amlap.......the man you are referring to was Taxman, he was the third member of the group along with Spike and Adawee (The Wind).........he didn't sing. He was strictly a hype man. He always had his megaphone in tow. Taxman left the group last year to do other projects. He actually had his own movie that came out on video at the end of last year, it is called "Taxman".............
Yes, they are very political. They don't believe in perpetuating lies and half truths that many people have been taught. They make great music.......and like any social concious people, they incorporate information about political and religious lies into their music.
Some highlights include :
Voting Doesn't Work : This song discusses the American voting system and how it is a joke. There are only two main parties to choose from....each do basically the same thing. Do our votes really count? More people voted for Al Gore in our last presidential election......yet George Bush won. The system is supposed to be such that whomever the people vote to be president will be president........this was surely not the case in our last presidential election.
sample lyrics:
Voting doesn't work, 1-2-3
It's time you know your enemy
I won't pledge allegiance to hypocracy, your democracy is not for me
We tried to change this place, court room pulls an about face
Fantasies of a master race, our elections they erase
Christians Murdered Indians: This song goes into great detail about how the oh so moral Christians came to the new world and slaughtered it's people in the name of the church and their god.
Sample lyrics:
Once upon a time we were all tribal
Came the missionaries with their fucking bible
1492 began the termination, the holocaust of our Indian nations
With Christian love and a moral authority
They killed our medicine men and stole our country
I never claimed this shit was poetry
It's just the fucking lies of Christianity
You will pray to the lord and get down on your knees
Here's a cross for your back and the coughing disease
Though you helped us survive, we will laugh while you bleed
Then deny what we did, write our own history
We will kidnap your children and cut off their hair
Silence their language and outlaw their prayers
Beat them blind until they believe in the blood of jesus christ, our king
Taxes are Stealing: This song is about taxes. Originally, our constitution gave the government the right to tax us citizens when they needed to pay for government work. Instead of taxing us when they need to now, they tax us every day on every dollar we earn....and we don't even get any say in what our money is used for.
sample lyrics:
Taxes are stealing......and I get the feeling
That we're getting fucked in the ass
They take what they want to whenever they want to
And our needs, they always come last
They lie, they cheat, they steal.......from you and me
Their hands are in our pockets, they're bleeding us to death
And the fucking keep on taking 'till there's nothing fucking left
It's a federal invention, they set the god damned rate
It's a little paper portrait with a legacy of hate
They're numbing all our senses with their bullshit and their lies
It's no god damned secret it's done right before our eyes
And if you don't cooporate they'll lock your ass away
With the very fucking money that they fucking took away
I highly recommend you check out their last two albums.
Freedom is a State of Mind.......their last album. Chock full of greatness.
You can find this album at any local record store as it was released on a major label.
The New Testament........this album came out a few years ago. Also great.
I don't believe you'll be able to find this at any local stores as it's probably out of print and it was only distributed by Suburban Noize records. You can pick up a copy at www.merch.com............
Spike wears a Crass t-shirt a good 90% of the time..........he likes to pay homage to the greats.
I don't know man.......listen to Corporate Avenger and you might think they are even a bit more anti-religion than Crass.
Just to name a few Corporate Avenger songs:
Enemy of the Gospel
Jesus Christ Homosexual
Christians Murdered Indians
The Bible is Bullshit
You must d/l Christians Murdered Indians!
As a matter of fact, you must hear every song on Freedom is a State of Mind.
PM me your address and I'll burn you a copy of both Freedom is a State of Mind and The New Testament and send them to you for free. That's how much you must hear them.
P.S. The original version of $20 Bill from the Taxes are Stealing E.P. and The New Testament is 100x better than the remix on Freedom is a State of Mind. They slowed it down when they remade it. The original version is a fast paced punk song all the way through............which version do you have?