One funny side effect of this song is that some neo-nazis didn't understand that it was a criticism and started going to DK shows and starting trouble. So DK wrote one of their most aggressive songs, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off."
Sori is such a sheltered creature. She literally expresses her discomfort to the reality of the world physically with every cough and sneeze. She is physically assaulted by the truth. Word to Vin for being able to dissect the true message. You are a wonderful couple. True love if I've ever seen it. Wish you both love and happiness.
Shes like a asleep american !! She thinks she live in a democracy with a free press !!! Lets the Ai machine get here in 3 -5 years ,she will wake up really quick !
The governor of California in 1980 was Jerry Brown, THE SAME JERRY BROWN THAT IS THE CURRENT GOVERNOR!😨 This is historical and yet still relevant today! 'nuff said!! *I drop the mic*
@@michaelgonzalez6295 to be fair Jello Biafra softened a little on jerry brown-- he's not singing praises of the guy or anything, but he has softened up on him.
Bro you broke this song down as accurately and thoroughly as anyone could have asked. Really well done man. Jello Biafra still puts on a hell of a good show. I saw him heading Guantanamo school of medicine in 2016. Fucking ay good showmanship!
'We've got a bigger problem now' is one of their best songs, imo. The jazz/punk transitions are so fucking gooood. "It's time.... for the twoooooooo minute warning..."
LOL at you thinking DK went after hippie's and the left. Jello was a hippy and is as left as it gets. Their songs go after the right, their morals and wars.
The music was more of a battle cry against the long drawn-out music that was out at the time. The lyrics on the other hand were completely the rebellion against either right wing or left wing views. It was rare to find bands that were more about tongue in cheek scene called Punk Pathetique like Peter and the Test Tube Babies, The Dickies, Toy Dolls, Splodgenessabounds.
punk is still undoubtably left though when compared to conservatives. But yea they went against the left and right divide. Even Crass was and they were on the most extreme side of leftism
Only some bands in some places, not the entire punk movement. New York had a huge scene and surf punk was it's own animal for awhile and neither were in direct opposition of the hippy movement. In the beginning for many bands who would later become known in the genre it started out as high intensity balls of emotion performing for or with their friends in garages in California and New York for the most part and grew from there. The British Punk scene developed separately.
If you love this, Vin, you’ll probably love just about *every* Dead Kennedys song. Jello Biafra was/is a genius, and was *WAY* ahead of his time with the truth found within his lyrical content. So many subjects he covered in DKs songs may have (at the time) been considered mere ‘conspiracy theories,’ but have all been proven true as realities have been laid bare in recent years by the likes of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, The Edward Snowden revelations, as well as other brave whistleblowers from the NSA, etc... Makes Jello almost look like a prophet.
Saw them in Glasgow around 1981, also saw Jello doing spoken word in the 90's. Biafra is indeed a genius, as he has proved over and over since with Nomeansno, DOA,Lard etc etc.....
The Dead Kennedys were one of the most iconic punk bands to evolve in the early years. With thought provoking lyrics and a awesome stage presence gave the them there own unique sound. Jello Biafra editor of the iconic maximum rock and roll also ran mayor of San Francisco and actually did really well in the polls and curved the vote ...also his spoken word is off the chart. Ty for your reaction good job on this on thumbs up. 👍👍👍
Thanks for reminding us of Jello Biafra's spoken word albums. I remember hearing some of it, strangely enough, sampled on a record (Inevitable Alien Nation, I think) by superstar DJ Keoki.
Jerry Brown was governor of California in the 1970s and was reelected in 2000s until 2016. In the 70s, the conservative media nicknamed him "Governor Moonbeam" for his extreme ideals. His father had been governor in the 1950s. Jerry Brown also dated singer Linda Ronstadt. Jello Biafra (lead singer of DK) ran for mayor of San Francisco and came in 4th out of 8 candidates. Biafra does not tolerate extreme liberals or conservatives; he blasts both, mainly for their hypocrisy.
Jello is pretty progressive though. Further left than your average Democrat. It's not that Brown's leftism went too far. In fact, Brown was deceivingly fiscally conservative.
Jello is of the anarchist left and a lot more "extreme" than you think. He criticises the left from the even further left which is not the same the right wingers and centrists criticizing the left.
Dead Kennedys have a lot of great satirical songs and Jello is an incredibly unique vocalist. Nazi Punks Fuck Off is a personal favorite. Terminal Preppie, Insight, Police Truck, Halloween, We'll Paid Scientist, Kill the Poor, etc. So many good ones.
6:15 _Deutschland, Deutschland über alles_ ... Its from the 1st verse of the national anthem of Germany. Written 1841 by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. But we dont use the 1st verse anymore. Only the 3rd verse.
So much respect for you guys. I've listened to hard-core punk since 1990 and still learning from the lyrical content today. Crass, kennedys,Conflict,Icons of filth,etc
@r9m Jello hates extremists of all creeds. The fact that you think bringing Trump up is relevant, at all, tells us all we need to know about where you lie on the political spectrum. There are extremists on both sides, that's the whole fucking point of the song being of a liberal person attacking Jerry Brown as if he were a fucking Nazi.
Mad respect for Vin, I bought this single they day it was released at Zed records and I'm amazed that somebody "gets it" all these years later after hearing it for the first time.
