Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma EP (1980)

[@Elliot-q7s]

0:00 - Can't Cheat Karma 2:39 - War 4:10 - Subvert

[@garethjohn6067]

Respect to crass for putting out great records by other bands.

[@jonjonsin824]

Crass started it all

[@antonhaq3503]

They sure released some classic tracks by classic bands. Flux Of Pink Indians, Conflict, The Mob, essential stuff.

[@Maria00900]

​@@antonhaq3503theres some good ones on conflicts label too

[@BigMick673]

Respect to Crass, full stop! 🙂

[@andyridley4727]

Apathetic public 😂 go dyi your hair 😂

[@punksnotdead4766]

I haven’t heard this in over 40 years 😆 Just realised I still know the words

[@fifitz100]

PunksNotDead , Funny how things never leave you....

[@millertime8237]

I've been listening to this since the 80s and it never gets old

[@sanjapisker41]

Was born in ‘87 and discovered this in the early 2000’s and NEEDED to hear this EP today in 2020, still know the words and it’s just perfect.

[@WarszawaScream]

Sanja Pisker too true friend

[@Johnnysthunder]

Like riding a bike bruv! 🏍

[@Funeralapolis]

Some of the best guitar playing I've heard in punk. They were seriously good musicians.

[@fafdus]

it sounds good. but that explains why its sounds "different" lol

[@thomasevans7410]

@@fafdus oh, what is this 'difference'

[@fafdus]

@@thomasevans7410 skill

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

@@thomasevans7410 They weren't Crass clones; a refreshing change at the time.

[@danielorlando8172]

The CRASS label held its weight right alongside Small Wonder and Stiff!. The early 80s British stuff was really something. The other EP I really enjoy on the crass label is from the snipers. Check out their main track from the ep

[@alfrombrum777]

Old but true , 59 years young, still Fecking Real, Bless an be U !

[@BigMick673]

Such an underrated band, from my hometown of Reading. One of the best punk records of all time. Lyrically brilliant.

[@rangatang100]

Belta 😍

[@markharrison5307]

Stiff little fingers, gota gota get away and Johnny was a good man.

[@user-dq2ym1nn9k]

Remembering James Barrett Lennard ~ Forever 18 ~ R.I.P Thankyou for introducing me to such wonderful, timeless music my friend x

[@oscargarciazlz7203]

Just discovered this two days ago and now I can't get it out of my head. I can't believe I've been listening to punk since the 90's and didn't know ZOUNDS.

[@blazedONEin87]

This is one of those bands that when KZbin busted wide open, everybody discovered! Because I had friends that listened to crass and conflict and bands like that but never heard of Zounds until like 2004. I think unless you were in the U.K you probably would've never heard of them

[@andylane3739]

I had a whole ass lp of theirs in PHX AZ USA in the mid 80s. And Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

[@jorisvancauwenberghe5794]

Still sounds fresh like yesterday, damn strong&good ep!! Hail&thanx 2 the ZOUNDS!!! ~grtz J. 🐈‍⬛....🇧🇪

[@outsiderart3993]

One of the best E.P.'s ever recorded.

[@saintblith]

you're goddamn right...great EP.

[@gentillygirl545]

OMG. I am 57 and was (am) punk and I never heard this. I guess it's because I am American and I was denied. This is brilliant. This is my new theme song because it is so damn true and it ROCKS.

[@jackjones544]

Steve Lake is still going

[@psytescene]

The States had stuff going on that Europe now know via documentarys, and vice versa. Keep on rocking in the free world sister!

[@DannyboyOiOi]

This is amazing. How did I never hear this before and I'm 50!!!!!!

[@deejaaywalker2314]

Completely original and genre defying. They had the gift of talent to write, play and sing like no other group. Catchy? Oh you bet! Social message? Profound "yes". Though it hails from a different era, this stuff is timeless, a truly beautiful work of heart.

[@lobotomyscam1051]

My son introduced this song to his bandmates and friends in the 2000s.

