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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The Great Wall Lyrics
Dead Kennedys
Great wall of china
Its so big its seen from outer space
Put there to keep starving neighbors
Locked outside the gates
Whats changed today?
Empires hoard more than they need
And peasants threaten our comfort
Well build a great wall around our power
Build a great wall around our power
Bankrupt l.a.s streetcar line
So people pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways
To divide neighborhoods by color lines
Wed rather pay for riot squads
Than pump your ghetto back to life
We let your schools decay on purpose
To build a great wall around our power
Another great wall around our power
Warlords in grey suits
Take a different route to work each day
Second-hand green berets
Form the companies private armies.
Well take all your gold
But wont teach reading or feed your poor
The league of gentleman
Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators
Theres too many people in your world
And refugees are expensive
When they trickled down onto our soil
We hunt them and arrest them
Classify them insane
And put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms
Of the same death squads they fled
Weve built a great wall around our power
Economic great wall around our power
Worldwide great wall around our power
Give us your poor,
Your tired and your weak
Well send em right back
To their certain death