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* EpicRocking: "Yes Sir, I Will" by Crass, clocking in at over 40 minutes to become the longest punk song ever (!). Although it is technically supposed to be all one song, the song is split into multiple tracks (seven, to be precise) and doesn't play like a single, flowing 40-minute opus. The longest individual track, however, is just over twenty minutes long.
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* EpicRocking: "Yes Sir, I Will" by Crass, clocking in at over 40 minutes to become the longest punk song ever (!). Although it is technically supposed to be all one song, the song is split into multiple tracks (seven, to be precise) and doesn't play like a single, flowing 40-minute opus. The longest individual track, however, is just over twenty minutes long. The album was composed and released as a continuous piece of music because of the band's conception that all political struggles were interrelated (a concept often called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality intersectionality]] in academia), as Penny Rimbaud explained:
-->The boundaries increasingly ceased to have any relevance - prior to UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar, one naively believed that there were separations between 'this' and 'that' and that if you dealt with 'this' then you could do 'that'... like songs - each song had its own little separate thing to deal with and ''Yes Sir, I Will'' is a statement about the fact that there isn't any separation - that it's all one and the same thing, that there is no single cause or single idea - there's no-one else to blame but yourself. That you can't say, "Well let's now concentrate on the Northern Ireland problem", "let's now concentrate on the problem of sexual relationships"... you can't do that - everything now is one major problem and that problem stems from yourself.
-->The boundaries increasingly ceased to have any relevance - prior to UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar, one naively believed that there were separations between 'this' and 'that' and that if you dealt with 'this' then you could do 'that'... like songs - each song had its own little separate thing to deal with and ''Yes Sir, I Will'' is a statement about the fact that there isn't any separation - that it's all one and the same thing, that there is no single cause or single idea - there's no-one else to blame but yourself. That you can't say, "Well let's now concentrate on the Northern Ireland problem", "let's now concentrate on the problem of sexual relationships"... you can't do that - everything now is one major problem and that problem stems from yourself.
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* ActualPacifism: A rather large part of the band's core philosophy, both out of pragmatism (violence would discredit their cause) and out of idealism (violence is fundamentally antithetical to their vision of anarchism). Some conflicts would later occur when some band members began to take issue with this.
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* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Contrary to many other protest musicians the band really lived up to it's name. They actively tried to cause revolution by not joining a major label and making their audience think about life as it is. They also live in a commune to this day where they make their own bread and supplies and effectively live outside society. When it became clear in 1984 that they won't reach their goals by that date they disbanded themselves.
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* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Contrary to many other protest musicians the band really lived up to it's its name. They actively tried to cause revolution by not joining a major label and making their audience think about life as it is. They also live in a commune to this day where they make their own bread and supplies and effectively live outside society. When it became clear in 1984 that they won't reach their goals by that date they disbanded themselves.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the remaster of ''Yes Sir, I Will'', one of the movements is named "The Five Knuckle Shuffle". (Earlier pressings of the album didn't list the titles of the movements).
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the remaster of ''Yes Sir, I Will'', one of the movements is named "The Five Knuckle Shuffle". (Earlier pressings of the album didn't list the titles of the movements).
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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Crass ''loved'' this trope. Some songs would have an obvious break between them, however many others would simply fade out into feedback until a drum beat or guitar riff started the next song up.
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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: FadingIntoTheNextSong[=/=]SiameseTwinSongs: Crass ''loved'' this trope. Some songs would have an obvious break between them, however many others would simply fade out into feedback until a drum beat or guitar riff started the next song up.
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* LyricalDissonance: Between the violence of the band's music and the ActualPacifism of their message. Vocalist Gee Vaucher [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] this in an interview about ''Yes Sir, I Will'':
-->If you're going to rant and rave or be angry about anything, one does it because you have a vision of the opposite. We've worked the way we have done for the last seven years because it seemed that people weren't informed about what was happening in the world on a simple basis, especially a lot of young people. The feeling I got from a lot of young people was that there was something drastically wrong with the world - ''technically'' they didn't know how that was operating and obviously we've offered them information which hopefully gave them the possibility of deciding for themselves, and a broader outlook on their own lives.
-->If you're going to rant and rave or be angry about anything, one does it because you have a vision of the opposite. We've worked the way we have done for the last seven years because it seemed that people weren't informed about what was happening in the world on a simple basis, especially a lot of young people. The feeling I got from a lot of young people was that there was something drastically wrong with the world - ''technically'' they didn't know how that was operating and obviously we've offered them information which hopefully gave them the possibility of deciding for themselves, and a broader outlook on their own lives.
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* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement, and of the "crust punk" movement (an honor it shares with Music/{{Discharge}}). Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today in other influential bands like Nausea and Aus-Rotten.
