Rappers React To Dead Kennedys "Holiday In Cambodia"!!!

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  • @davidmassey6332
    @davidmassey6332 Рік тому +124

    So happy to see yall doing this one. I feel like this song and ‘Uber Alles’ should be required for students, so they understand the horrors of totalitarian regimes.
    Oh and when you do ‘Uber Alles’ they are using another historical reference to fascism, because the beginning of the Naz- national anthem goes: Uber Alles Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles unt verld (not exact on the spelling). But it means:

    • @davidmassey6332
      @davidmassey6332 Рік тому +8

      ‘Above all, Germany, Germany above all the world’ And once you read the lyrics, it will make sense the message they are conveying

    • @mikethemotormouth
      @mikethemotormouth Рік тому +7

      For clarity's sake, the title is "California Uber Alles"

    • @davidmassey6332
      @davidmassey6332 Рік тому +6

      @@mikethemotormouth I knew I was close😅

    • @Hollywood6IX
      @Hollywood6IX  Рік тому +14

      So glad you gave us our first intro into DK and we will definitely get to more. Thank you so much for all your love and support on Patreon.

    • @elpolaco7654
      @elpolaco7654 Рік тому +2

      The words of this poem were written in 1841 and were considered revolutionary at the time. The author lost his job shortly after its publication. They were sung to the tune of Haydn's 1797 composition, which was the anthem of the Austrian monarchy.
      Over time, the song grew in popularity, especially during World War I, and in 1922 it became the anthem of Germany (Weimar Republic), more than 10 years before the National Socialists came to power.
      Currently, only the third stanza of the poem is the anthem of Germany. The melody has remained the same.

  • @chagatainouveau
    @chagatainouveau Рік тому +186

    I'll give you the background of the lyrics: Dead Kennedys were an anarcho-punk band, they were left-libertarians essentially. They were known to lampoon what they thought were dumb, hypocritical takes from all political leanings. This included the "champagne socialists", those who had great standards of living under capitalist countries but romanticized communist regimes in the third world. This song basically lampoons those people, those who romanticized across the board equality, "being one" under brutal communist regimes like the Khmer Rouge, when in reality it was absolute hell to live under those repressive regimes. Why did they choose Cambodia in particular? Probably because it was basically communist ideals driven to absolute extremes, the regime got rid of all intellectuals that it deemed to be anti-revolutionary, got rid of all private ownership, forced people who lived in urban areas to move to rural areas to work on farms and fields to support an agriculture-based economy, where they were overworked to death or killed when they tried to resist forced labor.

    • @brandontwohawks
      @brandontwohawks Рік тому +9

      Nailed it

    • @jasonjames6383
      @jasonjames6383 8 місяців тому +2

      Yep, spot on.

    • @meganmbleed
      @meganmbleed 7 місяців тому +3

      I take it you’re gen x 🤘🏻

    • @chagatainouveau
      @chagatainouveau 7 місяців тому +5

      @@meganmbleed I'm late Millennial/early Gen Z, actually. I just read a lot. ☺️

    • @karlajaeger2082
      @karlajaeger2082 6 місяців тому +4

      Jello and dk are definitely not libertarian. They are anarchistic and socialist.

  • @LeviAckerman-cb5ji
    @LeviAckerman-cb5ji Рік тому +121

    Rest in piece D.H. Peligro, one of my all-time favorite drummers.

    • @Tomi_BuzzCat
      @Tomi_BuzzCat Рік тому +4

      Rest in Peace 🕊️ ✌🏻

    • @bigmatt2896
      @bigmatt2896 Рік тому +1

      rest in cambodia.........

    • @randywissler9923
      @randywissler9923 Рік тому +4

      This was the comment I was looking for!!! D.H. was not just a great punk drummer but a great all around drummer!! R.I. P D.H. PELIGRO

    • @Alix777.
      @Alix777. Рік тому +3

      He was such a great drummer

    • @kylepickus5712
      @kylepickus5712 Рік тому +3

      I didn’t know he passed! Fuck man. I saw him in Austin about 6 years ago and he was still banging the fuck out if those drums like it was still 1984

  • @bill9605
    @bill9605 Рік тому +36

    Dead kennedy's one of the greatest punk bands of all time

  • @jay4778
    @jay4778 Рік тому +76

    Pol Pot was the Prime Minister of Cambodia his real name was Saloth Sar. Pol Pot is actually a acronym meaning Political Potential and he pretty much orchestrated the Cambodian genocide. There's you a dose of history for today guys lol 🤘🤘

    • @KenBober
      @KenBober Рік тому +8

      A friend that was a death metal drummer for The Summoned was from Cambodia and told me about those stories. He was born a few years after but his parents were enslaved by him. He also told me stories about you don't walk off a path due to landmines.

