exactly. dk were against facism from the left and right, but a lot of maga thinks this song only referred to jerry brown. dk later changed it to be about reagan
One of the best. There were some incredible bands in the late 1970s to early 1980s! DK was definitely one of the best! I don’t think you could pin that title on a single band.
What a prophetic song..love the DEAD KENNEDIES..saw them twice live in 84 in New Zealand..met Jello and spent an afternoon with him at the Powerstation in Auckland..what a top bloke,no ego..just a totally real person..what you see is what you get and he lives and truly believes in his message..Total Respect to this man ..He even ran for Mayor of San Francisco...got 5% of the vote too...Keep being you Jello
The DKs pull off another master stroke . Look past the deliberately provokative title, and there's a powerful message - as well as some very, very black humour. Jello is simply extolling the idea that even someone as laid back as Gerry Brown ("Governor Moonbeam") can be corrupted by power - "Mellow our, or you will pay". To this day I smile at the dark humour of "Zen fascists", "organic poison gas" and "the suede/denim secret police". Just brilliant !
My younger sister and I used to take ballet classes when her and I were little and my family and I would listen to this and other dead kennedys songs on the way to ballet practice and it was always funny going from this to chill ballet music on saturdays lol
I used to work for a sound reinforcement company, Third Ear Sound, in the East Bay. We worked with the Dead Kennedy's quite a bit. There was one time, we provided the Sound system+ monitors, mics, etc., for this gig at Acalanes High School, in Lafayette, CA. This was the High School's Winter (I think) Prom. The DK's could not get the gig if they said their names were "The Dead Kennedys", so they were billed as "The Pink Twinkie". I shit you not. That gig was also memorable because We lost our keys to our equipment van and the roadie for the DKs. Microwave, gave us a drive all the way back to Richmond, then all the way back to Acalanes High school in Lafayette. Cool dude. And the band, Jello, East Bay, Klaus, and Peligro, they were always cool, even in 'hectic' live Punk show situations.
@@KyleReese-vt8bo In a weird surprise, I bumped into him at Leo's Music (defunct) in Oakland. I think he was also employed in Leo's Pro Sound Division. Yep, cool, hard working musicians.
Just found this video and it is still as powerful a song as it was when I first heard it all those years ago. I still have the single somewhere too, I will have to try and find it. Brilliant.
So glad to find this! In the nineties I was in a band called Seventh Day Rototiller and we play a show with these guys. One of the most unique and entertaining acts I got to share the stage with!
@@eucliduschaumeau8813 The whole area between 2nd and 4th Avenue north of Astor Place has disappeared. No pizza place on 3rd, next to Continental Bar, and around the corner on Stuyvesant Place, St. Marks Book Store gone, and gone are Sharku Restaurant, Panya bakery, the Japanese market on the 2nd floor, and Dojo on St. Marks Place. A Salmon steak Lunch at Shark used to cost $8, now the cheapest Japanese lunch in the area (when you can find a restaurant) is $20 if you are lucky. I learned to cook. and this is strange because since NYU took over the area, beginning in the late 1980s, we expected that they will develop the area with businesses that cater to their students - dance clubs, small restaurants, etc. What we got was that everything was priced out and normal people and artists moved out. And the Pyramid Club closed its black doors, after trying to keep the spirit alive with 80s Friday nights. It is quite absurd that the Gap on 8th&Broadway turned into a Weed dispensary. all dressed up and no place to go.
Agreed. We tried to warn the People back then, but we were repressed, brutalized, and then marginalized only to have our culture stolen by mass media and advertising to be repackaged, rebranded, then "rediscovered" so it could be marketed to the world as "angst-ridden emo concsientious grunge" along with "faux edgy pop punk" with all of the politically motivated views surgically removed. Now, we are closer than ever to "1984" and the People are just willingly following like sheep. It is sad.
I can't recall who turned me on to DK. It was a welcome change from what I was forced to hear: 1980s were all over the place, musically. But I liked them instantly. Satire, social commentary, lampooning; the DK had it all!
The first band I went to see. At The Island with Really Red , Butthole Surfers , and I think The Offenders . I'm so glad that I got to experience this great era . Great video!
Fuck yeah, to me the US PUNK bands played so much better, and cleaner live than the British bands. The Ramones, the dead Kennedys, and minor threat to name a few. Got to see minor threat and the Ramones. I'm a metal head, but I love me some punk rock.