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* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: While they were always rather avant-garde by punk standards, some of the early material plays this relatively straight. By the time of ''Penis Envy'' and ''Yes Sir, I Will'', however, they were definitely averting it.
* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement, and of the "crust punk" movement (an honor it shares with Music/{{Discharge}}). For that matter, they are also considered a co-UrExample for HardcorePunk as a whole. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today in other influential bands like Nausea and Aus-Rotten.
* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement, and of the "crust punk" movement (an honor it shares with Music/{{Discharge}}). For that matter, they are also considered a co-UrExample for HardcorePunk as a whole. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today in other influential bands like Nausea and Aus-Rotten.
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Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English PunkRock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living?" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line [[note]] "the kids are just crass" [[/note]] in ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' by Music/DavidBowie.
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Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English PunkRock band that promoted anarchy [[UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} anarchy]] as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living?" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line [[note]] "the kids are just crass" [[/note]] in ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' by Music/DavidBowie.
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* LoudnessWar: The remasters aren't the worst examples out there, but they are still pretty loud.
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* {{Pun}}: The remasters are given the title "The Crassical Collection".
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* AntiLoveSong: Several in Penis Envy, most focusing on the idea of love as a cover for possessive ownership of women.
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** ''Asylum''' is notable for being such a vicious insult to Jesus Christ that workers refused to press ''The Feeding Of the 5000'' due to its blasphemous content.
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* BlasphemousBoast: "Asylum"
--> ''Jesus died for his own sins, not mine'' [[note]] A reference to Music/PattiSmith's ''Music/{{Horses}}'' [[/note]]
--> ''Jesus died for his own sins, not mine'' [[note]] A reference to Music/PattiSmith's ''Music/{{Horses}}'' [[/note]]
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* BlasphemousBoast: "Asylum"
"Asylum" is one long series of blasphemous boasts, and blasphemous insults directed towards Jesus, denouncing the idea that he could forgive anyone with all the terrible things done in his name.
--> ''Jesus died for his own sins, notmine'' [[note]] A reference to Music/PattiSmith's ''Music/{{Horses}}'' [[/note]]mine"
** ''Where Next Columbus''
--> ''They Realized that their god was dead so they reclaimed power through the bomb instead''
--> ''Jesus died for his own sins, not
** ''Where Next Columbus''
--> ''They Realized that their god was dead so they reclaimed power through the bomb instead''
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* CapitalismIsBad: Like most Anarcho-Punk bands they identify capitalism as a system of slavery that most people aren't even aware of.
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** Demoncrats is basically a poem about the futility of dying for god, patriotism, or democracy.
--> ''They believed in democracy, freedom of speech,''\\
''Yet dead on the flesh piles''\\
''I hear no breath, I hear no hope, no whisper of faith''\\
''From those who have died for some others' privilege.''\\
--> ''They believed in democracy, freedom of speech,''\\
''Yet dead on the flesh piles''\\
''I hear no breath, I hear no hope, no whisper of faith''\\
''From those who have died for some others' privilege.''\\
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** ''Systematic Death'' comes from a similar perspective. From birth on the husband and wife the song focuses have been slaves to capitalism and to tradition. And when they're about to get their promised reward of being a pair of homeowners the system drops it's bomb, and they don't even get that.
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* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Bata Motel", much like "Oh Bondage, Up Yours," is both an Obligatory Bondage Song and a harsh rebuke of sexism in modern media and the fashion industry.
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* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Bata Motel", much like "Oh Bondage, Up Yours," Yours" (an X-Ray Spex song) is both an Obligatory Bondage Song and a harsh rebuke of sexism in modern media and the fashion industry.industry.
** That, and a rather enthusiastic promotion of an abusive relationship:
--> ''"Well today I look so good, just like I know I should''\\
''My breasts to tempt inside my bra, my face is painted like a movie star''\\
''I've studied my flaws in your reflection and put them to rights with savage correction''\\
''I've turned my statuesque perfection and shone it over in your direction''\\
''So come on darling, make me yours, trip me over, show me the floor!''\\
''Tease me, tease me, make me stay, in my red high-heels I can't get away!"''\\
** That, and a rather enthusiastic promotion of an abusive relationship:
--> ''"Well today I look so good, just like I know I should''\\
''My breasts to tempt inside my bra, my face is painted like a movie star''\\
''I've studied my flaws in your reflection and put them to rights with savage correction''\\
''I've turned my statuesque perfection and shone it over in your direction''\\
''So come on darling, make me yours, trip me over, show me the floor!''\\
''Tease me, tease me, make me stay, in my red high-heels I can't get away!"''\\
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* FunWithAcronyms: The infamous "''C''reative ''R''ecording ''A''nd ''S''ound ''S''ervices" prank, where the band convinced a teen romance magazine to give away a song about a rather possessive bride looking forward to her wedding.
