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Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles
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The Dead Kennedys describe an exaggerated hippy dictatorship under a Presidency of Jerry Brown, who was Governor of California and a presidential hopeful at the time of recording
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Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off!
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After the release of the Dead Kennedy’s first album Neo-Nazi punks started to come to their shows because of their satirical songs that had gained popularity, such as Kill The Poor
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Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
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The song is a criticism of pitiful, self-righteous people and their attempts to tangentially support those less fortunate than themselves by merely mentioning their plight or
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Dead Kennedys – I Fought the Law
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The original lyrics to “I Fought the Law”, which was first recorded by the Crickets in 1960, popularized by the Bobby Fuller Four in 1966 and turned into a punk staple by the Clash
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Dead Kennedys – Kill the Poor
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The third single off the punk classic Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, “Kill the Poor” portrays a right-wing celebration of neutron bombs being sicced on poor people in the name
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Dead Kennedys – I Am the Owl
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This is a song about the theme of government overreach.
Cites things such as ‘Big Brother’, CIA, NSA, FBI.
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Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
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Originally released as the B-Side on the Holiday in Cambodia single in 1980 and later re-released on some versions of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables and, finally, on the 1987
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Dead Kennedys – Too Drunk to Fuck
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Released in 1981, Too Drunk to Fuck was the fourth single from Dead Kennedys. Even after being banned from the radio, and some record stores, it reached the #36 spot on the UK
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Dead Kennedys – Soup Is Good Food
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[Verse 1] / We're sorry, but you're no longer needed / Or wanted, or even cared about here / Machines can do a better job than you / And this is what you get for asking questions
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Dead Kennedys – We've Got a Bigger Problem Now
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The 7th track of Dead Kennedys‘ 1981 EP In God We Trust, Inc, later reissued as the 20th track on the CD edition of their 1982 album Plastic Surgery Disasters. “We’ve Got a Bigger
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Dead Kennedys – Gaslight
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[Verse 1] / Lady Darkness waves her wand, reality drinks lysergic acid / Makes 'em rally through tough times, support your local steel / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Positive idea works again
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Dead Kennedys – Rawhide
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A cover of Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin’s song, originally the theme song from the 1960s show Rawhide. The lyrics are about the job of a drover on a cattle drive. Typical DK
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Dead Kennedys – Let's Lynch the Landlord
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Exposes some of the evils that landlords—specifically slumlords—were notorious for in the old days.
Jello Biafra also declares that the physical place that inspired the song is “
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Dead Kennedys – Pull My Strings
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This song was played only once at the Bay Music Area Awards, after the Dead Kennedys were brought to bring “New Wave Credibility” to the awards by playing their single “California
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Dead Kennedys – Drug Me
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[Verse 1] / I don't want to think / Don't make me care / I wanna melt in with the group / I need the balls / To leap out of my shell / And let go with my friends / Can't come up
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Dead Kennedys – Dear Abby
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[Intro] / Dear Abby: / Got a problem... / [Verse 1] / I'm a decent, underpaid / Hardworking county coroner / It's important that my family eats meat / At least three times a week
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Dead Kennedys – Kidnap
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[Intro] / Hey, hey, hey, hey! / Liberation for today! / [Verse 1] / Kidnap, everyone in Italy / Kidnap, any bigwig you please / Kidnap, Caroline Kennedy / Kidnap, Donny and rape
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Dead Kennedys – Halloween
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[Intro] / Yow! / Oh / [Verse 1] / So, it's Halloween / And you feel like dancin' / And you feel like shinin' / And you feel like letting loose / But what ya gonna be? / Babe, you
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Dead Kennedys – Dead End
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[Verse 1] / Once, I had a close friend / I knew him for quite a while / He seemed all right to me / We had this deal together / Took all my money and time / And then he went away
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Dead Kennedys – Terminal Preppie
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This song is basically about people who go to college to get drunk, have sex and be a snob in general. And also to get a major in business.
