The reason this was ommited from the original feeding 12" was the Irish pressing plant refused to press it unless this track was taken off, Crass offered to send out a cassette of the track to anyone who requested it, it was then put on the second pressing produced through Crass records.
It's been 30 yrs now since this was put out. I know faster, "harder", "heavier" songs than this, but this one makes a more powerful statement than any song I know. My ex used to call it 'the most evil song I've ever heard'.
This was their opening reading when I saw them at Manchester poly in early 1980. Just read from a book on a music stand in almost darkness except for the light on Eve. Very powerful image not to be forgotten.
You do realize that this song is not anti Jesus.....it's anti cemitisim, silly bones.. because Zionist jews denied rejected and crucified Jesus... this song portraits how much of tardis you is for thinking how punk rock you are to post this for attention. .It also portrays how modern society is taught to reject Jesus... when This song came out it also showed how many christians knew nothing of their own faith... Crass and so many other bands hide this in their 'art'. They are no more than a influential secret society like the knight's Templar or so many others.. WAKEUP donkey! HOW LONG YOU BEEN LISTENING TO THESE BANDS..
I love the comments here and the fact that there are little or no trolls. Apparently they're content with just giving a meager amt of thumbs down. One day I want to blast this through a megaphone at the local catholic diocese annual "lets harass women getting a routine pap smear or breast cancer screening" rally on "good" friday.
This little number always gave me a chuckle.I once had this on a playlist on an iPod or something and the next rack was Georgy Girl by The Seekers.Strange but true.
Dont be speechless, tell everyone about it and pass it on, let as many people as possible hear what you have heard. When i first heard this, i was amazed, i still am after years and years...!
twenty years..? i STILL know the lyrics i cant believe (yes i can) ... Reality Asylum is insanely impeccable. hauntingly beautiful. and your depiction is brilliant. thx~ae
I am no feeble Christ, not me. He hangs in glib delight upon his cross. Upon his cross. Above my body. Lowly me. Christ forgive, forgive. Holy he, he holy, he holy. Shit he forgives. Forgive, forgive. I, I, Me, I. I vomit for you, Jesu. Christi-Christus. Puke upon your papal throne. Wrapped you are in the bloody shroud of churlish suicide. Wrapped I am in the bloody cloud of hellish genocide. Petulant child. I have suffered for you, where you have never known me. I too must die. Will you be shadowed in the arrogance of my death? Your valley truth? What lights pass those pious heights? What passing bells for these in their trucks? For you Lord, you are the flag-bearer of these nations, one against the other, that die in the mud. No piety, no deity. Is that your forgiveness? Saint, martyr, goat, billy. Forgive? Shit he forgives. He hangs upon his cross in self-righteous judgment, hangs in crucified delight, nailed to the extent of his vision. His cross, his manhood, his violence, guilt, sin. He would nail my body upon his cross, as if I might have waited for him in the garden, as if I might have perfumed his body, washed those bloody feet? This woman that he seeks, suicide visionary, death reveller, rape, rapist, grave-digger, earth-mover, life-fucker. Jesu. You scooped the pits of Auschwitz. The soil of Treblinka is rich in your guilt, the sorrow of your tradition, your stupid humility is the crown of thorn we all must wear. For you? Ha. Master? Master of gore. Enigma. Stigma. Stigmata. Errata. Eraser. The cross is the mast of our oppression. You fly their vain flag. You carry it. Wear it on your back Lord. Your back. Enola is your gaiety. Suffer little children, suffer in that horror. Hiro-horror, horror-hiro, hiro-shima, shima-hiro, hiro-shima, hiro-shima, Hiroshima, Hiroshima. The bodies are your delight. The incandescent flame is the spirit of it. They come to you Jesu, to you. The nails are the only trinity. Hold them in your corpsey gracelessness. The image that I have had to suffer. These nails at my temple. The cross is the virgin body of womanhood that you defile. In your guilt, you turn your back, nailed to that body. Lamearse Jesus calls me sister! There are no words for my contempt! Every woman is a cross in his filthy theology! He turns his back on me in his fear. His vain delight is the pain I bear. Alone he hangs, his choice, his choice. Alone, alone, his voice, his voice. He shares nothing, this Christ; sterile, impotent, fuck-love prophet of death. He is the ultimate pornography. He! He! Hear us, Jesus! You sigh alone in your cock fear! You lie alone in your cunt fear! You cry alone in your woman fear! You die alone in your man fear! Alone Jesu, alone, in your cock fear, cunt fear, woman fear, man fear. Alone in you fear, alone in your fear, alone in your fear. Your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, Warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare! JESUS DIED FOR HIS OWN SINS. NOT MINE.
