Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys studio album
Publication (s)	2nd September 1980
Label (s)	Cherry Red Records , Alternative Tentacles , Faulty Products
Format (s)	LP , CD
Genre (s)	Hardcore punk , political punk
Title (number)	14th
running time	32:55
occupation	Singing : Jello Biafra Guitar : East Bay Ray Bass : Klaus Flouride Drums : Bruce "Ted" Slesinger Guitar on Ill in the Head : 6025
production	"Norm", Dead Kennedys
Studio (s)	Mobius Music, Noe Valley , San Francisco
chronology - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables In God We Trust, Inc. (1981)
Single releases June 1979 California over everything May 1980 Holiday in Cambodia October 18, 1980 Kill the poor

Jello Biafra live

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the debut album by the Californian political punk band Dead Kennedys from 1980. It was released on the British independent label Cherry Red Records and was initially only available as an import in the band's home country.

Today, the album is considered a milestone in American punk history and one of the early style-defining hardcore punk albums. It is characterized on the one hand by the very high tempo of the music pieces contained for the year of publication, on the other hand by the satirical, socially critical texts by lead singer Jello Biafra. In the consistently polemical song lyrics, the Dead Kennedys criticize and caricature social inequality.

History of origin

Since main songwriter Jello Biafra and the rest of the Dead Kennedys fell out, two versions of the genesis exist, one from Biafra and one from the rest of the band. In some places in the following section, different points of view are assigned to the respective people.

Contract search

Founded in 1978, the live band Dead Kennedys was looking for a suitable record company. Because of their provocative band name, the search was particularly difficult. A broad independent scene had not yet emerged and after The Dickies and Ramones the major labels were no longer interested in American punk bands. DIY ("Do it yourself") became one of the pillars of the still young American punk movement.

After the release of the single California über alles by the band's own label Alternative Tentacles , they soon got in touch with music agent Bill Gilliam. A firm booking of the band for concerts was - also in the opinion of the manager of Sham 69 , Terry Gordon - who had also been contacted in the meantime , but was prevented by an insufficient amount of musical material. So far only a few singles and the compilation Live at the Deaf Club have been released. Bill Gilliam then introduced the band to Iain McNay from Cherry Red Records , Terry Gordon started a mediation attempt with Safari Records . However, they had no interest in an album production and so the band concentrated their hopes exclusively on Cherry Red Records.

A short time later the band sent an early version of their song Holiday in Cambodia to McNay to arouse his interest. After initial reservations on the part of McNay, partly because of the provocative band name, the song submitted by the band and planned as the next single was convincing. To produce an album, Cherry Red Records did not initially have the necessary financial resources. According to Biafras this was 8,000 US dollars, according to the information from the remaining band members at 10,000 US dollars. Richard Bishop, a McNay business partner of Caroline Records , offered his assistance. The prerequisite for the advance of the required funds was the contractual consent of McNay and the band to special sales conditions and a three-month exclusive right of sale for Virgin Records , the parent company of Caroline Records.

Before work on the debut album began, the group recorded the single Holiday in Cambodia ( B-side : Police Truck ) at the Tewksbury studio in Richmond . Geza Gedeon, also known as Geza X, was hired as a sound engineer . He had previously worked with Black Flag and Germs and, as a member of the punk bands Deadbeats and The Bag, had his own musical experience. In the United States, the first 3,000 copies appeared on Optional Records, followed by a second release on Faulty Products, an offshoot of Miles Copeland III's independent label IRS Records . The originally planned release by A & M failed because of the name of the band, because label founder Jerry Moss was on friendly terms with Ted Kennedy . In May 1980 the single was released in the United Kingdom, there already on Cherry Red Records.

