12 Crass Songs

May 2025 12 Crass Songs studio Jeffrey Lewis 12_Crass_Songs_-_Cover.jpg yes 2007 10 1 Folk punk, anti-folk Rough Trade City and Eastern Songs 2005 'Em Are I 2009 AllMusic 4 5[album r1240762 yes AllMusic review] Robert Christgau C−Robert Christgau review The Guardian 4 5The Guardian review Kevchino (8/10)http://www.kevchino.com/review/jeffrey-lewis/12-crass-songs/1442 Kevchino review 2008-04-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20081122022636/http://www.kevchino.com/review/jeffrey-lewis/12-crass-songs/1442 2008-11-22 dead Pitchfork (2.3/10)Pitchfork review Rocklouder 4 5Rocklouder review NME (7/10)NME review PopMatters 8 10https://www.popmatters.com/review/jeffrey-lewis-12-crass-songs/ Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs Fiander Matthew 2008-02-04 PopMatters 2017-09-17 12 Crass Songs is the fourth album by anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis. It was released on October 1, 2007 on Rough Trade Records. The title is literal, as all 12 songs on the album were written and first recorded by the band Crass. Track listing "End Result" "I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick" "Systematic Death" "The Gasman Cometh" "Banned from the Roxy" "Where Next Columbus?" "Do They Owe Us a Living?" "Securicor" "Demoncrats" "Big A, Little A" "Punk Is Dead" "Walls (Fun in the Oven)" Origin In a 2013 interview with Audio Antihero Records, Jeffrey Lewis explained his motivation for the album: I do love Crass, and I also wanted some of those songs to be enjoyable to people who don’t only want to listen to early 80s hardcore punk. At a certain period in history it might have been crucial for Crass to get those songs across by tying them to a certain attitude and style, but in a different period that attitude and style becomes a barrier to the songs, it holds the songs back instead of pushing the songs onwards. Not everything is like that – I mean, nobody needs to do an album of indie-rock versions of Led Zeppelin songs, but Crass has such an extreme case of extreme style AND extreme substance, I wanted to see what the substance could do if it was removed from the style. In Led Zeppelin the style and the substance sort of have to go hand in hand, and if you mess with that then you’re just creating a joke, like Dred Zeppelin, or those lounge covers of Stairway to Heaven, etc., etc. The original Crass recordings are totally great and impossible to make any better, but the substance is strong enough to outlive that. Songs of moral rebellion are great, people all over the world sing Bob Marley songs and Bob Dylan songs and Woody Guthrie songs and stuff like that, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t sing Crass songs too. http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/interview-jeffrey-lewis/ Interview // Jeffrey Lewis 27 January 2013 April 6, 2026 January 12, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160112160435/http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/interview-jeffrey-lewis/ dead References Category:2007 albums Category:2000s covers albums Category:Jeffrey Lewis albums Category:Rough Trade Records albums Category:Crass