Dead Kennedysformed in in 1978 when vocalist Jello Biafra(né Eric Boucher) and bassist Klaus Flourideresponded to a magazine ad placed by guitarist East Bay Ray. The three joined with drummer Tedand formed one of the most successful hardcore punkbands of the 80s. The band played hard and fast punk that matched the raw energy of the West-coast scene with twists such as Ray's surf-guitar influences and Jello's nasal machine-gun vocals and political fervor. They released their first single, "California Über Alles", in 1979 and first album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, in 1980 on Jello's own Alternative Tentacles record label. Fresh Fruitis considered a punk classic.
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Take This Job & Shove It Lyrics
Dead Kennedys
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
I will not get all the pieces
Ive been working for
Paper cups, minimum wage
Just walk on out the door
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
I will not get all the pieces
Ive been working for
Paper cups, minimum wage
Just walk on out the door
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
Theyll have you in this factory
From now on for fifty years
All this time I see my woman
Drowning in her tears
I see a lot of people who
Got to have a piece of me
Id give the shirt right off my back
If I had the nerve to say
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
I will not get all the pieces
Ive been working for
Paper cups, minimum wage
Just walk on out the door
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
Lets all go use our sick leave up
And then well shoot some pool
Got brand new skinhead hair cuts
You think hes a fool
One of these days Ill blow my top
Or somebodys gonna pay
Id hate to see the process
As you enter the factory and say
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
I wont let that shit bother me
That Ive been working for
Paper cups, minimum wage
Just walk on out the door
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here no more
Take this job and shove it
I aint working here, aint working here, aint working here no more