    • @Capitan_Chaos
      @Capitan_Chaos 8 місяців тому

      You earn something new every day.

  • @rbbea
    @rbbea Рік тому +55

    Pol Pot was a revolutionary despot in Cambodia around 1975 to 1979. The revolution and the revolutionary government caused the deaths of more than one million people from forced labour, starvation, disease, torture, or execution while carrying out a program of radical social and agricultural reforms. I remember press reports at the time of anyone thought to be an intellectual or in any way educated being persecuted, tortured and executed. This even when as far as killing teachers and even people who wore spectacles. Cambodia was a nuts scary place to be so the Holiday in Cambodia title and lyrics refers

    • @bill9605
      @bill9605 Рік тому +1

      Damn bro you nailed it

    • @cmhenator
      @cmhenator Рік тому +9

      There’s even more to it:
      Very few people outside Cambodia even paid attention, but the United States was planning to recognize the Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot’s party) as the legitimate government of Cambodia if they would foreswear Vietnam and the USSR and be a US ally in the region.
      Meanwhile, one of the only countries that was paying attention was Vietnam-which invaded Cambodia, deposed Pol Pot, and put in place a non-genocidal socialist government before the US could officially recognize the Khmer Rouge.
      One of the reasons the Dead Kennwdys wrote “Holiday In Cambodia” was to call attention to this situation in the West, the same way the intent of “The Killing Fields” was to bring attention to it.

    • @maxterbait4438
      @maxterbait4438 Рік тому +3

      @@cmhenator”non-genocidal socialist government” I see we’re engaging in headcanon today.

    • @RevStickleback
      @RevStickleback 11 місяців тому +5

      @@cmhenator There's also the detail that illegal bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam war was a big factor in the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

    • @Jasonradiation999
      @Jasonradiation999 5 місяців тому

      Socialist isnt nazism ​@@maxterbait4438

  • @sentenced03
    @sentenced03 Рік тому +87

    You guys nailed the meaning. So many people hear this song and bulk at the use of that particular word without looking at the context in which it's being used. If you guys do dead kennedys again, california Uber alles would be an obvious song to do next.

    • @randomname3109
      @randomname3109 Рік тому +4

      balk

    • @xerodelacroix5552
      @xerodelacroix5552 Рік тому +4

      Romeo's Distress by Christian Death.

    • @Alix777.
      @Alix777. Рік тому +1

      ​@@xerodelacroix5552 Totally different genre

    • @Alix777.
      @Alix777. Рік тому +1

      ​@@xerodelacroix5552 But it's probably my favorite Christian's Death song

    • @sirsancti5504
      @sirsancti5504 11 місяців тому

      Yeah.. Everybody must disregard *that* word.. No matter what they're talking about.

  • @smokeyverton7981
    @smokeyverton7981 Рік тому +19

    Jello was on Oprah (1986) blasting Tipper Gore about free speech and those awful "Parental Advisory" stickers on music

  • @pulleyfm8585
    @pulleyfm8585 Рік тому +18

    The meanings actually a lot more harsh than and directed than what your interruption was. The songs directed at people who have never experienced or interacted with (in this case specifically black culture) acting like they know and understand that culture because of what they've read about it or have seen in the media.
    They're basically saying alright you're so smart and you know everything about how to deal with and solve all these issues affecting the world, go to the single worst place on the planet (at the time) and experience that then figure out. An educated white person showing up there at that time would instantly be tortured and killed then have their body paraded around.
    The song hits even harder today because people are so desensitized to the world that news of violence or genocide doesn't even register as a tragic to most young people now, it just gets flicked past. At the same time even the threat of physical violence, let alone actually getting in a fight is something that a lot of people who think they have the answers would struggle to handle emotionally and move on from because their space is usually so protected.

  • @ladaddy19
    @ladaddy19 Рік тому +19

    This album is a masterpiece and should be in every collection. Definitely check out more Dead Kennedys. Jello is the truth.

