{"product_id":"dead-kennedys-fresh-fruit-for-rotting-vegetables-2","title":"Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables","description":"\u003cp\u003eDead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is punk at its most gleefully vicious, a 1980 debut that still sounds like a lit fuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of San Francisco's late-1970s scene came a band that paired Jello Biafra's quivering, sarcastic sneer with musicianship far sharper than punk's three-chord stereotype. East Bay Ray's reverb-soaked guitar borrowed freely from surf rock and spaghetti westerns, while Klaus Flouride's bass kept everything careening forward. Their targets were politicians, landlords, the comfortable middle class and complacency itself, all skewered with a comedian's timing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Holiday in Cambodia\" is the standout, a slow-building satire of privileged posturing that erupts into one of punk's all-time great riffs. \"California Über Alles\" lampoons then-governor Jerry Brown with a mock-totalitarian march, \"Kill the Poor\" wraps a savage joke inside a catchy chorus, and the closing cover of \"Viva Las Vegas\" turns Elvis into glorious, unhinged chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe record made the band notorious almost overnight, and its influence runs through decades of hardcore, skate punk and political rock that followed in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than four decades later, the jokes still land and the anger still feels uncomfortably current. Few debuts define a band so completely, and this one still belongs on any serious punk shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57165860372785,"sku":"198704989674","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Dead_Kennedys-Fresh_Fruit_for_Rotting_Vegetables.jpg?v=1793185930","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/dead-kennedys-fresh-fruit-for-rotting-vegetables-2","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}