Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs (2007) Full Album

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In a 2013 interview with Audio Antihero Records, Jeffrey Lewis explained his motivation for the album:
"I do love Crass, and I also wanted some of those songs to be enjoyable to people who don't only want to listen to early 80s hardcore punk. At a certain period in history it might have been crucial for Crass to get those songs across by tying them to a certain attitude and style, but in a different period that attitude and style becomes a barrier to the songs, it holds the songs back instead of pushing the songs onwards. Not everything is like that -- I mean, nobody needs to do an album of indie-rock versions of Led Zeppelin songs, but Crass has such an extreme case of extreme style AND extreme substance, I wanted to see what the substance could do if it was removed from the style. In Led Zeppelin the style and the substance sort of have to go hand in hand, and if you mess with that then you're just creating a joke, like Dred Zeppelin, or those lounge covers of Stairway to Heaven, etc., etc. The original Crass recordings are totally great and impossible to make any better, but the substance is strong enough to outlive that. Songs of moral rebellion are great, people all over the world sing Bob Marley songs and Bob Dylan songs and Woody Guthrie songs and stuff like that, there's no reason why they shouldn't sing Crass songs too."
1. 00:00 - End Result
2. 03:25 - I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick
3. 08:31 - Systematic Death
4. 12:01 - The Gasman Cometh
5. 19:07 - Banned from the Roxy
6. 21:09 - Where Next Columbus?
7. 25:27 - Do They Owe Us a Living?
8. 27:10 - Securicor
9. 28:43 - Demoncrats
10. 34:31 - Big A, Little A
11. 39:43 - Punk Is Dead
12. 42:41 - Walls (Fun in the Oven)