First time I listened to CRASS my friend in middle school got Best Before 84. He was Christian and into bands like mxpx and the like. After this track was over he gave me the CD. The rest is history.
I remember playing this to friends when I was 13 on a small cassette player at school - one guy burst into tears another threatened to burn the tape and pour holy water on it .
Whenever lifes is shit, I listen to this track and it sends me back to the true reality : I am the slave of many, but I manage to set T.A.Z. whenever and wherever I can. It's the only way to survive and be honest for me. "There is no authority but yourself"? That'my goal.
I like how a lot of people are saying "they wouldn't say anything about Islam".When this was written Islam wasn't what it is today.Christianity was what surrounded them.That's why this is about Christ.If you think that they wouldn't say anything about Mohammad if they were still around today,then you are kidding yourself.They didn't pull punches for anything and they would certainly wouldn't sit idly back while women are oppressed.So shut up!
***** myths are stories and stories are not prisons religion (or rather it's language) is non-rational but not without meaning (part of what it talks about is 'the numinous' (Jungian) or direct experience of the Divine) (pagans have a community too btw)
It went down so well the factory workers refused to press the vinyl once they heard it, which is why the 2nd run of the album Feeding the Five Thousand starts with complete silence for several minutes the 'silent song' renamed the Sound of Free Speech
Much prefer the instrumental remix :D Honestly my most favourite band of all time. Penis Envy was my first in 1982/3 and I was hooked from then. The love of Crass has never diminished.
a family friend showed me this last night...i couldn't remember the name of the band or the song...all i could remember that he said cross...well it was crass, but i found it again after ten minutes of searching. i like this song....it fucking awesome!
there were no ists/isms to crass, they just wanted you to listen and make your own decisions...this record changed the course of my life...that's what matters
bollox i bought a copy of the feedin of the 5000 about ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 6/7 years ago and reality asylum was right in there as bold as brass from the start!!!! i hope to fully "get" this before i die.
@TheBlackLagooner Good choice! Mine will have "Sanvean" and maybe "Song of the Sybil" by Dead Can Dance off "Towards the Within" and "With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come" written by Henry Purcell and done by the Boston (but Crass is more of the people it seems..Especially in my world where laughter greets my interest in so-called "fine arts"..Lyrics are SURELY truer and more to life than any classical song I know..)Philharmonic,etc..
@TheBlackLagooner - that's a beautiful sentiment - without irony or sarcasm - my ex contacts me about this song to this day 10+ yrs after our divorce - asking for "the most evil song ever" so she can pass it on to her friends [she was raised catholic btw]
Needless to say, Sister Eve was never invited to speak at the Vatican again.
Lmao
KarmicAnarchist lol
The reason this was ommited from the original feeding 12" was the Irish pressing plant refused to press it unless this track was taken off, Crass offered to send out a cassette of the track to anyone who requested it, it was then put on the second pressing produced through Crass records.
This spiritual hymn fills me with the spirit! Hallelujah!
It's been 30 yrs now since this was put out. I know faster, "harder", "heavier" songs than this, but this one makes a more powerful statement than any song I know. My ex used to call it 'the most evil song I've ever heard'.
this is my first time listening to this song and the chills that i have right now are insane
That's a little something the Christian fundamentalists call "satan".
But to us it's called crass.
