Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
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Free Music Review: Good album, but not great like the first three albums
Hit: 3 Stars
The ideas adressed in the songs on this album are great accompanied by good songwriting. However, the music is not nearly as good as it used to be. There really isn't the surf rock 'n' roll from hell music on this album that was included on the first three. "Chickensh^t Conformist" is a great song, but the only really flawless tune on this album. Worth a listen, not exactly worth ownership.Free Music Review: Not their best
Hit: 3 Stars
I'm a big DK fan and I was pretty let down by this album. Out of the 21 songs I only like a handful of them. (Although, Cesspools in Eden is one of my favorite DK songs). This album is more for the hardcore DK fans out there. I would suggest Give Me Convenience or Fresh Frut For Rotting Vegetables for someone who is looking to purchase their first DK album.Free Music Review: They STILL want $14.98 for This CD?!?
Hit: 2 Stars
In 1983, I bought "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" on vinyl. Ground the grooves into dust with my record player needle, I listened to it so much.
In 1984, I bought "In God We Trust, Inc." and "Plastic Surgery Disasters." Wore them out, too.
In 1986, I bought "Frankenchrist." Listened to it about a dozen times; maybe 3 or 4 times since.
Then, in 1987, I bought "Bedtime for Democracy" on casette. Listened to it once. Have not heard it since.
Songs like "Moral Majority," "Kill the Poor" and "Well Paid Scientist," "I Am the Owl" -- though political -- were cool, because they were funny and had catchy tunes. But, "Frankenchrist" and "Bedtime for Democracy" just became Jello's long-harangue.
The more DK ran out of musical ideas, the preachier Jello Biafra became. Whine, whine, whine on his soapbox, about the Reagan administration, about poseurs taking over the "punk rock movement." Yawn!
"Bedtime for Democracy" is Jello's second spoken word album, the first being "Frankenchrist." His bandmates provided the background music to his diatribes, but the band broke up shortly thereafter.
Now that they've gone onto other things, Jello has the honesty to call his spoken word CDs by their proper name. And, I don't buy them either.
Free Music Review: Some moments of brilliance but mostly filler
Hit: 2 Stars
This is definitely the weakest DKs release. Comparing this album to, say, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, it seems like a completely different band with a similar lead singer. The songs on this album are very similar, very short and very hardcore compared to the other albums. The lyrics are great but not as great - what happened to rhyming? Jello used to rhyme so well and on this album, there are hardly any rhymes at all! Another annoying thing about this album is the production - songs like "The Great Wall" could have been classics from the In God We Trust, Inc. EP if the production had not been so lousy. Jello's voice has a sort of echo effect applied to it which worked on Frankenchrist because the songs were mid-tempo. It doesn't work on this record though, and it becomes slightly annoying after a while. It's a shame that the best song on this album is a cover, "Take This Job and Shove It". Other standouts include "Do the Slag", "Anarchy For Sale" and "Chickensh*t Conformist" but the other 17 (!) songs seem to be filler. Only for hardcore fans or people with lots of money to spare. Get any album before this, "Give Me Convenience.." or any of the live albums before getting this.Free Music Review: Bedtime for the Kennedys...
Hit: 2 Stars
A slab of raging hardcore punk, the Dead Kennedy's final album, "Bedtime for Democracy", is probably in many ways a response to the disasterous affair conduceted during the investigation of "Frankenchrist". Whereas that album reached through different forms and really expanded the vocabulary of the band, musically, this one focuses on aggressive punk sounds, and doesn't really settle down until halfway through the record. But the pace and intensity picks back up and pretty much sustains for the rest of the album (the exception being Biafra's spoken "A Commercial", absolutely brilliant in its sarcasm).
The net result is I'm always inclined to feel this is really the weakest album in the Dead Kennedys' catalog. Mind you, had it been a different band, I'd've rated it higher, but compared to the earlier material, it really pales.