* HeroicBSOD: When Crass was recording ''Christ - The Album'', the Falklands war had begun and ended, causing the band to question their relevance as a political band. Fortunately, they pulled everything together and managed to come back with a vengeance...[[SubvertedTrope until their breakup in 1984]].
* HeroicBSOD: When Crass was recording ''Christ - The Album'', the Falklands war had begun and ended, causing the band to question their relevance as a political band. Fortunately, they pulled everything together and managed to come back with a vengeance...[[SubvertedTrope until their breakup in 1984]].
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* FunWithAcronyms: The infamous "''C''reative ''R''ecording ''A''nd ''S''ound ''S''ervices" "'''C'''reative '''R'''ecording '''A'''nd '''S'''ound '''S'''ervices" prank, where the band convinced a teen romance magazine to give away a song about a rather possessive bride looking forward to her wedding.
* HeroicBSOD: When Crass was recording ''Christ - The Album'', the Falklands war had begun and ended, causing the band to question their relevance as a political band. Fortunately, they pulled everything together and managed to come back with a vengeance...[[SubvertedTrope until their breakup in1984]].1984]], [[DoubleSubversion however they were planning on breaking up in this year anyway, so...]]
* IronicEcho: ''Yes Sir, I Will''. The title originated from a short bit of conversation [[note]]''"Get well soon," the Prince said. And the soldier replied "Yes sir, I will".''[[/note]] between Charles, Prince of Wales and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Weston Simon Weston]], a British soldier who had been badly burned in the Falklands War, effectively turning a well wishing statement on its head and implying that the soldier's obedience to the state even after his injuries was still undying enough to respect the people who sent him to the Falklands in the first place.
* HeroicBSOD: When Crass was recording ''Christ - The Album'', the Falklands war had begun and ended, causing the band to question their relevance as a political band. Fortunately, they pulled everything together and managed to come back with a vengeance...[[SubvertedTrope until their breakup in
* IronicEcho: ''Yes Sir, I Will''. The title originated from a short bit of conversation [[note]]''"Get well soon," the Prince said. And the soldier replied "Yes sir, I will".''[[/note]] between Charles, Prince of Wales and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Weston Simon Weston]], a British soldier who had been badly burned in the Falklands War, effectively turning a well wishing statement on its head and implying that the soldier's obedience to the state even after his injuries was still undying enough to respect the people who sent him to the Falklands in the first place.
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* FunWithAcronyms: The infamous "Creative Recording And Sound Services" prank, where the band convinced a teen romance magazine to give away a song about a rather possessive bride looking forward to her wedding.
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* FunWithAcronyms: The infamous "Creative Recording And Sound Services" "''C''reative ''R''ecording ''A''nd ''S''ound ''S''ervices" prank, where the band convinced a teen romance magazine to give away a song about a rather possessive bride looking forward to her wedding.
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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Crass ''loved'' this trope. Some songs would have an obvious break between them, however many others would simply fade out into feedback until a drum beat or guitar riff started the next song up.
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Their (major) albums include:
* ''The Feeding of the 5,000'', 1978
* ''Stations of the Crass'', 1979
* ''Penis Envy'', 1981
* ''Christ - The Album'', 1982
* ''Yes Sir, I Will'', 1983 [[note]]Crass' last album released while they were still a band.[[/note]]
* ''Ten Notes on a Summer's Day'', 1985
* ''Best Before 1984'', 1986 [[note]] A compilation record. Apparently, there are plans to release an expanded version of this album with rarities/otherwise out of print Crass material, however as of 2015, this version of the album has not been released. [[/note]]
* ''Christ: The Bootleg'', 1989
* ''You'll Ruin It for Everyone'', 1993 [[note]] A live album recorded in 1981. [[/note]]
* ''The Feeding of the 5,000'', 1978
* ''Stations of the Crass'', 1979
* ''Penis Envy'', 1981
* ''Christ - The Album'', 1982
* ''Yes Sir, I Will'', 1983 [[note]]Crass' last album released while they were still a band.[[/note]]
* ''Ten Notes on a Summer's Day'', 1985
* ''Best Before 1984'', 1986 [[note]] A compilation record. Apparently, there are plans to release an expanded version of this album with rarities/otherwise out of print Crass material, however as of 2015, this version of the album has not been released. [[/note]]
* ''Christ: The Bootleg'', 1989
* ''You'll Ruin It for Everyone'', 1993 [[note]] A live album recorded in 1981. [[/note]]
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Their album covers were always a cool display of photo collages, cut out from newspaper clippings.
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Their album covers cover for ''Best Before 1984'' (and some of the band's art) were always a both cool display displays of photo collages, cut out from newspaper clippings. clippings.
** ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' shows a drawing of a bombed out city in Ireland during UsefulNotes/TheTroubles.
** ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' shows a drawing of a bombed out city in Ireland during UsefulNotes/TheTroubles.
