Stations of the Crass

Infobox Album |
Name = Stations of the Crass
Type = Album
Artist = Crass


Released = 1979
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Anarcho-punk
Length = 46:22
Label = Crass Records
Producer = Crass
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nt5m961o3ep7]
Last album = "The Feeding of the 5000"
(1978)
This album = "Stations of the Crass"
(1979)
Next album = "Penis Envy"
(1981)

"Stations of the Crass" is the second album by Crass, released in 1979. The record, originally released as a double 12", includes live tracks from a gig recorded at the "Pied Bull" pub in Islington, London on August 7 1979. The first three sides contain the studio tracks and play at 45 rpm, while the final side comprises said live material and plays at 33 rpm. The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were almost a Crass hallmark), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Tottenham Court Road tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them.

Track listing

#"Mother-Earth"
#"White Punks on Hope"
#"You've Got Big Hands"
#"Darling"
#"System"
#"Big Man, Big M.A.N."
#"Hurry up Garry"
#"Fun Going On"
#"Crutch of Society"
#"Heard Too Much About"
#"Chairman of the Bored"
#"Tired"
#"Walls"
#"Upright Citizen"
#"The Gasman Cometh"
#"Demo(N)Crats"
#"Contaminational Power"
#"Time Out"
#"I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick"

Live tracks recorded at the Pied Bull, Islington, 1979

# "System/Big Man, Big M.A.N./Banned from the Roxy/Hurry Up Garry"
# "Women/Shaved Women/You Pay/Heard Too Much About"
# "Angels/What a Shame/So What/G's Song"
# "Do They Owe Us a Living?"
# "Punk Is Dead"