Crass - Feeding Of The 5000 LP

"Feeding Of The 5000" is the debut album by Crass, recorded 29th October 1978, and released later that year. At the time, it was seen as utterly revolutionary due to its extreme sound, consistent profanities, and anarchist ideology.

The album helped to re-initiate the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament, and this anti-war motive can be especially noticed in the track They've Got a Bomb which features a period of silence midway through. Crass said this was to stop all of the dancing and energy when they performed live, and would allow the audience to reflect upon the potential of Nuclear War.

The album was named "Feeding Of The 5000" due to it being the minimum number of vinyl the band could get pressed, and, in drummer Penny Rimbaud's words "4900 more than we thought we'd sell".

Tracklist:

1. Asylum
2. Do They Owe Us a Living?
3. End Result
4. They’ve Got a Bomb
5. Punk Is Dead
6. Reject of Society
7. General Bacardi
8. Banned from the Roxy
9. G’s Song
10. Fight War, Not Wars
11. Women
12. Securicor
13. Sucks
14. You Pay
15. Angels
16. What a Shame
17. So What
18. Well?…Do They?

About this product: this reissue is pressed on black vinyl, housed in a fold-out poster.