declared war on the anarcho-punk band Crass

In 1982 Arrogant decided to declare war on the anarcho-punk band Crass . Their debut LP was followed by their biggest selling single “Bullshit Crass”, an attack on a band that they saw as destroying the traditional punk scene. It came with a Crass-style sleeve and the lead track began with chants of “Fight Crass, not punk”, parodying one of Crass’s songs. Green explained: “It was the fact that they said ‘Punk was dead’, and they played this really tuneless music. I saw them as almost a religious cult”. However, after that, their music’s leading distributors, Rough Trade and Small Wonder , refused to stock their material. This censorship made life a burden for the band. In 1983 they released the single “Punk Rocker” which was not well distributed. In the same year, the group broke up.