Bedtime for Democracy
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Bedtime for Democracy (1986) is the last studio album put out by the original line-up of legendary West coast punk band Dead Kennedys. It is a punk rock album played in the eclectic, individualist style of hardcore (in this case often anarchist) punk. Bearing closer resemblance musically to their own EP In God We Trust, Inc. than other albums, this album is disjointed and inconsistent, but always furious and creative. Displaying the greatest range of lyrical content of any Dead Kennedys work, songs on this album cover such common punk subjects as conformity, Ronald Reagan, the military, and the ubiquitous diatribes criticizing their own punk movement.
Track listing
- "Take This Job and Shove It"
- "Hop With The Jet Set"
- "Dear Abby"
- "Rambozo The Clown"
- "Fleshdunce"
- "The Great Wall"
- "Shrink"
- "Triumph of the Swill"
- "Macho Insecurity"
- "I Spy"
- "Cesspools In Eden"
- "One-Way Ticket to Pluto"
- "Do The Slag"
- "A Commercial"
- "Gone With My Wind"
- "Anarchy for Sale"
- "Chickenshit Conformist"
- "Where Do Ya Draw The Line?"
- "Potshot Heard 'Round The World"
- "D.M.S.O."
- "Lie Detector"
Personnel
- D.H. Peligro - Drums, Vocals
- Smith Winson - Sleeve Art, Srawings
- Peligro - Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Drums
- Winston Smith - Back Cover, Cover Art, Drawing
- P. O'Pillage - Vocals, Layout Design
- John Cuniberti - Engineer, Digital Remastering, Mixing
- East Bay Ray - Synthesizer, Bass, Guitar, Digital Remastering, Vocals, Guitar (Electric), Drums
- Bernie Grundman - Mastering
- Tim Jones - Synthesizer, Vocals (Background)
- Klaus - Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Drums
- Jello Biafra - Producer, Vocals
- Klaus Fluoride - Bass, Vocals