Instead of arguing over what's punk, what not punk, who's punk, who's more punk...who's not punk......just appreciate a damn fine song from a wickedly, awesome damn fine band. Such awesome lyrics that are still so appropriate for today. But....... from what I've always known...... even the DKs had arguments over money towards the end. So it just shows that we all have a bit of hypocrisy in us at times. Just shut up and dance everybody!!
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"On March 25, 1980, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards in San Francisco to major record label artists to give the event some "New Wave credibility"
@bradypem Punk literally means dirty, crappy, or something in cruddy condition. Punk is about accepting where you're at but wanting to help those less fortunate, it's about accepting new ideas but destroying old ones, but it's mostly about making a point and having enough conviction to stand up for what you believe. Punk ROCK was about making a point it wasn't about the sound, it wasn't about the money, and it certainly wasn't about sitting around online and being complacent with everything =]
@benebrius So when the first "punks" emerged in the late 60s - early 70s all they had on their minds was selling fashion and music? I think its sad that you would assume that they became what they were with bad intentions. Maybe it is just a popularised phrase used to sell hot topic clothes to "emos" and "goths" now, but who's to say they aren't just being themselves? Everybody is being themselves, some sad, negative people just dont seem to be able to tolerate it. Hate the game, not the player
@SPV724 Some were true to their cause...the rest just follow blindly--as is human nature. As I said, "punk" is just a word used to describe a product.
@benebrius You don't seem to get what I'm saying... Everybody is an individual, and everybody has the right do what they want with their lives. The masses of punks in the 70s, despite their intentions (whatever they may have been), were doing what they wanted, not what anybody else wanted. You're correct in saying humans have a tendency to follow others, but punk taught people to think for themselves. Nowadays I SUPPOSE the word "punk" could be used to "sell a product", but...
@benebrius It just depends on how you interpret the meaning of the word. I don't assosiate "punk" with corparations and products UNLESS its being said the punk is trying to put an end to that kind of bulshit
@bradypem Punk is also about enlightment, about standing up agains the system, about thinking for yourself and creating your own opinions about everything.
@millionmikeman east bay ray's solo probably went on for too long as an inside joke. for more information, read the booklet that comes with the album. overextended guitar solo
Love that they made sure to get their pictures taken with those ironic shirts, seems to fit Biafra very well.
But really, Punk isn't "unaccepted" anymore, and Metal still playing it's role, so why feel the need to pretend it is? Punk has lost it's idea, and it's value, it's merely a 3-4 chord progression formula these days, if you're a band you should go like "we're not a rap band we're a punk band." I don't think I'm cool enough for Metal tho.
@theravendemon Dead Kennedys is the wrong punk, I've seen some pussy pop punk bands that hold their own about their music better than the Dead Kennedys ever did.
@ZachsGayCat DK is the definition of Punk, kid. For example, This song. Look it up in wiki to see what it is about. I disagree with their politics, but I get what they are saying, and at least Jello tried to stand up for what he believed in. They are leftist, but they even criticize some leftists. I love how they make fun of mainstream music. I still like mainstream stuff too, but usually it is after it is not poplular anymore. Like I now listen to 80's rock.
@ZachsGayCat What does "What "Punk" is definitely turned to what you think is good music" mean? Turned to? I am not sure if you say I am not punk but I am not claiming to be. But seriously your comment about DK being the "Wrong Punk" makes no sense since they were one of the Originals. Not Green Day or Offspring or whatever Crap you call punk.
God. I don't even like Green Day. I just think DK is the biggest living hypocrisy in Punk culture, from the beginning, till their end. That is all. Do you disagree? Good. I don't care. Stop talking to me. Now please go scale every music you find interesting against how much of a faggot you think Justin Bieber is.
Yeah? And you're a stupid fucking asshole. I bet not everyone thinks you are, but there might be a vast majority of people who do if they give a shit about your existence that is, see, I can also judge who you are solely because I disagree with you! That's what Punk is about man, wouldn't it be boring if everyone just thought the same?
@ZachsGayCat Yeah, i'm glad you get that you have no fucking clue. And no it wouldn't be boring if everyone thought the same, because we wouldn't be aware of it you dumb fuck.
