Thursday, November 10, 2005

Today's Good news...


One of the most important bands in the post-punk punk world, one of the only successful (in terms of the craft, not the dollars) punk bands that came AFTER punk's demise, who successfully kept the musical and conceptual ideals of punk alive and true (NOTE TO GREEN DAY AND RANCID - the 3 chord FORMULA - YES, FORMULA - of punk rock doesn't make YOU punk rock. Just sad imitators who missed the point), are finally seeing the remaster reissue treatment.

The Dead Kennedys 1980 debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, has finally been reissued, released on October 25, 2005.

This is the album that contains many of the DK's finest songs, despite the typical debut roadblocks of somewhat amateurish production and instrumentation. Such classics include Holiday in Cambodia, Kill the Poor, the everpresent California Uber Alles, and the odd cover of Viva Las Vegas.

The reissue sadly doesn't include any bonus tracks, but does come with a DVD that I'm sure will be interesting. I'll be heading out to the record store within the next week to purchase this, the remastered reissue of Siouxsie & the Banshee's debut, The Scream, the remastered reissue of Patti Smith's Horses, and hopefully the Manitoba (ne, Caribou) DVD Marino, which was unavailble at the Gov't Center Newbury comics when i went a few days ago.


Thanks to Pitchfork for the heads up!

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