Dead Kennedys were an American hardcore band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1978.
Their first live show was on 19 July 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco.
The band decided to split up in January 1986 and played their last live show with the original lineup on 21 February 1986 at Freeborn Hall at UC Davis.
Dead Kennedys' lyrics were usually political in nature, satirizing political figures and authority in general, as well as popular culture and even the punk movement itself. They attracted considerable controversy for their provocative lyrics and artwork. Several stores refused to stock their recordings, provoking debate about censorship in rock music. In the mid-1980s, vocalist and primary lyricist Jello Biafra became an active campaigner against the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). This culminated in an obscenity trial between 1985 and 1986, which resulted in a hung jury and also hastened the band's demise (a hung jury results in a mistrial and the case may be retried).
Band members:
Eric Reed Boucher - vocals
Carlos Cadona - guitar
Raymond John Pepperell - guitar
Geoffrey Lyall - bass
Darren Eric Henley - drums
Bruce Slesinger - drums.
"Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables" is the debut studio album by Dead Kennedys, released in 1980 on Cherry Red. The album was reissued in 2005 on Manifesto.
Tracklisting:
1. Kill The Poor
2. Forward To Death
3. When Ya Get Drafted
4. Let's Lynch The Landlord
5. Drug Me
6. Your Emotions
7. Chemical Warfare
8. California Über Alles
9. I Kill Children
10. Stealing People's Mail
11. Funland At The Beach
12. Ill In The Head
13. Holiday In Cambodia
14. Viva Las Vegas
VBR ~272K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc." is a compilation album by Dead Kennedys, released 1993 on Alternative Tentacles.
Tracks:
1-13 LP Plastic Surgery Disasters, their second studio album, released in 1982 on Statik Records and Alternative Tentacles
14-21 12" In God We Trust, Inc., released in 1981 on Statik Records and Alternative Tentacles.
Tracklisting:
1. Government Flu
2. Terminal Preppie
3. Trust Your Mechanic
4. Well Paid Scientist
5. Buzzbomb
6. Forest Fire
7. Halloween
8. Winnebago Warrior
9. Riot
10. Bleed For Me
11. I Am The Owl
12. Dead End
13. Moon Over Marin
14. Religious Vomit
15. Moral Majority
16. Hyperactive Child
17. Kepone Factory
18. Dog Bite
19. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
20. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
21. Rawhide
VBR ~259K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Frankenchrist" is the third studio album by Dead Kennedys, released in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles. The album was reissued in 2001 on Decay Records and Manifesto.
Tracklisting:
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
VBR ~273K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Bedtime For Democracy" is the fourth and final studio album by Dead Kennedys, released in 1986 on Alternative Tentacles. The album was reissued in 2001 on Decay Records and Manifesto.
Tracklisting:
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
VBR ~267K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death" is a compilation album by Dead Kennedys, released in 1987 on Alternative Tentacles. The album was reissued in 2001 on Decay Records and Manifesto.
Tracks:
1 7" Holiday In Cambodia, released in 1980 B-side
2 7" Too Drunk To Fuck, release in 1981 A-side
3-4 7" California Über Alles, released in 1979
5 7" Kill The Poor, released in 1980 B-side
6 7" Bleed For Me, released in 1982 B-side
7 LP Not So Quiet On The Western Front, released in 1982
8 7" Holiday In Cambodia, released in 1980 A-side
9 LP Play New Rose For Me, released in 1988. Originally intended for release as a flexi-disc in 1985 under the name "Lily White Dan And The Hot Potatoes", to be given away at street protests marking Dan White's return to San Francisco
10 7" Halloween, released in 1982 B-side
11 recorded live at BAM magazine's 3rd Annual Bay Area Music Awards at the Warfield Theater, San Francisco, 25 March 1980
12-13 LP Can You Hear Me? Music From The Deaf Club, released in 1980
14 LP Wargasm, released in 1982
15 7" Too Drunk To Fuck, released in 1981 B-side
16 produced at Mobius Music, Spring, 1982
17 recorded live by Persons Unknown at the Earth Tavern, Portland Oregon on 19 November 1979.
Tracklisting:
1. Police Truck
2. Too Drunk To Fuck
3. California Über 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
VBR ~281K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