Listen to the part at 4:40 with the "dumb" voice singing along at the clapping part once Jello asks everyone to join in. "Is my brain small enough". Hilarious.
it's "we gotta prove we're adults now", not "a group for adults", that is beyond the point - which i guess was, to kiss the boot of big record company heads sitting in front of them in the audience
I love this stunt so much because DK were such a good band, they actually made New Wave music enjoyable, and East Bay Ray pulled out one sick guitar solo! That's not something you see too often in punk bands, I mean, the way it is now, punk guitarists usually just don't play solos because they CAN'T. Not so with Dead Kennedys, all very fine instrumentalists.
i want to go to wack tomorrow with that self made s =$ shirt and a dead kennedys on the back with a black pen or something like that imagine everyones wearing black and i pop out with a white shirt and the knowledge onl i have that band shirt this is rock and roll i miss
@LesPaul2006 actually i heard there not famous anymore cause they wanted to do some harder stuff, but that could just be a roumer. so yea i also dedicate this to greenday's latest album
fuck. they are amazing. i wish there were bands as sarcastic and clever as this now, maybe there are... but this is just epic!!!! i officially love the dead kennedys totally standing up for what they believe in... real music! this song still fits in with today's music industry, which sucks a bit i guess cos it means a lot of people still have no taste :/ they only want a nice image
@PureInsolence90HQ its not about image or taste, "ill make my music boring ,ill play my music slow, i aint no artist im a business man, no ideas of my own" thats what "music" has been and is and forever will be
@PureInsolence90HQ me to. i really wish i could buddy, but, even back when these guys were making music there was shitty capitalists in music and the media, but the numbers are far greater now sadly.
@fuer321 ah man. talking you's depressed me beyond belief :P i wish music could find it's way out of this slump where you have to be fit, talentless and thick to sell records... >:(
@PureInsolence90HQ sorry man, ive heard people say i have kinda bleak realist view on the media, i find myself positive and hopeful and optimistic, but i guess thats just me
@fuer321 well you're truthful :L i'll give you that but i guess the fact is not many people want to hear the truth, that music has just gone down the crapper
"Boz Scaggs was seen in the audience pulling his hair out" This guy, this fucking PATRIOT, Jello Biafra has neither flinched from responsibility nor EVER sold out, unlike his former band "mates". He's still there today, needling the government and giving a shit. America is fortunate to have this guy, but stupid enough to ignore him. Meanwhile the UK music scene consists of spineless corporate brain dead turds with no morals or ethics whatsoever. Gimme the early 80's anyday.
are these guys the only band to have stayed true to themselves or more to the point their followers? STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF!!!! YOULL BE A HAPPY FUCKER.FUKEMALL
minor threat rock, they were in the same group of skate punk bands in the early 80's, along with Jody Foster's army, the circle jerks and the misfits.
I was hoping that there would be some video footage of this song, but at least there's a signpost for this classic. There are a lot of bands who can pull out good live performances, but there aren't too many that can do an in-your-face improvisation like this, against the grain of the group hosting the show. Gold.
@MyNameIsAndrew1000 yes andrew that is the intro to california uber alles, read the story they were supposed to perform california uber alles at the bay area music awards to give the show some "new wave credibility" so DEK wrote a song just for the show
there saying when you sign for a record label, you sign your life away, because the labels "pull the strings" of the band to make them whatever they want
Nah, look at what Jello did. Didn't give the rest of the band their royalties, kept the righs to the band all for himself. He always says how he hates big corps and whatnot yet he allows his music to be on big company video games like Tony Hawk pro skater.
i hope you know he had nothing to do with teh OTHERS in the band selling rights to video games. he had no part in that. it was the new kennedys with their new childstar frontman. and as for the royalties thing, i have a feeling it was the other dk members who tried to milk him for all he has. they were the greedy ones.
Instead of arguing over what's punk, what not punk, who's punk, who's more punk...who's not punk......just appreciate a damn fine song from a wickedly, awesome damn fine band. Such awesome lyrics that are still so appropriate for today. But....... from what I've always known...... even the DKs had arguments over money towards the end. So it just shows that we all have a bit of hypocrisy in us at times. Just shut up and dance everybody!!
KeironP1 5 days ago
i was convienced,soup tasted better
dkitty8124 1 week ago
Is my dick big enough?
Herojuanapunk23 1 week ago
bradypem - not a bad statement but says in spelled says on SES.
Piquet3wc 2 weeks ago
bob dylan on backup vocals 4:42 i die everytime i hear em ahahahah
deandatheend 3 weeks ago 2
give me a toot. I'll sell you my soul
MrRager05 3 weeks ago
@MrRager05 Pull my strings and i'll go far!
InsertaNombreAqui 3 weeks ago
Yep Adblock plus for firefox blocks most adverts including youtube ones, so you can enjoy punk irony-free at your leisure.
Also... Great song!