* FunWithAcronyms: The infamous "Creative Recording And Sound Services" prank, where the band convinced a teen romance magazine to give away a song about a rather possessive bride looking forward to her wedding.
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''Penis Envy''
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''Penis Envy''Envy''.
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* ProtestSong: It's absolutely no exaggeration to say that their ''entire'' discography falls under this category in some way or another.
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* ProtestSong: It's absolutely no exaggeration to say that their ''entire'' discography falls under this category in some way or another. Subjects included war ("Fight War, Not Wars", "Nagasaki Nightmare", "Major General Despair"), religion (see ReligionRantSong below), the government (or the idea of government) ("Big A, Little A", "Do They Owe Us a Living?"), Americanization ("Smash the Mac"), feminism ("Women", the entire ''Penis Envy'' album), and so on.
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* TitleOnlyChorus: "Do They Owe Us a Living?"
* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today.
* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today.
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** The album that song is on (''The Feeding of the 5,000'') begins and ends (if you don't count Asylum, that is) with "Do They Owe Us a Living?" and "Well?...Do They?" - which are different recordings of the ''exact same song''.
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* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Bata Motel", much like "Oh Bondage, Up Yours," is both an Obligatory Bondage Song and a harsh rebuke of sexism in modern media and the fashion industry.
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* BlasphemousBoast: "Asylum"
--> ''Jesus died for his own sins, not mine'' [[note]] A reference to Music/PattiSmith's ''Music/{{Horses}}'' [[/note]]
--> ''Jesus died for his own sins, not mine'' [[note]] A reference to Music/PattiSmith's ''Music/{{Horses}}'' [[/note]]
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* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Contrary to many other protest musicians the band really lived up to it's name. They actively tried to cause revolution by not joining a major label and making their audience think about life as it is. They also live in a commune to this day where they make their own bread and supplies and effectively live outside society. When it became clear in 1984 that they won't reach their goals by that date they disbanded themselves.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Their album covers were always a cool display of photo collages, cut out from newspaper clippings.
* EpicRocking: "Yes Sir, I Will" by Crass, clocking in at over 40 minutes to become the longest punk song ever (!). Although it is technically supposed to be all one song, the song is split into multiple tracks (seven, to be precise) and doesn't play like a single, flowing 40-minute opus. The longest individual track, however, is just over twenty minutes long.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Their album covers were always a cool display of photo collages, cut out from newspaper clippings.
* EpicRocking: "Yes Sir, I Will" by Crass, clocking in at over 40 minutes to become the longest punk song ever (!). Although it is technically supposed to be all one song, the song is split into multiple tracks (seven, to be precise) and doesn't play like a single, flowing 40-minute opus. The longest individual track, however, is just over twenty minutes long.
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* TakeThat: Much like the ProtestSong example before it, most (if not all) of what Crass put out could count. For a specific example, however, the aforementioned two minutes of silence as a result of ExecutiveMeddling on ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was titled "The Sound of Free Speech" as a jab towards the label and pressing plant that gave Crass grief over the track.
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** Much like the ProtestSong example before it, most (if not all) of what Crass put out could count. For a specific example, however, the aforementioned two minutes of silence as a result of ExecutiveMeddling on ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was titled "The Sound of Free Speech" as a jab towards the label and pressing plant that gave Crass grief over thetrack.track.
** Crass has also taken potshots at Music/TheSexPistols and Music/TheClash, whom they see as people who didn't live up to the punk spirit. The re-issues of all their albums in the 2010s have a quote by Johnny Rotten on each back cover: "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!", referencing the fact that Rotten went on an episode of ''Series/ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere''.
** Much like the ProtestSong example before it, most (if not all) of what Crass put out could count. For a specific example, however, the aforementioned two minutes of silence as a result of ExecutiveMeddling on ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was titled "The Sound of Free Speech" as a jab towards the label and pressing plant that gave Crass grief over the
** Crass has also taken potshots at Music/TheSexPistols and Music/TheClash, whom they see as people who didn't live up to the punk spirit. The re-issues of all their albums in the 2010s have a quote by Johnny Rotten on each back cover: "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!", referencing the fact that Rotten went on an episode of ''Series/ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere''.
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* YouAreAlreadyDead: "You're Already Dead", a song that has the message that when you accept politics and society as they are you might as well be dead.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: They criticized British politics and economy during the UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher era.
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Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English punk rock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living?" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line in Ziggy Stardust by Music/DavidBowie.
Members of Dial House would fill in the remaining gaps for Crass when needed in the earliest gigs, however these usually ended badly (their first gig saw the band getting the plug pulled three songs into a five song set) or were under-attended. After a disastrous gig at the Roxy Club in London where the band showed up intoxicated and were promptly ejected from the stage, Crass started to take themselves more seriously as a band by refusing to indulge in alcohol or cannabis before shows and displaying their symbolic black military surplus uniforms and logo (a blending of the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the swastika, and the Ouroboros, suggesting the idea that power will eventually destroy itself).
