Crass - Nagasaki Nightmare

For years we've been sold this fairytale about the Punk rock pantomime. One band who seem to be written out of history are the anarcho-punk pioneers Crass. Often cited as being "more punk than thou",  Crass were living outside the punk rock rhetoric.  Crass were a collective producing abrasive politically inspired rock music as well as fantastic artwork.

They were definitely way ahead of the game with the coolest logos and artwork that informs much of the stencil wielding art anti-heroes and certainly laying the groundwork for Indie (creating their own label and ploughing the proceeds back into other like minded bands). They were a forerunner of the illegal Rave and the Rave culture of the mid to late 80s (holding outdoor festivals in unusual out of the way places that attracted thousands by word of mouth). 

You can hear the whole of the LA punk scene in Crass' music and they were never afraid to transcend the rules of that most Conservative of music Punk (Individualism, Not caring about society and what society thinks, small business entrepreneur ism , basically Thatcherism with gob). 

Not renowned for their sense of humour this track Nagasaki Nightmare was released at a time when nuclear war was a very real possibility and this sounds very scary indeed.