Description
LABEL: Manifesto Records
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 4/29/2003
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1986
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP
Though it may be the most slept-on part of Dead Kennedys’ revolutionary back catalogue, 1986’s Bedtime for Democracy could also be the band’s most sonically extreme, politically feisty, tragically humorous and wildly eclectic release. The 21-song epic twists from a caffeine-crazed speed-through of outlaw country classic “Take This Job and Shove It” towards lysergic conspiracy theory jazz, Rambo-and-Reagan castigating punk and more. Thought-provoking, subversively screwy and often blisteringly fast — Dead Kennedys wanted to make sure you were wide awake to the world around you before they put themselves to bed.