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Advantages: Classic, will have you thinking... at least once Disadvantages: Slightly dated
. However, this does mean the album is only about 35minutes long.
FreshFruit is topped off with a rousing surf-rock cover of Elvis's Viva Las Vegas which should please many different ages and tastes.
The album sounds fairly raw and in places dated but there are various versions, some of which are remastered. Nothing which is surprising from a 25 year old album though.
This album is a shining star that has survived the musical holocaust that was the 80s :) ...
Advantages: Fantastic typically Dead Kennedys chainsaw riffs, And Jello's Voice Disadvantages: One or two weak tracks, but otherwise a stunning album
the American government on both sides of the political spectrum, and the capitalist society in America, but dragging in almost slapstick humour along the way, and attracted, and created much controversy.
After the release of FreshFruit For RottingVegetables, they were invited to play at the Bay Area Music Awards, in front of industry big-wigs, and promoters, to give the band some "new wave credibility" to quote the organizers, and they spent the day practicing their underground hit 'California Über Alles' which made them the talk of the event, however ten seconds into their performance Biafra called 'Hold it! We've gotta prove that we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band; we're a new wave band.' The band, who were all wearing white shirts with a big, black 'S' painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks, to ...
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Product details
Title
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Limited Edition)
Performer
Dead Kennedys
Genre
Hardcore & Punk
Release Date
10/09/2001
Recomended Retail Price
13.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1980
Label / Distributor
Cherry Red / Plastic Head
Engineer
Oliver DiCicco
Producer
Norm
Pieces in Set
2
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5013929115521
Catalogue Number
CDSBRED 155
Additional notes
Album Notes
Dead Kennedys: Jello Biafra (vocals); East Bay Ray (guitar); Klaus Flouride (bass); Ted (drums). Additional personnel: 6025 (guitar); Paul Roessler, Ninotchka (keyboards). Recorded at Moibus Music, San Francisco, California. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Repressing features bonus material, including bonus CD of three singles. To followers of the early-'80s West Coast punk scene, few acts have greater import than the Dead Kennedys, and FRESH FRUIT FOR ROTTING VEGETABLES is their definitive work. Fueled by the hyperactive, paranoid rants of frontman Jello Biafra, the band lays out a blueprint for societal upheaval, preaching distrust of everything, and the eventual breakdown of the totalitarian police state in which we live. His disturbing world view is propelled by the guitar stylings of East Bay Ray, who replaced punk's stereotypical volume assault with carefully chosen and flawlessly executed bursts of musical sarcasm and frightening sonic inventiveness. The album's opener, "Kill the Poor," is a jubilant excoriation of society's treatment of poverty. Songs like "Let's Lynch The Landlord" and "Stealing Peoples' Mail" provide detailed (and hysterically funny) plans for undermining society's oppression, as does "Chemical Warfare," which even goes so far as to act out the violent rebellion. This was rage of unprecedented intellect, vitriol whose eloquence only served to make it more effective. The politics of the classics "Holiday In Cambodia" and "California Uber Alles" are extreme and violent, but also expertly stated and brilliantly executed.
Album Reviews
Spin (5/01, p.112) - Ranked #46 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...FRESH FRUIT scans like an old anarchist newspaper. But 'Kill the Poor' sounds perfect for Dick Cheney's America." Q (5/02 SE, p.136) - 4 stars out of 5 - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums" - "One of the most fiery, politically explosive diatribes you are ever likely to hear..." Mojo (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he shrill, nervy majesty of FRUIT remains unblemished." Mojo (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #9 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "Singer Jello Biafra's vitriolic, merciless verbal lambasting set to a musical backdrop of fervid punk..." Uncut (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Dead Kennedys could echo both the weirdness of Beefheart and the sort of spectral pop that came off Spector's production line. Still fresh. No rot." Uncut (2/03, p.91) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Dead Kennedys were surely the most influential proponents of late-'70s US punk..." Alternative Press (11/00, p.144) - Included in AP's "10 Essential Political-Revolution Albums" - "...Biafra takes on the monied classes and the government, and the songs become almost too intricate for punk. Massively influential." Magnet (p.90) - "Dead Kennedys brought a horror-show vibe to punk that remains more unsettling than the Misfits' comic-book core and battier than My Chemical Romance's make-up."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Kill The Poor
2.
Forward To Death
3.
When Ya Get Drafted
4.
Let's Lynch The Landlord
5.
Drug Me
6.
Your Emotions
7.
Chemical Warfare
8.
California Uber Alles
9.
I Kill Children
10.
Stealing People's Mail
11.
Funland At The Beach
12.
Ill In The Head
13.
Holiday In Cambodia
14.
Viva Las Vegas
15.
Holiday In Cambodia (bonus track)
16.
Police Truck (bonus track)
17.
Kill The Poor (bonus track)
18.
In Sight (bonus track)
19.
Too Drunk To Fuck (bonus track)
20.
Prey (bonus track)
Titles on disc 2
1.
Kill The Poor
2.
Forward To Death
3.
When Ya Get Drafted
4.
Let's Lynch The Landlord
5.
Drug Me
6.
Your Emotions
7.
Chemical Warfare
8.
California Uber Alles
9.
I Kill Children
10.
Stealing People's Mail
11.
Funland At The Beach
12.
Ill In The Head
13.
Holiday In Cambodia
14.
Viva Las Vegas
15.
Holiday In Cambodia (2)
16.
Police Truck
17.
Kill The Poor (2)
18.
In-Sight
19.
Too Drunk To Fuck
20.
Prey, The
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