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Dead Kennedys is a punk rock artist from San Francisco, California formed in 1978. 33 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Punk Rock · San Francisco, California · Best punk rock albums
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Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
1987 · 17 tracks
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1980
Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc.
1988
Frankenchrist
1985
Bedtime for Democracy
1986
Milking the Sacred Cow
2007
Out Of Luck (Live Berkeley '81)
2024
The Amusement Park (Live)
2023
In The Name Of World Peace (Live San Francisco '80)
2022
Funland At The Beach (Live)
2020
Kill Off The Weak (Live)
2020
Chemical Ware (Live)
2020
Kill The Poor (Live)
2020
KALX - 1979 (Live)
2020
Ill In The Head (Live)
2020
Dreadlocks Of The Suburbs (Live)
2020
Wipe Out The Poor (Live)
2019
Kill Off The Week (Live)
2019
Holiday In Cambodia (Live)
2019
Short Songs (Live)
2019
Haunted October (Live)
2019
Chemical Warfare (Live)
2019
Chemical Weapons (Live)
2019
Live at the Deaf Club
2004
Mutiny on the Bay
2001
Plastic Surgery Disasters
1982
The Virgin Demos
1982
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (2022 Mix)
1980
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 with…