DK are a very progressive band (I know Jello is Green Party), but it seems with the two songs you've reacted to, you wouldn't know lol. But that's what is great about them (well, them before Jello left). There isn't a bias. Jello also did two other versions of the song; one with Brown replaced with Reagan, and another replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger. You should check them out.
You guys should really review/analyze Dead Kennedy's "We've got a bigger problem now." It's a great follow-up to this song, due to who really ended up being president.
You sir just got a subscription from a long time Dead Kennedys fan. Great analysis, glad to see you understood the song unlike many people in the comments. This song is just as relevant today as it was back in the 80s
The title of the song is a play on the former German national anthem FunFact: Former California Governor Jerry Brown was also known by the nickname “Moonbeam” Also there is an alternative version of this song called We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now, it’s more jazzy
You nailed it man. I grew up in SoCal with a hippie mom and hippie older brother and sister. When me and my friends went punk about 1979 we were very anti hippie. To us it was all a bunch of fluffy bullshit. So when this song hit we were all over it. Nice reaction.
We discovered that daughters 6th grade art teacher teaching occultism and meditation as part of the art curriculum. And yes, she had them meditating on their spirit animals and focusing on chakras during class.
They were, but they weren't above having songs criticizing others on the left, this song and holiday in Cambodia just happen to be two of those songs. Jello has openly criticized then Democrat aswell, he once said something along the lines of us needing another left leaning party to act as a dominant third party.
Thank you guys for being open minded in your music selections. I subscribed to you guys simply because you are the only people that react to punk rock music. Thank you, and keep it coming!! 🙏
The singer for Dead Kennedys (Jello Biafra) ran for Mayor of San Francisco during this time. You should check out the commercials for his campaign on UA-cam.
southbayspike and who won that election? Dianne Fienstein. Another rotten politician still wielding enormous power 40 years later, just like Jerry Brown.
@@Black_Swan777 Antifa are antifascists but militant, they are people who fight the enemy in the streets because police is protecting fascists and their attacks on free people so legally there was no justice because of corruption of police. Vin is a victim of propaganda so he doesn't know and didn't do any research, his only research is from anti-antifa propaganda. Antifa supports all free speech, civil rights, human rights but also to protect weak with using violence against enemy. Vin also doesn't know that in Europe is supporting fascism illegal (because of war unlike USA). Antifa isn't organization, it's movement with no membership or hierarchy. It's difference between Antifa and political organization, you can be in both of them but it doesn't mean, that ideas of that political organization are ideas of Antifa. Antifa movement exists because people were attacked by groups of nazis and skinheads in the streets at night every week, police didn't do nothing about it, so they organised themselves as group to protect themselves and start attacking nazis too as revenge and show them that every attack has consequences. That's antifa. So it's not political organization it's militant movement because of absence of justice.
@@Black_Swan777 Antifa is not one single group, it's an umbrella term for everything that is anti-fascist, from liberals, over anarchists to marxist-leninists. Also not everthing that is radical or militant can be called “fascist“. Fascism is a very specific ideology, a very authoritarian form of capitalism.
The stooges -1968 and Some Black Guys from Michigan called DEATH in 1970 - All Black Guys from Washington Dc called BAD BRAINS were one of the First to Start Hard Core Punk and Reggae -The Singer HR and the drummer are Brothers were bore in Jamaica -Big influences on Henry Rollins they got him inspired to become a Punk Vocalist when he saw them Play live in Washington DC
They're not too controversial :) People always think Punk equals politics, not true if you look at the real founding fathers of the genre like The Ramones and The Stooges. It's more about being young and rebellious.
@@Filip_111 Yes, many folks don't realize that punk is multi faceted, like every other genre. For me, The Stooges is to punk what Black Sabbath is to metal.
Ramones, Stooges, and New York Dolls were all on the list I sent them. They kinda went off track a bit. Hoping all 3 are still coming this week, he said this was the last day but also said that in the Crass reaction. Think they just got posted out of order
I find it funny how Vin says this song can be against the radical left while Jello was an anarchist when this song was written and came out. Anarchists are radical leftists
I would love for u 2 to react to more Dead Kennedys. I love how Vin explains the lyrics. Dead Kennedys is 1 of my favorites and me and my slow mind i dont understand all their lyrics but know Jello Biafra is 1 of the best. Some of my favorite songs are Kill The Poor Let's Lynch The Landlord Drug Me Viva Las Vegas (cover song) Religious Vomit Moral Majority Dog Bite Nazi Punks Fuck Off We've Gotta Bigger Problem Now (Uber Alles pt3) Rawhide (cover song) Government Flu Terminal Preppie Buzzbomb Forest Fire Winnebago Warrior Riot I Am The Owl Soup Is Good Food Jock O Rama MTV Get Off The Air Stars And Stripes Of Corruption Take This Job And Shove It (cover song) Dear Abby Rambozo The Clown Fleshdunce Macho Insecurity Anarchy For Sale Chickenshit Conformist Police Truck Too Drunk To Fuck California Uber Alles and Holiday In Cambodia u already reacted to I Fought The Law (cover...kinda lol) Buzzbomb From Pasadena Have I The Right (cover song) Back In The USSR (cover song)
Jello is to the far left. I mean really far left. Back in the day, his views were considered pretty out there for fairly liberal-minded folks. A rightie would never say "embrace the red, white and blue reich" as he did in "Full Metal Jackoff"
They have a different version of this song called "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" where the lyrics are changed and the song is about Ronald Reagan instead. The music is changed as well and it has a much more jazzy sound. "California Uber Alles" is about left wing fascism, while "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" is about right wing fascism. Dead Kennedys went after everyone and did it very well. Check out "I Am The Owl" if you want to hear the best song they wrote.