  • @russrollins9978
    @russrollins9978 Рік тому +30

    Jello Biafra is amazing and still speaking out to power. When I had a radio show in the nineties, I would end my show either with The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen (Ren & Stimpy), or with Jello's Pledge of Allegiance with Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner playing underneath. The two matched up surprisingly well.

    • @johnsambo9379
      @johnsambo9379 Рік тому

      He's a communist dork. Maybe he should go live in Venezuela.

    • @ladaddy19
      @ladaddy19 Рік тому

      100%

  • @DarkAngel1985Mike
    @DarkAngel1985Mike Рік тому +22

    The Dead Kennedy’s were highly political but with a sense of humor too and spoke the truth harshly and were left wing liberal

    • @DefinitelyNotBender
      @DefinitelyNotBender Рік тому +5

      They were not liberal at all. They were Anarchist.

    • @DarkAngel1985Mike
      @DarkAngel1985Mike Рік тому +5

      @@DefinitelyNotBender most anarchists I’ve known have usually been on the liberal side so I tend to think of it that way, they rallied against the conservative administration in the 80’s

    • @DefinitelyNotBender
      @DefinitelyNotBender Рік тому

      @@DarkAngel1985Mike Anarchist are true Left. Liberals are on the right in every country besides the US and Canada. They are not similar at all and the "Anarchist" you've known are not actual Anarchist if they were in any way NeoLiberal. Actual Anarchist despise Libs more than Conservatives. At least Conservatives are honest about who they are. The Left in the US/Canada died and co-opted by Liberals/"Progressives" in 2014 with the death of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Any actual Leftist still around are now considered Post-Left/Alt-Right/Populist.

    • @TransHippie
      @TransHippie 8 місяців тому +3

      I'm sorry, but you seem confused about what "liberalism" really is. Socially permissive does not mean the same thing as liberal, at least not in the sense of political ideologies like anarchism vs liberalism. Within that context, liberalism is a center right philosophy that is absolutely 100% capitalist. Liberalism and left anarchism are mutually exclusive. DKs "Where Do Ya Draw the Line" is evidence that "liberal" is just an incorrect adjective to apply to DKs or Biafra. As is "Let's Lynch the Landlord" "Cesspools in Eden" and "Police Truck." Biden true believers will hate all of those songs.

  • @hipsville
    @hipsville Рік тому +13

    Original old school LA punk here. Saw the DK's live many times from 1980-84 and met Jello as well, back in the day.
    One of the best!!

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 6 місяців тому +1

      You mean SF punk.

  • @ExUSSailor
    @ExUSSailor Рік тому +13

    When I was in the Third Grade, in 1987, I got a walkman for my birthday. I went into my older brother's room to borrow a tape. I picked "Give Me Convenience, or, Give Me Death" by the Dead Kennedys. From the opening of "Police Truck" it was my "Road to Damascus" moment. 35 years later, I'm still a Punk!

    • @ExUSSailor
      @ExUSSailor Рік тому

      You should also react to "California Uber Alles", "Halloween", "Kill the Poor", and, "Moon Over Marin".

    • @macPles
      @macPles Рік тому

      One of my favourite albums. Remeber having it on tape and playing on my walk man while skating. 🤘

    • @ledteeth
      @ledteeth Рік тому

      Bad brains big takeover. Was the song the lured me in.

    • @LeahDyson-kq4bd
      @LeahDyson-kq4bd 4 місяці тому

      Is kinky S makes the world go round on there I like that song very funny stuff

  • @keithwatkins7908
    @keithwatkins7908 Рік тому +37

    A fantastic song. British Punk scene had long died out, but USA brought a hardcore punk scene featuring the likes of Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat etc. in the early 80's.

    • @trenchy1990
      @trenchy1990 Рік тому +1

      I'd say the band that was the most influential for the Dead Kennedy's was 'The Saints' from Australia.

    • @LeviAckerman-cb5ji
      @LeviAckerman-cb5ji Рік тому +2

      I grew up during the Boston hardcore scene: Gang green, DYS, Jerry's kids and so on.

    • @DavidDArcy1975
      @DavidDArcy1975 Рік тому +8

      the british punk scene had definitely NOT died out, check your history mate

    • @jaizarulrohayu44
      @jaizarulrohayu44 Рік тому +1

      ​@@DavidDArcy1975he forget about UK82✌️💆

    • @Larsvegasism
      @Larsvegasism Рік тому +2

      @@DavidDArcy1975 Damn right!!!

