Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
by Dead Kennedys
- Type: Compilation
- Released: June 1987
- Label: Alternative Tentacles
- Country: United States
- Length: 50:49
- Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Geza X, technician, Bruce Slesinger, Thom Wilson, Robert Hanrahan, Oliver Dicicco, Jim Keylor, Tom Mallon, East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride, Pippin Youth
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Released shortly after the band's bitter dissolution amid an obscenity trial, this posthumous compilation gathers Dead Kennedys' essential non-album singles, B-sides, and compilation tracks. Jello Biafra's venomous, highly satirical socio-political commentary is matched by East Bay Ray's distinctive, surf-inflected punk guitar work. Featuring legendary anthems like 'Holiday in Cambodia' and 'California 脺ber Alles', it stands as a definitive document of the West Coast hardcore scene.
Genres
Descriptors: political, satirical
Tracklist
- Police Truck (2:23)
- Too Drunk To Fuck (2:38)
- California 脺ber Alles (3:26)
- The Man With The Dogs (3:01)
- In Sight (1:38)
- Life Sentence (2:38)
- A Child And His Lawnmower (0:54)
- Holiday In Cambodia (3:43)
- I Fought The Law (2:17)
- Saturday Night Holocaust (4:22)
- Pull My Strings (5:53)
- Short Songs (0:20)
- Straight A's (2:05)
- Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'Round (4:17)
- The Prey (3:44)
- Buzzbomb From Pasadena (2:20)
- Night Of The Living Rednecks (5:10)
Credits
- Dee Dee - artwork [cover art]
- Jayed Scotti - artwork [cover art]
- Armando Morales - artwork [insert booklet, assistance & contributions]
- Bruce Slesinger - artwork [insert booklet, assistance & contributions], drums, artwork [original sleeve], music by, words by [improvised], music by [improvised]
- Charles Gatewood - artwork [insert booklet, assistance & contributions]
- Coy Thane West - artwork [insert booklet, assistance & contributions]
- Damon Molloy - artwork [insert booklet, assistance & contributions]
- Dirk Dirksen - artwork [insert booklet, assistance & contributions]