@@Glaaki13 so him pointing out that left is extremely hypocrite for wanting to people to be free but at the same time limiting their freedom of speech and rushing for similar universal thought guildelines isint compareable to fasism (for sure right has similar policies as vin said)
Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables and Plastic Surgery Disasters are both masterpieces of punk. Riot, Government Flu, Kill The Poor are all worth a listen.
Vin nailed it with his analyse and although released close on forty years ago that song is more relevant today than it ever was; genius lyrics and played masterfully. Is Sori truly not understanding any of this? At times its as though she were starring at hieroglyphics.
Thanks for doing punk week. I wasn't a punk but did listen to alot of punk, trash and crossover. Alot of cool memories bubbled up with all these songs.
Yeah Vin! This and Holiday In Cambodia, which you've already reviewed, are bangers. I think you'd also dig: Damaged Goods by Gang Of Four Who Is Who by The Adolescents Ain't It Fun by Dead Boys Not Anymore by Dead Boys Sonic Reducer by Dead Boys 1970 by The Stooges Anywhere But Here by Blood For Blood Bloodstains by Agent Orange Injustice System by Sick Of It All
Ha ha ha ha!!!!! "SIX?" I agree with the "10" ranking. On a side note, I used to work across the street from Jerry when he was Mayor of Oakland. One time, we were doing security at a swinger's party in Oakland when Mayor Brown and his security team showed up. I asked what he was doing there, and without skipping a beat, he said, "Meeting my constituents!"
"California Über Alles" is a callback to the German national anthem during Nazi Germany, "Deutschland Über Alles" - Germany Above All. Governor Brown was running Cali in '80 and he's still Governor today. Carter was the last human being to sit in the oval office. They redid this song a few years later under the title "We've got a bigger problem now." Very similar music, but the lyrics were altered. "I am Emperor Ronald Reagan Born again with fascist cravings Still your made me President. Human rights will soon go away I am now your Shah today Now I command all of you Now you're gonna pray in school I'll make sure they're Christian too California Über Alles California Über Alles etc." Ironic that the original version of the song is more current and topical today. Also I really wish she got the joke too.
When Jello Biafra wrote this song he basically wanted to piss off leftist californian college kids. This song, and "Kill the Poor", made a lot of extremist right-wing believe that Dead Kennedys was a right wing band. But, if you pay atention, it is writen on an ironic stance. To get his story straight, on later albums Jello Biafra wrote anti-fascist songs without any irony - like the song you mentioned and "Nazi Punks F* Off".
The second installment of this song "We've a Bigger Problem Now" is an order of magnitude better. The 3rd installment, also called California Uber Alles was dont by Micharl Feranti over a decade later.
I think is cool you guys could figure that out, most younger people don’t understand it because it was before your time but you obviously know some history. Very nice.
Wow! :-) I've know this song pretty much since it came out and while I know that Jello Biafra's lyrics are a vital part of Dead Kennedys, I never really dug deep into the lyrics of this particular song and certainly not to the extent that you did here. Thanks a lot for this - I learned a lot about this song that I never thought about before. A huge thumbs up for this. 👍
OK, you´re Americans (aren´t you?), so I can stay calm and describe how "Deutschland über alles was actually meant", because you seem to be a little bit misinformed. The National Anthem wasn´t written by the Nazis, but in 1848 by Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. A time, when we didn´t have a common German state, but several principalities. It´s definitely worth to look deeper into German history to understand some things. nevertheless, there has been a big struggle of democrats and workers against the German noble, the exploitation of workers, french occupation and serfdom of poor farmers. It was literally a civil war. Besides that population suffered of famine. In this time, von Fallersleben wrote "Deutschland über alles", wich was intended as a call for unitiy against the old powers. It was an Idea of Germany as a priority in your mind, instead of fighting each other. Indeed it was a song about revolution, and one of it´s peaks was in 1848. of course this is pretty shortened, but the topic is to deep for some small YT-comments. This just sums it pretty much up, I wrote several exams about this topic for my highschool-graduation.
I found this pretty good translation: lyricstranslate.com/de/das-deutschlandlied-das-deutschlandlied.html Das Deutschlandlied Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world, If it always holds together brotherly to protect and defend. From the Maas up to the Neman, from the Adige up to the Belt - Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world German women, German loyalty, German wine and German song should keep in the world Their old beautiful sound, inspires us to noble exploits our whole life long. German women, German loyalty, German wine and German song Unity and Justice and Freedom for the German Fatherland! Towards it let us all strive brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and Justice and Freedom are the pledge of happiness. Blossom! in the splendor of this happiness, Blossom!, German Fatherland.
One funny side effect of this song is that some neo-nazis didn't understand that it was a criticism and started going to DK shows and starting trouble. So DK wrote one of their most aggressive songs, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off."
Vin really gets the Dead Kennedys. Vin is cool. He also completely understood "Holiday in Cambodia."
