Stations of the Crass

Crass were an English punk band playing at a time when right-wing National Front leaders and working class Oi! Bands were using punk rock as a medium for their xenophobic message. The left-leaning Crass countered this trend with seething rage, wicked wit, and a potent musical attack that spurned punk's pub-rock origins for harder and faster chaos. Their second album, STATIONS OF THE CRASS, finds them delivering furious anti-capitalist sentiments on a bed of guitar and bass designed to deliver an uncompromising message. Cockney singer Steve Ignorant's lyrics on songs like "Mother Earth" and "System" are not always strictly intelligible, but the conviction with which they're delivered is never in question.