The Feeding of the 5000

Crass

1978

2.85

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The Feeding of the 5000 is the first album by the anarcho-punk band Crass. The album was recorded on 29 October 1978 by John Loder at Southern Studios and was released the same year. It was considered revolutionary in its time due for its extreme sound, frequently profane lyrical content and the anarchist political ideals in the lyrics. The album also saw the introduction of Crass's policy of ensuring cheap prices for their records. The album is considered as one of the first punk albums to expound serious anarchist philosophy.

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Nov 14 2025 Author

Loved the weirder and darker spoken-word elements of this, the punk songs were pretty good too.

Nov 26 2025 Author

Short, powerful and angry. Like punk should be

Dec 10 2025 Author

That wonderful kind of crust punk where everything sounds kind of bad and the singer is complaining about something

Dec 13 2025 Author

This is a rather generic sounding early punk record. Some songs ("Asylum", "Do They Owe Us a Living?", "Well?... Do They?") have some potential, but most sound like a simple bunch of chords, bad production, fuzzy vocals and just go ahead. I think the original list (and the user list) contain many albums from this period that have a lot more quality.

Nov 25 2025 Author

Anarcho-punk. Punk de la antigua escuela. Vinilo.

Dec 08 2025 Author

Anarcho-punk. Punk de la antigua escuela. Vinilo.

Nov 05 2025 Author

How have I not heard of this band before? Excellent. 4 stars.

Nov 08 2025 Author

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: They’ve got a bomb, Do they owe us a living?, Reject of society, So what

Nov 18 2025 Author

I’m a sucker for classic punk, what can I say

Nov 30 2025 Author

Crazy little punk album filled with diatribes just like it should be.

Dec 15 2025 Author

Pretty sick. I dig that they actually commit to anarchism pretty hard. It's legitimately punk.

Dec 23 2025 Author

Seminal punk album driven by an unwavering political stance - take a look Johnny, no butter advertising in this timeline. Sadly ironic that the 'pay no more than £3' originals are now so expensively collectable but it is a reflection of how important and highly regarded this band is. Great album choice.

Jan 06 2026 Author

I like the idea more than the actual music. Good share, I do feel like this is something I should have heard. They've got the energy, anger, attitude, noise, and (not for nothing) the accent; the whole punk package. They thought 1979 was bad, I wonder how 2026 would fare in Crass's estimation.

Nov 04 2025 Author

More 70s British punk. I guess this is getting pretty close to the original recipe but it's a sound I've gotten pretty tired of. As far as the politics are concerned I guess I'm more or less a partisan at least somewhere along the same spectrum but honestly, what did this sort of counterculture agitation ever accomplish? All this kind of ideology remains in a deep and ineffectual minority.

Nov 10 2025 Author

Ganska schysst punk.

Nov 11 2025 Author

Proper good fun punk

Nov 19 2025 Author

A firecracker of a Punk LP that’s here one minute and gone the next. Listened to this twice in succession and feel it blazed by a little too quickly to leave a lasting impression, but it was definitely a fun listen in the moment.

Nov 24 2025 Author

Good punk album worthy of the list.

Nov 27 2025 Author

Not bad

Dec 08 2025 Author

Anarcho-punk. No me ha gustado, lo siento.

Dec 09 2025 Author

HL: "Do They Owe Us a Living?", "They've Got a Bomb", "Sucks", "So What" Now THIS is punk!

Dec 10 2025 Author

Christ you can smell their teeth from here. One imagines this caused quite a stir in 1978. This is a genre I have really grown to love, so I had fun here. But also it has real “I’m an edgy 14 year old” energy.

Nov 08 2025 Author

They named themselves appropriately.

Nov 24 2025 Author

Love the message, hate the "music"

Dec 19 2025 Author

Not my thing at all

Dec 23 2025 Author

Proper anarcho punk, I expect. I didn't listen to any of the lyrics though because I was too busy being tied to my desk for The Man, enslaved in the corporate mechanism or something.

Nov 09 2025 Author

Dude what Not gonna listen to anymore nonsenically shit punk music sorry

Dec 16 2025 Author

These guys may have been majorly influential for punk but from a listening standpoint I had a harder time understanding this album than some of the foreign ones in the list. I can see why maybe someone would like this if it was of their time but overall it’s not something I can enjoy listening to. Sounded like gibberish. 3.2/10