Best Before 1984 (The Crassical Collection)

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Album Info

Release Date: 2020-10-02

Label: Crass Records

Package is a box containing 1 x double CD folder, 1 x booklet and replica sleeves of their five main singles.

Tracks "Major General Despair" and "Angela Rippon" were removed from this release due to being bonus tracks on the Crassical Collection release of "The Feeding of the 5000".

Parts of "The Thatchergate Tapes" previously appeared in the song "Powerless with a Guitar" from the Devastate To Liberate animal rights benefit. This was a faked recording of a discussion between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher about the sinking of the ship Belgrano during the Falklands War.

Disc 1, tracks originally appeared on the following:
2, 3 -1979, Released as Crass - Reality Asylum / Shaved Women
5 - 1980, Released as Crass, Poison Girls - Bloody Revolutions / Persons Unknown
7, 8 - 1980, Released as Crass - Nagasaki Nightmare / Big A Little A
10 - 1980, Released as Crass - Rival Tribal Rebel Revel
12 - 1982, Released as a Flexi Crass - Sheep Farming In The Falklands
15 to 17 - 1982, Released as Crass - How Does It Feel-
19, 20 - 1983; Released as Crass - Sheep Farming In The Falklands
22 to 24 1984, Released as Crass - You're Already Dead
25 - 1984, Recorded, unreleased until 1986, Crass - Best Before...1984

Disc 2, tracks originally appeared on the following:
1 - 1984, Live, last gig, Miners' benefit, Aberdare, Wales, unreleased until 1986, Crass - Best Before...1984
3 - 1983, Released as Crass - Who Dunnit?
11 - 1983, Previously unreleased. "Sheep Farming 3" was written after the end of the Falklands War.
13 -1981, Released as Crass - Merry Crassmas