Cripple Bastards – “Almost Human”

Almost Human Cover

release date:

2001

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Label: Obscene Productions

> Released in 2001, OBP 039, 3000 (or more?) copies made
> Comes with a 24 page booklet including lyrics, EP covers, infos and a huge gallery of gig-flyers

Includes stuff recorded from 1997 to 2000. The CD has been mastered at Acqualuce Studios, Alpignano/Torino, by Marco Milanesio

Every CB fan knows this is simply a must. A collection of all our studio works from 1997 to 1999 (split 7″s with P.E.L.M.E. + I.R.F. + WORLD + “Il grande silenzio” ep + comp. tracks) and a good quality live recording (Utrecht/Holland, “A.C.U.” Club, 27/2/2000) at the end. 50 tracks tracing the history of CB through 4 years of constant line-up changes, problems, hopes, disillusions… But this CD’s notoriety doesn’t lay just in the musical contents. “Almost human” has been the source of many international “scandals” due to its crude, merciless front-cover art. The choice of using such an explicit concept came from GTB (with Curby/Obscene’s approval) after viewing a movie called “Forced entry”

The facts: Cripple Bastards have been disallowed to play at ABC No Rio in NYC due to this CD cover… CB have been often labelled as an ignorant, sexist outfit and banned from tons of places, boycotted and stabbed in the back by the whole @punk community… Viewing things from a distance, today we can simply say that the “Almost human” CD has been a good idiocy-detector. It has also been banned in Australia. Same story happened with a South American label… the boss of the printing factory used this CD as an example of obscene artwork that should be avoided forever. If you own a copy, be aware that maybe in 5-10 years, there will be no chance anymore to get such a thing manufactured anywhere.

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