Crass - Securicor (1978)

Hey! Crass Dance Party! 

This album was in constant rotation for me during my teenage years. I don't often revisit it but I had it on blast today and it's really a whole lot of chaotic fun. Their sound is different from other punk bands of the era. It's more like a marching band with amazing funky bass lines, noisy guitars, often shouted vocals with complex rhyme schemes and lyrics about complicated sociopolitical issues that seem to be as or more relevant today as 47 years ago. 

Here we go... 

"I'm a private in a private army. I'm a private in a private army. I'm a private in a private army. I'm a private in a private army. I'm a private in a private army. I'm a private in a private army. I'm a private in a private army."

 


 

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