Why is Dead Kennedys - Give me Convenience or Give Me Death held in such high regard?

Fintroll · 10-27-2009, 07:25 PM

I hate that album, its so bland. Fresh Fruit was cool when I was a kid but I grew out of it.

Molecules · 11-07-2009, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Ulysses

Wasn't that the 7" version? If memory serves, that came first and the album came later. If tgpo is talking about 'Give Me Convenience or...'s' version of 'California Uber Alles' then "remaking their own songs into lounge hits" doesn't make any sense, no matter what the "lounge" is referring to.

I honestly took the lounge comment to refer to 'We've Got a Bigger Problem Now'.

i did too initially, but that's on 'In God...', at least the one I have is. And like you said, it's f*cking satire FFS

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Originally Posted by Fintroll

Fresh Fruit was cool when I was a kid but I grew out of it.

Ulysses · 11-07-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Molecules

i did too initially, but that's on 'In God...', at least the one I have is.

Mine is too but I don't know whether things have changed with CD issues and so on. However, I just can't see how "lounge" can refer to anything else but "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now". It's been a long time since I've actually played any Dead Kennedys (probably 6 or 7 years) but nothing readily springs to mind other than that song.

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And like you said, it's f*cking satire FFS

Maybe the problem is one of those author/reader post-modern debates: it's only satire if the reader of a text interpret it as such. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink satire.

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