[@archstanton431]

Spent an evening with zounds after they played in Birmingham, thanks to Andy for introducing the band to us fans. Great night and great people, Sounds as good today as back then 1980 .

[@dreadfil]

+arch stanton Saw them when I worked Solfest 2005, still great but the weather was atrocious!

[@shanecarubbi7864]

I thought I was listening to flux of pink Indians at first. I've been an LA street pink nearly my entire life.... This band is awesome 👍👍👍

[@gilramirez9370]

Still have this 7" also like No Choice 7"1983 .....great musicians

[@danpflaum4282]

Still so damn good all these years later. Just as relevant and inspiring as the day it came out, perhaps even more so considering the absolute power banksters and large corporations now wield over us and our communities.

[@alejandrogonzalez1541]

Yup.

[@Eman_Puedama]

The weird thing is that most punks and lefty bohemians these days tend to support the agendas the banksters and corporations are pushing.

[@suumcuique4530]

@@Eman_Puedama you want to subvert and someday you wake up and realize how the fire inside of you stopped burning. you realize you became what you wanted to destroy, but it might be to late. it was never easier to enslave people than it is today. let us change the matrix instead of waking up, maybe that was the mistake all along. but what do i know

[@jacktar9567]

great to hear this again after so many years... gives me lovely nostalgic punky goosebumps ❤

[@TheMichaelGebauer]

Oh my god! How havent I heard these guys before?! They're perfect.

[@stephan.3548]

One of the Best Bands...grüsse aus Germany

[@johnjohnnyjohnson9987]

The lyrics to subvert still resonate today. Even maybe more so than 36 yrs ago!

[@MuppetBasher]

Couldn't agree more fella. In fact all 3 of these songs show just how little we've learned or evolved in 37 long years. It made me angry when I was a teenager but now just makes me sad.

[@johnjohnnyjohnson9987]

Absolutely right. Fucking shame though!!

[@piercetheflesh9085]

Find your fire

[@clintdavies491]

@@MuppetBasher and wiser

[@DonnieDarko1]

🙁

[@earlvillar2815]

Great lyrics. Great band. Crass have turned me on to so many bands. Love it. Anarchy and freedom is what I want.

[@markharrison5307]

War

[@SimonMonks-u2u]

Crass have a lot to be proud of.

[@foxyden7353]

I remember taping this off the radio when I was in my teens, playing off a college station in Boston. I still remember the words.

[@noonlemur]

a college station in Boston is how i was first introduced to Zounds!

[@ChawkDee]

Cool that the US played real punk ;)

[@pipebombmailer22]

@@ChawkDeeboston in the uk not usa haha i see why you got it mixed up tho

[@mj21831]

And here I thought I was pretty familiar with the obscure anarcho bands of old. But this one escaped me completely. It really holds up. Thanks for posting.

[@bartbunt2441]

The Best Anarcho Punk Band !

[@simonsabbath1064]

never heard before this is lovely,.............................

[@jacknote9026]

Thanks a million fot posting this. A great band ! In the late 70's The band I was in ( SUBURBANS) did the supporting-act for them in the KAASEE-club in Rotterdam ( the Netherlands).

[@erikjensen7710]

Suburbs ,from mound mn ? Lols I went to grade school and freshman year,hung around a punk band called noise fatigue on the island lols I was 10 in 83

[@frisbeethenail]

Really really well recorded! Great song .. one of my favourites from the squatting/convoy days back in the 80's!

[@gavinchapman1138]

100% mate the best days of my life , it'll never happen again sadly ✌️✌️✌️

[@alain3956]

Very good ambiant rock. Find and technical sound, you make some à little SKA very find....

[@scottmichaeloneil]

Somebody (I know not who to this day) handed this to me on a cassette at a show in 1993 or so, and it blew my goddamned teen aged mind.

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

I love tapes, that luvvly chunky feel..................Blessings........

