Crass - Christ - The Album / Well Forked - But Not Dead (2xLP, Album + Box) (Very Good (VG))

Media Condition:  Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    UK  
Released:  1982
Discog's Release ID: 367699
Genre:       Rock
Style:         Punk

Comments:
VG, Solid wax, many hairlines and paper scuffs, some minor groove wear - Booklet and poster included - Gorgeous box, some minor wear on the edges - Ultrasonically cleaned
 

Notes:

"Christ - The Album" was recorded and mixed at Southern Studios, London, between July 1981 and February 1982.
The live recording was made on a 4 track machine on the 9th June 1981 at the 100Club, London by Real Time Music.

The box is embossed with a small Crass logo (2.25 cm) and in addition to the two records it contained a 30 x 58 cm poster "An Institution is the Lengthened Shadow of One Person" (a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay "Self-Reliance"), and the 26-page booklet "A Series of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums".

This first edition has the text "CHRIST-THE ALBUM cat. no.BOLLOX 2U2/PAY NO MORE THAN 5-00 CRASS" on the spine of the box (see image #2).

Some copies contained the [r=1113849 flexi.

All material C P A CRASS 1982
Typesetting was by Bread 'N Roses to whom we are most grateful.

Christ - The Album Mastered at Utopia Studios, London.

Track B1 given as "It's The Greatest Working Class Rip-Off" in the tracklisting but with the correct title in the liner notes.

. Christ - The Album
A1. Have A Nice Day
A2. Mother Love
A3. Nineteen Eighty Bore
A4. I Know There Is Love
A5. Beg Your Pardon
A6. Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
A7. Reality Whitewash
B1. The Greatest Working Class Rip-Off
B2. Deadhead
B3. You Can Be Who?
B4. Buy Now Pay As You Go
B5. Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (Pt. 2)
B6. Bumhooler
B7. Sentiment (White Feathers)
B8. Major General Despair
. Well Forked - But Not Dead
C1. Banned From The Roxy
C2. The Sound Of One Hand
C3. Punk Is Dead
C4. Nagasaki Nightmare
C5. Darling
C6. Bata Motel Blues
C7. Berkertex Bribe
C8. Fold It In Half
C9. Big Hands
C10. Heart-Throb Of The Mortuary
C11. Bumhooler
C12. Big A Little A
C13. First Woman
D1. Arlington 73
D2. Bomb Plus Bomb Tape
D3. Contaminational Power
D4. I Ain't Thick
D5. G's Song
D6. Securicor
D7. I Can't Stand It
D8. Shaved Women
D9. A Part Of Life
D10. Do They Owe Us A Living
D11. So What
D12. Salt 'n' Pepper

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout BOLLOX 2U2 A-3 [Utopia lyre symbol] IN WAR THERE IS NO REASON - ONLY CRUEL BARBARIC FUTILITY MPO
Matrix / Runout BOLLOX 2U2 B-3 THE DAWN IS IN US MPO
Matrix / Runout BOLLOX 2U2 C-3 FOR WAR THERE IS NO REASON - ONLY CRUEL BARBARIC UTILITY... MPO
Matrix / Runout BOLLOX 2U2 D-3 THE DAWN IS FOR US MPO

Recorded At Southern Studios
Recorded At 100 Club
Mixed At Southern Studios
Copyright (c) Crass
Phonographic Copyright (p) Crass
Mastered At Utopia Studios
Lacquer Cut At Utopia Studios
Pressed By MPO