Dead Kennedys-Plastic Surgery Disasters

This pretty much rounds up every official (as in: with Jello's consent) Dead Kennedys release apart from the live album, "A Skateboard Party", which I sadly do not have. As far as sophomore full-lengths go, they are always hit and miss for bands that released a landmark record. In the fans' skewed minds, it inevitably falls short of any and all expectations that are built up in their sick little one track minds that overflow with elitist nonsense..."Plastic Surgery Disasters" is definitely on par with "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables". In my sick little one track mind, I conclude that this album works because it's not too far off the fucking wall and a musical mindfuck (i.e. "Frankenchrist") that it could inspire resentment towards the band. They pretty much followed with an extension, rather that a successor and this is definitely a reason why this album succeeds. The DK's usual flirtations with surf rock, jazz and twisted sounding guitar fills are present and in abundance here. This record is the missing link to the shit that they came out with later...It just doesn't fuck with you as badly. I can view it as both "Fresh Fruit 2" and "Son Of Frankenchrist". That's fair to say. As I usually say, in most of my posts: ENJOY!


Dead Kennedys-Plastic Surgery Disasters:

1. Advice From Christmas Past
2. Government Flu
3. Terminal Preppie
4. Trust Your Mechanic
5. Well Paid Scientist
6. Buzzbomb
7. Forrest Fire
8. Halloween
9. Winnebago Warrior
10. Riot
11. Bleed For Me
12. I Am The Owl
13. Dead End
14. Moon Over Marin

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Dead Kennedys-In God We Trust Inc.

GENERIC FUCKING HARDCORE!!! But in that good sense. Whereas I didn't care as much for "Bedtime For Democracy" for being generic hardcore, I love "In God We Trust Inc." for what it is. Stripped down, to the point, badly recorded and confrontational, this is the EP that gave us the timeless punk classic, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off". The beauty here is that this record stands alone in their discography as being the most simplistic musical and lyrical offering. Aside from their jazz lounge re-imagining of "California Uber Alles", entitled "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" and their cover of "Rawhide", any deviation from hardcore is absent. A great record, well worth your time. Enjoy!

Dead Kennedys-In God We Trust Inc.:

1. Religious Vommit
2. Moral Majority
3. Hyperactive Child
4. Kepone Factory
5. Dog Bite
6. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
7. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
8. Rawhide

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Dead Kennedys-Bedtime For Democracy

Yesterday I posted "Frankenchrist" and then I got a request from someone named "Anonymous" to post their final record, "Bedtime For Democracy"...In all honesty, the last two records are not my favorite. Look at it this way: "Frankenchrist" was an experiment and "Bedtime For Democracy" is both a return to form and also sees the Dead Kennedys falling into a mold. Aside from their "In God We Trust Inc." EP, this is their fastest offering. Almost every song sounds like your run of the mill generic hardcore punk, with the usual DK's deviations here and there...Just not so much. It's almost like the tensions in the band were mounting so quickly that they just decided to belt this one out as quickly as possible and call it a day. It's not poor by any means, but it has an almost unfinished vibe to it. I don't know that the Dead Kennedys really said all that needed to be said. It leaves you wanting more and although I was critical of "Frankenchrist" for being too long, this record could of really been a bit longer. The two longest songs, "Cesspools In Eden" and "Chickenshit Conformist" sound like the Dead Kennedys fully realized the approach they were taking on "Frankenchrist"...And both of those songs are welcome detours from the blatantly generic hardcore found here...And I like generic hardcore...Just not generic hardcore from one of the most non-generic hardcore bands ever. Of those generic hardcore songs, "Take This Job And Shove It", "Rambozo The Clown", "Triumph Of The Swill" and "Anarchy For Sale" are my favorites. The rest is either just barely good, sub-par or just plain old filler...And I hate filler.


