DK

(not you DK, but DEAD KENNEDYS. )

I've been into listening to albums of ole' lately. Not that old, but albums from my youth (early 80's). I've been going out and buying the CD's to burn onto the iPod, since all i have is the actual record and no record player.

I listened to Plastic Surgery Disasters from DK this night and had chills down my spine with the sheer timelessness of this album. Their other CLASSIC album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is equally amazing. Those two albums are two of my all time favorites and two of the most influential early US punk albums, if not THE two. (The Circle Jerks "Group Sex" and "Wild in the Streets" come close.) Unfortunately, not many bands could follow their lead: great politically inspired punk music that wasn't just 3 power-chords (3 chords on the guitar with lots of distortion). The brits did it better, and always have since then. I love Bad Religion, but DK's music is much better. Jello Biafra was/is an excellent songwriter that put into words what most people of that time couldn't elucidate. There are more classic lines from those two albums than ALL of the "punk" albums since 1985 put together. Seriously. Winnebago Warrior is a masterpiece - Jello had a way of making you laugh at the most serious and awful things! You laugh shaking your head amazed at what humans do (in a bad way)! History repeats itself every freakin decade and we don't even think about it.

Go get these albums if you don't know what I'm talking about...NOW! You won't be disappointed. Or if you haven't heard them in awhile, take a listen again and be surprised at how the band could be singing about this administration and what's going on in the world right now.