What's your favorite Dead Kennedys song?

[xxxx xxx x xxx]

California Uber Alles.

Not a patch on The Clash though.

[The Mollusk]

Well Paid Scientist ("WHY PUNCH THE CLOCK WHEN YOU COULD PUNCH YOUR BOSS?" Yes!!)

This is probably my favourite, it's a ferocious song. These lyrics:

"Pull up to your sterile home
You're drained
Bite the heads off of your kids
Chew them well, they taste like you
Just slam the door"

are so fucking savage and unpleasant.

I generally prefer DKs with some degree of sardonic sneering mania which makes tracks like "Halloween" and "In Sight" among their best for me. "Halloween" is almost unnecessarily scathing and it's all the funnier for it.

Not necessarily a favourite but EBR's awesome jazz guitar on "Ill in the Head" is part of what set DKs apart from their peers with sharp and inventive songwriting and so it's a big standout track for me.

[Jockice]

Best Flipper song is There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly.

Hey, guys, I'm being ironic here. Hope you're enjoying it. Remember when Flexipop asked Jello Biafra what his favourite band was and they printed it as Slipper.

[Goldentony]

I'm going with Moon Over Marin, Riot, We've Got A Bigger Problem Now, Stealing People's Mail and the album version of California Uber Alles, hon mention to Police Truck and the I Fought The Law

[Catalogue Trousers]

Chickenshit Conformist, One Way Ticket To Pluto, MTV Get Off The Air (dig that crazy Latin American trumpet break), and The Man With The Dogs (as well as all of the others nominated thus far).

And yeah, The Clash were largely rubbish. Sorry, but it's true.

[McChesney Duntz]

I kinda wanna listen to the DKs catalogue now, for the first time in several decades. (My Jello fix usually comes via Lard or the one-off Witch Trials album nowadays.) Thank you for that...

[Video Game Fan 2000]

The keyboard part in "Stealing People's Mail" is the funniest thing in a DK song

[Goldentony]

yeah I do like that bit a lot, weird jolly double time 60s wedding organ

[The Mollusk]

Similarly love the manically pompous saxophone blares on "Terminal Preppie".

[the ouch cube]

I Am The Owl

[Pauline Walnuts]

I love DKs in full eerie echoy psych jam mode. Love the Frankenchrist album, one of the most underrated artwork of its era for my money.

Bet it is, you dirty bollocks.


It's my fav of the one I've heard. Not heard Plastic Surgery Disasters, or if I have it was decades ago.

[The Mollusk]

Mate. PSD is their best album by a country mile.

[Pauline Walnuts]

I'll get right on it, just as soon as I've got around to listening to the approximately 754 albums I've been meaning to get around to.

[Goldentony]

I Am The Owl

this also, adding this to my suggestions, TRANSFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM

[jobotic]

What's your favourite MDC album?

I only know the first one and it's brilliant.

[Goldentony]

IT GOES IN THE MDC THREAD

[chveik]

My Jello fix usually comes via Lard

disgusting

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

Moon Over Marin

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

Forest Fire, mainly for the first 30 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGW7Bby-Cw

[kngen]

What's your favourite MDC album?

I only know the first one and it's brilliant.

Yeah, they never really hit those heights again. Smoke Signals has its moments, but This Bloods For You saw them move in a more comedy/novelty band way ('Henry Kissmyassenger!'). I didn't really pay much attention to them after that,  so maybe they returned to their roots, but if they did nobody told me!

[The Mollusk]

Forest Fire, mainly for the first 30 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGW7Bby-Cw

Ha, I was actually just on my way back in here to say that it's very hard to pick the best Jello lyrics but that opening verse is definitely up there.

[idunnosomename]

fondness for Nazi Punks Fuck Off

[gilbertharding]

fondness for Nazi Punks Fuck Off

I once DJd at a friend of a friend's birthday party and played that. Very poor choice - clearly no-one knew what it was. Someone looked at the decks to see what the record was, and I realised that all they'd be able to make out on the label was a black swastika going round and round - the red 'anti-nazi' cross completely invisible, all the lyrics unintelligible apart from something about Nazis and 'Fuuuck offfff!'.

[Pauline Walnuts]

I once DJd at a friend of a friend's birthday party and played that. Very poor choice - clearly no-one knew what it was. Someone looked at the decks to see what the record was, and I realised that all they'd be able to make out on the label was a black swastika going round and round - the red 'anti-nazi' cross completely invisible, all the lyrics unintelligible apart from something about Nazis and 'Fuuuck offfff!'.

Fortunately it was a NF disco so it went down well?

[sutin]

What's your favourite MDC album?

I only know the first one and it's brilliant.

I only know the one with the big dog dick on it and it's great!

[gilbertharding]

Fortunately it was a NF disco so it went down well?

Sorry - yes, I should have finished the anecdote. I was asked that it should be my last record.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Sorry - yes, I should have finished the anecdote. I was asked that it should be my last record.

Don't they have a slow smoochy one to end on, Bengali In Platforms?

[boki]

Gonna second Soup Is Good Food, 'cos I think that's underrated.

[sutin]

Bet it is, you dirty bollocks.

I get off on the shriners in their little cars?

[Mr Banlon]

I get off on the shriners in their little cars?

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums/cars-sale-10/1971-2-oldsmobile-shriner-go-kart-152500/