Members of Dial House would fill in the remaining gaps for Crass when needed in the earliest gigs, however these usually ended badly (their first gig saw the band getting the plug pulled three songs into a five song set) or were under-attended. After a disastrous gig at the Roxy Club in London where the band showed up intoxicated and were promptly ejected from the stage, Crass started to take themselves more seriously as a band by refusing to indulge in alcohol or cannabis before shows and displaying their symbolic black military surplus uniforms and logo (a blending of the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the swastika, and the Ouroboros, suggesting the idea that power will eventually destroy itself).
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Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English punk rock PunkRock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living?" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line [[note]] "the kids are just crass" [[/note]] in Ziggy Stardust ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' by Music/DavidBowie.
Members of Dial House would fill in the remaining gaps for Crass when needed in the earliest gigs, however these usually ended badly (their first gig saw the band getting the plug pulled three songs into a five song set) or were under-attended. After a disastrous gig at the Roxy Club in London where the band showed up intoxicated and were promptly ejected from the stage, Crass started to take themselves more seriously as a band by refusing to indulge in alcohol or cannabis before shows and displaying their symbolic black military surplus uniforms and logo (a blending of the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the swastika, and theOuroboros, {{Ouroboros}}, suggesting the idea that power will eventually destroy itself).
Members of Dial House would fill in the remaining gaps for Crass when needed in the earliest gigs, however these usually ended badly (their first gig saw the band getting the plug pulled three songs into a five song set) or were under-attended. After a disastrous gig at the Roxy Club in London where the band showed up intoxicated and were promptly ejected from the stage, Crass started to take themselves more seriously as a band by refusing to indulge in alcohol or cannabis before shows and displaying their symbolic black military surplus uniforms and logo (a blending of the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the swastika, and the
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Crass would also go on to release several singles and give away a series of flexi discs until 1982, when they released Penis Envy, an album with more complicated musical arrangements and female vocals addressing feminist issues, attacking marriage and sexual repression; Steve Ignorant was credited as "not on this recording". The album again attracted controversy among the general public thanks to Crass tricking the staff and readers of Loving (a teen romance magazine) into offering a flexi disc of the last track on Penis Envy ("Our Wedding") -- a parody of an MOR love song, credited under "Creative Recording And Sound Services" with the ad telling readers that the free Crass flexi would make "your wedding day just that bit extra special". Naturally, this didn't go over well once the hoax was discovered. The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and in 1984 copies of the album were seized from the Eastern Bloc record shop by Greater Manchester Police; the shop owners were charged with displaying "obscene articles for publication for gain". The judge ruled against Crass in the ensuing court case, although the decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
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Crass would also go on to release several singles and give away a series of flexi discs until 1982, when they released Penis Envy, "Penis Envy", an album with more complicated musical arrangements and female vocals addressing feminist issues, attacking marriage and sexual repression; Steve Ignorant was credited as [[SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer "not on this recording". recording"]]. The album again attracted controversy among the general public thanks to Crass tricking the staff and readers of Loving (a teen romance magazine) into offering a flexi disc of the last track on Penis Envy "Penis Envy" ("Our Wedding") -- a parody of an MOR love song, credited under "Creative Recording And Sound Services" with the ad telling readers that the free Crass flexi would make "your wedding day just that bit extra special". Naturally, this didn't go over well once the hoax was discovered. The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and in 1984 copies of the album were seized from the Eastern Bloc record shop by Greater Manchester Police; the shop owners were charged with displaying "obscene articles for publication for gain". The judge ruled against Crass in the ensuing court case, although the decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
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Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English punk rock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line in Ziggy Stardust by Music/DavidBowie.
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Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English punk rock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living" Living?" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line in Ziggy Stardust by Music/DavidBowie.
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* MinisculeRocking: While Crass does have songs stretching past the three minute mark ("Big A, Little A" is roughly six minutes long), songs like "Fight War, Not Wars", "Banned From the Roxy", and "Do They Owe Us a Living" Living?" would count.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original release of ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was marred in controversy thanks to the opening track. The label the band was on at the time (as well as the record pressing plant) refused to touch the record, so Crass removed the track from the album and replaced it with two minutes of silence in protest (see TakeThat below).
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original release of ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was marred in controversy thanks to the opening track. The label the band was on at the time (as well as the record pressing plant) refused to touch the record, so Crass removed the track from the album and replaced it with two minutes of silence in protest (see TakeThat below).
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* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today.
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* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today.today.
* Yandere: The narrator of "Our Wedding" comes across as one.