The recordings for the album

After the successful release of the single, McNay and Gilliam agreed and gave the band the $ 10,000 to record the album. East Bay Ray later stated that the band had budgeted $ 6,000 for the studio and split the remaining money among the four band members. The band rented the studio Mobius Music from Oliver DiCicco in Noe Valley and decided against the engagement of Geza X. In doing so, they overruled Jello Biafra, who preferred this producer. DiCicco, music producer and owner of the studio, was only the sound engineer for the album, as he had little experience with punk music. His previous productions were from the New Age area. Since Klaus Flouride had professional obligations, the recordings only took place in the evening and at night. The studio had just been converted to 16-track technology and was very limited in terms of space. The recording was made on a two-inch, 16-track tape . East Bay Ray used a DOD overdrive preamp for its Fender Super Reverb electric guitar and an Echoplex from the 1960s as a reverb device . He also played an old Telecaster with Seymour - and humbucker - pickups , a neck in the Stratocaster style and a web of Schecter . Jello Biafra used a Neumann U47 microphone , a recommendation from Geza X. An Ampex 351 two-track device was used for the final mix .

East Bay Ray, part producer of the album

The band invested a lot of time in preproduction. The songs were already written and only had to be recorded. Most of the songs were done after the first or second take . There are therefore only a few overdubs to be heard on the album . During the recording, however, there were more and more conflicts within the band, which concerned both the musical and the organizational side of the recording. In particular, Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray oversaw the recording of the album and to this day the two argue about the majority. Ray in particular feels betrayed because he understood that he had too little control over the production. Finally, the booklet named “Norm” as the producer - the name of the producer's Siamese cat . East Bay Ray was named under its real name "R. Pepperell ”as a production assistant. Later pressings contained different information. In addition to Norm, East Bay Ray or “Norm and the Dead Kennedys” were given.

The album was released on September 2, 1980 in the United Kingdom, the pressing was incorrect. The master tape used ran too fast and the low frequencies were also missing. In the band's home country, the album was initially only available as an import; the US version was only released in 1981 via IRS Records .

Music style and lyrics

As with the two previous singles, it is musically fast-playing punk rock, which was later defined as hardcore punk . In addition to early punk rock, elements of garage rock , especially sonics , surf and rockabilly, were also incorporated into the music. This created a mixture of traditional rock elements and punk rock, which was unusual for the time. The singing of Jello Biafra was unusually high-pitched for the time and is reminiscent of an angry hiss.

The lyrics are biting to viciously sarcastic and written from a very left-wing perspective. Not only are individual aspects that were characteristic of the New Left in the United States, but the criticism is directed against all aspects of the so-called American way of life and the entire American political system. In the songs, Biafra often takes the other position and thus mocks his opponents in her own words. The production was quite thin, but the speed and the use of elements unusual for punk later became the trademark of the Dead Kennedys.

layout

Another photo from the "White Night Riots"

There is a black and white photo on the album showing a number of burning cars. The recording was made by Judith Carlson and was made for the San Francisco Examiner . It was recorded on May 21, 1979 during the so-called " White Night Riots ". The riots broke out after former city councilor Dan White shot and killed gay activist Harvey Milk and George Moscone , then mayor of San Francisco, and received what many critics thought was a low prison sentence of just seven years. From the ranks of an angry crowd of almost 5,000 people who marched to the town hall, individual rioters broke out and set more than a dozen police cars on fire that night.

Much of the quality was lost when the image was reproduced for initial publication. Originally, the flames should be shown more clearly, which is why they were colored orange by IRS Records . However, this also affected the rest of the picture, so that Biafra was no longer satisfied with it. Cherry Red Records then took over the black and white printing, which was also used on all subsequent publications. The re-release for the 25th anniversary of the album in 2005 contained a colored version, but only the flames were highlighted, as it was originally planned. Over the years, many different variants of the cover artwork appeared, which differed in the brightness of the motif and in the color of the band logo (white or yellow). On the original version, the name of the album is not on the record cover, but only on the back. This has been changed for some versions.

Another band was shown on the back cover, namely Sounds of Sunshine , which had a small hit with Love Means You Never Have to Say You're Sorry in the early 1970s . In fact, Flouride had bought the photo at some point at the flea market without anyone being able to assign the tape or photographer. The picture was decorated with skulls and the Dead Kennedys logo. When the Dead Kennedys were shown on television and the picture from the back cover was repeatedly shown, former Sounds of Sunshine members, now conservative Christians, became aware of this and sued the Dead Kennedys. The distributor IRS Records finally paid compensation and on later pressings the heads of the band members were simply removed.