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Dead Kennedys – Chickenshit Conformist
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The 17th track on Dead Kennedys‘ 1986 album Bedtime for Democracy. Written by vocalist Jello Biafra, “Chickenshit Conformist” is about his disillusionment with the punk movement at
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Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
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Set in the near future, the song is narrated by a smugly confident jogger in Marin County, the wealthy enclave connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate bridge. It imagines a
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Dead Kennedys – Life Sentence
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[Verse 1] / You used to be a partner in crime / Now you say you ain't got the time / Gotta get serious, gotta plan / Gotta pass those entrance exams / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh, my God
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Dead Kennedys – The Prey
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[Verse 1] / You're from out of town / I can tell that by your shoes / Flew in for the convention / Getting tipsy in a bar / [Verse 2] / You're leavin' pretty late / Gotta get up in
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Dead Kennedys – Riot
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[Intro] / Rioting, the unbeatable high / Adrenaline shoots your nerves to the sky / Everyone knows this town is gonna blow / And it's all gonna blow right now / [Verse 1] / Now you
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Dead Kennedys – Government Flu
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The opener to the second full-length album from Dead Kennedys paints a paranoia filled story of the government trying out viruses on civilians through the water supply, to see if
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Dead Kennedys – Viva Las Vegas
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A cover of Elvis’s original song recorded by the Dead Kennedys for their debut album. Most of the lyrics are unchanged, although there are some changes made to the second a fourth
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Dead Kennedys – Bleed for Me
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[Verse 1] / You've been hanging 'round / With an enemy of the state / Come with me to the building / That no one stops to watch / [Chorus] / C'mon, bleed / C'mon, bleed / C'mon
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Dead Kennedys – Hellnation
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[Verse 1] / Hellnation's what they teach us / Profiting from greed / Hellnation's what they give us / Coke, heroin, and speed / Hellnation's when they tell you / You gotta go clean
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Dead Kennedys – When Ya Get Drafted
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[Verse 1] / Are you believing the morning papers? / War is coming back in style / There's generals here, advisors there / And the Russians nibbling everywhere / The chessboard's
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Dead Kennedys – I Kill Children
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No Jello Biafra isn’t a kiddie killer like some might suggest. Jello Biafra sings through the perspective of a serial killer who murders children.
According to wikipedia, Jello
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Dead Kennedys – Fleshdunce
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[Intro] / Ooh, ow! / Hey! / [Verse 1] / We're world industries' thought lords / The entertainment wing / We keep you all in line / By fixing your free will / Surround you with pop
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Dead Kennedys – Straight A's
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A song about a suicidal 16 year old in high school who is bullied and pushed around by everyone he knows despite having good grades and being a model student. Brings to mind the
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Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare
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[Verse 1] / Down at the arsenal, they keep the nerve gasses / Guarded day and night by caged white rabbits / Been sitting there for years, I'm gonna have at it / I cut through the
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Dead Kennedys – Buzzbomb
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[Intro] / Vroom, vroom, vroom! / [Verse 1] / Buzzbomb, buzzbomb / Macho-mobile / The road's my slave / That's how I feel / I cruise alone / I cruise real far / I don't love you / I
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Dead Kennedys – Winnebago Warrior
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Track 8 on Dead Kennedys' second album Plastic Surgery Disasters, “Winnebago Warrior” is a satire of people who like to think they’re “roughing it in the great outdoors” by going
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Dead Kennedys – D.M.S.O.
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[Verse 1] / D... M... S... O... / Crypto-wonder drug in vogue / Some people say it cures arthritis / Maybe that's why it keeps getting banned / It's absorbed directly through the
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Dead Kennedys – Forest Fire
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This song is criticizing the super-wealthy and their decadent but meaningless lifestyle, which he takes pleasure in destroying.
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Dead Kennedys – Your Emotions
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[Verse 1] / Your mommy told you this / And your daddy told you that / "Always think like this / And never do that" / You learned so many feelings / But what is there to that
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Dead Kennedys – In-Sight
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The song is about a typical loner kid surrounded by a bunch clan minded yuppies. Written from the perspective of a gaggle of yuppies they all talk about how weird he is.
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Dead Kennedys – Moral Majority
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[Spoken: Jello Biafra] / "We are gathered here tonight... / To pay tribute to our Lord / And money unto me! / Oh, Lord in Heaven, let us pray! / You, TV viewers, give me your pay
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BLACKSTARKIDS – DEAD KENNEDYS
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[Verse 1] / I woke up this morning, wanted to try something new / Just try, just try / I had a dream that I could talk the dead and we were cool / We were friends, we were friends
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