@@metalmacabre9991I too am a Metalhead who loves punk/hardcore. I like a lot of stuff tho, usually can find something in every genre I can get into. Music is a VERY deep and wide ocean. 🤘 cheers!
It’s the unique voices in any band that stick out. For comparison I really don’t think “Rush” would be as popular if it wasn’t for Gedy Lee’s unique voice. Now more than ever because of shows like American Idol trying to get this sterilization of creativity because they want perfection from their dancing monkeys and real creativity takes mistakes.
Can't get the rights to use a song that's tied up in lawsuits. :( I know the band is done suing each other over licensing rights, but no movie studio is likely to touch anything that doesn't have a clear price tag on it.
Dead Kennedys it's so cool you can Google up s*** now brings back so many memories sometimes I sit here and think I'm in the old punk days again bizarre love Dead Kennedys
For me it's US punk. The US bands made kickass punk. They had great musicians that played clean. The Ramones and the Kennedys, kicked major ass in my opinion.
@@stever7627 This song was more of a jab at the people that were in love with Jerry Brown because he was "Governor Moonbeam" after they lived through Reagan in Berkeley. Brown hung out in Laurel Canyon and smoked weed, he was cooler. Let's not do cartwheels because he hung out with Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles.
@electricwizard3000 - I get what you're saying, but it actually IS pretty bad. The Suede Denim Secret Police was Jello's prophetic warning about the direction that the left-wing in this country were headed. And, once again, Biafra nailed it DECADES before.
Amazing song! California’s unofficial anthem. It doesn’t sound like they were very knowledgeable or prophetic about Jerry Brown though. Still an amazing song!
John Lydon is a fucking hack and the Sex Pistols were a boy band conceptualized by capitalist pig Malcolm McLaren. I can't think of a band less punk in spirit and ethics. I spit on them.
im fairly liberal and think people should live their lives the way they want to live, but there is something about today's youth where punk rock could never exsist due to their conditioning. i was born in the late 70s and raised in the 80s so i have a competely different perspective of the world than these kids. im sure someone raised in the 60s said the same thing about my generation.
A song that puts us in alarm against totalitarianism. where ever it comes from.
I mean people still think there's a difference between democrat and republican in this country started by slave owners.
Like the Berkley Blue haired commie-goblins.
exactly. dk were against facism from the left and right, but a lot of maga thinks this song only referred to jerry brown. dk later changed it to be about reagan
@clyde19788 You think it's punk to vote for Kamala?
😂😂😂
@@scramblesthedeathdealer yes, confederate
Brrrr. Forty years later, still amazing.
You said it brother - -"for the greatest punk band who ever lived" can I get an AMEN
AMEN! 👍
One of the best.
There were some incredible bands in the late 1970s to early 1980s! DK was definitely one of the best!
I don’t think you could pin that title on a single band.
What a prophetic song..love the DEAD KENNEDIES..saw them twice live in 84 in New Zealand..met Jello and spent an afternoon with him at the Powerstation in Auckland..what a top bloke,no ego..just a totally real person..what you see is what you get and he lives and truly believes in his message..Total Respect to this man ..He even ran for Mayor of San Francisco...got 5% of the vote too...Keep being you Jello
Kennedys not Kennedies.
John F. Kennedies :(
Nope, no you didn't
You got wrong bud they toured here 1983, they played Mainstreet and No Tag supported, the USS Texas was moored @ Auckland Port @ the time.
True
I still have this in my head 47 years to the day
GDI… I keep forgetting that 1987 is 35 years ago…..
me too
Thanks for reminding me I'm fifty. Best wishes!
Greetings from Germany too!
Probably because some truth was revealed in this art! All hail Israel and it's peace campaign
The DKs pull off another master stroke .
Look past the deliberately provokative title, and there's a powerful message - as well as some very, very black humour.
Jello is simply extolling the idea that even someone as laid back as Gerry Brown ("Governor Moonbeam") can be corrupted by power - "Mellow our, or you will pay".
To this day I smile at the dark humour of "Zen fascists", "organic poison gas" and "the suede/denim secret police". Just brilliant !
It seems like(maybe I'm reading it wrong ) that he completely predicted the lefts extremists of today
Spot on there pal.
Leftists/Progressives/ Neocons love war, torture plus not working. Brown was a Marxist through and through
Yes and now Jello is a full on Dem with support from the Corporations, institutions and corrupt politicians he now loves 👏👏👏💲💲💲
Now it is 2024, knock-knock at your front door.
If one good song could stop evil demonic-totalitarian-dick ch3n3y govts --- then we wouldn't need gvns or revolutions.
