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Dead Kennedys

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2007 - Milking the Sacred Cow
2004 - Live at the Deaf Club
2001 - Mutiny on the Bay
1988 - Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc.
1987 - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
1986 - Bedtime for Democracy
1985 - Frankenchrist
1982 - Plastic Surgery Disasters
1982 - The Virgin Demos
1981 - In God We Trust, Inc.
1980 - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

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4 Male

Origin
San Francisco, California

Genre
Punk Rock

Style
Punk

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Born

1978

Active
1978 to Present...

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5 users Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk to Fuck
5 users Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
4 users Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
4 users Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
4 users Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia


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Dead Kennedys are an American punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk rock community, and were one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom.

Their eclectic music encompassed their trademark loud and fast hardcore, but also spaghetti western, psychedelic, garage rock and rockabilly. Jello Biafra's biting lyrics tackled the sociopolitical concerns of the Reagan era with a distinct sense of morbid humor and satire, following in the footsteps of such earlier rock satirists as Frank Zappa and non-musical countercultural figures like Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Bruce.

In the mid-1980s, the band was embroiled in an obscenity trial in the United States over the artwork of their album Frankenchrist (1985), which included the explicit titular subject of H. R. Giger's Penis Landscape. The band was charged with "distribution of harmful matter to minors", but the trial ended with a hung jury.

Dead Kennedys released five studio albums before disbanding in 1986. In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra, who had been in a legal dispute with the remaining members over royalties.

The band played three performances in October 2010. At one of the concerts, they debuted their first new song since 1986, "You're Such a Fake".

Since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys, Biafra has continued to collaborate and record with other artists, including Mojo Nixon, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, and the Melvins, and has become a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular.


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