  • @Dani-x01
    @Dani-x01 Рік тому +14

    I'm a metalhead but I love old rough punk straight out in your face as dead Kennedy's among others in this particular punk era other than that you guys diving right into the disturbing real meaning of this song.

  • @michaelward5370
    @michaelward5370 Рік тому +8

    Sepultura used to do an awesome cover of this song at their concerts!!

  • @bobschenkel7921
    @bobschenkel7921 Рік тому +13

    Lead Singer for The Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra had one of the great lines in a song ever. "Give me convenience or give me death". As sentenced03 says below, the next DK's song for you guys should be "California Uber Alles".

    • @badelementofstyle5238
      @badelementofstyle5238 5 місяців тому

      "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" is the name of a compilation album on which this version of the song appeared, not a lyric from a song. The original version appeared on "Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables".

  • @nathanclarke2777
    @nathanclarke2777 Рік тому +8

    Back in the late 90's early 2000 nds I knew a girl who worked for Alternative Tentacle Records! She introduced me to The owner who was the lead singer from them! He was a great guy!

  • @GymH2Oxy
    @GymH2Oxy 3 місяці тому +1

    You need to see any live version of them, the energy that their singer has is amazing.

  • @NickKaminski1980
    @NickKaminski1980 Рік тому +12

    San Francisco punk (at least until the late 80's and 90's) was very different from any other punk music i can think of at that time. Very avant-guard, noise rock and post-punk. You'll find most of these bands on Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. They heavily influenced bands like the Melvins, which, in turn, was added to the mixing bowl of what became Grunge in the mid to late 80's.

  • @nerobron
    @nerobron Рік тому +2

    I haven't tuned into this show in forever but the moment I saw this, I had to see how they reacted to the unapologetic hard N-word
    They did not disappoint. It left the impression an anarchist punk band would have wanted it to, but they also kept bopping to it because it was just as sharp as it needed to be; one sudden vicious cut in a sea of flaming intense political commentary backed by some of the most pleasantly menacing bass riffs possible

  • @pustak
    @pustak Рік тому +10

    Love to see you reacting to the DK's -- check out "Kill the Poor" or "Police Truck" next for some more social commentary!

  • @michaelgrabner8977
    @michaelgrabner8977 Рік тому +11

    My most favourite Punk Band in my teens in the 80ties...Great you did react to that, gave me old man lots of nostalgia...and believe me when I say they had much deep stuff released in the 80ties as long as they had their original line up.
    They weren´t before Sex Pistols but quite right after..this track got very first released in 78/79ish where the remembrance to the Vietnam war was still fresh in the people´s mind (there were also illegal secret operations in Cambodia as well during the Vietnam war because "Charlie" often crossed the border and took the Cambodian jungle as their hiding spot and often operated from there as well)
    But the song got recorded + realeased again several times later as well which they did with some few other tracks as well where you then had 2 to 3 slightly different performed versions, you heard the 1980 release and not the very first release

    • @Jasonradiation999
      @Jasonradiation999 5 місяців тому

      This logo was the most drawn everywhere. By peeps who had no clue what it was! But , with that said, we all also drew that. Cursed. S that looked like a figure 8... and pointy. What is the origin of this? There are historical peeps who will pay lots to figure this one out! 😂

  • @sterling8298
    @sterling8298 Рік тому +5

    Smokey said it best about punk rock. Back when I was a teen, if you were in a band that you considered punk rock, you had to sound like this song to be considered authentic punk.
    I remember watching the movie Salt Lake City punk back in the day. It's such a great movie about the lives of punk rock music. I've rewatched it many times over the last 20 some years.

  • @achebwahs1111
    @achebwahs1111 Рік тому +9

    DK's were my favorite band as a teenager in Australia. They opened my eyes to the political corrupt

  • @punkjay4681
    @punkjay4681 Рік тому +7

    Well, they have a song with the other n-bomb, plus an f straight in the title called "Nazi punks fuck off", how about that one? 😂
    If you were uncertain if Holiday in Cambodia is punk, this one is straight up hardcore punk. One minute of aggression 😊

  • @chriswilloughby48
    @chriswilloughby48 Рік тому +2

    I'm so glad you guys understand the song. It's from the album "Give me Convenience or Give me Death" which is a play on the French revolution slogan "Give me Liberty or Give me Death", which is basically saying that western society has devolved to convenience being the privilege prized experience. Like those degenerated beings who liked intellectual and physical ease above everything else in WALL.E Like people arguing about their fast food meal not being fast enough, and this attitude that the Dead Kennedy's saw in US culture that they felt could precipitate a society which is more fascistic and has decreasing rights. As they say, in fascist countries at least the trains run on time. You have convenience but at the cost of genuine personal; autonomy and liberty. The song is a cautionary tale to wish for convenience over democracy. And how that will create fascism like in Cambodia at the time.

