''The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks'' is an
album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by English
anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, hardcor ...
band
Flux of Pink Indians
Flux of Pink Indians was an English punk rock band from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, active between 1980 and 1986.
Biography
The band formed in Hertfordshire, England in 1980 from the remaining members of The Epileptics (who ...
. It was released as a double album on the band's own
Spiderleg Records
Spiderleg Records was an independent record label founded by UK anarcho-punk band Flux of Pink Indians in 1981.
The band set up the label after releasing their first EP on the Crass Records label, which taught them the skills necessary to run s ...
in 1984 as the follow-up to their debut, ''
Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible
''Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible'' is an album by the anarchist punk band Flux of Pink Indians, first released in 1982 through their Spiderleg label. The album was later issued on compact disc through One Little Indian
...
''.
[Lazell, Barry (1998) ''Indie Hits 1980-1989'', Cherry Red Books, , p. 91]
The album was banned by several major retailers including
HMV
Sunrise Records and Entertainment, trading as HMV (for His Master's Voice), is a British music and entertainment retailer, currently operating exclusively in the United Kingdom.
The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company ...
due to its sexually explicit title and cover art.
[Ankeny, Jason]
Flux of Pink Indians Biography
, Allmusic
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. Retrieved 14 June 2013[Ogg, Alex "Flux of Pink Indians" in Buckley, Peter (ed.) (1999) ''The Rough Guide to Rock'', Rough Guides, , pp. 382-3][Glasper, Ian (2006) ''The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980 to 1984'', Cherry Red Books, , pp. 43-44] Under the direction of
James Anderton
Sir Cyril James Anderton (24 May 1932 – 5 May 2022) was a British police officer who served as chief constable of Greater Manchester from 1976 to 1991.
Early life and career
Born and brought up in a coal mining family in Wigan, Lancashire, ...
copies were seized, along with other records by
Crass
Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk s ...
and
Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978. The band was one of the defining punk rock, punk bands during its initial eight-year run.
Dead Kennedys' lyrics were usually political in nature, sa ...
, by
Greater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.
, Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 memb ...
from Eastern Bloc record shop, who were charged with displaying "
Obscene
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin ''obscēnus'', ''obscaenus'', "boding ill; disgusting; indecent", of uncertain etymology. Such loaded language can be use ...
Articles For Publication For Gain".
[Redhead, Steve (1990) ''End of the Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000'', Manchester University Press, , p. 18] The album's lyrical content concerned violence between men and women, based on the experiences of a band member who had been sexually assaulted. The title was a
Dada
Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...
-style ploy to get attention for this social message. The band, its two record labels and its publishing company were also charged under the Obscene Publications Act, but all charges were dropped.
The album also featured artwork by
Crass
Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk s ...
guitarist
Andy Palmer
Andrew Charles Palmer (born 30 June 1963) is an English automotive executive and engineer. He has been described as the 'Godfather of EVs' due to his work launching the Nissan Leaf in 2010 whilst COO at the Japanese company. Palmer is also k ...
.
''The Fucking Cunts...'' reached number two on the
UK Indie Chart
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, spending fifteen weeks on the chart in total.
It was reissued in 1986 on band member Derek Birkett's own
One Little Indian
One Little Independent Records (formerly One Little Indian Records) is an English independent record label. It was set up in 1985 by members of various anarcho-punk bands, and managed by former Flux of Pink Indians bassist Derek Birkett. In th ...
label.
Track listing
Side one
#"Punk"
#"Mind Fuckers Fucking Minds"
#"Hard Sell"
#"Love Song"
#"Mickey on Tuneoil"
Side two
#"Desire"
#"Blood Lust Rite"
#"The Falklands War"
Side three
#"Punk"
#"Life We Make"
#"Trouble at the Heart"
#"The Sun (the Paper That Supports Our Boys and Rapes Our Girls)"
#"Shadow of Abuse"
#"Very Funny"
Side four
#"Cure for the Coprolite"
References
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1984 albums
Flux of Pink Indians albums
Noise rock albums by English artists
Obscenity controversies in music