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Penis Envy

by Crass

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Bata Motel 03:34
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What now, now you would destroy the earth, dry the river beds? What now? Now in your control, birth and death, dry the bodies, incandescent in the heat. Your fire is melting both soil and soul, in plan maybe, is that not enough? Your war and raving of it is so total, you're consumed by it as you'd consumed us. Would you see the fire from your sanctuary of death? What terrible pain you need to hide. In your hatred you'd seek to destroy the earth, what is it that you have been denied? Your mind and its rantings are so barren. What the fuck are you thinking? What the fuck? Your eyes and their vision, empty, staring. What the fuck are you seeing? What the fuck? What now? Now you would destroy the earth, dry the riverbeds. What now? Now in your control, birth and death, dry the bodies, incandescent in the heat. So singular your motives, yet impossible to define. How finely lined my destiny in the cobwebs of your crime. So insular your future, so alien your plan., Take all of this if you will and I'll take what I can. A town that is no more, "My god", you say, "What have I done?" But you won't heed what's gone before, "What pity?", you say, "There is none." And so you drive the world to war, but this war will not be lost or won. The desolation that you've seen, but never saw is the lesson that you teach, but never learn. But would you see the fire in the world where you exist? Will your hard eyes register the pain? Are you so cold that there is no distress? Where there's death would you give death again? No flowers in your landscape, some withered rose kicked amongst the corpses where they lay, halted where all hope died, froze by the horror of your acts compelled to stay. What now? Now you would destroy the earth? Dry the riverbeds. What now? Now in your control, birth and death, dry the bodies, incandescent in the heat. Unnoticed all this in your lusting after death, how determined that your darkness should be shared. Unnoticed in your blindness, this miracle of breath, what element of beauty attracts your cruel desire? Would you see the burning? Is that your delight? Would you have me see it in your stead? Would you feel my yearning? Peace, life, light, body, breath. Would you take all this? What now? Now you would destroy the earth, dry the river beds. What now? Now in your control, birth and death. Dry the bodies, incandescent in the heat. What is it that you're seeking, so cold and so deprived? What is it that you dream of in your empty, eyeless head? Why must I share your lust of death? Can you not die alone? Why must I share your fear of breath, light, life, PEACE?
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Smother Love 01:48
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Dry Weather 03:06
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Our Wedding 02:07

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Penis Envy is Crass' third album, released in 1981.

The albums name is a nod to some of Freud's ideas concerning sexuality. This album marked a departure from the "macho, hardcore" sounds heard on previous Crass albums, featuring more complex musical arrangements, and exclusively female vocals (those of Joy De Vivre and Eve Libertine).

The album addressed issues of feminism and attacked institutions of "the system" such as marriage and sexual oppression.

The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and The Greater Manchester Police seized copies of it, along with other Crass albums and Dead Kennedys material, from Eastern Bloc record shop. Its owner, Frank Schofield, was charged with "Displaying obscene articles for publication for gain". As well as this, the band Flux Of Pink Indians, Crass' labels, and their publishing company were all charged on the grounds of the Obscene Publications Act.
The heavy costs incurred by this would eventually contribute to the band's demise.

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released August 30, 2019

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Crass were an Anarcho-punk band formed in 1977. They popularised the anarcho-punk movement, and were advocates for such matters as direct action, animal rights, anti-facism, feminism, and environmentalism. From the word go, their career's ending was set to be 1984, and they lived up to this intention, splitting up following a miners' benefit gig in Wales in July that year. ... more

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