I always have the same chills , tells me how deep i am being trapped by religion ..I have escaped:-)
Madison Martin so did I .I heard it originally and I am shivering
how, its fake bs jesus never existed religion is dumb humans are good at putting faith over nothing
Anarchism is about responsibility.Control yourself and all else follows.
This was their opening reading when I saw them at Manchester poly in early 1980. Just read from a book on a music stand in almost darkness except for the light on Eve.
Very powerful image not to be forgotten.
This song was supposedly so disturbing that the government investigated it.
Yeah but the us government also investigated "Fuck tha police!" By N.W.A.
You mean NWA, idiot
Reiss Gilmour thanks you I didn't notice that, my bad.
Joseph rivas it's alright
People packing it at the record factory in Ireland refused to touch it : )
Still gives me chills years later
merry crassmas
Holy shit that's brilliant! I now know what word is going to cover my house in December.
Still love this after 15 years. As the years pass, it becomes more relevant
Poetry of TRUTH! Bang.
OH NO, THE SKY WIZARD IS ON A CROSS!!
"Sky wizard"
😆😆😆
"Enola is your gaiety" Oh Eve, you DO crack me up sometimes. . . .
Kali Kristos she didn't write it
I can't thank you enough for posting this. Overwhelming, truthful and timeless
GENIUS! Thanks for posting this, real punk needs to be seen more often! Great video too.
I will always love this poem.
I will always post it just after midnight on Xmas Eve, running into Xmas day.
You do realize that this song is not anti Jesus.....it's anti cemitisim, silly bones.. because Zionist jews denied rejected and crucified Jesus... this song portraits how much of tardis you is for thinking how punk rock you are to post this for attention. .It also portrays how modern society is taught to reject Jesus... when This song came out it also showed how many christians knew nothing of their own faith... Crass and so many other bands hide this in their 'art'. They are no more than a influential secret society like the knight's Templar or so many others.. WAKEUP donkey! HOW LONG YOU BEEN LISTENING TO THESE BANDS..
This is a work of art.
THE most powerful song and amazing video to boot. Thank you for your creation.
I love the comments here and the fact that there are little or no trolls. Apparently they're content with just giving a meager amt of thumbs down. One day I want to blast this through a megaphone at the local catholic diocese annual "lets harass women getting a routine pap smear or breast cancer screening" rally on "good" friday.
The Church has yet to make a song about Eve Libertine or you; feel free to keep making art around us; we love it! We matter.
And No More Pink Tax on Anything!! Stop using males for medical testing of female "treatments" & procedures duh!
This little number always gave me a chuckle.I once had this on a playlist on an iPod or something and the next rack was Georgy Girl by The Seekers.Strange but true.
still scares me to bits..... and i was 13 when i bought it. great work crass great video alan.
Thanks for your comments and i could'nt agree more with it, glad to see someone else appreciates Crass' poetic works.
Dont be speechless, tell everyone about it and pass it on, let as many people as possible hear what you have heard. When i first heard this, i was amazed, i still am after years and years...!
First punk single i ever bought, along with GBH - Sick boy
twenty years..? i STILL know the lyrics
i cant believe (yes i can) ... Reality Asylum is insanely impeccable. hauntingly beautiful.
and your depiction is brilliant. thx~ae
heard stations when i was 11 and still love playing it
I am no feeble Christ, not me.
He hangs in glib delight upon his cross. Upon his cross.
Above my body. Lowly me.
Christ forgive, forgive. Holy he, he holy, he holy.
Shit he forgives. Forgive, forgive. I, I, Me, I.
I vomit for you, Jesu. Christi-Christus.
Puke upon your papal throne.
Wrapped you are in the bloody shroud of churlish suicide.
Wrapped I am in the bloody cloud of hellish genocide.
Petulant child.
I have suffered for you, where you have never known me.
I too must die. Will you be shadowed in the arrogance of my death?
Your valley truth? What lights pass those pious heights?
What passing bells for these in their trucks?
For you Lord, you are the flag-bearer of these nations,
one against the other, that die in the mud.
No piety, no deity. Is that your forgiveness?
