 | Crass Penis Envy
3.9
excellent
| Ranking: #34 for 1981 | |
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| 5.0 classic | CherryColoredFunk | June 3rd 10 |
A timeless punk classic that also manages to be as relevant and scathing a social document as Swift's "Modest Proposal". As the world becomes increasingly commercialized and adopts more pornographic sensibilities into the mainstream, the kind of message you hear on 'Penis Envy' becomes even more important as a single dissenting voice among the completely homogenized farcical mass media. A song like 'Systematic Death' is just a perfect microcosm of punk sensibilities and counter-culture attitudes, and Eve's fevered pitch and incomparable edge turn it into a black-hearted anthem of disgust. 'Smother Love' is so quick you might miss it (besides the wonderful bouncing bass), but its a blast of relationship reality from a 'dangerous' viewpoint that you won't find anywhere else. 'Where Next Columbus' is meat of the album; a hyper-literate trip down the nature of self discovery, blatantly incriminating the listener as a vacuous mass for even having the nerve to listen and think and take. The voices you hear on 'Penis Envy' are the voices the system does not want you to hear! It's not hyperbole or paranoia; the messages are so subversive and introspective that they shatter right through the carefully constructed clutter of our roles and touch somewhere deep, if you're willing to let them. This is an especially important album for young women; when 'feminist' has become a label for a singer-songwriter lamenting her lost man, it is absolutely necessary to return to a feminist work that is smart, powerful, fully-formed, and most of all ANGRY! PS. The bass on this album is just incredible. Some of the most inventive and unexpected rhythm playing that comes to mind in the entire genre. Because of this, the album is amazing to just crank up and rock out to, definitely a surprise considering the content. You just wait and see how long it takes before you're humming 'Systematic Death' wherever you go...
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| 0.0 | spitmutilation | June 28th 07 |
Crap just utter crap. Unrealistic politics, shitty music, and bad vocalists. They aren't even pretty! where is the appeal? Why would anybody buy it? It's no surprise that only teenage anarcho punks with no idea about REAL politics buy this dreck
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| 3.0 good | armchairidealist | May 3rd 08 |
I love Eve Libertine's vocals. As for those of you don't like 'unrealistic politics'.. what can i say.. open your minds maybe just a bit.
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| 3.5 great | fran tall ear | March 21st 16 |
lyrical tour-de-force, not optimistic feminism but rather a litany of society's atrocities that show little sign of going away. most of the accompaniment doesn't impress, but Systematic Death is a 5/5 song and a punk classic
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| 0.0 | pleaxe | January 24th 13 |
I am not sure what the big hype about this album is about, in my opinion it's utter shit. Definitely one of overrated albums of all time
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| 4.5 superb | theendofsilence | February 5th 10 |
Crass Penis Envy 4.5 stars another true crass classic from the title to the poster sleeve and the songs "bata motel/smother love" etc also having eve libertine and joy de vivre do the vocals.
(members of crass not on this recording steve ignorant)
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| 3.5 great | Zac124 | March 11th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | JuriHan | September 18th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | June 27th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stakis83 | February 17th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Prole | December 5th 21 |
| 3.5 great | nbats | August 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | BirdUp | June 8th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tb1114 | April 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | March 29th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | gilly | January 30th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Tasty | September 8th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | August 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | El Olam | November 27th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Henry | October 4th 16 |
| 3.5 great | adr | September 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | April 16th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | RVAHC13 | March 3rd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Cal665 | January 14th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | RxQueer | April 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | gosk8n | January 24th 13 |
| 3.5 great | jack1oo | November 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mmadden | July 15th 11 |
| 1.5 very poor | LevL6 | November 22nd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | kount | November 5th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Anguish | September 28th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Jmaj14 | September 13th 07 |
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