Crass Records Bullshit Detector Three - Punk Compilation, 1984 1st Press, VG+/NM

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Crass Records Bullshit Detector 3 - Punk Compilation, 1984, 1st Pressing, VG+/NM

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When subversive Essex-based anarcho-punk band/art collective Crass, probably very much to their own surprise, found themselves selling a lot of records and making money they didn't buy supercars and mansions - they ploughed it straight back into the anarchist, feminist, animal rights and anti-fascist movements from which they had come. Part of the money went towards setting up and maintaining Crass Records, championing and giving a voice to bands with similar ideas and ideals to Crass's own, who would have been ignored by the big record labels.

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The first of the Bullshit Detector compilations arrived in 1980 and, in addition to Crass, featured music from the some of the most no-compromise punk bands around. By 1982, when Bullshit Detector 2 appeared, the underground punk scene was burgeoning with so much good music being created that the album was extended to two discs, which would continue through to 1983/1984's Bullshit Detector 3 with no fewer than 41 tracks and would be the last of the double albums until 1994's Bullshit Detector 4, originally available only as an unofficial C90 cassette, was finally pressed on vinyl.

Now, Crass were probably the biggest of the underground punk bands at the height of the underground/DIY punk era, and their records are not difficult to find. However, as one might expect, anarcho-punks attach little importance to material possessions, including records, and as a result the vast majority of those records which still exist tend to be in a poor state - it is very, very rare to find an original, first pressing such as this copy of Bullshit Detector 3 in this sort of condition: were it not for a shallow scratch in Track A1 which, while not serious enough to cause the stylus to skip and resulting in only very minor surface noise for that one track, is enough to force me to downgrade the record to VG+ from the NM it would otherwise have got (and in fact, without the scratch a lot of people would have graded M, but like many old school record dealers I never use the M grade because a record that has been played cannot ever be mint and no record that hasn't been play tested can ever be accurately graded - therefore, no record can truthfully be graded mint).

Crass were almost as famous for their cover art as their music and politics, and rightly so - nobody else had ever managed to develop a style quite like it, with its quasi-militaristic home-made feel. This record has lost one of the original paper inner sleeves (it's been amusingly replaced with an old MFP inner featuring ads for some distinctly not-very-anarcho-punk bands such as Russ Conway, Dean Martin and the black and white minstrel show), but the original outer sleeve, which folds out into a 90 x 60cm spread packed full of cut-and-paste collage art created by members of Crass and the other bands on the album, is in exceptionally superb condition without any significant damage, staining or splits.

There's a full track listing below, and if you ever see a copy in better condition than this you're a very, very lucky person indeed.

• A1 Avert Aversion – Oh What A Nice Day
• A2 Awake Mankind – Once Upon A Time
• A3 A Nul Noise – Hibakusha
• A4 Animus – Nuclear Piss
• A5 Peroxide – Ministry Of Death (M.O.D.)
• A6 Untitled – We Are Taught To Kill
• A7 Xtract – Fight For Peace
• A8 Verbal Assault – Not Yet Ron
• A9 Fifth A Column – Counterfeit Culture
• A10 Potential Victim – People
• B1 7th Plague – Rubber Bullets
• B2 Rebel A – Genesis To Genocide
• B3 Alienated – Living In Fear
• B4 Barbed Wire – Weapons Of War
• B5 Rob Williams – Lies
• B6 Reality Control – The War Is Over
• B7 Youthanasia – Power
• B8 Sammy Rubette & Safety Match – The Ballad Of Maggie The Maggot
• B9 Politicide – 51st State
• B10 Markus Abused – The Killing Machine
• C1 One Man's Meat– Your Country Misleads You
• C2 Direct Action – Death Without A Thought
• C3 Crag – Voice Your Protest
• C4 Attrition – In Your Hand
• C5 Napalm Death – The Crucifixion Of Possessions
• C6 The Impalers – Sun, Sun, Sun
• C7 Health Hazzard – Picture Show
• C8 Phil Hedgehog – Radio Times
• C9 Malice – Faceless
• C10 Michael Kingzett Taylor – Paranoia
• D1 Brainwashed Pupils – The Demonstration
• D2 No Defences – Work To Consume
• D3 A.N.E.E.B. – Berlin Wall
• D4 Carnage – Carnage
• D5 Warning – Beasts Of Fiction
• D6 State Of Shock – Excess Youth
• D7 Neale Harmer – Hard Nut
• D8 Dead To The World – Action Man
• D9 Dandruff – Life In A Whiskey Bottle
• D10 Richard III – Will You Care?
• D11 Funky Rayguns – The Hare And The Tortoise

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(If you feel a little dubious about a record which Crass insisted was priced at £3.50 brand new being sold at a price this much higher, well, so did I. However, 100% of the money it raises will go to our charity which provides end-of-life care free of charge to more than 4000 patients every year, alleviating strain on the NHS. I like to think Crass would have approved of that.)

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