Jello Biafra
DEAD KENNEDYS – Legendary Kamikaze Punks Released Their Debut Album ‘FRESH FRUIT FOR ROTTING VEGETABLES’ 45 Years Ago Today today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
2 September 2025
Legendary kamikaze punks DEAD KENNEDYS from San Francisco, fronted by sharp-teethed blabbermouth Jello Biafra, released their debut LP, titled FRESH FRUIT FROM ROTTING VEGETABLES today 45 years ago , on 2 September 1980.
It was the only DK longplayer with drummer
Bruce Slesinger and guitarist Carlos Cadona.
The photograph on the front cover, showing several police cars on fire, was shot during the White Riot Nights of May 21, 1979, that resulted from the light sentence given to former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White for the murder of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
AllMusic wrote: “A hyper-speed blast of ultra-polemical, left-wing hardcore
punk, and bitingly funny sarcasm, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables stands
as the Dead Kennedys’ signature statement.
As one of the first hardcore albums, it was a galvanizing influence on the musical and attitudinal development of the genre, also helping to kickstart the fertile California scene.
The ragged speed-blur still packs a wallop, and the hooks cribbed from surf and rockabilly
give it a gonzo edge.” Score: 5/5.
KEY SINGLES
ALBUM
JELLO BIAFRA About The World’s Biggest Threat
13 November 2024
Can’t agree more.
JELLO BIAFRA About The STOOGES Classic ‘SEARCH AND DESTROY’Y’
5 May 2024
Dead Kennedys mastermind not happy with Search for the Money.
GIF OF THE DAY
A dead Kennedy flying by…
I Know It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll But It’s… WEEKEND!
11/12 July 2020…
Five firecrackers from the past week to fuel your weekend…
1. ‘Taliban USA’ by JELLO BIAFRA AND GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
A red-hot-blooded metal crackerjack with Biafra doing what he does best, spitting and sneering to ventilate his deep-rooted anger versus the hypocrite USA government.
Fuck Trump…
2. ‘Playing Nero’ – MARK LANEGAN song remixed by IYEARA
Mark Lanegan joined forces with British electro trio IYEARA to remix his
2019 longplayer Somebody’s Knocking. The album will be out on 21 August.
Here’s haunting taster ‘Playing Nero’.
Press play…
3. ‘Shot A Satellite’ by ERASURE
Vince Clarke (ex-Depeche Mode and Yazoo) and singer Andy Bell dropped a second electro disco banger from their upcoming 18th album called The Neon, out next month.
Dance here…
4. ‘Criss Cross’ by THE ROLLING STONES
Previously unreleased track from the upcoming deluxe edition of 1973 longplayer
Goat Heads Soup. A vintage riff crazy Stones knockout. Never too old to rock’ n’ roll.
Get yer ya-ya‘s here…
5. ‘Valentine’ by TRAVIS
An electrical groove that gets slowly but surely under your skin. Both captivating and moody. Travis still have catching power-pop excitement to offer. LP 10 SONGS out soon.
Tune in…
Metal Middle Finger To All American Hypocrites – JELLO BIAFRA Back With New Slam ‘TALIBAN USA’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
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7 July 2020
Ex-Dead Kennedys maestro JELLO BIAFRA and his band THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE is back after seven years. Now that the USA is about to explode we waited for Biafra to come out and raise his middle finger. Which he does now, attacking the hypocrisy of the conservative anti-abortion movement, and all who condemn the pro-choice movement that defends the legal access to induced abortion services. A middle
finger to his country’s violent history, its constitutional right to carry a gun and the countless mass-shootings.
TALIBAN USA is a red-hot-blooded metal crackerjack with Biafra doing what he does best, spitting and sneering to ventilate his deep-rooted anger. It’s a raging in your face blast, full steam ahead. America is sick, America is divided, America is led by an ultra narcissistic megalomaniac. Time for action!
‘Taliban USA’ is the first track from the upcoming new album TEA PARTY REVENGE PORN this fall via Biafra’s label Alternative Tentacles Records.
Press play and scream along at the top of your lungs…
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