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Fucking C***S Treat Us Like P***S

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Should be titled, "Crappy Bootleg". Fans of Flux of Pink Indians' Strive to Survive/Neu Smell should not expect the same quality. This sounds like a poor live performance, and the producers didn't even bother to place track breaks between songs, so the CD player won't let you skip the most dreadful ones. Buy Zounds, Rudimentary Peni, or Chumbawamba for high-quality anarchistic tunes.

Apology: I'm old and have more 'classical' CD's than hardcore. I have this on vinyl, not CD (I have heard the CD though, and thought that the Taking a Liberty tracks were good enough but highly incongruous; TFCTULP is sufficient and complete). It SLAYS. This album is the sound of F*** THIS and F*** THAT, much more so than anything that adheres to the hardcore formula which is now so, so, so tired and boring. The Pop Group and TG were further over the edge and sooner to the punch, but this is not so far behind. Thrash was still in it's infancy, but this album trounced all over any attempts to confine it within a genre. At the time, my nearest point of reference would have been Nurse With Wound's Sylvie and Babs' Hi-Fi Companion. But, this was still a hardcore album...

Flux really summed up the times with this LP , at a time when the anarcho punks were marching on london with the'stop the city'protests , flux captured the moment and put it on record.
This album sounds like the protests themselves , colin (vocals) sounds like he's putting bricks through porn shop windows , bank windows and all the other institutions of exploitation then running down alleyways screaming anarchist slogans.
If you were at these protests , you would understand better where flux were coming from.

This is a collage of assorted human and mechanical noise
samples,like buzzing,shouting,farm animals,guitar feedback,etc. with some lo-fi hardcore thrown in occasionaly
,like 20 % of the time.I have the ¨Live Statement¨and ¨Strive
To Survive¨ cds and think they rule,so I went for their 2nd
studio album only to realize the band had gone berserk and
were performing an¨aural assault¨approach to music.Now
I'm gonna sound like my parents saying this but THIS AIN'T
NO MUSIC,JUST NOISE.This is the soundtrack to a dadaist
picture !!!! Experimentalism is OK with me as long as there
is at least a little musicality to it,and you are reading from
someone who is used-and loves-to all kinds of extreme music
,especially hardcore punk.