    • @davidbergerson
      @davidbergerson 6 місяців тому

      Actually, Give me convenience was more of a compilation album. Holiday was a 45 before it was put on an album. It was put on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. That came out in 1980. Convenience, came out in the late 1980s. Convenience had songs that were played live and not on albums. One of those was Pull my strings.

  • @jonathanbarb5516
    @jonathanbarb5516 3 місяці тому +1

    I enjoyed watching y'all discover this!
    Peace.

  • @stegemme
    @stegemme Рік тому +2

    Cambodia, the killing fields Pol Pot was in charge. I was a roadie for UK Decay when they supported The Dead Kennedy's on some parts of their UK tour in 1981/2. Different kind of energy in those days.

  • @MTB-Idle
    @MTB-Idle Рік тому +3

    A great track, takes me right back to the 70's & early 80's

  • @stevenpatten8384
    @stevenpatten8384 Рік тому +5

    Love that you React to stuff like this! I am from the "older generation", and actually saw the Dk's live! They wrote music as powerful and "speaking Truth to power" like, as Bob Dylan, tho, in a vastly different Genera of course. In my youth, them ( The Dk's) and the Sex Pistols were my favs... now that I am in my 60's.. my fave tends to be Rammstein, whom I also have seen live. ;)

  • @xerodelacroix5552
    @xerodelacroix5552 Рік тому +2

    Another good one that uses *that* word in the most satirical way possible is Romeo's Distress by Christian Death, which is about the hypocrisy of fundamentalist Christians.

  • @LeviAckerman-cb5ji
    @LeviAckerman-cb5ji Рік тому +4

    10:00 Punk, like metal, had many different styes. You had speed punk, hardcore punk, glam punk, protopunk, political punk, skate punk...
    There were as many varieties of punk as Bubba had of shrimp.

  • @rbbea
    @rbbea Рік тому +5

    Love this track so I’m interested to hear what you make of it

  • @jbjamz7075
    @jbjamz7075 Рік тому +2

    Dead Kennedys the kings of satire, great catalog of bangers ❤️

  • @kristaspecht
    @kristaspecht Рік тому +2

    Morning guys! Hadn't heard this song,enjoyed that punk! Lovin the guitar!!❤️🤓

  • @dtny2la
    @dtny2la Рік тому +3

    You definitely need to do Police Truck next

  • @mmakeup_mmama83
    @mmakeup_mmama83 Рік тому +3

    I’d love to see y’all react to some Violent Femmes. Kiss Off is their best song!

  • @johnsambo9379
    @johnsambo9379 Рік тому +6

    Surf inspired guitar.

  • @DarkAngel1985Mike
    @DarkAngel1985Mike Рік тому +2

    The Dead Kennedy’s were a part of the Rock Against Reagan tour in the 80’s that was a protest against the conservative right wing administration of Ronald Reagan, the great Midwest punk band Nil8 from my hometown of Springfield Illinois was apart of the Springfield show in the 80’’s when they first started

  • @steroberts
    @steroberts Рік тому +6

    Using the N word sort of ironically wasn't too uncommon in these times, it's like they're ridiculing people with those views. Elvis Costello used the word in his biggest hit too.

    • @michelelearner297
      @michelelearner297 Рік тому +2

      Yes, but the phrase in Elvis Costello's song "Oliver's Army" was a derogatory term used by the British to mean the Irish. At least, that's what Elvis Costello said in an interview clip I saw. That makes sense with the song lyrics talking about working-class boys being sent off to war.

  • @metalguru85
    @metalguru85 Рік тому +3

    You might be thinking of the singer Jello Biafra's solo stuff. You did Werewolves Of Wall Street. Glad you got onto some Dead Kennedys and good pick from the Patreons.

  • @SammyRebbo
    @SammyRebbo Рік тому +3

    Aw yeah! More punk is always needed!

