Bullshit Detector

Bullshit Detector
Compilation album by Various artists
Released 1980 – 1984
Genre Anarcho-punk
Label Crass

Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their Crass Records label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band. The sound quality of the Bullshit Detector series was mixed, and was often very basic or poor as Crass would master the tapes directly to record without any additional production or enhancement. For Crass, the expectation of a polished performance was missing the point of the DIY punk ethic:

"Don't expect music when the melody is anger, when the message sings defiance, three chords are frustration when the words are from the heart"

- Sleeve notes from Bullshit Detector Volume 3

According to many people, these albums remain as a major contribution to the punk music history in England.

The title Bullshit Detector was derived as a reference to the Clash song "Garageland" from their first LP The Clash, a song covered by Chumbawamba guitarist Boffo on the second volume.

The series is notable for marking the first record appearance of Napalm Death (on the third volume).

A fourth Bullshit Detector, this time an international compilation, was released by the Swiss independent anarcho-punk record label Resistance Productions in 1994.

Contents

Track listings

Bullshit Detector Vol 1 (1980)

  1. - Andy T - "Jazz on a Summerday"
  2. - Counter Attack - "Don't Wanna Fight For You"
  3. - The Alternative - "Change It"
  4. - Clockwork Criminals - "We Are You"
  5. - Reputation in Jeopardy - "Girls Love Popstars"
  6. - Crass - "Do They Owe Us a Living"
  7. - Amebix - "University Challenged"
  8. - Sceptics - "Local Chaos"
  9. - The Pranx - "Two Years Too Late"
  10. - Frenzy Battalion - "Thalidomide"
  11. - Icon - "Cancer"
  12. - The Speakers - "Why"
  13. - APF Brigade - "Anarchist Attack"
  14. - Fuck the C.I.A. - "Right or Wrong"
  15. - Caine Mutiny and the Kallisti Apples of Nonsense - "Morning star"
  16. - The Sucks - "Three"
  17. - Porno Squad - "Khaki Doesn't Go With My Eyes"
  18. - S.P.G. Murders - "Soldiers"
  19. - Eratics - "National Service"
  20. - Red Alert - "Who Needs Society"
  21. - The Snipers - "War Song"
  22. - Armchair Power - "Power"
  23. - The Disrupters - "Napalm"
  24. - Andy T - "Nagasaki Mon Amour"
  25. - Action Frogs - "Drumming Up Hope"

Bullshit Detector Vol 2 (1982)

Disc one

  1. Waiting For Bardot - "Voice of U.K."
  2. Omega Tribe - "Nature Wonder"
  3. Suspects - "Random Relations"
  4. Your Funeral - "Think About It"
  5. Kronstadt Uprising - "Receiver Deceiver"
  6. Deformed - "Freedom"
  7. No Label - "Let's Get It Right"
  8. The Rejected - "Same Old Songs"
  9. Boffo - "Garageland"
  10. XS - "Fuck the System"
  11. Polemic Attack - "Manipulated Youth"
  12. A Gardener - "A Gardener's Song"
  13. Toxic - "Tradition of Slaughter"
  14. 1984 - "Breakup"
  15. "Insert"
  16. Toxik Ephex - "Police Brutality"
  17. SIC - "Low"
  18. Molotav Cocktail - "Ain't Got a Clue"
  19. Naked - "Mid 1930's (Pre-War Germany)"

Disc two

  1. Capital Punishment - "We've Realised the Truth Now"
  2. Anthrax - "All the Wars"
  3. "Slaughter of the Innocent (Curiosity Kills)"
  4. Pseudo Sadists - "War Games"
  5. Total Chaos - "Psycho Analysis"
  6. Dougie - "War Without Winners"
  7. St. Vitus Dancers - "The Survivor"
  8. Stegz - "Christus Erection"
  9. Metro Youth - "Brutalised"
  10. Normality Complex - "Black Market Shadow"
  11. Youth In Asia - "Power & the Glory"
  12. Riot Squad - "Security System"
  13. Destructors - "Agent Orange"
  14. The Pits - "U.K. in Dreamland"
  15. The Bored - "Riot Style"
  16. Toby Kettle - "Theatre Comment"
  17. Chumbawamba - "Three Years Later"
  18. Passion Killers - "Start Again"
  19. Amerikan Arsenal - "Get Off Yr Ass"

Bullshit Detector Vol 3 (1984)