[@aurasensor]

My mind was blown seeing a punk with a Trenchcoat wearing a plastic bowl on his head. He had U. K. Subs written on his back. Me go record shop snatched their Brand new Age album and a new punk was born. 🤩😊🌪️

[@jeanhighland104]

@@f.dmcintyre4666 p0l

[@johnchambers6793]

Reminds me of times long ago sat in my bedroom sniffing EVO stick out of a bag listening to this.

[@kellytyner2611]

Was ist los, EVO? What is this strange substance, do tell?

[@vodaploda]

@@kellytyner2611 it sticks things

[@kellytyner2611]

@@vodaploda Thanks, got it! Cheers Vaughanie.

[@awotnot]

yeah i did that a few times last time i did it i lost four hours and woke up on the pavement 100 yards from my house never did it again after that

[@wj9925]

Evo stick huh??? Does it go well with speed and PCP?

[@patricktroll7206]

Ah, que de souvenirs ! I had maybe 50 EP from Crass record and friends. But somebody stole all long time ago, grrrrr !!!! Thanks for that.

[@chitterville7599]

My bf is Edward Feltch from Youthkorps and he turned me on to this band, their message resonates today, great band!!

[@markharrison5307]

What a great record, played it over and over again.

[@tanilorn]

I still got it. But not played it for maybe 30 years. A forgotten jem of punk

[@billdusha2647]

The cover of this folded out into an awesome poster!

[@alejandrogonzalez1541]

Nice. 😎

[@kennyd5360]

im still a subvert , still a great song/ band . thank you . may your god be with you.........

[@nik62es]

Remember when this came out, we all had an attitude back then..may not evoke the same feelings as back then, but sure is one of the all time greats of real music.

[@geertsdaryll8192]

one of the best 7" of ALL time! awesome fold out poster and sentiment, I paid $10 for mine in the 90s, then I had a home invasion when ALL my records walked out the door, I have not been trusting of people since!

[@janettehello460]

An old favourite. It’s so apt even more so so for now!

[@ThePsychoFish]

Such a classic single & band still remember buying it when it came out sound a as good now as then glad I still have it.

[@johnhartford1569]

I remember back in highschool some good looking punk rock girl was selling her patches, I can't remember which patch I bought from her but I accidentally took her Zounds patch, she asked me if I took it, I said yes and she told me to keep it not having a clue who these guys are, just last year I looked them up on KZbin and listen to this EP and instantly loved it..

[@tubthumper42]

Have this in my records bought it new from a record stall as a young punk in the 80s cost 45p Awesome band and a awesome ep definitive 80s anarcho punk still love it and still relevant ATB.

[@nodtripRS]

Then, now, an forever fucking brilliant ep. An absolute classic.

[@garylammin9670]

40+ years took me to discover this EP. Love it

[@PremSingh-ps6vl]

Still got this love it ❤

[@douglasfir47]

Flash back to the 80's, I never forgot these lyrics, either. Anyone else hear the "Let's do the time warp" riff in Can't Cheat Karma?

[@roguetrooper9871]

Challege of the week - find this for 75p.

[@stephenwalker850]

Challenge for the day , find 75p

[@ishortland]

Reminds me of when I was 13 and I loved this stuff. I still do and I always will.

[@vincentbarker3004]

Probably one of the best EP`s ever produced and all for 75p.

[@markharrison5307]

Definitely won of the best 7 inch records ever.

[@mikerichardson7689]

awesome!!! brilliant stuff!!! sound of their own in a league of their own!!! pure class!!!

[@hansmoser989]

zoundz like a crass-label pearl. oh, what i missed them all. h.m.

[@Day0One]

As a (classic-Punk-Rocker), myself in the late '70s & the whole-'80's, I never heard this album. (I love-It)-! Thank you, for sharing it with us. I love this sound. It's like punk rock with some Devo and B-52's sound in it. (Two-Thumbs-Way-Up)-!! I just subscribed to your channel... :-D

[@ChawkDee]

Same here.