  • @cherylwarburton5055
    @cherylwarburton5055 8 місяців тому

    I was 14 when this came out, absolutely love it

  • @KattMurr
    @KattMurr Рік тому +3

    They formed in 1978 in San Francisco...

  • @LeahDyson-kq4bd
    @LeahDyson-kq4bd 4 місяці тому

    They were after the original NY scene yes and after Pistols but they were a very early punk band and had a huge impact

  • @Ska_fan_1996
    @Ska_fan_1996 2 місяці тому

    the dead kennedys are my favorite band and everytime i see some react to one of their songs it makes me really happy basically this song draws a juxtaposition from rich american yuppies who think they have the answeres to the universe and think they know it all but they dont it shows how their rose tinted glasses could lead to a socity similar to that of the khemer rouge in cambodia

  • @s12856
    @s12856 Рік тому +3

    When the n dropped, your faces 🤣

    • @RancidCheeks
      @RancidCheeks Рік тому

      Like they just saw a dog get hit by a car 😂😂

  • @sterling8298
    @sterling8298 Рік тому +1

    I didn't get into the dead Kennedys until the late 80s. They came up 2 years before I was born.
    A lot of bands in the late 80s, 90s, and 2000s got started because they were fans of the dead Kennedys.
    If only I had a really good working time machine. I would go back in time and see all the great concerts of the past. Of course I would come back to the present time.

  • @jeremyriddell
    @jeremyriddell Рік тому +1

    So awesome that you guys came across this band. They are legends of American punk. If you feel so inclined to dive into more DK .. then California Uber Alles is a must listen!!

  • @meganmbleed
    @meganmbleed 7 місяців тому

    PS, you got a remember to that when the Dead Kennedys were out and about this was just after Vietnam and the genocide in Cambodia, so it was very fresh on America’s mind

  • @andrewbickerdike823
    @andrewbickerdike823 Рік тому +2

    Full metal jackoff by jello and doa is a must. Ten minute punk song with some amazing lyrics

  • @jochenschnelle1124
    @jochenschnelle1124 Рік тому +2

    The song is along with California Uber alles and Too Drunk to Fuck the most iconic song of the Dead Kennedy.
    Try to watch one of their live performances from the early 80s. The singer Jello Biafra is a manic beast on stage.

  • @Dooklawz
    @Dooklawz Рік тому +1

    guys, love your channel.... and Smokey, I LOVE that shirt sir...lol.... truth spoken on them threads for sho :)

  • @WhiteRavenCoatL
    @WhiteRavenCoatL 9 місяців тому

    Well reviewed. Watching your reactions was fun! (I grew up in the 80's on punk rock and speed metal. DK is one of my favorite all-timers)

  • @somekindoflatindude9497
    @somekindoflatindude9497 Рік тому +1

    This song live smacks hard af!! I watched them live in 2016 here in Santiago, Chile and it was hella fun.
    Now guys you gotta do either California Uber Alles or Police Truck, any will do the trick!

  • @bryanforis1839
    @bryanforis1839 Рік тому

    One of the greatest punk band great live act fast and hard he was running for major of San Fran co and Green Party of American

  • @ladaddy19
    @ladaddy19 Рік тому

    That show was at The Roxy on 4/8/98. Clutch was rowdy that night. Drove from Chattanooga, watched Clutch and hit the road.

  • @Reani71
    @Reani71 Рік тому +1

    DK had a lot of fantastic songs, here are some suggestions: California Über Alles, Police Truck, Nazi Punks Fuck Off, MTV Get Off the Air, Too Drunk to Fuck, Kill the Poor

  • @everyonelovesmajima
    @everyonelovesmajima Рік тому +2

    There's always room for Jello.

  • @jeffalbers2653
    @jeffalbers2653 5 місяців тому

    Follow up with Stars and Stripes of Corruption. Lyrically genius!

  • @Higgs666
    @Higgs666 8 місяців тому

    I had a factory job around 2016 and there were a ton of Cambodian immigrants that worked there. One of my coworkers was a young boy under Pol Pot. He had some horrific stories, and I never met a man that worked so fucking hard for almost nothing. It was inspiring in a really raw and fucked up way.

  • @kapla2004
    @kapla2004 Рік тому

    I saw Terrapin Station as the suggested video at the end there… that means you gotta do that one next

  • @Demystifiedvessel
    @Demystifiedvessel Рік тому

    Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables- what a poster that came with that LP.’.