My younger sister and I used to take ballet classes when her and I were little and my family and I would listen to this and other dead kennedys songs on the way to ballet practice and it was always funny going from this to chill ballet music on saturdays lol
Still listen to this song to this day on my way to/from work cause it’s just so fuckin fun to sing along to on the road
@@74jimmies^*she and I, never her and I🤦♂️
Learn grammar and punctuation already. Jesus.🤦♂️🤡
@@spanqueluv9er no one cares
@@spanqueluv9er wow, seeing a grammar nazi in the wild is such a rarity nowadays
Saw these guys back in the day, Manchester Polytechnic (UK) , around 1980, powerful performance, brings back some memories...
Punk Rock at its ultimate best.
I used to work for a sound reinforcement company, Third Ear Sound, in the East Bay. We worked with the Dead Kennedy's quite a bit. There was one time, we provided the Sound system+ monitors, mics, etc., for this gig at Acalanes High School, in Lafayette, CA. This was the High School's Winter (I think) Prom. The DK's could not get the gig if they said their names were "The Dead Kennedys", so they were billed as "The Pink Twinkie". I shit you not. That gig was also memorable because We lost our keys to our equipment van and the roadie for the DKs. Microwave, gave us a drive all the way back to Richmond, then all the way back to Acalanes High school in Lafayette. Cool dude. And the band, Jello, East Bay, Klaus, and Peligro, they were always cool, even in 'hectic' live Punk show situations.
Brilliant ❤
I wish I lived a live that would grant me the nickname 'microwave'
@@KyleReese-vt8bo In a weird surprise, I bumped into him at Leo's Music (defunct) in Oakland. I think he was also employed in Leo's Pro Sound Division. Yep, cool, hard working musicians.
Just found this video and it is still as powerful a song as it was when I first heard it all those years ago. I still have the single somewhere too, I will have to try and find it. Brilliant.
So glad to find this! In the nineties I was in a band called Seventh Day Rototiller and we play a show with these guys. One of the most unique and entertaining acts I got to share the stage with!
That energy !!
A monument in punk rock music 🎸👄
Timeless 🥂
^*moment?🤷♂️
Hat's off to the artistry of this perfect video
Saw them at the Ritz in New York in 1985. Great band. Life stinks.
Damn, I miss the Ritz. Good times.
@@eucliduschaumeau8813 The whole area between 2nd and 4th Avenue north of Astor Place has disappeared. No pizza place on 3rd, next to Continental Bar, and around the corner on Stuyvesant Place, St. Marks Book Store gone, and gone are Sharku Restaurant, Panya bakery, the Japanese market on the 2nd floor, and Dojo on St. Marks Place. A Salmon steak Lunch at Shark used to cost $8, now the cheapest Japanese lunch in the area (when you can find a restaurant) is $20 if you are lucky. I learned to cook. and this is strange because since NYU took over the area, beginning in the late 1980s, we expected that they will develop the area with businesses that cater to their students - dance clubs, small restaurants, etc. What we got was that everything was priced out and normal people and artists moved out. And the Pyramid Club closed its black doors, after trying to keep the spirit alive with 80s Friday nights. It is quite absurd that the Gap on 8th&Broadway turned into a Weed dispensary. all dressed up and no place to go.
This song only gets more accurate as time goes by.
Yep
Agreed. We tried to warn the People back then, but we were repressed, brutalized, and then marginalized only to have our culture stolen by mass media and advertising to be repackaged, rebranded, then "rediscovered" so it could be marketed to the world as "angst-ridden emo concsientious grunge" along with "faux edgy pop punk" with all of the politically motivated views surgically removed. Now, we are closer than ever to "1984" and the People are just willingly following like sheep. It is sad.
I can't recall who turned me on to DK. It was a welcome change from what I was forced to hear: 1980s were all over the place, musically. But I liked them instantly. Satire, social commentary, lampooning; the DK had it all!
@@andrewlloydwubba LOL! The "Craig" back then was into music only he knew about, and called DK "sellouts". I'll give him credit, though.
Vilken nostalgi 😍 älskade dom,var punkare i början på 80-talet
The first band I went to see. At The Island with Really Red , Butthole Surfers , and I think The Offenders . I'm so glad that I got to experience this great era . Great video!
Hello Jello !!! Brothers and Sisters We Rule !!! Still Alive And Kickin' !!! Salud y Vida Pa'lante !!! Cheers and Life On !!!
