what is the meaning of these lyrics?

[gorillafuck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sieh9aokS0


Shaved women collaborators

Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies,
Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies,
Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies,
Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies, Screaming babies,
Screamin babies,
Shaved women collaborators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Dead bodies all around
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women instigators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women shooting dope
Shaved women disco dancing
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women collaborators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Shaved women all around
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women instigators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women shooting dope
Shaved women disco dancing
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies

In all our decadence people die
In all our decadence people die
In all our decadence people die
In all our decadence people die, etc.

I don't normally listen to crass but occasionally I'll listen to some of their noisier stuff just because it's bizarre even if I don't like the lyrics. but what the hell is this song about? it sounds like an anti-abortion song but that doesn't quite make sense for them, being an anarchist band.

edit: and for the purpose of making this thread not just about one song because I just realized that that's dumb, post songs with lyrics which have always confused you.

[NewLeft]

Aren't they post-leftists?

[Bostana]

It means that this band is on meth is what it means
:D

[kitsune]

Part of it is a reference to the immediate post-WWII era in Europe when women from formerly Nazi occupied areas accused of collaborating with the Germans were publicly humiliated by having their heads shaved.

[gorillafuck]

Aren't they post-leftists?they were/are the extremely vague combination of leftism and voluntarism that constitutes a lot of anarchism in the united states and Britain.

[Искра]

Actually they were on LSD not on meth... They were fucking hippies and their followers ruined punk.

Kitsune said everything. In Holland they used to shave women who slept with Nazis. Even those who were raped by them. If you have watched for example Hiroshima Mon Amour you could see they did the same to French girls.

I believe that Crass wanted to show how do society lynched women for so called collaboration, but they all remined quite durring Nazi occupation.

[GoddessCleoLover]

It was indicative of a sexist double standard that women were subjected to that humiliation while men who engaged in petty forms of collaboration with the Nazis basically went unpunished.

[Искра]

What do Japanese punx thing of Crass?
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This is not a Nazi band. Name is used as provocation.
I support this.

[gorillafuck]

that is some seriously bad music right there.

[ed miliband]

conflict were anti-abortion anarcho-punks and (i think) regularly sung about it

[Искра]

conflict were anti-abortion anarcho-punks and (i think) regularly sung about it
Whole that 80's UK scene is bunch of idiot liberals. My favorite band from that scene is Amebix, even those guys wouldn't like to be connected with Crass bands. Why do I like them so much? Because they were uniqe and they did what they did and didn't give a shit about anyone. They also had fucking good music and decent lyrics. Unlike most of Crass bands who were just waiting for Crass to say something on some topic and then they would follow. For example Flux of Pink Indians... they were fucking idiots (even Tube Disasters is fucking good song). Problem with whole that scene is that they were kind of protesting agaisnt conformity while they were building their own shit conformity based on certain stupid scene ideology which had nothing to do with real life.

[gorillafuck]

the only punk band from England at that time that I get any enjoyment from is Extreme Noise Terror, pretty much. the 80's was the best time for American punk but pretty bad for European. seriously, North Americans were making hardcore punk and thrashcore while brits were making crust, slow d-beat, and anarcho-punk.

[NewLeft]

If you have an hour and a half to spare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsQZkWW_eo

[gorillafuck]

oh, I actually forgot about the subhumans. they're good.

[ed miliband]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0oic8q9lU1qb2rfmo1_500.jpg

[Kingfillins]

To me this song is drawing a parallel between the women who had their heads shaved in the war (also the French Revolution) for being collaborators and women who shave their own bodies to be "feminine"... and thus collaborate with "the system".

[BIXX]

Problem with whole that scene is that they were kind of protesting agaisnt conformity while they were building their own shit conformity based on certain stupid scene ideology which had nothing to do with real life.

This is portland punks. Holy fuck. It pisses me off so bad.

[Comrade Jacob]

I only made it to 1:11 before having to turn it off. I think it's about the patriarchy. I can't be sure, looks like others don't know either.

[blake 3:17]

That's pretty interesting with the railroad sounds. I don't think I've ever listened to that album before.

I've a 3/4 finished essay on Crass from a few years back... maybe I'll finish it.

[blake 3:17]

What do Japanese punx thing of Crass?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrLhn_xDmww

[PhoenixAsh]

I believe it is originally an Annie Anxiety Bandez poem and feminist in origin. And I have read somewhere that the train noises in the music were to represent the trains moving towards Auschwitz.

I can't however remember where I read this.



That's pretty interesting with the railroad sounds. I don't think I've ever listened to that album before.

I've a 3/4 finished essay on Crass from a few years back... maybe I'll finish it.

This would be very interesting to post in the articles forum.

[Major Lee Gasol]

[QUOTE=Искра;2383496]Actually they were on LSD not on meth...

No they weren't.

If you'd taken the trouble to find out the slightest information about Crass you would know that drugs and alcohol have always been banned from Dial House (and still are to this day) and they stopped drinking before gigs right at the very start back in 1978.

I don't normally bother replying to such ill-informed comments but that really was too much. Many criticised Crass for being too puritanical but the fact is that there message was more important to them than drugs, which can not likely be said about many bands.

[Major Lee Gasol]

It means that this band is on meth is what it means
:D

No they weren't.

If you'd taken the trouble to find out the slightest information about Crass you would know that drugs and alcohol have always been banned from Dial House (and still are to this day) and they stopped drinking before gigs right at the very start back in 1978.

I don't normally bother replying to such ill-informed comments but that really was too much. Many criticised Crass for being too puritanical but the fact is that there message was more important to them than drugs.