The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks
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| Released | 31 March 1984 | |||
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| Label | Spiderleg | |||
| Flux of Pink Indians chronology | ||||
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| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks is an album by the English anarcho-punk band Flux of Pink Indians. It was released as a double album on the band's own Spiderleg Records in 1984.
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-style ploy to get attention for this social message.
The album featured artwork by Crass guitarist Andy Palmer.
A 2016 primer on Anarcho Punk in The Wire magazine noted the influence of Art Ensemble of Chicago and Whitehouse and described the album as:
"Rudimentary punk blasts are hard panned, drenched in distortion, subjected to scything tape edits and littered with sampled footage of pornography, or snatches of the BBC Radio One Steve Wright In The Afternoon show. Segments about domestic violence flow into dispassionate recitations of injuries sustained by Falklands soldiers."
The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks reached number two on the UK Indie Chart, spending fifteen weeks on the chart in total. Music Week listed the album in its Indie Album Chart as "The F.......................................".