Best Before 1984

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Compiling singles and noteworthy album cuts from Crass's eight year-long career, BEST BEFORE is an ample sampling of the work of one of punk's most interesting groups. The compilation begins and ends with "Do They Owe Us a Living," Crass's longtime signature tune. Among the highlights included here is "Reality Asylum," an intense re-working of "Asylum," as it appeared on 1978's THE FEEDING OF THE 5000. Hauntingly daring and dark on this track, Eve Libertine attacks the Church and its hypocrisy, concluding by stating "Jesus died for his own sins--not mine." The tracks compiled here attest to the fact that to Crass, nothing was sacred. They relentlessly challenge Church, state, the media, and big business on songs such as "Big A, Little A," a catchy anthem of paranoia that incorporates an English nursery rhyme. Employing tape loops, hard punk riffs, and white noise, Crass's output as represented here gives testament to the group's daring. They even spoof on their own legal problems--many Crass records were banned in England, and they suffered no end of harassment and censorship from the Margaret Thatcher-led government they so violently opposed.