Penis Envy by Crass (Crass Records)
Twenty-five years ago, Crass released an album called Penis Envy, but you wouldn’t know it.

There will be no ill-informed tributes in the NME, no fawning retrospective on The South Bank Show, no self-satisfied, smug eulogy in The Observer Music Magazine.

Too young, stupid or docile to get Crass the first time around, our media friends prefer to stick to the easy stuff: Sgt Pepper, Smile, London Calling, anything by Nick fucking Drake.

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