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Track Listing
1. California Uber Alles
2. Police Truck
3. Kill the Poor
4. Nazi Punks
5. Holiday in Cambodia
6. Too Drunk to Fuck
7. Viva las Vegas
8. Moon Over Marin
9. Hallo-Ween
10. MTV Get Off the Air
11. Soup Is Good For You
12. Jock-O-Rama
| Details | | Producer: | East Bay Ray | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Dead Kennedys: Klaus Flouride (vocals, bass guitar); D.H. Peligro (vocals, drums); Jello Biafra (vocals); East Bay Ray (guitar); Ted (drums).
Legendary San Francisco punks the Dead Kennedys are considered one of the genre's premier trailblazers. Not only did they make intelligent, sarcastic, deeply funny political songs that skewered 1980s American society, they also built a successful model for independently touring and recording bands to be followed throughout the decade. MILKING THE SACRED COW is yet another career retrospective, similar to 1987's landmark collection GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH, but with several different tracks. On the opener "California Über Alles" as well as other standout tracks like "Hollywood in Cambodia" and "Kill the Poor," the band's recognizable mix of surf-influenced twang, hardcore drumming, and Jello Biafra's madman vibrato take the listener on a tour of the underbelly of Reagan's "Morning in America." With a seething anger barely masked with a sardonic wink, this is potent, hall-of-fame stuff from some true punk-rock greats.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- The liberal-bashing 'Holiday In Cambodia' remains savagely funny punk rage.
[F]or the time that this CD is in the tray you hear a glimpse of what might have been had corporate American not got its way....Quarrelsome, contrary and opinionated.
3 stars out of 5 -- Of all the first-wave US punk bands, the Dead Kennedys are one of the few whose music still sounds totally relevant in 2007...
3 stars out of 5 -- The Kennedys offered singalongs with lashings of great surf-punk/spy-theme guitar and a vocalist that sounded like a cartoon Tasmanian devil...
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