DEAD KENNEDYS [1987] Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death

This is the last of Dead Kennedys on this blog, and also is the last of their official releases. “Give Me Convenience Or Give me Death” (such a great title for a record) is a compilation of Dead Kennedys singles and compilation tracks. It is a great release, what I mean is, it opens with “Police Truck”, then it jumps right on to the “Too Drunk To Fuck” (aren't we all?) and mighty “California Über Alles” is there to deal the final blow (and those are just first 3 tracks!!!). I used to listen to this record for months, again and again, I had it taped from an original LP, I had photocopied the lyrics and I was in my own little heaven. No wonder I never got any girls (or was the truth about me not getting the girls in my excessive drinking on those times when I finally did got out of my room? That is a topic best left for some other post I guess). I am out of words here, I don't know what to write next, I know I love Dead Kennedys, and I love this release. Download it, listen to it, and bloody GO and BUY IT as you should buy all Dead Kennedys stuff, from Alternative Tentacles, help the label, support the scene!!! It is not that expensive!!!
Info stuff: Alternative Tentacles, Discogs, Wikipedia.

DEAD KENNEDYS [1987] Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death

Year: 1987
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Size: 112 MB / 320 kbps / 7z

01. Police Truck
02. Too Drunk To Fuck
03. California Über Alles
04. The Man With The Dogs
05. Insight
06. Life Sentence
07. A Child And His Lawnmower
08. Holiday In Cambodia
09. I Fought The Law
10. Saturday Night Holocaust
11. Pull My Strings
12. Short Songs
13. Straight A's
14. Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'Round
15. The Prey
16. Night Of The Living Rednecks
17. Buzzbomb From Pasadena

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DEAD KENNEDYS [1986] Bedtime For Democracy

“Bedtime For Democracy” was Dead Kennedys' last studio album. Here, at least in my eyes, the band is having a sort of “to call a spade a spade” moment, they're going against everything and anyone doing wrong in the world of those long forgotten 1980's (but the 1980's shouldn't be forgotten, I think we should remember them as a prelude to genocidal 1990's and schizophrenic 2000's). On this album all kind of 1980's nasties got told what Jello and the band thought about them, from retarded Alzheimers patient/Hollywood cowboy/American president Ronald Reagan and aggressive US foreign policy, to media (TV & movies) and even punk movement (and I agree with everything Biafra/band said). I must admit that in spite of some great moments I do not think this is one of their best works. It has some great stuff on it, like a cover of David Alan Coe's “Take This Job And Shove It” and one of the best reaganomics/cannibal songs I have ever heard - “Dear Abby”, and also there is a justified critique of punk movement in “Chickenshit Conformist” and “Anarchy For Sale”, and a few just mother fukking great tunes, but somehow I feel this album is just a bit too long, maybe if it was released like a mini LP... But then again, who am I to judge, and, it's Dead Kennedys after all.. I admit, I am the first to say I can never have enough of them!
Info Stuff: Alternative Tentacles, Discogs, Wikipedia (DK bio), Wikipedia (album info).

DEAD KENNEDYS [1986] Bedtime For Democracy

Year: 1986
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Size: 103 MB / 320 kbps 

01. Take This Job And Shove It
02. Hop With The Jet Set 
03. Dear Abby 
04. Rambozo The Clown
05. Fleshdunce
06. The Great Wall
07. Shrink
08. Triumph Of The Swill
09. Macho Insecurity
10. I Spy
11. Cesspools In Eden
12. One-Way Ticket To Pluto
13. Do The Slag
14. A Commercial
15. Gone With My Wind
16. Anarchy For Sale
17. Chickenshit Conformist
18. Where Do Ya Draw The Line
19. Potshot Heard Round The World
20. D.M.S.O.
21. Lie Detector

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DEAD KENNEDYS [1985] Frankenchrist

OK, with this Dead Kennedys album the shit has hit the fan as American saying goes. Ronald Reagan's (yep, it's that cowboy guy from 1950's western B-movies) administration and Washington wives (and one among them was Tipper Gore, the wife of Al Gore, an asshole who is now pretending to care about the environment to get people to vote for him) have been working hard to make us all believe in their version of Christianity and Christian fundamentalism, and one of the victims of their witch hunts in USA are Dead Kennedys. In “Frankenchrist” LP there was a H.R. Geiger Giger poster (H.R. is a guy who designed a monster for “Alien” movie amongst other things) and the Christian American retards decided to strike hard against this unholy alliance. Dead Kennedys were sued, together with Alternative Tentacles (the record company which released the record) and if I am not wrong even the pressing plant and a distribution store got sued too. The lawsuit almost ruined the band and the record company. If you're interested in all the trial proceedings I would recommend listening to Jello Biafra's “High Priest Of Harmful Matter” spoken word as it gives you a greater perspective on the whole case. I must admit it was, at least for me personally, a quite revealing thing, which showed me the ways in which the system works, and, it did made me a bigger cynic. “Frankenchrist” is a good album, although not one of my favourites by Dead Kennedys, but songs like “Jock-O-Rama” or “MTV - Get Off The Air” were the ones putting a smile on my face while I listened to this record!
Info stuff: Alternative Tentacles, Wikipedia (Frankenchrist), Discogs (Dead Kennedys), H.R. Geiger (Wikipedia, Official Site).

