CRASS The Feeding Of The 5000 (LP) quality reissue - poster sleeve - white vinyl

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Crass

The Feeding Of The Five Thousand

Format: LP

Record Label: Crass/Southern/Crassical Collection

Condition: New (these do not come sealed in plastic, but are in an outer resealable plastic sleeve - I've separated the record from the poster sleeve style packaging to prevent seam splits during shipping)

* High quality reissue of their classic debut album - packaged in a poster style sleeve - limited 180 gram white vinyl - pressed from the original analogue vinyl master - includes a digital download code - originally released in 1978.
* This 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 inch 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, re-titled "The Sound Of Free Speech". This incident also prompted Crass to set up their own record label in order to retain full editorial control as well as political and legal responsibility for their material, and "Reality Asylum" was shortly afterwards issued in a re-recorded and extended form as a 7 inch single. 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. Band founder and drummer Penny Rimbaud wrote in 1986: "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."
* Track Listing: Asylum / Do They Owe Us A Living? / End Result / They've Got A Bomb / Punk Is Dead / Reject Of Society / General Bacardi / Banned From The Roxy / G's Song / Fight War, Not Wars / Women / Securicor / Sucks / You Pay / Angels / What A Shame / So What / Well?...Do They?

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