted by Gee Vaucher.

The album took over 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, for as a group whose very reason for existing was to comment upon political issues, they felt they had been overtaken and made to appear redundant by real world events.

Subsequent releases, including the singles "How does it Feel to Be the Mother of A Thousand Dead" and "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" and the album "Yes Sir, I Will" saw the band strip their sound 'back to basics' and 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.

tudio Tracks (Christ - The Album)

# Have A Nice Day
# Mother Love
# Nineteen Eighty Bore
# I Know There Is Love
# Beg Your Pardon
# Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
# Reality Whitewash
# It's The Greatest Working Class Ripoff
# Deadhead
# You Can Be Who?
# Buy Now Pay As You Go
# Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (pt 2)
# Bumhooler
# Sentiment (White Feathers)
# Major General Despair

Live Tracks (Well forked - but not dead)

# Banned from the Roxy
# The Sound Of One Hand
# Punk Is Dead
# Nagasaki Nightmare
# Darling
# Bata Motel Blues
# Berkertex Bribe
# Fold It In Half
# Big Hands
# Heart-throb Of The Mortuary (demo)
# Bumhooler
# Big A Little A
# First Woman
# Arlington 73
# Bomb plus Bomb Tape
# Contaminational Power
# I Ain't Thick
# G's Song
# Securicor
# I Can't Stand It (demo)
# Shaved Women
# A Part Of Life
# Do They Owe Us A Living
# So What
# Salt 'n' Pepper

Personnel

*Joy De Vivre - Vocals
*Steve Ignorant - Vocals
*Peeve Libido - Vocals
*Phil Free - Synthesizer, Guitar
*$ri Hari Nana B.A. - Rhythm sitar
*Sybil Right - Bass
*Paul Ellis - Strings
*Elvis Rimbaud - Drums, Radio
*Steve Herman - Guitar (on the two demos on 'Well Forked')
*Jean Paul Marat - Liner Notes