Attached to the album was a poster with a collage and the lyrics of the album. The collage was made by Jello Biafra with some assistance from Winston Smith, who was also responsible for the Dead Kennedys logo and later the Alternative Tentacles logo. It was based on the numerous clippings from newspapers and magazines that Biafra had hanging in his bedroom. The style was mainly influenced by the British band Crass , but Biafra's approach was more political and humorous.

Track list

number	title	Songwriter	time	Remarks
1.	Kill the poor	East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra	3:07
2.	Forward to Death	6025 (Carlos Cadona)	1:23
3.	When Ya Get Drafted	Biafra	1:23
4th	Let's Lynch the Landlord	Biafra	2:13
5.	Drug Me	Biafra	1:56	Keyboards: Ninotchka, Paul Roessler
6th	Your Emotions	Ray	1:20
7th	Chemical Warfare	Biafra	2:58	Choir: Rocky Mountain Arsenal Choir
8th.	California over everything	Biafra, John Greenway	3:03
9.	I kill children	Biafra	2:04
10.	Stealing People's Mail	Biafra	1:34
11.	Funland at the Beach	Biafra	1:49	Keyboards: Paul Roessler
12.	Ill in the head	6025, Biafra	2:46	Guitar: 6025
13.	Holiday in Cambodia	Biafra, Greenway, Dead Kennedys	4:37
14th	Viva Las Vegas	Doc Pomus , Mort Shuman	2:42	Original version by Elvis Presley

variants

Early US versions contain the song Police Truck between Let's Lynch the Landlord and Drug Me and thus the B-side of the Holiday-in-Cambodia single. The song was only released again in 1987 on the compilation Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death on an album format.

There are over 30 different versions of the album, which differ not only in the design, but also in the selection of songs. The various single B-sides were occasionally used as bonus tracks. For the 25th anniversary, a Special 25th Anniversary Edition was released with a 55-minute documentary film that included interviews with various actors, including Klaus Flouride and East Bay Ray. In addition, some older live recordings are shown. Some of them were on the video compilation Dead Kennedys: The Early Years Live .

