The Feeding of the 5000
Album by Crass
Release	1978
Recorded	October 29, 1978
Genre(s)	Punk
Length	32 min ? s
Label	Crass Records
Producer	Crass
Professional reviews
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Crass chronology
N/A	The Feeding of the 5000 (1978)	Stations of the Crass (1979)

The Feeding of the 5000 is the first album by Crass, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). Crass never gained a large mainstream audience, but their virulently anti-establishment lyrics and anarchist politics brought the band a committed following upon the records' release. Cover of the Crass album The Feeding of the 5000. ... 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. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 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. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Rate Your Music is a metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles and bootlegs are rated and reviewed by users. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Stations of the Crass is the second album by Crass, released in 1979. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... See also: 1977 in music, other events of 1978, 1979 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Franciscos Winterland Ballroom. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ...

The record came to be made when Pete Stennett, owner of Small Wonder Records, heard a demo that the band had recorded. Impressed by all of the material, he decided that rather than release a conventional single by the band, he would put all of their set onto an 18 track 12" EP.

However problems were encountered when workers at the Irish pressing plant contracted to manufacture the disc refused to handle it due to the allegedly blasphemous content of the track "Reality Asylum" (referred to as "Asylum" on the record sleeve). The record was eventually released with this track removed and replaced by two minutes of silence, ironically retitled "The Sound Of Free Speech". This incident also prompted Crass to set up their own record label in order to retain full editorial control over their material, and "Reality Asylum" was shortly afterwards issued in a re-recorded and extended form as a 7" single. Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God or the gods, and by extension any display of gross irreverence towards any person or thing deemed worthy of exalted esteem. ...

A later repress of The Feeding Of The 5000 (subtitled The Second Sitting) released on Crass records in 1981 restored the missing track.

The song "They've Got A Bomb" also features a period of silence within it, inspired by John Cage's "4'33"." The band have acknowledged the influence of Cage, and said that the idea of the space in the song, when performed live, was to suddenly stop the energy, dancing and noise and allow the audience to momentarily 'confront themselves' and consider the reality of nuclear war. John Cage John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912–August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer and writer. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ...

Long after the bands breakup they wrote: "We named the album 'The Feeding Of The Five Thousand' because 5000 was the minimum number that we could get pressed and some 4900 more than we thought we'd sell. Feeding is now only a few hundred short of going golden, though I don't suppose we'll hear too much about that in the music press."

Tracks

Side 1

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"

Side 2

1. "Fight War, Not Wars"
2. "Women"
3. "Securicor"
4. "Sucks"
5. "You Pay"
6. "Angels"
7. "What A Shame"
8. "So What"
9. "Well?....Do They?"

Personnel

• Crass - Producer
• Joy DeVivre - Voices
• Phil Free - Guitar, Vocals (bckgr)
• G - Artwork
• Eve Libertine - Voices
• John Loder - Engineer
• N.A. Palmer - Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals (bckgr)
• Penny Rimbaud- Drums, Radio
• Pete Wright - Bass, Vocals
• Steve Ignorant - Vocals

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External links

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