[@gentillygirl545]

Yes. Glad to be turned on to what I wasn't aware of in the 70s and 80s. I was young and didn't know. And finding good music in this country was a matter of almost full time dedication and energy, as America is always so fucking backward on shit until they know it will actually sell.

[@vascofusto2058]

Just bought this one! Still brilliant.

[@anaowl876]

Still loving it..after all these years i keep coming back to this sound.

[@markharrison5307]

What a great sound

[@bryana7163]

got this stuff on cassette, and never listen too it since they get wrapped around the head. Thanks for the post!

[@OpreRoma]

ngl I was kinda surprised to find an old anarcho-punk band from my hometown. Reading's radical scene has a surprising amount of history bubbling under the surface. I once stumbled across online some anarchist pamphlets produced here in the early 90s. I keep being pleasantly surprised

[@maliskdeering5351]

2022 and I’m just now hearing this masterpiece thank you to the girl at the bar who suggested this band after I played the cure

[@janettehello460]

Love this so much.. after all those years

[@mauriceleahy7914]

An absolute classic. Message still as relevant as ever.

[@wj9925]

TRUE ! 🏴‍☠️ I Love this album it's GREAT MAN I have listened to it thousands of times and it's still great , SUBVERT !

[@everardotalamantes1842]

Been going back to my punk roots!!! This is fucking rad!!!

[@honyjohan4998]

They don't seem to make music like this anymore;)

[@paulwilson4189]

Yes they fucking do. Punk is still alive, somewhere

[@damianlimon791]

@@paulwilson4189 "Somewhere" lol

[@EllieLindhorst]

They fucking do but it's hiding and you could still find some way to make it work

[@honyjohan4998]

@@paulwilson4189 inner terrestials are good ... its nice to get awat from metal and hardcore that crossovers

[@michellegiguere9086]

Lyrics One - Two - Three - Go I've got an ego It won't let me go What am I gonna do? A - be - see - D Paranoia's killing me I'm dying on my aching feet What a way to go Roll up - Roll up People always stroll up Say "Why don't you grow up?" No thank you! Big cats, small cats Some cats are fat cats Those cats are bad cats What we gonna do? There's an awful lot of people in the world today There's an awful lot of trouble in the streets these days And it doesn't seem to matter what you do or say If a change is gonna come you've got to help it on its way A change is gonna come before too long I know Peace has gotta come, well, I could be wrong I know But I just don't know what I can do You don't trust me and I don't trust you I bet you wish you did and I know I do Why have you got secrets? Cause I know you have If you've got something to hide then it must be bad A change is gonna come before too long I know Peace has gotta come, well, I could be wrong I know But I just don't know what I can do You don't trust me and I don't trust you I bet you wish you did and I know I do Why have you got secrets? Cause I know you have If you've got something to hide then it must be bad A change is gonna come before too long I know Peace has gotta come, well, I could be wrong I know But I just don't know what I can do

[@roguetrooper9871]

What about the rest of the EP? Get to it! :D

[@gentillygirl545]

Brilliant lyrics.

[@duanedrummond2685]

Simple yet brilliant.

[@dougsher]

I had this ep back in the day....wow....I have not heard this for years....thanks for putting it up.....

[@svobodasimon1185]

so inspiring. and this was happening so many years ago. contemporary bands can just get inspired or barely try to copy this

[@Tombombadillo999]

Theres total dullness in the air today.. most r successfully lobotomized today

[@BisonMark]

Thanks for posting this.....my teenage years on ep

[@bee88ism]

pizzas gonna come and i could be wrong i know

[@bgm6548]

LMAO

[@nudal9993]

there's an awful lot pizzas on the street today

[@richardcockimus3423]

bee88ism I sing the same thing. haha

[@stereo999]

pizza 30 mins or else it's free I know

[@JasonCole_TheVeil]

Thin crust punk

[@shanemac7185]

Proud of your boy!