The songs in detail

• Kill the Poor is the satirical callto eliminate theunemployed and people in poverty with the neutron bomb , because the effect of this weapon is "nice, quick, clean and effective" (It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done) and society so no longerburdenedby "welfare tax " (welfare tax) . The lyrics were often with A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift linked, which has a similar over-subscription to the content. However, the idea came from an old Devo interview in Fanzine Search & Destroy. Kill the Poor became the third single from the album. B-side was the track in-sight . The single version is a different mix of the song. An image of the Conservative Party conventionwith the single title was usedas an advertisement. The motif appeared in some newspapers and magazines thanks to clever advertisement placement and late submission. For this, McNay had to justify himself to the advertising council. As a consequence, he was not allowed to use the advertisement again, but that was not his intention.
• Forward to Death is a text that deals with the longing for death. The lyrical self sees itself as an antagonist to the rest of the world. The song comes from Carlos Cadona (pseudonym: "6025"), the band's second guitarist for a while, but who had already left at the time of recording. The text was not a fiction by Cardona, but described his inner workings at the time. When asked how he got the text, he replied that he was often so depressed that he would look forward to death. Although the original idea came from Cadona, the song's music ultimately came about in a kind of jam where everyone added their ideas.
• When Ya Get Drafted criticizes the arms race between East and West during the Cold War . The text itself outlines the horror scenario that a census records all Americans capable of military service in order to be able to wage war more efficiently against other states. Originally written under the name Rhodesia , the first text version still contained motifs from the Cuban Missile Crisis , which, however, has already been picked up by the band Mercenary. Geza X advised Biafra to revise it and so the text was kept more general. The lyrics were downright prophetic, because in February 1980, shortly after the revision, when they were already playing the song live, President Jimmy Carter decided to record all Americans fit for military service in order to expand the armed forces if necessary.
• Let's Lynch the Landlord satirically calls for the murder of landowners who let their properties deteriorate at the expense of their residents in order to maximize their own profit . The text is based on Flourides and Biafra's experiences as tenants. The band needed the most time for the song. At first the drum part was very fast, so that Bruce Slesinger ("Ted" in the credits of the album) did not follow. Therefore, playing the drums has been simplified and the song can be danced with it. The text was essentially shaped by Biafra's predilection for the duo Sparks . Biafra described the "dry, really stupid lyrics" as a big influence on his songwriting.
• Drug Me is about a hopeless life that can only be tolerated through anesthesia. In the lyrics, Biafra criticizes the fact that many means of entertainment - the text mentions television, crossword puzzles, magazines, pornography, among others - primarily serve the purpose of numbing and numbing. The riff was adapted from (We Ain't) Got Nothing Yet by the Blues Magoos . It is one of the fastest pieces in the Dead Kennedy's repertoire and could hardly be played live. Later the band Sepultura released a cover version.
• Your Emotions is about emotions that turn people into monsters. The text was written by East Bay Ray. Klaus Flouride's bass part is reminiscent of the Avengers .
• Chemical Warfare criticizes the arms race and the use of chemical weapons . The text describes how someone who has illegally obtained nerve gas commits mass murder of the guests at a cocktail party . A waltz was built into the song to imitate a dance band at a cocktail party in a country club . The party company was portrayed by friends of the band, including Barbara Hellbent, Bobby Unrest, ChiChi (then manager of the Dead Kennedys), Curt, Dirk Dirkson (Booker), Eric Boucher (real name of Jello Biafra), Geoffrey Lyall (real name of Klaus Flouride), HyJean, Michael Snyder (journalist and music producer), Ninotchka (Therese Soder, singer of Feederz and Biafra's wife from 1981 to 1986) and Will Shater and Bruce Calderwood (both pinball machines ).
• California above all exaggerates in a grotesque form the power of the Californian governor Jerry Brown and subordinates this to the goal of installing a fascist system of government in the USA. The album version is much faster, almost twice the speed of the single version, which sounds a bit rougher and offers more musical variety.
• I Kill Children parodies a psychopath who can't wait to murder the kids who listened to the album. The text was very often misinterpreted because the listeners did not take part in the change of perspective and saw Jello Biafra as a lyrical self . Among other things, this ensured that Tipper Gore and her censorship agency PMRC became aware of the band. In fact, Biafra used a quote from a religious treatise by the fundamental Christian Jack T. Chick as a basis or as the opening line : "God told me to skin you alive". (" God told me to skin you alive ").
• Stealing People's Mail is about people whose entertainment consists of stealing mail in bulk to amuse themselves with their content. Biafra's songwriting was influenced by 1960s Garage Rock and The Screamers .
• Funland at the Beach caricatures sensationalism for catastrophes using the example of a psychopath who sabotages the roller coaster in an amusement park in order to then enjoy the mutilated corpses. The text shows the emotional coldness of the park operators, who are more concerned about a process than being aware of their responsibility. As with Kill the Children , the text was often misunderstood.
• Like Forward to Death and Your Emotions, Ill in the Head also describes a somber state of mind. The lyrical self is ambivalent and doesn't know what to do with it. It's the only song on which Carlos Cadona can be heard that came back into the studio to record after leaving the band a few months earlier. He and Biafra wrote the song together. Biafras gave Cadona a text that he himself was dissatisfied with. Cardona overworked him. With a change between 13/8 and 11/8, the song contains a time signature that is unusual for punk . Cadona was influenced by new music and had tried to lead the band in that direction during his brief joining.
• Holiday in Cambodia was also recorded in a different version than the single version at the time. At the beginning there is a kind of screaming that was caused by an effect over the echoplex of Ray.
• Viva Las Vegas is a parody cover version with slightly changed text and is about the dangers of gambling in Las Vegas . The text originally sung by Elvis Presley is caricatured in such a way that, in addition to criticism of gambling, Presley himself is also criticized. So Biafra exchanged only a few words and rearranged a few sentences so that they ended badly for Presley. In the end, the protagonist of the song is assumed to be using cocaine . This is where a tradition of the Dead Kennedys began: the surprising cover version that did not match the style and music of the Dead Kennedys. It was continued with My Sharona , I Fought the Law and Boris the Spider, among others . Jello Biafra imitated the high vocals of Feargal Sharkey here . Ian McNay planned this as the third single, as he expected it to get a lot of attention from the British media. But the band declined because they feared it would be considered a one-hit wonder .