--> ''"I am yours to have and hold, I'm giving you my love...''\\
''Never look at anyone, anyone but me''\\
''Never look at anyone, I must be all you see''\\
''Listen to those wedding bells, say goodbye to other girls''\\
''I'll never be untrue my love, don't be untrue to me''\\
''[[BrokenRecord Don't be untrue to me, don't be untrue to me...]]"''\\
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--> ''"I am yours to have and hold, I'm giving you my love...''\\
''Never look at anyone, anyone but me''\\
''Never look at anyone, I must be all you see''\\
''Listen to those wedding bells, say goodbye to other girls''\\
''I'll never be untrue my love, don't be untrue to me''\\
''[[BrokenRecord Don't be untrue to me, don't be untrue to me...]]"''\\
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->''"Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do''\\
''I am me, and she is she, but you're the only you!"''\\
--'''"Big A, Little A"'''
Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English punk rock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line in Ziggy Stardust by Music/DavidBowie.
Members of Dial House would fill in the remaining gaps for Crass when needed in the earliest gigs, however these usually ended badly (their first gig saw the band getting the plug pulled three songs into a five song set) or were under-attended. After a disastrous gig at the Roxy Club in London where the band showed up intoxicated and were promptly ejected from the stage, Crass started to take themselves more seriously as a band by refusing to indulge in alcohol or cannabis before shows and displaying their symbolic black military surplus uniforms and logo (a blending of the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the swastika, and the Ouroboros, suggesting the idea that power will eventually destroy itself).
In 1978, Crass released their first album, ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' on the Small Wonder label. The album immediately attracted controversy due to the ''first'' track on the album ("Asylum") when the workers at the record pressing plant refused to handle the album due to the blasphemous themes in the track. As a result, Crass released the record with two minutes of silence in its place, titled "The Sound of Free Speech", and formed Crass Records in order to maintain creative control on their albums, as well as preventing Small Wonder from coming under fire. Within the next two years, Crass would release ''Stations of the Crass'' and ''Bloody Revolutions'', an album and an EP financed by and in collaboration with Poison Girls, a band which Crass played with regularly, respectively.
Crass would also go on to release several singles and give away a series of flexi discs until 1982, when they released Penis Envy, an album with more complicated musical arrangements and female vocals addressing feminist issues, attacking marriage and sexual repression; Steve Ignorant was credited as "not on this recording". The album again attracted controversy among the general public thanks to Crass tricking the staff and readers of Loving (a teen romance magazine) into offering a flexi disc of the last track on Penis Envy ("Our Wedding") -- a parody of an MOR love song, credited under "Creative Recording And Sound Services" with the ad telling readers that the free Crass flexi would make "your wedding day just that bit extra special". Naturally, this didn't go over well once the hoax was discovered. The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and in 1984 copies of the album were seized from the Eastern Bloc record shop by Greater Manchester Police; the shop owners were charged with displaying "obscene articles for publication for gain". The judge ruled against Crass in the ensuing court case, although the decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
In 1982, Crass released ''Christ - The Album'', which took a year to record, produce, and mix. Normally, this wouldn't be too huge of an issue, however in the duration of that 365 day period, the Falklands War broke out and ended, causing the political Crass to question their speed and efficiency at making an album, since a good chunk of the songs on the album were about imminent war. As a result, Crass went back to the basics, subverting whatever they could (including slipping copies of their singles into other albums at the pressing plant they were working with), including causing a political scandal in the United States and the United Kingdom.
...wait, ''what?''
In 1983, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmfLP1IOip8 poor-quality tape]] emerged, supposedly of a phone call overheard (due to crossed lines) with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, suggesting that HMS Sheffield was deliberately destroyed in a false flag attack to escalate the Falklands War, and that the United States would launch nuclear bombs over Europe to show the Soviets the United States' resolve in a potential nuclear conflict. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20060214025006/http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/1238.html Press]] in the U.S. and Europe attacked it, thinking that the poor quality audio was a KGB forgery, however a year or so later, the tape was traced back to Crass...''somehow'', despite the band going out of their way to make sure that they would be anonymous. By this time, tensions in the band were growing, as some advocated a more violent way of spreading their message, while others wished to continue their pacifist methods they'd been using since the group's inception.
In 1984, the pressures of the band working and coexisting, in addition to legal pressures from the ''Penis Envy'' controversy and other attempts to prosecute Crass took their toll. The band performed its final gig on 7 July, 1984 for a miner's strike benefit in Aberdare, Wales. On the return trip, their guitarist decided to call it quits; the rest of the band decided to throw in the towel as well, coinciding with their agreement to cease performing in 1984 anyway. Since the breakup of Crass, Steve Ignorant has performed every now and then, which he stated he would cease to do after 2011's "The Last Supper" tour, while Penny Rimbaud has released a few bits of poetry and contributed to other albums since Crass' breakup. Several ex-members of Crass have performed as The Crass Collective and Crass Agenda; as of 2005, the group is now called Last Amendment, and it is unknown when or if they'll perform live again. Despite all of this, Crass is still ''highly'' respected to this day, despite breaking up thirty years ago -- multiple artists, political activists, and punk bands continue to cite them as a major influence.