Hwat the hell are you saying?
DK's probably 1 of the best live stage shows ever.
probably? definitely. Jello saw it all and shared his insights with some of the best music ever made. Fucking SPOTLESS. cheers mate.
Fuck yeah, to me the US PUNK bands played so much better, and cleaner live than the British bands. The Ramones, the dead Kennedys, and minor threat to name a few. Got to see minor threat and the Ramones. I'm a metal head, but I love me some punk rock.
@@metalmacabre9991I too am a Metalhead who loves punk/hardcore. I like a lot of stuff tho, usually can find something in every genre I can get into. Music is a VERY deep and wide ocean. 🤘 cheers!
Back in the early eighties, I saw , a couple of times, DK's and Bad Brains. Shows were so intense and so fun.
Saw them a couple of times at the 688 Club in Hotlanta. Jello even bought me and my buddy a beer once....great guy and amazing talent.
"Now it's 1984, knock, knock on your front door."
It's the suede denim secret police, they have come for your uncool niece, come quietly to the camp, you'd look nice as a draw string lamp 😜
Such a unique voice. Love the Dead Kennedy’s.
*Kennedys
Apostrophes are used to conote ownership or to replace omitted letters.
@scottbouchard2673 ^*Kennedys (plural), not Kennedy’s (belonging to Kennedy) genius.🤦♂️
@@spanqueluv9er Tanks I gess. Genus.
It’s the unique voices in any band that stick out. For comparison I really don’t think “Rush” would be as popular if it wasn’t for Gedy Lee’s unique voice. Now more than ever because of shows like American Idol trying to get this sterilization of creativity because they want perfection from their dancing monkeys and real creativity takes mistakes.
This masterpiece and the epic Holiday in Cambodia made me invest in some vinyl I could barely afford but had to have.
Why they never used any tracks of The Dead Kennedy's in any movie version of The Joker is beyond me. It's a perfect fit.
Can't get the rights to use a song that's tied up in lawsuits. :(
I know the band is done suing each other over licensing rights, but no movie studio is likely to touch anything that doesn't have a clear price tag on it.
To be fair….they got it right
feels more relevant than ever.
If I had a nickel for every time I had to say “Jello was right”….
You'd be a Capitalist running dog. 😂
🐶 you’re probably right. Oh, someone’s at the door 🚪
Dead Kennedys it's so cool you can Google up s*** now brings back so many memories sometimes I sit here and think I'm in the old punk days again bizarre love Dead Kennedys
Thanks for this this - so awesome
2024 and we NEED bands like these to say the quite things LOUD
Excellent edits!
The future is now.
wow man if you edited this, i only gotta say it´s amazing. If it isn´t you then credits to the autor. Anyways, thanks for uploading!!
Not surprising they made a song criticizing Jerry Brown, being from San Francisco.
One of the most important punk song!
This song has aged well. Too well.
growing up is realizing all these punk bands werent telling you to be like california
some people still havent figured that out
Now it's 2021, knock, knock at your front door
Five people are Jerry Brown supporters
6 now
14
Very interesting the music we come to in times like this
For me it's US punk. The US bands made kickass punk. They had great musicians that played clean. The Ramones and the Kennedys, kicked major ass in my opinion.
This single version sounds a bit like early DEVO. Love it.
Gotta love Jello. He did more with his hands in 3 minutes than most people in a lifetime.
They warned us about this 45 years ago. Just replace Jerry Brown with Gavin Newsom. Fascists suck...
Yeah, liberals' too 😂
Yup, if the DK would sing about anything today it would be against libdems for sure. Punks never go along with the system.
@@Haley497 They were leftists. They would hate the dems for being to far right.
FUCKING LEGENDARY!!!
This song rocks
Didn’t know there was an official video.
In the description it says its a fan made video
Totally came true , prophetic song
I will like this because it is true!!! But want to dislike because it is too true?
How did Commifornia live up to this song? Quite the opposite. Lol
@@stever7627 The hippies won't come back, you say?
@@stever7627 This song was more of a jab at the people that were in love with Jerry Brown because he was "Governor Moonbeam" after they lived through Reagan in Berkeley. Brown hung out in Laurel Canyon and smoked weed, he was cooler. Let's not do cartwheels because he hung out with Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles.
@@stever7627 Hater.
We need these guys in D-C yesterday.
Rage for the machine .. we.d have forced magic potion jabs ..
Total what a great song, full energy
This is the first song I listened to on my 50% off headphones that suck.