Saint, martyr, goat, billy. Forgive?
Shit he forgives.
He hangs upon his cross in self-righteous judgment,
hangs in crucified delight, nailed to the extent of his vision.
His cross, his manhood, his violence, guilt, sin.
He would nail my body upon his cross,
as if I might have waited for him in the garden,
as if I might have perfumed his body, washed those bloody feet?
This woman that he seeks, suicide visionary, death reveller,
rape, rapist, grave-digger, earth-mover, life-fucker. Jesu.
You scooped the pits of Auschwitz.
The soil of Treblinka is rich in your guilt,
the sorrow of your tradition,
your stupid humility is the crown of thorn we all must wear.
For you? Ha. Master? Master of gore.
Enigma.
Stigma.
Stigmata.
Errata.
Eraser.
The cross is the mast of our oppression.
You fly their vain flag. You carry it.
Wear it on your back Lord. Your back.
Enola is your gaiety.
Suffer little children, suffer in that horror.
Hiro-horror, horror-hiro, hiro-shima, shima-hiro,
hiro-shima, hiro-shima, Hiroshima, Hiroshima.
The bodies are your delight.
The incandescent flame is the spirit of it.
They come to you Jesu, to you.
The nails are the only trinity.
Hold them in your corpsey gracelessness.
The image that I have had to suffer.
These nails at my temple.
The cross is the virgin body of womanhood that you defile.
In your guilt, you turn your back, nailed to that body.
Lamearse Jesus calls me sister! There are no words for my contempt!
Every woman is a cross in his filthy theology!
He turns his back on me in his fear.
His vain delight is the pain I bear.
Alone he hangs, his choice, his choice.
Alone, alone, his voice, his voice.
He shares nothing, this Christ; sterile, impotent, fuck-love prophet of death.
He is the ultimate pornography. He! He!
Hear us, Jesus!
You sigh alone in your cock fear!
You lie alone in your cunt fear!
You cry alone in your woman fear!
You die alone in your man fear!
Alone Jesu, alone, in your cock fear, cunt fear, woman fear, man fear.
Alone in you fear, alone in your fear, alone in your fear.
Your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear, your fear,
Warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare!
JESUS DIED FOR HIS OWN SINS. NOT MINE.
What an amazing video. Beautifully created and crafted.
Amazing piece of work to complement a stunning piece of music and its lyrics.
This will be playing at my funeral. My wife promised me.
alive?
First time I listened to CRASS my friend in middle school got Best Before 84. He was Christian and into bands like mxpx and the like. After this track was over he gave me the CD. The rest is history.
The song and video are both haunting and brilliant.
Crass, utterly brilliant.
amazing, love the old punk stuff.
this is bad ass. i love the use of typography. cheers!
Alan, you did us all proud with this,
People ask me sometimes, what films spook me?
This fucking does!
I remember playing this to friends when I was 13 on a small cassette player at school - one guy burst into tears another threatened to burn the tape and pour holy water on it .
It is a great piece. What more can one really say.
I'm extremely late getting into Crass but better late than never eh?
last heard this track whilst at school 25 years ago,remember as if it was yesterday.................brilliant.
Cheers ! I'm just glad folks like it.
@Nonvm A friend of mine got the Crass logo tattoo on his chest with this lyric. Brilliant!
On older song but surely we could resurrect this for Eurovision 2017 to piss off the Euro-Catholic voters who won't vote for the UK anyway.
😂
20-odd years on and this is as good and as relevant as ever it was
i had the single version too
this is even better
Thanks for that. A wonderful piece.
Excellent post. BRAVO!
This is way ahead of it's time.
Magnificent
Whenever lifes is shit, I listen to this track and it sends me back to the true reality : I am the slave of many, but I manage to set T.A.Z. whenever and wherever I can. It's the only way to survive and be honest for me. "There is no authority but yourself"? That'my goal.
These are fighting words
This song is an eternal indictment of vile religion. Alpha to Omega.
BRILLIANT
Wow, these Anglican women priests are really shaking up the Church of England...was this from a recent service?
