Christ The Album
Album by Crass
Release	1982
Recorded	July 1981 - February 1982
Genre(s)	Punk rock
Length	95 min 23 s
Label	Crass
Producer	Crass
Professional reviews
AMG (4/5)link
Crass chronology
Penis Envy (1981)	Christ The Album (1982)	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.., featuring a live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club in London along with other tracks and 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 [1], telling the story of the suspicious death of his friend Wally Hope) and a large size poster painted by Gee Vaucher. Image File history File links This image is of a music album or single cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the music in question. ... Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Crass Records was a record label set up by the anarchist punk band Crass. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... Penis Envy, released in 1981, was the third LP by anarchist punk band Crass. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yes Sir, I Will, released by Crass in 1983 (see 1983 in music), was the bands final official album. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 100 Club is a music venue situated at 100, Oxford Street, London W1, UK. The 100 Club has a legendary status within the history of modern British music, having played live music since 24 October 1942. ... St. ... Penny Rimbaud circa 1977 Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England), better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977. ... Gee Vaucher, born Dagenham, East London, 1945. ...

The album took over a year to record, produce and mix, during which time the Falklands War had taken place. This caused Crass to fundementally 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 album Yes Sir, I Will saw the band strip their sound 'back to basics' and issued as 'tactical responses' to political situations. The Falklands War or the Malvinas War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), was an armed conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, also known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas, between March and June of 1982. ... Yes Sir, I Will, released by Crass in 1983 (see 1983 in music), was the bands final official album. ...

Studio tracks

1. Have A Nice Day
2. Smother Love
3. Ninteen Eighty Bore
4. I Know There Is Love
5. Beg Your Pardon
6. Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
7. Reality Whitewash
8. It's The Greatest Working Class Ripoff
9. Deadhead
10. You Can Be Who?
11. Buy Now Pay As You Go
12. Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (pt 2)
13. Bumhooler
14. Sentiment (White Feathers)
15. Major General Despair

Personnel

• Joy DeVivre - Vocals
• Steve Ignorant - Vocals
• Peeve Libido - Vocals, Vocals (background)
• Phil Free - Synthesizer, Guitar
• Sybil Right - Bass
• Paul Ellis - Strings
• Elvis Rimbaud - Drums, Radio
• Jean Paul Marat - Liner Notes