Dead Kennedys-Bedtime For Democracy:

1. Take This Job And Shove It
2. Hop With The Jet Set
3. Dear Abby
4. Rambozo The Clown
5. Fleshdunce
6. The Great Wall
7. Shrink
8. Triumph Of The Swill
9. 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-Frankenchrist

You know, 300 posts really isn't something to be excited over...The 301st is the one to drop you panties for. Sure, there are a lot of blogs out there on the interweb with way more posts than 301, but then again, those blogs have multiple contributors and have been around for a longer period of time. That simple fact further solidifies the indisputable fact that I have no fucking life and am blessed (or cursed, with both words being completely interchangeable) with too much goddamn time. You might notice that this blog has had times where there were multiple posts in one day, and also times where posts were separated by a month or more...Yet unlike many of the other "dead" blogs out there, I have never totally lost interest and have eventually returned. This blog will never sink into the abyss that is the interweb and be haunted by the dreaded dead links that piss off the innumerable music thief's that frequent Google for rare vinyl rips, new releases or just anything that looks like it'd be kinda good. As long as I hate music, I will post it here, for free, to any bastard, bitch, or son of a bitch who get their cheap, greedy mittens on. To the denizens of the internet: fuck off and lick on DEEZ NUTS! Fuck you. Here's some more Dead Kennedys...

Now to totally shift gears and give a brutally honest music review that won't be sugarcoated with my usual rhetoric, I present to you "Frankenchrist", possibly the best worst Dead Kennedys album. Not that the Dead Kennedys have released a bad record, they just have had plenty of bad songs and on this album and "Bedtime For Democracy" they seem to have them in higher concentration. One thing on "Frankenchrist" that does get to me is that some of the arrangements on some of the songs seem slapped together, kinda like a poorly planned sleeve tattoo..."MTV Get Off The Air" and "Jock O Rama" are probably the most guilty of this. The music here is very "experimental" and while I give them credit for breaking away from the traditional hardcore mold and incorporating musically progressive traits, it doesn't work all the time and we are left with some very poorly executed songs...I fucking hated "At My Job" and the aforementioned two for this reason. I am not going to vomit up anything even remotely critical of Jello's lyrics. He always delivers the same scathing remarks critical of both punk and politics (both ends, even though he's a liberal). He's always had a knack for calling everyone out on their bullshit with his satirical, nasally and borderline annoying vocals. To sum everything up: good album with some bad songs. Some songs drag on forever and could have benefited with some massive trimming. I always thought it would be cool to do a one off crust band and make a cover album of this and call it "Frankencrust"...Kinda take the slower, sludgier appeal of Amebix and apply it here. If anyone is up to that, I'm down. Anyways, I'll shut up, everyone has a different opinion on this record. I love and hate it. Fuck it, just enjoy!

Dead Kennedys-Frankenchrist:

1. Soup Is Good Food
2. Hellnation
3. This Could Be Anywhere
4. A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
5. Chicken Farm
6. Jock O Rama
7. Goons Of Hazzard
8. MTV Get Off The Air
9. At My Job
10. Stars And Stripes Of Corruption

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Dead Kennedys-Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

Dead Kennedys-Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death:

1. Police Truck
2. Too Drunk To Fuck
3. California Uber Alles
4. The Man With The Dogs
5. Insight
6. Life Sentence
7. A Child And His Lawnmower
8. Holiday In Cambodia
9. 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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Duckmandu-Fresh Duck For Rotting Accordionists:

File this under "What the fuck?". This is essentially a tribute to/re-recording of the Dead Kennedys' first album, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables with an accordionist who sounds like Jello Biafra a little bit. It's good for a laugh or two. Also included are some accordion renditions of D.R.I., Black Flag, Minutemen and Devo songs. I thouroughly enjoyed this album...I don't know why...But I did. Enjoy!

Duckmandu-Fresh Duck For Rotting Accordionists:

1. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)
2. Kill The Poor (Dead Kennedys)
3. Forward To Death (Dead Kennedys)
4. When Ya Get Drafted (Dead Kennedys)
5. Let's Lynch The Landlord (Dead Kennedys)
6. Drug Me (Dead Kennedys)
7. Your Emotions (Dead Kennedys)
8. Chemical Warfare (Dead Kennedys)
9. California Über Alles (Dead Kennedys)
10. I Kill Children (Dead Kennedys)
11. Stealing Peoples' Mail (Dead Kennedys)
12. Funland At The Beach (Dead Kennedys)
13. I'll In The Head (Dead Kennedys)
14. Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
15. Jesus And Tequila (Minutemen)
16. Commuter Man (D.R.I.)
17. Police Story (Black Flag)
18. Uninspired (Aaron Seeman)
19. Girl U Want (Devo)
20. Moon Over Marin (Jello Biafra)
21. Polka Sprach Zarathustra
22. Cellofornia Über Alles (Bonus)
23. Goodbye Get out!

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*Important: You need to use HJsplit to join the two files first and then use WinRAR to extract the files.