reception

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Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables   UK 33 09/13/1980 (6 weeks)

Singles

Kill the poor   UK 49 11/01/1980 (3 weeks)

The debut album received mixed reviews. The album performed best in the UK. In the New Musical Express , Andy Gill from Gang of Four criticized the album's themes, which were "remote and no more than punk variety". For this he praised the dynamics as well as the originality and variety of the compositions. Robert Christgau and Lester Bangs were negative. Christgau called Biafras singing " Tiny Tim Vibrato " and compared the music with the Stooges . A good review came from John Tobler from ZigZag , who particularly praised the "subtle" lyrics. In the US, the reviews were more subdued. New York Rocker praised the dynamic tracks on the album, but described the lyrics to I Kill Children and Funland at the Beach as pointless and only written for the shock effect.

Despite the rather subdued reviews, the album sold very well. By the end of the year, Cherry Red Records had sold 30,000 units in the UK alone. In Finland, Spain, Portugal and Australia it even reached top 10 positions. In the British charts the album reached number 33. The single Kill the Poor was placed at 49.

At the time, the album paved the way for the San Francisco punk scene and made it popular in both the US and Europe. It was also one of the milestones of early US hardcore, along with the first releases from Black Flag , MDC and Bad Brains . Today the album is considered one of the most important works of punk music as well as a “blueprint for lyrically and musically versatile punk”. Accordingly, it is often quoted. In particular, the two hits California über alles and Holiday in Cambodia were covered quite often. In the case of the former, the versions by the death metal band Six Feet Under and the indie rock band The Delgados are certainly to be highlighted. There are versions of the latter by Laaz Rockit and Boysetsfire , among others . Serj Tankian and the Foo Fighters played a remake of the song at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards .

The song I Kill Children , especially the opening movement, inspired the artist Winston Smith to create a painting entitled "God Told Me to Skin You Alive", which was later used as artwork for the Green Day album Insomniac . The album also served as inspiration for a number of artists, including Dinosaur Jr. , Hüsker Dü , The Pixies , Nirvana , The Offspring and Massive Attack, who named the album a major influence.

In May 2001 the US music magazine Spin published the special issue 25 Years of Punk with a list “The 50 Most Essential Punk Records” . The album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is there at number 46. The British Mojo called the album the “musically most complex punk album of all time”. Robert Dimery included the album in his musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . In 2004 the German Rolling Stone magazine published a list in which Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables was ranked 185. Both on the list of the US Rolling Stone and in the new edition of the list in 2012, however, it was missing. The New Musical Express included the album in its 2013 list of the 500 best albums of all time. It is listed there at number 365.

Role in litigation between Jello Biafra and the rest of the members in the 1990s

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the only album by the band whose rights were not owned by Alternative Tentacles before the litigation between Jello Biafra and the rest of the Dead Kennedys began. During the legal dispute, it was particularly about incorrectly calculated and unpaid royalties as well as incorrect copyright information. One point, however, was that Biafra would not have advertised the back catalog enough. As a counterexample, Cherry Red Records was selected, which had re-released the album as a digipak with various bonus tracks and thus increased sales from 5,000 to 15,000 copies. As a result, the jury awarded the remaining members the rights to publish all albums except Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables .

documentary

• Fresh Fruit for Rotting Eyeball - 25th Anniversary Edition . Documentation about the early years of the Dead Kennedys, with live concert recordings. (Enclosed in an edition of the album on the occasion of the 25th anniversary) Producer: Eric S. Goodfield.

literature

• Michael Stewart Foley: 33 ⅓: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables . Bloomsbury Academic, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-62356-730-9 .
• Alex Ogg: California Above Everything: Dead Kennedys - How It All Began . . Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-95575-008-4 .

Web links

• Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables on the Dead Kennedys official website. Contains the full lyrics of the album (English).
• Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

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