Die on organic poison gas always, and always cracks me up. It cool dude its organic
Sori is such a sheltered creature. She literally expresses her discomfort to the reality of the world physically with every cough and sneeze. She is physically assaulted by the truth. Word to Vin for being able to dissect the true message. You are a wonderful couple. True love if I've ever seen it. Wish you both love and happiness.
Shes like a asleep american !! She thinks she live in a democracy with a free press !!! Lets the Ai machine get here in 3 -5 years ,she will wake up really quick !
The governor of California in 1980 was Jerry Brown, THE SAME JERRY BROWN THAT IS THE CURRENT GOVERNOR!😨
This is historical and yet still relevant today! 'nuff said!! *I drop the mic*
Well hes not Gov anymore he just left thank God but the new guy in is just as bad!
@@sonofwilliam86 I did not know he was done. TY. But my comment still holds in my heart, unfortunately.
@@michaelgonzalez6295 to be fair Jello Biafra softened a little on jerry brown-- he's not singing praises of the guy or anything, but he has softened up on him.
Jerry Brown, the undead nosferatu, above all.
Jerry Brown was Gov. Ro many times. His communist policys were bad. Now we have 5 dollar gas thanks to the communist Premier Gavin Knewsom.
Bro you broke this song down as accurately and thoroughly as anyone could have asked. Really well done man.
Jello Biafra still puts on a hell of a good show. I saw him heading Guantanamo school of medicine in 2016. Fucking ay good showmanship!
You should do a whole week of Dead Kennedys
Amen. Kinky sex makes the world go round next
Yes yes yes!!!!!!!
@@Monchi2006 Yes, yes, yes.........ohhhhh.....sounds wonderful........ohhhhh
@@jameswinge2326 lol i read this comment in my notifications without knowing what it was to and i was like wtf😂😂
@@Monchi2006 Fucking hilarious..........
There is a sequel to this song.
Done 2 years after this called "we've got a bigger problem now"
It's a must listen!
joeblerone the problem is it is not even on Spotify just live recording on UA-cam
@@harlanhansell5280 UA-cam has 3 studio uploads and 2 live versions of it.
I actually like it a little better with the lounge feel.
@@harlanhansell5280 it is on Spotify
'We've got a bigger problem now' is one of their best songs, imo. The jazz/punk transitions are so fucking gooood.
"It's time.... for the twoooooooo minute warning..."
LOL at you thinking DK went after hippie's and the left. Jello was a hippy and is as left as it gets. Their songs go after the right, their morals and wars.
Oh man, it makes me so glad that Vin's enjoying Dead Kennedys so much
It was so great to see this guy getting the message and appreciating the humor of this song so much.
You are the man my dude.
Punk Rock originally was an answer to the hippie culture in the 70´s from the left against the left.
The music was more of a battle cry against the long drawn-out music that was out at the time. The lyrics on the other hand were completely the rebellion against either right wing or left wing views. It was rare to find bands that were more about tongue in cheek scene called Punk Pathetique like Peter and the Test Tube Babies, The Dickies, Toy Dolls, Splodgenessabounds.
punk is still undoubtably left though when compared to conservatives. But yea they went against the left and right divide. Even Crass was and they were on the most extreme side of leftism
Nothing is more leftist than fighting other leftists
@@LostButBroken when our enemies are gone, we turn against ourselves.
Only some bands in some places, not the entire punk movement. New York had a huge scene and surf punk was it's own animal for awhile and neither were in direct opposition of the hippy movement. In the beginning for many bands who would later become known in the genre it started out as high intensity balls of emotion performing for or with their friends in garages in California and New York for the most part and grew from there. The British Punk scene developed separately.
Sex Pistols...most offensive
GG Allin: “Hold my feces beer...”
zombiTrout “Needle Up My Cock”
You could also add The Anti Nowhere League to the most offensive list.
How about The Mentors 4F club?!!
Y'all shoulda heard my old band, Funeral Dildos. We even covered a coupla Murder Junkie songs. Fun times;]
"When the shit hit the fan" is a litteral description of what a GG Allin concert was like. That fan wasn't happy.
If you love this, Vin, you’ll probably love just about *every* Dead Kennedys song. Jello Biafra was/is a genius, and was *WAY* ahead of his time with the truth found within his lyrical content. So many subjects he covered in DKs songs may have (at the time) been considered mere ‘conspiracy theories,’ but have all been proven true as realities have been laid bare in recent years by the likes of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, The Edward Snowden revelations, as well as other brave whistleblowers from the NSA, etc... Makes Jello almost look like a prophet.
Saw them in Glasgow around 1981, also saw Jello doing spoken word in the 90's. Biafra is indeed a genius, as he has proved over and over since with Nomeansno, DOA,Lard etc etc.....
@Easun Ashen he was ABSOLUTELY correct about Trump. Fuck Trump. You could easily translate those lyrics to Trump-era.
Both his folks were military journalists. He heard this shit all his life, Jello was very informed.
The Dead Kennedys were one of the most iconic punk bands to evolve in the early years. With thought provoking lyrics and a awesome stage presence gave the them there own unique sound. Jello Biafra editor of the iconic maximum rock and roll also ran mayor of San Francisco and actually did really well in the polls and curved the vote ...also his spoken word is off the chart. Ty for your reaction good job on this on thumbs up. 👍👍👍
Thanks for reminding us of Jello Biafra's spoken word albums.
