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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Triumph Of The Swill Lyrics
Dead Kennedys
Life can only get better
All you need to do is fall in love
Everyone else has fun but you
Buy that fun youll fit in too
Dance your problems away
Government music
Cheap escape to that mind-control beat
Government music
Mellow outlifes too hard
You dont even want to think
See the macho cock-rock metal heroes
Vomit fire out of their big mouths
Shake your fists obediently
Make leni riefenstahl real proud
See the aryan bozo with the red guitar
Parachute on the white house lawn
Gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar
So dumb he cant drive 55
Like bing crosby before them
Government music
Too idiotic to be real
Government music
You want it loud?
Well make sure it goes nowhere
So you wont get ideas
Triumph of the swill
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Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Music is banned in khomeinis iran
On the grounds that it stimulates the brain
Weve done him one better in the land of coke & honey
Using music to put peoples brains to sleep
Ever wonder why commercial radios so bad?
Its cause someone upstairs wants it that way
If the doors or john lennon were getting started now
The industry wouldnt sign em in a million years
So what do we get
Government music
Christian censorship and taxed blank tapes
Shoppers strung out on our false hopes
Will flock to obey
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill