The Official Dead Kennedys/Jello Biafra Thread (punk, rock, favorite song)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-29-2005, 04:23 PM

Their first couple of albums were OK , but they lost the plot big time. One of the things I liked about them was they were one of the very few American bands to actually get what punk was, It wasn`t about getting a mohawk & shouting over 3 chords.It was using the music as an escape & to show the world the issues that affect you & the hypocracy of everything & I think the Dead Kennedys did that probably better than anyone.
Which makes it such a shame that by the mid 80s they were having to write songs about MTV & giving posters away with their albums full of male genitalia for shock value.

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01-29-2005, 04:23 PM	#11 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	Their first couple of albums were OK , but they lost the plot big time. One of the things I liked about them was they were one of the very few American bands to actually get what punk was, It wasn`t about getting a mohawk & shouting over 3 chords.It was using the music as an escape & to show the world the issues that affect you & the hypocracy of everything & I think the Dead Kennedys did that probably better than anyone. Which makes it such a shame that by the mid 80s they were having to write songs about MTV & giving posters away with their albums full of male genitalia for shock value.