Various – Bullshit Detector
Label: |
Crass Records – 421984/4 |
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Series: |
Bullshit Detector |
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Vinyl
, LP, 45 RPM, Compilation, Repress
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Country: |
UK |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Experimental |
Tracklist
A1 | Andy T– | Jazz On A Summers Day |
A2 | Counter Attack– | Don't Wanna Fight For You |
A3 | The Alternative*– | Change It |
A4 | Clockwork Criminals– | We Are You |
A5 | Reputations In Jeopardy– | Girls Love Popstars |
A6 | Crass– | Do They Owe Us A Living |
A7 | Amebix– | University Challenged |
A8 | Sceptics– | Local Chaos |
A9 | The Sinyx– | Mark Of The Beast |
A10 | Frenzy Battalion– | Thalidomide |
A11 | Icon*– | Cancer |
A12 | The Speakers– | Why |
A13 | A.P.F. Brigade– | Anarchist Attack |
B1 | Fuck The C.I.A.– | Right Or Wrong |
B2 | Caine Mutiny And The Kallisti Apples Of Nonsense– | Morning Star |
B3 | The Sucks– | '3' |
B4 | Porno Squad– | Khaki Doesn't Go With My Eyes |
B5 | S.P.G. Murders– | Soldiers |
B6 | Eratics*– | National Service |
B7 | Red Alert (8)– | Who Needs Society |
B8 | The Snipers– | War Song |
B9 | Armchair Power– | Power |
B10 | Disrupters– | Napalm |
B11 | Andy T– | Nagasaki Mon Amour |
B12 | Action Frogs– | Drumming Up Hope (Ferret Skank) |
Companies, etc.
- Pressed By – MPO
- Mastered At – Southern Studios
Credits
- Compiled By – Crass
- Design – Exitstencial Press*
- Engineer – John Loder
Notes
——Sleeve info——
Pay No More Than £1.35.
crass records.c/o.rough trade, 202 kensington park road,london w11.
All the tracks were recorded at various times and numerous places around britain. Engineered at Southern Studios.London.on 19th July 1980. Artwork by the bands.
Thanks to everyone concerned and all the bands who sent in tapes who don't appear.
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The vinyl sits in a foldout poster-sleeve of 35"x24", containing a collage of info, lyrics and artwork from the various tracks.
——Extra info——
First in a series of compilations highlighting demo tracks sent to Crass by a variety of bands.
Pay No More Than £1.35.
crass records.c/o.rough trade, 202 kensington park road,london w11.
All the tracks were recorded at various times and numerous places around britain. Engineered at Southern Studios.London.on 19th July 1980. Artwork by the bands.
Thanks to everyone concerned and all the bands who sent in tapes who don't appear.
——
The vinyl sits in a foldout poster-sleeve of 35"x24", containing a collage of info, lyrics and artwork from the various tracks.
——Extra info——
First in a series of compilations highlighting demo tracks sent to Crass by a variety of bands.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A): 421984/4 A-2 MPO
- Matrix / Runout (Side B): 421984/4 B-2 MPO
Other Versions (3)
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Bullshit Detector (LP, 45 RPM) | Crass Records | 421984/4 | UK | 1980 | ||
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Bullshit Detector (LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Grey) | Crass Records | 421984/4LTD | UK | 2023 | ||
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Bullshit Detector (LP, 45 RPM, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered) | Crass Records | 421984/4R | UK | 2023 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Various - 'Bullshit Detector Volume #1' (Crass Records, 1980). Without doubt the greatest expression of the DIY punk aesthetic ever pressed on vinyl. A clarion call to many dispossessed youth to express themselves musically as well as a media for spreading ideas throughout a community which may otherwise have remained geographically and culturally isolated from all the other like minds forming bands and starting 'zines across the land. At a time when most of the established punk bands had polished their sound and were gracing the TOTP studio this galvanised and gave ideological cohesion to the emerging, embryonic scene that became later known as 'anarcho-punk'. It is a record which remains even today unduly underestimated and maligned for its 'quality', which, of course, wasn't the point of the release at all. Stand-out tracks for me have always been the gratingly atonal Snipers 'War Song', the discordant lo-fi dementia (with what genuinely sounds like buckets and dustbin lids for drums!) of The Sucks ‘3’ and the primal pogo of Counter Attack’s ‘Don’t wanna fight for you’ . Bullshit Detector #1 stands as the first ‘punk’ record that irrefutably proved the ethos that ‘anyone’ really could DO IT, be on record and have their voice heard; even if that voice sounded like it was recorded down a phone and was accompanied by a toy guitar.
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