[@THEsimpleANDcool]

What a blast from my wild past!

[@charliedingle4731]

brilliant !! still got this ep.. :)

[@doobieboob]

+Charlie Dingle doobie boob agrees

[@charliedingle4731]

top banana !! glad you do.. thought it was only me?.. ;)

[@SBpunx-el2bw]

Cross between crass and the minute men from america and i swore i heard hints of funk wow great stuff

[@aerniax]

ahhh love it! love 80's.

[@Punketeria1369]

Great band; love the various styles of music infused here!!!

[@89gougou]

agree with you !

[@ianshattock636]

Punketeria1369 there's a bit of the MONOCHROME SET chucked in for good NO.... GREAT MEASURE.

[@snakewhitcher4189]

The coordination is incredible.

[@snakewhitcher4189]

I dig this tune.

[@fcjbb]

If a change is gonna come I'm gonna help it on its way!

[@THECLARENCES]

The Clarences love & support Zounds!

[@patthewoodboy]

I love this song ... :-)

[@PaulBoyoWhite]

saw them in 2019 great set in newcastle

[@ronprice1819]

This peace punk stuff had always been punk rock hip hop to me... Really it was hip hop before hip hop was even born

[@rattusvore9259]

Mozart was a Glam-Punk, Wagner was Black Metal....

[@Kudychun]

I luv zoundz and this ep

[@russellleese8976]

As good not, as back in the day, an old punk!!!!

[@nothingnobody6688]

Hahaha yes true story still listening love U all from down Under not a dude hahaha xxx

[@Papion.777]

Fantastic peace of work

[@mogshade66]

Zounds forever xox

[@bronwynabsalom]

so , so great!

[@blazedONEin87]

Absolutey Fantastic band

[@mosterpunk]

I'm 13 again...love it

[@Beerpunk77oi]

punk that wasn't cleaned up for the masses. ALWAYS CRUST

[@Pyraticalpunk]

This is pretty clean imo

[@speedking439]

@@Pyraticalpunk The term crust didnt exist until 5/6 years later. It was an insult to describe the scummiest dirty fucked up tossers that ponced outside gigs. They were a fucking plague in late 80s uk.

[@capitanrupertsector8513]

Punk rock deluxe 🎶🎵🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@DJNickHook]

Classic!

[@janettehello460]

Great tune

[@obsieheissen]

top 10 of the best Punk singles period ! oi-nk

[@tellylegendary]

I swear im the only teen who likes this..

[@ChorltonBrook]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaeufqlsiNOBY80si=KprH0L419qJf6KBD

[@samhill487]

I'm 23 now but had Crass and Poison Girls patches on my parka through sixth form. Punk means you're different, not lonely.

[@nathandokter7431]

Same! I've tried so hard to start a scene with other hardcore kids around me but the 10 or so "punks" I get are socially awkward guys or pop punk fans who never show up to band practice!

[@dpandcrspandvn]

Fukn hell guys - appreciate what youve got. In 1980, lone punks in Swindon, Scunthorpe and Sunderland would never have connected - got internet now so easy to find people who like visceral raw music. To quote NMA 'Looking for family, searching for tribe' or something.

[@jimmythecreep]

finally got my hands on this ep and curse of zounds, again...it's about the 10th X i've bought copies, lol...what i loved about this band (besides the message) is that Mr Lake has an ear for melody and groove, he is a brillent songwriter...crass had the message but the music was really noisy, not that i have anything against that but zounds had a way more tuneful thing happening...they had a commercial sound i/m/o...and there's nothing wrong w/that either when done the right way.

[@zxcvzxcvzxvzcvzxcv]

pretty good and interesting. the sounds similar to the band Brat from the same era.

[@plecky5]

What a song.

[@DavidCrossley-l5f]

Only cost 75 pence back then .still worth a listen brill

[@bertusbrugmans5783]

Same here...bloody hell i m getting old