The Return Of..........My Obsession WIth The Durutti Column

All is very busy at Overground Sounds HQ at the moment, so for now, here is an audio clip of The Durutti Column's "Ananda" from the 2008 album "Sunlight to Blue...Blue to Blackness". Those regular readers with an interest in my recent recommendation "The Promise" by Vassilis Tsabropoulos should lend a keen ear to this track.

Crass - Big A Little A

This has to be one of my favourite punk songs of all time. Coming on the b-side of "Nagasaki Nightmare" (1980), There's nothing I can say about Crass that hasn't been written about before by many others. But for me, personally I was first exposed to Crass in around 1985 and since then have always come back to handful of songs that I rate and can still enjoy and listen to as well as "Big A Little A" such as: "Working Class Rip Off", "I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick", "Banned From The Roxy", "Reality Whitewash", "Rival Tribal Rebel Revel", "How Does It Feel", and maybe one or two others. The rest I can live without.

Here are the crucial lyrics and two clips. The first is the audio of the original track and the second clip is a great live clip of Steve Ignorant from Crass on stage with Conflict at the infamous "Gathering Of The 500" gig at the Brixton Academy in 1987.