  • @soundrevolver886
    @soundrevolver886 Рік тому +2

    I can remember KROQ playing this in the early 80s

  • @fretless05
    @fretless05 5 місяців тому

    I was a huge fan of Dead Kennedys back int he day, for reasons that should be obvious. They have all the edge of punk rock in terms of lyrics with musical talent that few other punk bands had. They were just great musicians with a fresh message that wasn't just anti-government or anti-society that some punk bands had; they were political, but in an intelligent and libertarian that set them apart. The whole n-word thing was just an attack on the liberal view many college intellectuals have that they understand the plight of minorities from their comfortable places free from strife. Their lyrics have edge and a really, really dark sense of ironic humor. The reference to Cambodia is (again) a jab at college liberals who think they support communism, as Pol Pot led a communist revolution there that killed millions... they repeated Mao's revolution decades later with much the same lethal results.

  • @bayareathrasher666
    @bayareathrasher666 Рік тому

    San Francisco legends, met all of them many many times! RIP Darren.

  • @manna6618
    @manna6618 Рік тому

    Oh fark yeh boys! Soon as I saw this reaction I yelled with joy! You know The Clash were wrong...punk is not dead. Check Amyl and The Sniffers, a Skippy band blowing people away worldwide and then tell me punk no longer matters, Amy the lead singer is a deadset adorable nutjob, even if you don't film it you gotta check em out! Guided By Angels is a perfect song to start with!

  • @KenBober
    @KenBober Рік тому +1

    The dk logo also had a red circle. Looked like a bloody stick figure body. I had that patch on my backpack back in middle school.

  • @Lycanthrokeith
    @Lycanthrokeith 6 місяців тому

    A little context on Pol Pot: He became disillusioned in college with what he considered an outdated society. The Khmer Rouge consisted of recruited youth. Pol Pot's mission was to rewrite Cambodia's history by eliminating anyone elderly, intellectual, or in a position of authority. Countless numbers were massacred by the Khmer Rouge and buried in a mass grave, which came to be known as The Killing Fields.
    Sadly, this atrocity tends to be forgotten, given the remoteness of the location and the lack of USA involvement.

  • @trenchy1990
    @trenchy1990 Рік тому +2

    Quintessential punk track.
    If there was a band that influenced the Dead Kennedy's, it'd be the band from Australia called 'The Saints'.
    Here's a brief video of Henry Rollins (front man of Black Flag, similar time period) talking about The Saints: ua-cam.com/video/Ot_I55vCaZk/v-deo.htmlsi=alVe8PfWKT_BA6AX
    I'd say check them out in your own time 👍

  • @paulsmith2516
    @paulsmith2516 Рік тому

    This is early AMERICAN Punk yes, but Punk as a genre is British and began with the Pistols, the first band ever to be called Punk, by the Daily Mirror (I think, might have been the Mail, I'm old lol). It took the US so long to get into punk that it was stone dead here in the UK when you did.

  • @gloryn4394
    @gloryn4394 10 місяців тому +1

    Pol Pot was very evil. Leader of Cambodia. Dead Kennedys was punk and very political. All amazing musicians. Jello a great lead man, super smart. The song Government Flu was totally about covid but years before. Check it out.

  • @kitgautier1658
    @kitgautier1658 Рік тому

    As a side note regarding "California Uber Alles", which a lot of people have (correctly, imho) recommended, I'll note that there's also a rap cover (with updated lyrics) of "California Uber Alles" made by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, a group fronted by Michael Franti.

  • @tlucas9798
    @tlucas9798 Рік тому +1

    “Los Angeles” by X is fire.

  • @bobschenkel7921
    @bobschenkel7921 Рік тому

    To answer your question about Pol Pot, "What's that?" Pol Pot was the leader of a group called the Khmer Rouge, which was a pro-Communist paramilitary army, that was responsible for a genocide called "The Killing Fields". Almost 1/3 of Cambodia's population was murdered during this time. "The Killing Fields" was also the title of a movie about this very tragic episode.

  • @Headstones2013
    @Headstones2013 11 місяців тому

    You hit the nail on the head... Great job!

  • @PapaMikeO
    @PapaMikeO Рік тому

    Great fun! So glad you were finally able to do this song! DK has a lot of songs that would definitely entertain! As rappers you should check out the cover/remakeof California Uber Alles by the Disposable Hero’s of Hiphopocrosy ( lead singer later forms Spearhead which I hear were somewhat known in the 90s).

