VariousBullshit Detector

Label:

Crass Records – 421984/4

Series:

Bullshit Detector

Format:

Vinyl , LP, 45 RPM, Compilation, Repress

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Experimental

Tracklist

A1 Andy T Jazz On A Summers Day
A2 Counter Attack Don't Wanna Fight For You
Bass GuitarKraig (3)
DrumsJohn (80)
GuitarRich (41)
Guitar, VocalsSteve (116)
A3 The Alternative* Change It
BassWilf Surman
DrumsJames Murphy (10)
GuitarRodney Comrie
Lead VocalsCraig Nichol
Vocals, Words By [Statements]Eric Beveridge
A4 Clockwork Criminals We Are You
A5 Reputations In Jeopardy Girls Love Popstars
BassChris W.
DrumsPete (82)
GuitarChris The er
Voice, Voice [Dub]Andy.T.*
A6 Crass Do They Owe Us A Living
A7 Amebix University Challenged
BassRic Gadsby
DrumsBilly Jug
Lead GuitarChris Miller (8)
VocalsRob Miller (10)
A8 Sceptics Local Chaos
BassAndy*
DrumsFerret (4)
GuitarJoe*
VocalsJon*
A9 The Sinyx Mark Of The Beast
BassAuntie (2)
DrumsVints
GuitarPaul Q*
VocalsAlien (19)
A10 Frenzy Battalion Thalidomide
BassSteve Hewitt (3)
DrumsDaz Kelly*
GuitarMarki Sav
VoiceGary McGhee
A11 Icon* Cancer
BassP. Smith*
DrumsM. Holmes*
GuitarC#*
VocalsDicky*
A12 The Speakers Why
BassJohn Guiver
DrumsAlan White (8)
GuitarColin Smith (7)
VocalsKevin Austen
A13 A.P.F. Brigade Anarchist Attack
PerformerJonathan Hindle
B1 Fuck The C.I.A. Right Or Wrong
Trumpet [Tuning Pipes]Andy. T.*
VoiceJem.T.
B2 Caine Mutiny And The Kallisti Apples Of Nonsense Morning Star
PerformerTommy*
B3 The Sucks '3'
BassV. Fritz
DrumsN. Pointon
GuitarN. Brewin
VocalsS. Smith (12)
B4 Porno Squad Khaki Doesn't Go With My Eyes
PerformerT. Brown*
B5 S.P.G. Murders Soldiers
DrumsCee Nicholson
GuitarPaul Furr
VocalsSteve Cooper (7)
B6 Eratics* National Service
Bass, VocalsStringy
DrumsBondage (3)
GuitarSnout (3)
B7 Red Alert (8) Who Needs Society
BassSi(co)*
DrumsBusby
GuitarMike*
VocalsJohn (100)
B8 The Snipers War Song
BassWhacker*
DrumsMark*
Guitar, VocalsBungi (2)
VocalsRuss*
B9 Armchair Power Power
BassAndy (37)
GuitarDave (144)
VocalsPaul (34)
B10 Disrupters Napalm
Bass, Backing VocalsDave*
DrumsKev*
GuitarGibbon
VocalsSteve*
B11 Andy T Nagasaki Mon Amour
B12 Action Frogs Drumming Up Hope (Ferret Skank)
DrumsCozy Slippers
GuitarFlo (27)

Companies, etc.

  • Pressed ByMPO
  • Mastered AtSouthern Studios

Credits

  • Compiled ByCrass
  • DesignExitstencial Press*
  • EngineerJohn 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.
——
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

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Reviews

  • Chilli_Fingers's avatar
    Chilli_Fingers
    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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