You know Jello Biafra is interested in that.
California punk sounds like California to this day. That voice.
Einer der wichtigsten Sänger in meinem.
What was this released for? What was this on back in the day, just VHS?
yup...back in the day before people realized how evil democrats were.
@@roastbeefdinner shut up dumbass this had nothing to do with what you said
@@nariscaanasui1822 what did he say
@@alex-7986 he said back in the day before people realized the dems were evil
@@nariscaanasui1822 So?
Ichabods in Fullerton, California, and we snuck in way underage. ID'S used to be so easy to alter
RIP D.H. Peligro 😞
Spellbinding attitude from JB.. it's like watching a movie
Bruce on drums. Clips shot by Target Video.
это лучший в американской музыке
Back when the suede denim secret police were the worst thing you could think of.
@electricwizard3000 - I get what you're saying, but it actually IS pretty bad. The Suede Denim Secret Police was Jello's prophetic warning about the direction that the left-wing in this country were headed. And, once again, Biafra nailed it DECADES before.
It's The Suede Denim Secret Police...
Happy days playing along to this in my bedroom.
Best frontman in the business
Amazing song!
California’s unofficial anthem.
It doesn’t sound like they were very knowledgeable or prophetic about Jerry Brown though.
Still an amazing song!
Lembro da época do lançamento dessa música. Saudades da minha juventude.
Punk at it's purest form!
Kako sam nekada voleo tu pesmu
Imagine California secceded from the US. CRAZY times man!!
Cool video, well chosen. You might like Dave Dinsdale for ideas btw.
I am proud to say I got kicked off the stage be jello
"fan made official music video" do you even know what *official* means?
The best of the punk rock.
Kantorovich brough me here.
...both Panofsky
🌊🌊🌊🌴🌊
Who would win in a fight between Biafra and J Lydon?
John Lydon is a fucking hack and the Sex Pistols were a boy band conceptualized by capitalist pig Malcolm McLaren. I can't think of a band less punk in spirit and ethics. I spit on them.
They're both anti establishment punk warrior poets who would fight with their minds but not with their fists...
@@darania1 Lydon would win
@Wicked_R Probably. But I'd certainly relish their passionate punk debate...
@@darania1 yeah it would be funny to watch Rotten hammer Biafra.
so Great
CLÁSSICO DO GIGANTESCO DEAD KENNEDYS
SICK!
The best punk song Green Day never wrote...
I don't know rancid had some great songs ua-cam.com/video/xrjgyl5I8o4/v-deo.html
Good editing
I love Jello Briafra I love Dead Kennedys🎸🎸🎸🎸
It’s my favorite song
A chilling revelation, a terrifying foretold, that California, is, in all aspects, better than rest of the '48.
Except Alaska which got a better flag.
Jello one of the greatest frontmen
Really?
Depends on the flavor
🗣 Knock knock on *Front Door* ... 2:25 ... Secret Police
I think he's referring to Gov. Newscum now.
Ted K I’m out as soon as the kids are out house.
@Ted K Where did you land?
Vio-lence does an exellent cover of this song.
It's 1984 and Gavin Newsom is at the front door... California Über Alles
I remember I went to track to see gbh let the gorgeous guy named Tony fell in love and he turned me on to all this music the best days of my life
OLD PUNKS STAND AT THE BACK
when they´re old in a couple of decades
@@xvbiffbangpow8579 gota get the mayhem in ve sign off like lemmy r. i . p he changed my like ...
I noticed the drummer wasn't D.H Peligro🤔
Ted (l think) just before DH joined.
Fun Fact: The Dead Kennedys logo is the same as the Chicago Gang the Disciples Killers. That why i could never buy a Tee Shirt. Great song thou.
DK's messages and warnings still needed today. FUQ MAGA. FUQ Trump. FUQ Council for National(ist) Policy. 🚀PUTIN/ TRUMPSKI 1984!📡
Jello's got a story to tell ; P
im fairly liberal and think people should live their lives the way they want to live, but there is something about today's youth where punk rock could never exsist due to their conditioning. i was born in the late 70s and raised in the 80s so i have a competely different perspective of the world than these kids. im sure someone raised in the 60s said the same thing about my generation.
Than
Awesome band 😊👍
Anyone notice that this song is scarily similar to the stuff that happened from 2021 to 2024 or that’s just me?
You mean the Biden Admin? Yes.
Wow !!!!
Haha when I first saw the Thumbnail is thought it was Sid Vicious xD
lol look nothing alike