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Staff pick of the week...
This week...Jared picks it!
Artist: Dead
Kennedys
Title: Plastic Surgery Disasters/In
God We Trust, Inc.
Price: $12.75 
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| Government
Flu |
| Terminal
Preppie |
| Trust
Your Mechanic |
| Well
Paid Scientist |
| Buzzbomb |
| Forest
Fire |
| Halloween |
| Winnebago
Warrior |
| Riot |
| Bleed
For Me |
| I
Am The Owl |
| Dead
End |
| Moon
Over Marin |
| Religious
Vomit |
| Moral
Majority |
| Hyperactive
Child |
| Kepone
Factory |
| Dog
Bite |
| Nazi
Punks Fuck Off |
| We've
Got A Bigger Problem Now |
| Rawhide |
Neo-conservatism
is rampant...the religious right is taking over our culture...the
military/industrial complex is bankrupting the country and
individual liberty is being stripped away...
It's 2004, and our society is starting to resemble the early
80s more and more.
I generally think that it's not a good idea to mix politics
and music. It makes you sound preachy and generally turns
people off. If there is one band in the history of rock that
I think successfully bucked the trend, it's the Dead Kennedys.
Their take on Reagan-era American life strives to educate.
A call to action for the under-20 set who consider the network
news to be more of a "tool of the man" than a means for gathering
factual information. In the 80s, there was no more useful
tool for learning about corrupt politics, religious over-zealots,
and foreign policy than the DKs. This follow-up to their
debut full-length I think is their strongest, both in the
music and in the message. This album was my first foray into
the world of hardcore, when our mantra became "the faster
the better" and the message was strong enough to piss off
kids who weren't even old enough to vote.
The car-commercial "punks" of today should take a lesson
from the history book (did I just make myself sound old?)
and add a little substance to that style...
Oh, and more covers of "Rawhide", please...
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