  • @BlackDeathThrash
    @BlackDeathThrash Рік тому +1

    You dudes need to watch the movie The Killing Fields. All about the Khmer Rouge and its a true story.

  • @Scott_Forsell
    @Scott_Forsell 2 місяці тому

    A yacht rock classic. You could get there via a yacht.

  • @jacobg8707
    @jacobg8707 Рік тому +1

    This mix of this song is a bit more "studio" sounding. But there's a definite "rawer" mix that sounds way more punk, and it's what I prefer to listen to. But any mix of this song is legendary, and its lyrics are so ahead of its time for the subject matter that's being talked about (especially with this generation's "entitled" college student/graduate who think they know everything under the sun more than you do.

    • @saramin66
      @saramin66 Рік тому +1

      Yer this is the album version, you´re thinking of the original single edition.

  • @joemckinney6002
    @joemckinney6002 9 місяців тому

    PS check out 'Trust your mechanic' by the DKs

  • @redoz9768
    @redoz9768 Рік тому +3

    As a life long punk fan, I'm embarrassed to have never heard the Dead Kennedys before. This song is great.

  • @michaelharen4085
    @michaelharen4085 4 місяці тому

    Check out Death Politicians in My Eyes or Death Freakin out. Punk band from Detroit in the early 70s.

  • @warrickcoe5576
    @warrickcoe5576 5 місяців тому

    Was in Cambodia in 87. There will still bullet holes in the walls. A generation of people from 30-50 were virtually non existent. The population were either young or old, very few middle aged people. The city had the stench of atrocity everywhere.

  • @jasonberezny9705
    @jasonberezny9705 4 місяці тому

    DK lyrics are a history lesson set to music.✌️🇨🇦

  • @DeathSavior
    @DeathSavior Рік тому +2

    Love Smokey's Kayfabe shirt. All I have to say on it. lol

  • @normaleehi
    @normaleehi Рік тому +1

    10:02 punk and hip hop are two twin forks of the same road. its no coincidence they were born at the same time and incubated just a hundred blocks apart,, a few artists swam in both pools- the Beasties, ESG, Velvet Underground, Patio Smith I believe,, maybe Basquiat & co,, Blondie for sure,, I wonder who else on the hip hop side?? Anybody know about any MCs, DJs, graff writers or BBoys who went downtown to check it out??? Im thinking about maybe doing a series about it,,

  • @dudermcdudeface3674
    @dudermcdudeface3674 7 місяців тому

    If you want to really know the context, watch the movie "The Killing Fields." It's not something you'll ever want to see again, but it's essential history.

  • @optimoprimus4608
    @optimoprimus4608 Рік тому +1

    So that dude in the opening clip sounds like the feeback I get when my guitar gets too close to my amp. Poor guy 😂

  • @jaizarulrohayu44
    @jaizarulrohayu44 Рік тому +1

    D/K 80''s American punk hardcore 🎉🎉🎉

  • @Evl_1
    @Evl_1 Рік тому

    Now time for some Circle Jerks: Beat Me Senseless, The Accused: Halo of Flies, Big Black : Bad Penny, Misfits : Where Eagles Dare, Black Flag, CroMags, and and and . Lol

  • @def1ghi
    @def1ghi 6 місяців тому

    The reason this doesn't "sound like punk" is because East Bay Ray is a really great guitarist and Klause Flouride is a great bassist and they really COULD play their instruments.

  • @johnmartin9854
    @johnmartin9854 Рік тому +1

    Sicksense- Feed Them to the Wolves, please and thank you

  • @midyouthcrisis420
    @midyouthcrisis420 Рік тому +3

    "Wouldn't call this punk" 😂

  • @moetc.592
    @moetc.592 Рік тому

    wow ... 40y later you react to THIS? ^^ EPICONICAL ... as always :)

  • @angelapierce6764
    @angelapierce6764 Рік тому +1

    Pol Pot was the evil dictator of Cambodia, they were using him to bring to light the horrors he committed without going into great detail. Other songs of theirs that are worth a listen, Soup is good food, california uber alles, lets lynch the landlord, really all songs off the album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.

  • @bill9605
    @bill9605 Рік тому +1

    Smokey I love your t shirt

  • @zebraforceone
    @zebraforceone 7 місяців тому

    You guys should check out "Kill the poor", another good one from the DK