Genuine LOL, Fantastic comment!
this is really well done
The master of gore! ... great vids btw mr
I like how a lot of people are saying "they wouldn't say anything about Islam".When this was written Islam wasn't what it is today.Christianity was what surrounded them.That's why this is about Christ.If you think that they wouldn't say anything about Mohammad if they were still around today,then you are kidding yourself.They didn't pull punches for anything and they would certainly wouldn't sit idly back while women are oppressed.So shut up!
I loved this song at 23. Now 55. still brilliant but so far out there I shall tell very few. Now pagan/wiccan.
I'm pagan too (I mean I'm interested in it)
***** myths are stories and stories are not prisons
religion (or rather it's language) is non-rational but not without meaning (part of what it talks about is 'the numinous' (Jungian) or direct experience of the Divine)
(pagans have a community too btw)
fuckin powerful
it a joke a stupid fuckin joke slow down we heard it all b4 ♥
I want this played at my funeral.
wot a fantastic blast from the past...!! takes me bak 2 the dark days of my fuckd up youth
I miss Crass...
Brilliant vid.
LOVE IT
So anyway, I was searching for a decent pigs in blankets recipe for the old Christmas dinner and somehow this came up on the recommendations.
Catchy tune though.
It went down so well the factory workers refused to press the vinyl once they heard it, which is why the 2nd run of the album Feeding the Five Thousand starts with complete silence for several minutes the 'silent song' renamed the Sound of Free Speech
Excellent!
I want this song playing on my wedding
Much prefer the instrumental remix :D
Honestly my most favourite band of all time.
Penis Envy was my first in 1982/3 and I was hooked from then. The love of Crass has never diminished.
jesus never answered my prayers...
I still have this single and am a little too nervous to play it out loud. Though it seems apposite for today (Good Friday) :)
"Art is all that cannot be supressed."
🖤💖🖤💖🖤💖🖤💖🖤💖🖤💖🖤
More powerful than ever.
a family friend showed me this last night...i couldn't remember the name of the band or the song...all i could remember that he said cross...well it was crass, but i found it again after ten minutes of searching. i like this song....it fucking awesome!
The most shocking text of Crass. Eve Libertine, Penny Rimbaud- good work... fuckin' good work!
🙏🏾 Amen 🙏🏾
One day you will know
there were no ists/isms to crass, they just wanted you to listen and make your own decisions...this record changed the course of my life...that's what matters
Great job.
Wear it your back Lord. Your back.
A genious.
porky died for his own skins, not mine.
Lol. I wonder what the former members of Crass thinks of this comment.
Bacon Man Lol..... Kevin Bacon...
thanks for your kind comments.
There's a delightful ringtone in there somewhere..
bollox i bought a copy of the feedin of the 5000 about ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 6/7 years ago and reality asylum was right in there as bold as brass from the start!!!!
i hope to fully "get" this before i die.
@TheBlackLagooner Good choice! Mine will have "Sanvean" and maybe "Song of the Sybil" by Dead Can Dance off "Towards the Within" and "With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come" written by Henry Purcell and done by the Boston (but Crass is more of the people it seems..Especially in my world where laughter greets my interest in so-called "fine arts"..Lyrics are SURELY truer and more to life than any classical song I know..)Philharmonic,etc..
this version is also on the "Best Before 1984" LP
Punk never Dies...
Im out of words.This totaly true
Excellent video. Crass is the shit!
Excellent vid ;@)
Haha, your brother is awesome!
Long live Crass!
More valid than ever.
coulda fooled me mr moustache
@TheBlackLagooner - that's a beautiful sentiment - without irony or sarcasm - my ex contacts me about this song to this day 10+ yrs after our divorce - asking for "the most evil song ever" so she can pass it on to her friends [she was raised catholic btw]
Great theme for Malafaia!
one of the best songs ever..to he maker of this lovely video where did you get the image at time 3 minutes?
That was fucking cool.
ah, brings me back to my student days....
Hell to the yeah
cheers mate