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* AnarchyIsChaos: Averted entirely. Crass knew that violence would only harm their message, and instead went about spreading their political ideology through non-violent methods, such as passing out leaflets, organizing political action, forming squats, spray-painting graffiti, and so on.
* AHouseDivided: Had Crass not decided to break up in 1984 anyway, they probably wouldn't have been that far off thanks to the inner conflict in the group.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Defied entirely, and this defiance was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Big A, Little A":
-->''"But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple, and you'll never change the system by bombing number ten''\\
''Systems just aren't made of bricks, they're mostly made of people; you may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again!"''\\
* BookEnds: "Banned From the Roxy" begins and ends with the lines "Banned from the Roxy, okay / I never much liked playing there anyway".
* ChorusOnlySong: "Do They Owe Us a Living"
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original release of ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was marred in controversy thanks to the opening track. The label the band was on at the time (as well as the record pressing plant) refused to touch the record, so Crass removed the track from the album and replaced it with two minutes of silence in protest (see TakeThat below).
* HeroicBSOD: When Crass was recording ''Christ - The Album'', the Falklands war had begun and ended, causing the band to question their relevance as a political band. Fortunately, they pulled everything together and managed to come back with a vengeance...[[SubvertedTrope until their breakup in 1984]].
* MinisculeRocking: While Crass does have songs stretching past the three minute mark ("Big A, Little A" is roughly six minutes long), songs like "Fight War, Not Wars", "Banned From the Roxy", and "Do They Owe Us a Living" would count.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Penis Envy''
* PrecisionFStrike: Crass' use of profanity wasn't placed without thought, rather, it was quite deliberately placed in order to prove a point.
* ProtestSong: It's absolutely no exaggeration to say that their ''entire'' discography falls under this category in some way or another.
* ReligionRantSong: "So What", "Asylum", "Sucks"
* TakeThat: Much like the ProtestSong example before it, most (if not all) of what Crass put out could count. For a specific example, however, the aforementioned two minutes of silence as a result of ExecutiveMeddling on ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was titled "The Sound of Free Speech" as a jab towards the label and pressing plant that gave Crass grief over the track.
* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today.
''I am me, and she is she, but you're the only you!"''\\
--'''"Big A, Little A"'''
Formed in 1977 out of Dial House (an open-house community near Epping, Essex), Crass were an English punk rock band that promoted anarchy as a political ideology, a resistance movement, and a way of life, and attracted controversy multiple times through the duration of their career - even to the point of causing an international scandal. The band formed when Dial House founder Jeremy Ratter started jamming with then-resident Steven Williams (who took the names of Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, respectively) after the former saw a gig by Music/TheClash and was inspired by Joe Strummer telling his audience to start their own bands if they thought they could do better. Penny and Steve produced "Do They Owe Us a Living" and "So What" as a drum and vocal duo, and chose the name Crass as a reference to a line in Ziggy Stardust by Music/DavidBowie.
Members of Dial House would fill in the remaining gaps for Crass when needed in the earliest gigs, however these usually ended badly (their first gig saw the band getting the plug pulled three songs into a five song set) or were under-attended. After a disastrous gig at the Roxy Club in London where the band showed up intoxicated and were promptly ejected from the stage, Crass started to take themselves more seriously as a band by refusing to indulge in alcohol or cannabis before shows and displaying their symbolic black military surplus uniforms and logo (a blending of the Christian cross, the Union Jack, the swastika, and the Ouroboros, suggesting the idea that power will eventually destroy itself).
In 1978, Crass released their first album, ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' on the Small Wonder label. The album immediately attracted controversy due to the ''first'' track on the album ("Asylum") when the workers at the record pressing plant refused to handle the album due to the blasphemous themes in the track. As a result, Crass released the record with two minutes of silence in its place, titled "The Sound of Free Speech", and formed Crass Records in order to maintain creative control on their albums, as well as preventing Small Wonder from coming under fire. Within the next two years, Crass would release ''Stations of the Crass'' and ''Bloody Revolutions'', an album and an EP financed by and in collaboration with Poison Girls, a band which Crass played with regularly, respectively.