I remember hearing some of it, strangely enough, sampled on a record (Inevitable Alien Nation, I think) by superstar DJ Keoki.
@@bschuler6216 yea very outspoken individual and it raised alot of eyebrows back then
Tim Yohannon was the editor of Maximum Rock n Roll. Not Jello
@@nahuilegorreta6572 yes your right
Kill the Poor by Dead Kennedys would have been a better song to do.
I get that they are doing the "hits", but I totally agree. Many songs with better messages.
There's a ton of good DK songs to do.
Still man this is some fucking shit that is prevalent as fuck
Moral Majority would've been right up Vin and Sori's alley. If you know the lyrics, you know what I mean.
@@wolfsesthenighteye499 Yesss, Soup is Good Food is so underrated.
Vin is awesome. He totally gets it. Sori's so cute with her innocence and not getting the meaning of the lyrics. Just love your guys' channel.
Jerry Brown was governor of California in the 1970s and was reelected in 2000s until 2016. In the 70s, the conservative media nicknamed him "Governor Moonbeam" for his extreme ideals. His father had been governor in the 1950s. Jerry Brown also dated singer Linda Ronstadt.
Jello Biafra (lead singer of DK) ran for mayor of San Francisco and came in 4th out of 8 candidates. Biafra does not tolerate extreme liberals or conservatives; he blasts both, mainly for their hypocrisy.
I think California needs some new management.
MrChumpus and what about the federal monies from California?
@@MrChumpus California carries this country's economy
Jello is pretty progressive though. Further left than your average Democrat. It's not that Brown's leftism went too far. In fact, Brown was deceivingly fiscally conservative.
Jello is of the anarchist left and a lot more "extreme" than you think. He criticises the left from the even further left which is not the same the right wingers and centrists criticizing the left.
Dead Kennedy’s - Police Truck
Adam Castillo one of their best
Hell yes, as relevant today as it ever was too.
Stone cold classic
tony hawks pro skater 2 i think ^^
Dead Kennedys have a lot of great satirical songs and Jello is an incredibly unique vocalist. Nazi Punks Fuck Off is a personal favorite. Terminal Preppie, Insight, Police Truck, Halloween, We'll Paid Scientist, Kill the Poor, etc. So many good ones.
It seems that most of Dead Kennedys lyrics go over Sori’s head
she seems very ignorant about some trivial world political stuff
HAHAHHAAA !!!! Antifa is not a gang ffs.....ugh
It seems like most of everything flies over Sori’s head lol (no hate it's a great channel)
@@robertbird5889 I agree.
My God. The naivete is painful.
6:15
_Deutschland, Deutschland über alles_ ...
Its from the 1st verse of the national anthem of Germany. Written 1841 by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
But we dont use the 1st verse anymore. Only the 3rd verse.
You're right, it was composed much earlier than the Nazi era. It's a shame Germany felt they had to change it.
Such a great explanation of this, he gets it 100%
So much respect for you guys. I've listened to hard-core punk since 1990 and still learning from the lyrical content today. Crass, kennedys,Conflict,Icons of filth,etc
Holy Crap this song is more relevant now more than ever.
Gavin Newsom can kiss my ass.
Dead Kennedy were almost pophetics
@r9m Jello hates extremists of all creeds. The fact that you think bringing Trump up is relevant, at all, tells us all we need to know about where you lie on the political spectrum. There are extremists on both sides, that's the whole fucking point of the song being of a liberal person attacking Jerry Brown as if he were a fucking Nazi.
An eternally relevant comment.
Mad respect for Vin, I bought this single they day it was released at Zed records and I'm amazed that somebody "gets it" all these years later after hearing it for the first time.
You should watch Dead Kennedys live Vin, in your spare time or otherwise. Jello Biafra is a real character.
Ran for... mayor, was it? Some political office anyway. I think it was mayor of San Francisco.
Green gloves show that one is tits.
@@corpazilum5352 He ran for president, sorta.
He's a genuine weirdo. He ran for mayor and his slogan was "There's always room for Jello".
Punk isn't often very musical, but it sure often kicks ass with the dark truth.
To finish punk week on a high note:
Discharge - State Violence-State Control
Amebix - Largactyl
Misfits - Last Caress
Adi decontrol or the nightmare continues
She won’t be able to handle ‘last caress’.....
More Dead Kennedys please!
Looovvee it
Fuck yes
DK are a very progressive band (I know Jello is Green Party), but it seems with the two songs you've reacted to, you wouldn't know lol. But that's what is great about them (well, them before Jello left). There isn't a bias.
Jello also did two other versions of the song; one with Brown replaced with Reagan, and another replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger. You should check them out.
You can be green party and anti dems i know i am
You guys should really review/analyze Dead Kennedy's "We've got a bigger problem now." It's a great follow-up to this song, due to who really ended up being president.
I am Emperor Ronald Reagan!
Born again with fascist cravings
@@sicknasty2931 You ignorant moron. Better than Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc?... dumbass.
@@sicknasty2931 Still waiting for that trickle down.....
