Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

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Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Dead Kennedys studio album
Publication (s)	June 1987
Label (s)	Alternative tentacles , decay music
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Punk rock
Title (number)	17th
running time	51 min 26 s
occupation	Singing : Jello Biafra Guitar : East Bay Ray Bass : Klaus Flouride Drums : DH Peligro Drums : Ted Guitar : 6025
chronology Bedtime for Democracy ( 1986 ) Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death Mutiny On The Bay ( 2001 )

Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death is a 1987 music album by the Dead Kennedys .

History of origin

Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (German: Give me comfort or give me death ) was released after the Dead Kennedys disbanded in 1986. It is a collection of singles , rarities and sampler contributions from the years 1979 to 1986; fifteen of the seventeen tracks had not yet appeared on the group's albums at the time of publication. The title is a corruption of the final sentence of a speech by the American politician Patrick Henry from 1775: “ Give me Liberty, or give me Death! ”(German:“ Give me freedom or give me death ”).

The first edition was published by the singer Jello Biafra's record company , Alternative Tentacles , as a long-playing record with fifteen pieces, enclosed was a booklet and a flexidisc with songs 16 and 17. Most of the songs had already been released as singles or B-sides ; Sampler contributions were A Child And His Lawnmower , which appeared on the sampler Not So Quiet on the Western Front , the live pieces Short Songs and Straight A’s from the sampler Can You Hear Me? Music From the Deaf Club and Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'Round from the 1984 PEACE compilation; a piece that features a fictional telephone conversation between a Secretary Of War At The US State Department and the UK Prime Minister about planning a third world war to revive the economy. In addition, its own version of of is Sonny Curtis written and through the Bobby Fuller Four popularized piece I Fought the Law (later among other things, by the British punk band The Clash gecovert ) and with Buzzbomb From Pasadena a little version quickly played its own Find piece of Buzzbomb .

The piece Pull My Strings is a specialty . This song was only performed live once, on March 25, 1980 at the Bay Area Music Awards , an event of the American music industry. The Dead Kennedys had been invited to represent New Wave to play their hit California Above Everything . Dressed in white T-shirts, painted with a black "S", they put on black ties shortly before the performance, so that a dollar sign could now be seen. They then played the first bars of California Über Alles , only to pause shortly afterwards and say, “We gotta prove we're adults now. We aren't a punk rock band, we're a new wave band! " Playing the song Pull My Strings . This is a satirical settlement with the music industry with a refrain that parodies the hit My Sharona by the band The Knack (“My Payola ”) and culminates in the line of text: “Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough for you to make me a star? ”. The Dead Kennedys were no longer invited to this event.

After the band broke up in the 1990s, there was a rift between Biafra and the rest of the band, which after several court hearings led to the rights to the Dead Kennedys' publications being transferred to East Bay Ray , Klaus Flouride and DH Peligro. As a result, the band's albums were re-released on Manifesto Records . With this re-publication, the authors of the individual songs were also renamed. While Biafra has been the sole author of most of the songs for twenty years on previous editions, the albums now have a joint copyright statement from Biafra (text) and the Dead Kennedys (music).

Track list

1. Police truck
2. Too Drunk To Fuck
3. California about everything
4. The Man With The Dogs
5. Insight
6. Life Sentence
7. A Child And His Lawnmower
8. Holiday In Cambodia
9. I Fought The Law
10. Saturday Night Holocaust
11. Pull My Strings
12. Short songs
13. Straight A's
14. Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'Round
15. The Prey
16. Night Of The Living Rednecks
17. Buzzbomb From Pasadena

Web links

• Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death at Allmusic (English)