Better With Jello

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Cherry Red Records (BRED 10) in 1980/1981 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. As we are briefly loitering with intent in Punk Americana and as last night's TV news images seem to reflect the cover, here's some rotting veggies. Whilst working in a certain UK music chain store during the mid-late eighties, we were banned from stocking any records by Jello and the boys, even though this album achieved gold status through sales. Thankfully such random censorship has been stamped out these days, regrettably the sentiments and topics echoed in Jello's lyrics may well be just around the corner again.

A1 Kill The Poor
A2 Forward To Death
A3 When Ya Get Drafted
A4 Let's Lynch The Landlord
A5 Drug Me
A6 Your Emotions
A7 Chemical Warfare
A8 Too Drunk To Fuck
B1 California Uber Alles
B2 I Kill Children
B3 Stealing Peoples' Mail
B4 Funland At The Beach
B5 Ill In The Head
B6 Holiday In Cambodia
B7 Viva Las Vegas

Some Jello For Brian

Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck

I thought I'd end my brief run of post-punk punks with a little tribute to Brian. He was the boss of  a certain music retail giant who tried to influence what the British public could see, hear and buy. Brian made sure that you could never buy any Dead Kennedys, Crass or Flux Of Pink Indians in his stores but he was more than keen to peddle you dodgy c-movies like SS Experiment Camp, plus an abundance of soft porn as his stores led the eighties boom in sell through video. If you ever bought a copy of Big Black's Songs About Fucking and were really frustrated when you could not remove the sticker covering the title, blame Brian. In a most bizarre form of censorship, Brian's generals would ensure employees covered up the word Columbia on CBS imports just because his paymasters, a British light bulb company, claimed the rights to the name Columbia. There are no Cs in EMI - or maybe there are? Brian has retired now and I can't help notice that his old company now freely sell Dead Kennedys and Flux Of Pink Indians on their download site in a desperate chase for enough mp3 pennies to stay afloat. This one's for you Brian.

Ripped from a scratchy old 7" single released on Cherry Red Records (CHERRY 24) in 1981 to high'ish quality lossless flac audio.

A. Too Drunk To Fuck
B. The Prey