@@PPTSOTR still you make me president
You sir just got a subscription from a long time Dead Kennedys fan. Great analysis, glad to see you understood the song unlike many people in the comments. This song is just as relevant today as it was back in the 80s
Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (My Brain is Hanging Upside Down)
Hands down my my favorite Romones song. I love Havana Affair as well
The title of the song is a play on the former German national anthem
FunFact: Former California Governor Jerry Brown was also known by the nickname “Moonbeam”
Also there is an alternative version of this song called We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now, it’s more jazzy
You nailed it man. I grew up in SoCal with a hippie mom and hippie older brother and sister. When me and my friends went punk about 1979 we were very anti hippie. To us it was all a bunch of fluffy bullshit. So when this song hit we were all over it. Nice reaction.
Dead Kennedys-Bleed For Me or Dead Kennedy's-We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
Yeah, in some ways I prefer the "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" version to this
We discovered that daughters 6th grade art teacher teaching occultism and meditation as part of the art curriculum. And yes, she had them meditating on their spirit animals and focusing on chakras during class.
I’m impressed how you got the song so quickly I had to listen to the song a few times before I originally got all of it . Good review
Agent Orange Everything turns Grey
Bad Brains Big Take Over
You really HEARD this song !!! ... My favorite song in 1980 ...Greatest band to dance to LOL I LOVE SEEING SOMEONE REALLY GET SOMETHING ! GREAT VID !
Definitely one of my favorite punk songs and #1 from the DK's who are on the top of my list. Jello Biafra is a lyrical genius imo.
Vin you're a king. Thank you for giving me hope in humanity. You get it.
Yes he is ❤️~Sori
lmao not disappointed, you missed the point on this one too
@@LongGone77 but it's not from a conservative perspective ROFL it's calling out liberals for being shitty fucking centrists.
:/ Dead Kennedys was an hard left punk band. You are missing the point
They were, but they weren't above having songs criticizing others on the left, this song and holiday in Cambodia just happen to be two of those songs. Jello has openly criticized then Democrat aswell, he once said something along the lines of us needing another left leaning party to act as a dominant third party.
Jello don't like hippies though I know that
What does it mean to you then?
@@bigphatty5298 Ironically though if you look at old pictures of him he clearly looks like he was a hippie
@@fullskapunkalchemist3471 theyre so far left, they dont like democrats.
You should check out the version of this song called "We've got a bigger problem now" about Reagan.
Or the Kalifornia Uber Alles about Bush and Arnie.
By then they were irrelevant
@@PiranaOutdoors Because people like you turned punk into a shopping mall, MTV fad. Posers ruin everything.
@@bassage13 anyone who says the word poser.. is automatically a poser.
@@bassage13 it was because you can only write so much music with 3 chords and no talent.
Thank you guys for being open minded in your music selections. I subscribed to you guys simply because you are the only people that react to punk rock music. Thank you, and keep it coming!! 🙏
Dead Kennedy’s are auteurs of satire with punk rock being their pens
Love that the guy got the joke. Jello and the Dead Kennedys were a funny as hell band.
Indeed - they were satirists of the highest order.
the best thing about watching this video for me was finding out that they reacted to offspring - the kids aren't alright.
The singer for Dead Kennedys (Jello Biafra) ran for Mayor of San Francisco during this time. You should check out the commercials for his campaign on UA-cam.
southbayspike and who won that election? Dianne Fienstein. Another rotten politician still wielding enormous power 40 years later, just like Jerry Brown.
You know a video's going to be funny when Vin explains what he thinks Antifa is.
Coby Bassett Well, ANTIFA definitely aren’t actually *Anti-Fascist* (as is proven by their behavior), so Vin is correct on that count.
@@Black_Swan777 Heh, that's exactly how he would say it too! Well-played...
I wonder what 'Nazi Punks Fuck off" was about. Must have been about liberal fascists as well.🤔
@@Black_Swan777 Antifa are antifascists but militant, they are people who fight the enemy in the streets because police is protecting fascists and their attacks on free people so legally there was no justice because of corruption of police. Vin is a victim of propaganda so he doesn't know and didn't do any research, his only research is from anti-antifa propaganda. Antifa supports all free speech, civil rights, human rights but also to protect weak with using violence against enemy. Vin also doesn't know that in Europe is supporting fascism illegal (because of war unlike USA). Antifa isn't organization, it's movement with no membership or hierarchy. It's difference between Antifa and political organization, you can be in both of them but it doesn't mean, that ideas of that political organization are ideas of Antifa. Antifa movement exists because people were attacked by groups of nazis and skinheads in the streets at night every week, police didn't do nothing about it, so they organised themselves as group to protect themselves and start attacking nazis too as revenge and show them that every attack has consequences. That's antifa. So it's not political organization it's militant movement because of absence of justice.
@@Black_Swan777 Antifa is not one single group, it's an umbrella term for everything that is anti-fascist, from liberals, over anarchists to marxist-leninists. Also not everthing that is radical or militant can be called “fascist“. Fascism is a very specific ideology, a very authoritarian form of capitalism.
The stooges -1968 and Some Black Guys from Michigan called DEATH in 1970 - All Black Guys from Washington Dc called BAD BRAINS were one of the First to Start Hard Core Punk and Reggae -The Singer HR and the drummer are Brothers were bore in Jamaica -Big influences on Henry Rollins they got him inspired to become a Punk Vocalist when he saw them Play live in Washington DC
Don't know this man but the fact he picked up the meaning of the song makes me appreciate him
"..oovninh athrsz' kidds, hah, compettittschian!"
No Ramones, and more shockingly, no Stooges. How "punk" of them to omit those two bands.