SenorKoquonfaes 1 month ago
@sarahisms if you get firefox and download the adblockerplus plugin you can say fuck you to advertisements and corporations and partially endure a comparethemarket advertisement
sarcasim18 1 month ago
the irony of not being able to play this without having to partially endure a comparethemarket advertisement first.
sarahisms 1 month ago
jello = the original punk rock troll
TheDarkManRF78 1 month ago
Punk's a state of mind....it will never die....all hail Dk and SNFU and all the rest
soupcan74 2 months ago
propably the best lyrics ever
yakobo4 2 months ago
THIS SONG ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
xXxJenAndLaycexXx 2 months ago
I laughed when I saw "Buy 'Pull My Strings' on Android Market"
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finalconsecration 2 months ago
@finalconsecration The biter-sweet taste of irony, don't you think?
InsertaNombreAqui 2 months ago
@InsertaNombreAqui I don't want to live on this planet anymore
finalconsecration 2 months ago
@finalconsecration it could be worse... at least you don't buy it, right? ಠ_ಠ
InsertaNombreAqui 2 months ago
Damn, I wish someone filmed this
BillHicks420 2 months ago
4 people are fuckin faggots
kurtcobainsnotdead 3 months ago
Rock and roll!!!!!!!!!!
Metal3750 6 months ago
the best punk ever
Pedro1a2a 6 months ago
SHut up and dance everybody
carousel66 6 months ago 2
do caralhooooooooooooooooooooooo......
isso é um hino!
Pedro1972Paulo 7 months ago
You'll pay ten bucks to see me
On a fifteen foot high stage
Fatass bouncers kick the shit
Out of kids who try to dance
GEETARS3 7 months ago
4 people had their strings pulled
Bi0xHAzZaRd 7 months ago
I'd KILL for the video to go with this performance... the MTV New Wave awards or something? Someone point me to it!
nicechicken 8 months ago 4
"On March 25, 1980, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards in San Francisco to major record label artists to give the event some "New Wave credibility"
Spoke too soon. Still want that video.
nicechicken 8 months ago 2
Huh, all this explains the personality of Charlie Sheen.
DoctorGleich 8 months ago
I know it was intended to be part of the satire, but FUCK Ray can shred! haha
Dumpsterbaby1991 9 months ago
the ska part is the same chords as the Office theme song lol awesome
ColtyRamone 9 months ago
@djmj811 -- Oh, YES!!!!! Thank you. Took the words right out of my mouth...er...keyboard!
madangel47 11 months ago
SONY enter-TainMen-T
boyo416 1 year ago
is there a fucking video of them doing this? i would kill to watch it.
SamSill10 1 year ago 29
@SamSill10
Nope, they played it this once.
Nickojr11 1 month ago
This song should be retitled "The American Idol Song".
IronFloydDreamRush 1 year ago 8
INTERNET FIGHT! PLACE YER BETS
JotunnTheImp 1 year ago 8
remember everyone: PUNK IS ABOUT BEING YOURSELF AND NOT GIVING A FUCK ABOUT WHAT ANYONE SES OR THINKS ABOUT YOU
bradypem 1 year ago 55
@bradypem Punk literally means dirty, crappy, or something in cruddy condition. Punk is about accepting where you're at but wanting to help those less fortunate, it's about accepting new ideas but destroying old ones, but it's mostly about making a point and having enough conviction to stand up for what you believe. Punk ROCK was about making a point it wasn't about the sound, it wasn't about the money, and it certainly wasn't about sitting around online and being complacent with everything =]
MrSamSauce 7 months ago 4
@bradypem "PUNK" is a word designed to sell you fashion and music. Just be yourself.
benebrius 3 months ago
@benebrius So when the first "punks" emerged in the late 60s - early 70s all they had on their minds was selling fashion and music? I think its sad that you would assume that they became what they were with bad intentions. Maybe it is just a popularised phrase used to sell hot topic clothes to "emos" and "goths" now, but who's to say they aren't just being themselves? Everybody is being themselves, some sad, negative people just dont seem to be able to tolerate it. Hate the game, not the player
SPV724 3 months ago
@SPV724 Some were true to their cause...the rest just follow blindly--as is human nature. As I said, "punk" is just a word used to describe a product.
benebrius 3 months ago
@benebrius You don't seem to get what I'm saying... Everybody is an individual, and everybody has the right do what they want with their lives. The masses of punks in the 70s, despite their intentions (whatever they may have been), were doing what they wanted, not what anybody else wanted. You're correct in saying humans have a tendency to follow others, but punk taught people to think for themselves. Nowadays I SUPPOSE the word "punk" could be used to "sell a product", but...
