Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys Lyrics

Dead Kennedys are a punk rock band from San Francisco, California. During the 1980s the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene. Their music mixed the more experimental elements of English 1970s punk with the raw energy of the 1980s American hardcore punk scene. Dead Kennedys' songs mix the deliberately shocking lyrics of punk with a humorous, acerbic, satirical, and sarcastic left-wing commentary on current social and political issues. Many of the band's songs criticize the right-wing ideologies of the religious right and the Ronald Reagan administration, along with many far-left personalities and ideas.

Dead Kennedys formed in San Francisco in 1978 when vocalist Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Boucher) and bassist Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall) responded to a magazine ad placed by guitarist 'East Bay Ray' (Raymond Pepperell). The three joined with drummer '6025' (Carlos Cadona) as a drummer, but he was quickly replaced by 'Ted' (Bruce Slesinger) an...
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Dead Kennedys Songs:

A Child and his Lawnmower A Commercial A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch Anarchy For Sale At My Job Bleed For Me Buzzbomb California ber Alles Cesspools In Eden Chemical Warfare Chicken Farm Chickenshit Conformist D.M.S.O. Dead End Dear Abby Do The Slag Dog Bite Drug Me Fleshdunce Forest Fire Forward To Death Funland At The Beach Gone With My Wind Goons Of Hazard Government Flu Halloween Hellnation Holiday in Cambodia Hop With The Jet Set Hyperactive child I Am The Owl I Fought The Law I Kill Children I Spy Ill In The Head Insight Jock-o-rama Kepone Factory Kill The Poor Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round Let's Lynch The Landlord Lie Detector Life Sentence Macho Insecurity Moon Over Marin Moral Majority MTV - Get Off The Air Nazi Punks Fuck Off Night of the Living Rednecks One-Way Ticket To Pluto Police truck Potshot Heard Around The World Pull My Strings Rambozo The Clown Rawhide Religious Vomit Riot Saturday Night Holocaust Short Songs Shrink Soup Is Good Food Stars And Stripes Of Corruption Stealing People's Mail Straight A's Take This Job And Shove It Terminal Preppie The Great Wall The Man with the Dogs The Prey This Could Be Anywhere (this Could Be Ev... Too Drunk to Fuck Triumph Of The Swill Trust Your Mechanic Viva Las Vegas We've Got A Bigger Problem Now Well Paid Scientist When Ya Get Drafted Where Do Ya Draw The Line Winnebago Warrior Your Emotions