Crass would also go on to release several singles and give away a series of flexi discs until 1982, when they released Penis Envy, an album with more complicated musical arrangements and female vocals addressing feminist issues, attacking marriage and sexual repression; Steve Ignorant was credited as "not on this recording". The album again attracted controversy among the general public thanks to Crass tricking the staff and readers of Loving (a teen romance magazine) into offering a flexi disc of the last track on Penis Envy ("Our Wedding") -- a parody of an MOR love song, credited under "Creative Recording And Sound Services" with the ad telling readers that the free Crass flexi would make "your wedding day just that bit extra special". Naturally, this didn't go over well once the hoax was discovered. The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and in 1984 copies of the album were seized from the Eastern Bloc record shop by Greater Manchester Police; the shop owners were charged with displaying "obscene articles for publication for gain". The judge ruled against Crass in the ensuing court case, although the decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
In 1982, Crass released ''Christ - The Album'', which took a year to record, produce, and mix. Normally, this wouldn't be too huge of an issue, however in the duration of that 365 day period, the Falklands War broke out and ended, causing the political Crass to question their speed and efficiency at making an album, since a good chunk of the songs on the album were about imminent war. As a result, Crass went back to the basics, subverting whatever they could (including slipping copies of their singles into other albums at the pressing plant they were working with), including causing a political scandal in the United States and the United Kingdom.
...wait, ''what?''
In 1983, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmfLP1IOip8 poor-quality tape]] emerged, supposedly of a phone call overheard (due to crossed lines) with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, suggesting that HMS Sheffield was deliberately destroyed in a false flag attack to escalate the Falklands War, and that the United States would launch nuclear bombs over Europe to show the Soviets the United States' resolve in a potential nuclear conflict. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20060214025006/http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/1238.html Press]] in the U.S. and Europe attacked it, thinking that the poor quality audio was a KGB forgery, however a year or so later, the tape was traced back to Crass...''somehow'', despite the band going out of their way to make sure that they would be anonymous. By this time, tensions in the band were growing, as some advocated a more violent way of spreading their message, while others wished to continue their pacifist methods they'd been using since the group's inception.
In 1984, the pressures of the band working and coexisting, in addition to legal pressures from the ''Penis Envy'' controversy and other attempts to prosecute Crass took their toll. The band performed its final gig on 7 July, 1984 for a miner's strike benefit in Aberdare, Wales. On the return trip, their guitarist decided to call it quits; the rest of the band decided to throw in the towel as well, coinciding with their agreement to cease performing in 1984 anyway. Since the breakup of Crass, Steve Ignorant has performed every now and then, which he stated he would cease to do after 2011's "The Last Supper" tour, while Penny Rimbaud has released a few bits of poetry and contributed to other albums since Crass' breakup. Several ex-members of Crass have performed as The Crass Collective and Crass Agenda; as of 2005, the group is now called Last Amendment, and it is unknown when or if they'll perform live again. Despite all of this, Crass is still ''highly'' respected to this day, despite breaking up thirty years ago -- multiple artists, political activists, and punk bands continue to cite them as a major influence.
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* AnarchyIsChaos: Averted entirely. Crass knew that violence would only harm their message, and instead went about spreading their political ideology through non-violent methods, such as passing out leaflets, organizing political action, forming squats, spray-painting graffiti, and so on.
* AHouseDivided: Had Crass not decided to break up in 1984 anyway, they probably wouldn't have been that far off thanks to the inner conflict in the group.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Defied entirely, and this defiance was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Big A, Little A":
-->''"But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple, and you'll never change the system by bombing number ten''\\
''Systems just aren't made of bricks, they're mostly made of people; you may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again!"''\\
* BookEnds: "Banned From the Roxy" begins and ends with the lines "Banned from the Roxy, okay / I never much liked playing there anyway".
* ChorusOnlySong: "Do They Owe Us a Living"
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original release of ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was marred in controversy thanks to the opening track. The label the band was on at the time (as well as the record pressing plant) refused to touch the record, so Crass removed the track from the album and replaced it with two minutes of silence in protest (see TakeThat below).
* HeroicBSOD: When Crass was recording ''Christ - The Album'', the Falklands war had begun and ended, causing the band to question their relevance as a political band. Fortunately, they pulled everything together and managed to come back with a vengeance...[[SubvertedTrope until their breakup in 1984]].
* MinisculeRocking: While Crass does have songs stretching past the three minute mark ("Big A, Little A" is roughly six minutes long), songs like "Fight War, Not Wars", "Banned From the Roxy", and "Do They Owe Us a Living" would count.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Penis Envy''
* PrecisionFStrike: Crass' use of profanity wasn't placed without thought, rather, it was quite deliberately placed in order to prove a point.
* ProtestSong: It's absolutely no exaggeration to say that their ''entire'' discography falls under this category in some way or another.
* ReligionRantSong: "So What", "Asylum", "Sucks"
* TakeThat: Much like the ProtestSong example before it, most (if not all) of what Crass put out could count. For a specific example, however, the aforementioned two minutes of silence as a result of ExecutiveMeddling on ''The Feeding of the 5,000'' was titled "The Sound of Free Speech" as a jab towards the label and pressing plant that gave Crass grief over the track.
* UrExample: Of the "anarcho-punk" movement. Despite breaking up in 1984, the band's influence can still be felt today.
