release date: Nov. 1986
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]
producer: Jello Biafra
label: Alternative Tentacles - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "Take This Job and Shove It" (4,5 / 5) - 4. "Rambozo the Clown" - 5. "Fleshdunce" (3,5 / 5) - 6. "The Great Wall" (4 / 5) - 7. "Shrink" (3,5 / 5) - 8. "Triumph of the Swill" (4,5 / 5) - 11. "Cesspolls in Eden" (4 / 5) - 15. "Gone With the Wind" (3,5 / 5) - 17. "Chickenshit Conformist" (4 / 5)
4th and final studio album release by Dead Kennedys. The album was released while the band and Jello Biafra were dealing with the lawsuit against the band for having "distributed harmful matter to minors" after their inclusion of an art poster on the previous album Frankenchrist (1985). The music is a return to faster and shorter hardcore punk songs dealing with political and moral issues, and mostly all-American issues with the Reagan administration and moral majority at center of attention (e.g. listen to "Triumph of the Swill"). The vinyl album was released with a newspaper collage by Winston Smith titled "Fuck Facts". The band split after the release, and Jello Biafra continued as solo artist of spoken word performance art, primarily (e.g. 1989, or 2013) but also released a number of collaboration albums as well as forming and continuing in the band Lard.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]