Disc one

  1. AVERT AVERSION "Oh What a Nice Day"
  2. AWAKE MANKIND "Once Upon a Time"
  3. A NUL NOISE "Hibashuka"
  4. ANIMUS "Nuclear PISS"
  5. PEROXIDE "Ministry of Death (M.O.D.)"
  6. UNTITLED "We Are Taught to Kill"
  7. XTRACT "Fight For Peace"
  8. VERBAL ASSAULT "Not Yet Ron"
  9. FIFTH A COLUMN "Counterfeit Culture"
  10. POTENTIAL VICTIMS "People"
  11. 7TH PLAGUE "Rubber Bullets"
  12. REBEL A "Genesis Genocide"
  13. ALIENATED "Living in Fear"
  14. BARBED WIRE "Weapons of War"
  15. ROB WILLIAMS "Lies"
  16. REALITY CONTROL "The War is Over"
  17. YOUTHANASIA "Power"
  18. SAMMY RUBBETTE + SAFETY MARCH "The Ballot of Maggie the Maggot"
  19. POLITICIDE "51st State"
  20. MARKUS ABUSED "The Killing Machine"

Disc two

  1. ONE MAN'S MEAT "Your Country Misleads You"
  2. DIRECT ACTION "Death WIthout a Thought"
  3. CRAG "Voice Your Protest"
  4. ATTRITION "In Your Hand"
  5. NAPALM DEATH "The Crucifixion of Possessions"
  6. THE IMPALERS "Sun, Sun, Sun"
  7. HEALTH HAZARD "Picture Show"
  8. PHIL HEDGEHOG "Radio Times"
  9. MALICE "Faceless"
  10. MICHAEL KINGZETT TAYLOR "Paranoia"
  11. BRAINWASHED PUPILS "The Demonstration"
  12. NO DEFENSES "Work to Consume"
  13. A.N.E.E.B "Berlin Wall"
  14. CARNAGE "Carnage"
  15. WARNING "Beasts of Fiction/Tin Drum"
  16. STATE OF SHOCK "Excess Youth"
  17. NEALE HARMER "Hard Nut"
  18. DEAD TO THE WORLD "Action Man"
  19. DANDRUFF "Life In a Whiskey Bottle"
  20. RICHARD III "Will You Care?"
  21. FUNKY RAYGUNS "The Hare and a Tortoise"

Bullshit Detector Volume 4 (1994)

Jointly released by Resistance Productions (Switzerland) / Örmaal Records (Switzerland) / Mass Media Records (USA) / Loony Tunes (UK) Cat no. RIP 120 / ÖR 1 / MMR 8 / TUNE 31

Disc one

  1. HATED: Gesundheit
  2. ORANGE WORLD: Disneyfuck
  3. NECROSIS: Show me the pure
  4. PILLE ALLEIN: No fun
  5. G.U.R.K.: Ausbeuten
  6. PUTANG-I-NAS: Radioactive survival
  7. Eric D. THOMPSON: An honest pledge
  8. LITTLE ZOMKI: Copies conformes
  9. VALTIOKONTROLLI: (untitled)
  1. CHEESE POLICE: Arseholes
  2. NALLEKERHO: Oikeutta alkuperäiskansoille
  3. RECUSANT: Organised murder on a conveyor belt
  4. SHADOWED VEIL: America the beautiful
  5. KATASTROFIALUE: Päätä vailla
  6. FREAK SHOW: Handled world
  7. AUTUMN POISON: Utopia: a new world in our hearts
  8. PRIMITIV BUNKO: Certifié conforme
  9. AGENTE LARANJA: Racista

Disc two

  1. HOMO ERECTUS: Anarchy
  2. FASTER THAN SHEEP: Bitch
  3. PICHISMO: Ne ricevos stato curon[1]
  4. YAN: Heavy metal music
  5. MASH'M: U.N.
  6. INOKENTIJS MARPLS: Demokrátiska dziesma
  7. MARICHUANA: Mes pritariam visiems antifasintiniams apsireiskimams
  8. PROTEST: War
  9. STEINE FÜR DEN FRIEDEN: Free?
  1. ANTITUDE: Hey, mister president
  2. ARMED REVOLUTION: Corporate slave
  3. GRUUTHAAGY: Start insane
  4. HEADACHE: Die!
  5. LOVE, CHIPS & PEACE: Royal family
  6. APATRIDI: Camino para guerra
  7. PARKAJ MENTAL: Soldat Amerikkkain
  8. NAKED A'S: You're a disgrace
  9. MI-ASMA: The dirtiest game (war)

References

  1. ^ pichismo - Ne ricevos stato curon, lyrics