DEAD KENNEDYS [1985] Frankenchrist

Year: 1985
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Size: 95.8 MB / 320 kbps / 7z

01. Soup Is Good Food
02. Hellnation
03. This Could Be Anywhere
04. A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
05. Chicken Farm
06. Jock-O-Rama
07. Goons Of Hazzard
08. MTV - Get Off The Air
09. At My Job
10. Stars And Stripes Of Corruption

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DEAD KENNEDYS [1982] Plastic Surgery Disasters + In God We Trust Inc.

Yep, here are the second and third release by Dead Kennedys on one CD. I can't tell which one of the two I love more, “In God We Trust Inc.” (originally released back in 1981) has some of all time hits (for me personally) like “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”, “Kepone Factory” talking about Kepone which was apparently the pesticide of the day, then of course there were “Religious Vomit” and “Moral Majority” songs which told the moral figureheads of the 1980's America just what to do with their moral bullshit (and where to stuff it), and there was also “Dog Bite”, such a senseless song, but many bottles got broken over it and many punk hugs exchanged too. I love the energy and rage of this Dead Kennedys mini LP.
And now I will swing to the main feature of this upload, “Plastic Surgery Disasters” which was released back in 1982. This is, I personally think, my favourite Dead Kennedys album, I am so into it, I am so taken by it every time I listen to it, the trip starts from the first songs, from “Government Flu”, and then it leads up (ok, I am skipping a few of the songs) to the “Forest Fire” (I don't know, I think its my favourite song of the album), and then going over to the “Riot” which leaves a steely taste in my mouth, and sweaty palms too, like I was there, and then, in the end “Moon Over Marin” comes... I don't know, but the way this band plays and on top of it, Biafra's vocals and lyrics... It just gets me,no drugs or TV series can do it for me as Dead Kennedys can!
Info stuff: Alternative Tentacles, Wikipedia (In God...), Wikipedia (Plastic...), Discogs.

DEAD KENNEDYS [1982] Plastic Surgery Disasters + In God We Trust Inc.

Year: 1982
Label: Alternative Tentacles / Decay Music
Size: 122 MB / 320 kbps / 7z

01. Advice From Christmas Past
02. Government Flu
03. Terminal Preppie
04. Trust Your Mechanic
05. Well Paid Scientist
06. Buzzbomb
07. Forest Fire
08. Halloween
09. Winnebago Warrior
10. Riot
11. Bleed For Me
12. I Am The Owl
13. Dead End
14. Moon Over Marin
15. Religious Vomit16. Moral Majority
17. Hyperactive Child
18. Kepone Factory
19. Dog Bite
20. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
21. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
22. Rawhide
Tracks 01-14 - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Tracks 15-22 - In God We Trust Inc.


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DEAD KENNEDYS [1980] Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Ha! Yes, I have been long gone from this blog, I had some stuff going on in my life that took me away from blogging and posting music, and I don't want to go into details about it cos I think that stuff I do in my personal life doesn't have to be open or available to people on my blog. This is about music. And I have to admit one thing, I have been listening to a lot of Dead Kennedys lately, they've got me again, just like they've got me when I was 15... I don't know, I love Dead Kennedys, I know that everyone has them in their LP/CD collection so I did wonder: is there any point in me posting them? But I will do it... For myself... I love this band, after my circled A DIY tattoo on my fist they were the tattoo number two. Also DIY, on my forearm. I just can't help myself, when I hear Biafra scream the lyrics to “Chemical Warfare” or “Ill In The Head” I just go crazy and start asking myself why there is no band since them that gets me so excited and annoyed at the world at the same time.
Well, OK, enough about my views on things, this was the first album by Dead Kennedys, it was originally released on Cherry Red label from the UK, so I guess that is the answer why you could find songs like “Kill The Poor” on the same UK punk compilations with bands like 999 or even Generation X (or also usual punk compilation fodder song - Angelic Upstarts' “White Riot” live cover of The Clash).
Info stuff: Alternative Tentacles, Wikipedia, Discogs.

DEAD KENNEDYS [1980] Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Year: 1980
Label: Cherry Red
Size: 70.5 MB / 320 kbps
01. Kill The Poor
02. Forward To Death
03. When Ya Get Drafted
04. Let's Lynch The Landlord
05. Drug Me
06. Your Emotions
07. Chemical Warfare
08. California Über Alles
09. I Kill Children
10. Stealing Peoples' Mail
11. Funland At The Beach
12. Ill In The Head
13. Holiday In Cambodia
14. Viva Las Vegas
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