Dead Kennedy's Black flag definitely hard core - post punk. Dk right on border between both .
They're not too controversial :) People always think Punk equals politics, not true if you look at the real founding fathers of the genre like The Ramones and The Stooges. It's more about being young and rebellious.
@@Filip_111 Yes, many folks don't realize that punk is multi faceted, like every other genre. For me, The Stooges is to punk what Black Sabbath is to metal.
@@ORION2180 And New York Dolls should be mentioned
Ramones, Stooges, and New York Dolls were all on the list I sent them. They kinda went off track a bit. Hoping all 3 are still coming this week, he said this was the last day but also said that in the Crass reaction. Think they just got posted out of order
I find it funny how Vin says this song can be against the radical left while Jello was an anarchist when this song was written and came out. Anarchists are radical leftists
Jello was a leftist in the old sense. The new left is more like Nazi Germany.
I would love for u 2 to react to more Dead Kennedys. I love how Vin explains the lyrics. Dead Kennedys is 1 of my favorites and me and my slow mind i dont understand all their lyrics but know Jello Biafra is 1 of the best. Some of my favorite songs are
Kill The Poor
Let's Lynch The Landlord
Drug Me
Viva Las Vegas (cover song)
Religious Vomit
Moral Majority
Dog Bite
Nazi Punks Fuck Off
We've Gotta Bigger Problem Now (Uber Alles pt3)
Rawhide (cover song)
Government Flu
Terminal Preppie
Buzzbomb
Forest Fire
Winnebago Warrior
Riot
I Am The Owl
Soup Is Good Food
Jock O Rama
MTV Get Off The Air
Stars And Stripes Of Corruption
Take This Job And Shove It (cover song)
Dear Abby
Rambozo The Clown
Fleshdunce
Macho Insecurity
Anarchy For Sale
Chickenshit Conformist
Police Truck
Too Drunk To Fuck
California Uber Alles and Holiday In Cambodia u already reacted to
I Fought The Law (cover...kinda lol)
Buzzbomb From Pasadena
Have I The Right (cover song)
Back In The USSR (cover song)
Love your explanation 😀 Greetings from Berlin. Well done.
also check out police truck from dead kennedys great song
Jello is to the far left. I mean really far left. Back in the day, his views were considered pretty out there for fairly liberal-minded folks. A rightie would never say "embrace the red, white and blue reich" as he did in "Full Metal Jackoff"
I’m honestly surprised how chill they r with his stuff.
They have a different version of this song called "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" where the lyrics are changed and the song is about Ronald Reagan instead. The music is changed as well and it has a much more jazzy sound. "California Uber Alles" is about left wing fascism, while "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" is about right wing fascism. Dead Kennedys went after everyone and did it very well. Check out "I Am The Owl" if you want to hear the best song they wrote.
For a condescending know-it-all, Vin is a such an ignorant, dull interpreter. Punk seems to present a tremendous challenge to his sensibilities.
How is vin ignorant please reason your opinon
@@Glaaki13 2nd what and why
@@Glaaki13 so him pointing out that left is extremely hypocrite for wanting to people to be free but at the same time limiting their freedom of speech and rushing for similar universal thought guildelines isint compareable to fasism (for sure right has similar policies as vin said)
@@Glaaki13 k so no rebutralss to my arguments
@@sikaniska1978 Well, He was ignorant to the fact that Jerry Brown was even a real person.
Hell yeah…. Now we are talking !! I salute ya both 👍🏴
Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables and Plastic Surgery Disasters are both masterpieces of punk. Riot, Government Flu, Kill The Poor are all worth a listen.
"...arganicch pojszan gas...carbon, fram aral exxhalaetschians..metthaen, fram recchtal exxhalaetschians...booth fram juutrinn exxhalaetschians."
Lesson of the day. Extremes of either side are messed up.
I’m so glad you get the joke in the song and can fully explain it, Vin. And it is hilarious.
Vin nailed it with his analyse and although released close on forty years ago that song is more relevant today than it ever was; genius lyrics and played masterfully. Is Sori truly not understanding any of this? At times its as though she were starring at hieroglyphics.
Great pick. Great song. Great band. As usual the analysis is spot on. I enjoy your videos so much. Some of your reactions make me feel so OLD!
What about the Descendents?
Thanks for doing punk week. I wasn't a punk but did listen to alot of punk, trash and crossover. Alot of cool memories bubbled up with all these songs.
You got to more Punk try 80s Post Punk
The Cure
The Smiths
Killing Joke
The Sisters of Mercy
The Cult
Bauhaus
Yes !!! all of these bands.. cool list.
Joy division
Television
Talking heads
The pixies
Sonic Youth
Also somehow forgot gang of four.
Try Birthday Party too... Underrated late 70s early 80s Melbourne post punk 🤞🤞🤞
Those are all Goth bands or proto punk/goth.
M W found birthday party a few weeks ago and fell in love
You really get it man, that's awesome! Wow, dude, I'm impressed big time
Helloween ☆ Keeper of the seven keys 🎃
I love Dead Kennedys. Please do more! Great breakdown. I recommend Police Truck. Pretty intense... OH...and Sori, how dare you... Haha...
Yeah Vin! This and Holiday In Cambodia, which you've already reviewed, are bangers.
