DEAD KENNEDYS - BEDTIME FOR DEMOCRACY (LP)

Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy on Vinyl LP

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 (1986) 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."

Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy 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.  The Great Wall
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. A Commercial
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