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Track Listing 1. Take This Job and Shove It 2. Hop With the Jet Set 3. Dear Abby 4. Rambozo the Clown 5. Fleshdunce 6. Great Wall, The 7. Shrink 8. Triumph of the Swill 9. Macho Insecurity 10. I Spy 11. Cesspools in Eden 12. One-Way Ticket to Pluto 13. Do the Slag 14. Commercial, A 15. Gone With My Wind 16. Anarchy For Sale 17. Chickenshit Conformist 18. Where Do Ya Draw the Line 19. Potshot Heard 'Round the World 20. D.M.S.O. 21. Lie Detector
| Details | | Producer: | Jello Biafra | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The Dead Kennedys: Jello Biafra, Klaus Flouride, D.H. Peligro, East Bay Ray. Additional personnel includes: Tim Jones (synthesizer); Jayed Scotti (timbales); Cal Andrew, Blaze (background vocals). Recorded at City Sound and Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Although nobody knew it at the time, this was to be the Dead Kennedys' final official studio album; exhausted by the legal battle brought on by their previous album FRANKENCHRIST, they threw in the towel shortly after recording this one. Fortunately, they go out here in a blaze of angry glory. BEDTIME FOR DEMOCRACY is arguably their most explicitly political album. It's full of furious, supersonic punk assaults on Reagan-era topics, including the Rambo movies ("Rambozo the Clown"), media brainwashing ("Fleshdunce"), fashionable politics ("Anarchy for Sale"), and even punk rock itself ("Chickenshit Conformist"). There's also a hilarious version--certainly the fastest ever recorded--of David Alan Coe's anthem of blue collar dissatisfaction, "Take This Job and Shove It."
Industry Reviews 6 out of 10 - ...Internal friction had comprismised the DK's 'espirit de corps'....Songs like 'Anarchy For Sale' and 'Chickens*** Conformist' chart the comodification of punk values... NME (03/17/2001)
3 stars out of 5 - ...On release, these black comedies were considered alarmist... Q (06/01/2001)
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