I think you'd also dig:
Damaged Goods by Gang Of Four
Who Is Who by The Adolescents
Ain't It Fun by Dead Boys
Not Anymore by Dead Boys
Sonic Reducer by Dead Boys
1970 by The Stooges
Anywhere But Here by Blood For Blood
Bloodstains by Agent Orange
Injustice System by Sick Of It All
Ha ha ha ha!!!!! "SIX?" I agree with the "10" ranking. On a side note, I used to work across the street from Jerry when he was Mayor of Oakland. One time, we were doing security at a swinger's party in Oakland when Mayor Brown and his security team showed up. I asked what he was doing there, and without skipping a beat, he said, "Meeting my constituents!"
You should give Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely by Hüsker Dü a listen
One of the best alternative bands out of Minnesota I love that still to this day. Thanx goodness
Legendary band. RIP Grant Hart.
,we consider them punk replacements were alternative
Fair critique of my state, true since the 80s. But Jello isn't taking shots from a right wing perspective... He's like all the way left - anarchist
"California Über Alles" is a callback to the German national anthem during Nazi Germany, "Deutschland Über Alles" - Germany Above All. Governor Brown was running Cali in '80 and he's still Governor today. Carter was the last human being to sit in the oval office.
They redid this song a few years later under the title "We've got a bigger problem now." Very similar music, but the lyrics were altered.
"I am Emperor Ronald Reagan
Born again with fascist cravings
Still your made me President.
Human rights will soon go away
I am now your Shah today
Now I command all of you
Now you're gonna pray in school
I'll make sure they're Christian too
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
etc."
Ironic that the original version of the song is more current and topical today.
Also I really wish she got the joke too.
When Jello Biafra wrote this song he basically wanted to piss off leftist californian college kids. This song, and "Kill the Poor", made a lot of extremist right-wing believe that Dead Kennedys was a right wing band. But, if you pay atention, it is writen on an ironic stance. To get his story straight, on later albums Jello Biafra wrote anti-fascist songs without any irony - like the song you mentioned and "Nazi Punks F* Off".
The second installment of this song "We've a Bigger Problem Now" is an order of magnitude better. The 3rd installment, also called California Uber Alles was dont by Micharl Feranti over a decade later.
Do some motorhead again, do overkill that song put the ground work for Thrash metall
"God save the Queen" by Lemmy
Killed by Death and (We are) the Road Crew!!!
I think is cool you guys could figure that out, most younger people don’t understand it because it was before your time but you obviously know some history. Very nice.
Dead Kennedys - We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
Do the Dead Kennedys, "We've got a bigger problem now." It's the same song as California Uberalles, but better words.
You should listen to Chemical Warfare by The Dead Kennedy’s that a song talking about something
YOU NAILED IT AND I LOVE IT!!!
How in the hell do you do punk week and not do The Ramones.
Sucks that Jello works for the man now
She's not smart enough to listen to punk rock lol
Even when it’s explained to her it still goes over her head 😐
This song has a follow up called, "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now."
Maybe Skulls by the Misfits, if you want shock.
One Last Caress too
And Bullet
Jerry Brown was governor of CA twice. This song is basically a parody on California lifestyles
Yo... Why yo wife got resting "lemme speak to the manager" face?
Best comment ever. You won my friend.
Wow! :-) I've know this song pretty much since it came out and while I know that Jello Biafra's lyrics are a vital part of Dead Kennedys, I never really dug deep into the lyrics of this particular song and certainly not to the extent that you did here. Thanks a lot for this - I learned a lot about this song that I never thought about before. A huge thumbs up for this. 👍
No Ramones? Lol
OMG I am so glad you got this. Nailed it!!!! Now the lead singer Jello is one of them.....
OK, you´re Americans (aren´t you?), so I can stay calm and describe how "Deutschland über alles was actually meant", because you seem to be a little bit misinformed.
The National Anthem wasn´t written by the Nazis, but in 1848 by Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
A time, when we didn´t have a common German state, but several principalities.
It´s definitely worth to look deeper into German history to understand some things.
nevertheless, there has been a big struggle of democrats and workers against the German noble, the exploitation of workers, french occupation and serfdom of poor farmers.
It was literally a civil war.
Besides that population suffered of famine.
In this time, von Fallersleben wrote "Deutschland über alles", wich was intended as a call for unitiy against the old powers. It was an Idea of Germany as a priority in your mind, instead of fighting each other.
Indeed it was a song about revolution, and one of it´s peaks was in 1848.
of course this is pretty shortened, but the topic is to deep for some small YT-comments.
This just sums it pretty much up, I wrote several exams about this topic for my highschool-graduation.
I found this pretty good translation:
lyricstranslate.com/de/das-deutschlandlied-das-deutschlandlied.html
Das Deutschlandlied
Germany, Germany above all,
above all in the world,
If it always holds together
brotherly to protect and defend.
From the Maas up to the Neman,
from the Adige up to the Belt -
Germany, Germany above all,
above all in the world
German women, German loyalty,
German wine and German song
should keep in the world
Their old beautiful sound,
inspires us to noble exploits
our whole life long.
German women, German loyalty,
German wine and German song
Unity and Justice and Freedom
for the German Fatherland!
Towards it let us all strive
brotherly with heart and hand!
Unity and Justice and Freedom
are the pledge of happiness.
Blossom! in the splendor of this happiness,
Blossom!, German Fatherland.
Great reaction to one of my all time favourite tracks. Good job guys.