Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible
album by Flux of Pink Indians
Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible is the debut album by the anarcho-punk band Flux of Pink Indians. It was released in January 1983 through the band's own label Spiderleg Records.
The album entered the indie album chart at number 10 on 31 January, and reached number 1 on 14 February. It reached number 79 on the official UK album chart.
The album was issued on compact disc through One Little Indian in 1989. It contained all the tracks from the Neu Smell EP as a bonus, though in a different order than the one in which they appear on the EP and mislabelled. The album was repressed on vinyl through Let Them Eat Vinyl in 2008, and a deluxe two-disc LP and three-disc CD editions were issued in 2013 through One Little Indian, containing demos and live recordings.
Reception
A review in Maximum Rocknroll stated:
"I have a hard time finding fault with this album. Once again, if you don’t like your punk political, steer clear, because FLUX is dynamite. The whole LP is a marvelously orchestrated opera of poetic condemnations of our nuclear world that builds up to a climactic musical explosion.
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