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@benebrius It just depends on how you interpret the meaning of the word. I don't assosiate "punk" with corparations and products UNLESS its being said the punk is trying to put an end to that kind of bulshit
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@SPV724 Your comments are thoughtful and inspired.
benebrius 3 months ago
@bradypem Punk is also about enlightment, about standing up agains the system, about thinking for yourself and creating your own opinions about everything.
Terremides 3 months ago 2
@bradypem well thats have of it but its about rebellion : both societal and political
tojofdeath 1 month ago
Fuck people who say fuck any genre of music.
OPEN MINDS YOU STUPID FUCKS!
ironman276 1 year ago
@ironman276
Open your mind to pop-punk, open your mind to corporate dictatorship... no thanks, fucker.
mussman717word 1 year ago
it was a different time then...
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago 4
No one today has balls like they did.
angeltosome 1 year ago
they did what they wanted to , gotta admire that.
JIHADJESSE 1 year ago
East Bay Ray ripped it.
millionmikeman 1 year ago 5
@millionmikeman east bay ray's solo probably went on for too long as an inside joke. for more information, read the booklet that comes with the album. overextended guitar solo
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
Love that they made sure to get their pictures taken with those ironic shirts, seems to fit Biafra very well.
But really, Punk isn't "unaccepted" anymore, and Metal still playing it's role, so why feel the need to pretend it is? Punk has lost it's idea, and it's value, it's merely a 3-4 chord progression formula these days, if you're a band you should go like "we're not a rap band we're a punk band." I don't think I'm cool enough for Metal tho.
ZachsGayCat 1 year ago
@ZachsGayCat Punk hasn't lost it's idea or it's value. If you think that's what it's like now, you're listening to the wrong punk.
theravendemon 1 year ago
@theravendemon Dead Kennedys is the wrong punk, I've seen some pussy pop punk bands that hold their own about their music better than the Dead Kennedys ever did.
ZachsGayCat 1 year ago
@ZachsGayCat
"Dead Kennedys is the wrong punk," lol. You clearly ARE listening to the wrong punk.
mussman717word 1 year ago
@ZachsGayCat DK is the definition of Punk, kid. For example, This song. Look it up in wiki to see what it is about. I disagree with their politics, but I get what they are saying, and at least Jello tried to stand up for what he believed in. They are leftist, but they even criticize some leftists. I love how they make fun of mainstream music. I still like mainstream stuff too, but usually it is after it is not poplular anymore. Like I now listen to 80's rock.
CocacolaCowboy1919 1 year ago
@CocacolaCowboy1919
Yeah whatever man. How original. What "Punk" is definitely turned to what you think is good music. I don't care what you listen to. >___>
ZachsGayCat 1 year ago
@ZachsGayCat What does "What "Punk" is definitely turned to what you think is good music" mean? Turned to? I am not sure if you say I am not punk but I am not claiming to be. But seriously your comment about DK being the "Wrong Punk" makes no sense since they were one of the Originals. Not Green Day or Offspring or whatever Crap you call punk.
CocacolaCowboy1919 1 year ago
@CocacolaCowboy1919
God. I don't even like Green Day. I just think DK is the biggest living hypocrisy in Punk culture, from the beginning, till their end. That is all. Do you disagree? Good. I don't care. Stop talking to me. Now please go scale every music you find interesting against how much of a faggot you think Justin Bieber is.
ZachsGayCat 1 year ago
@CocacolaCowboy1919 Although DK was split apart over money. Totally Punk
DeadbrainLives 1 year ago
@DeadbrainLives lol true. but it still is good "punk" music
CocacolaCowboy1919 1 year ago
@CocacolaCowboy1919 true
DeadbrainLives 1 year ago
@ZachsGayCat You very clearly have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Fair play on the display of ignorance! Cheers!
pathammond 1 year ago
@pathammond
Yeah? And you're a stupid fucking asshole. I bet not everyone thinks you are, but there might be a vast majority of people who do if they give a shit about your existence that is, see, I can also judge who you are solely because I disagree with you! That's what Punk is about man, wouldn't it be boring if everyone just thought the same?
ZachsGayCat 1 year ago
@ZachsGayCat Yeah, i'm glad you get that you have no fucking clue. And no it wouldn't be boring if everyone thought the same, because we wouldn't be aware of it you dumb fuck.
pathammond 1 year ago
Listen to the part at 4:40 with the "dumb" voice singing along at the clapping part once Jello asks everyone to join in. "Is my brain small enough". Hilarious.
Greatest punk band ever in my opinion.
BloggerMusicMan 1 year ago
three douchebag hipsters like the term "new wave"
Auquis 1 year ago
@Auquis division wasn't jellos thing, stop tainting his image
shasta723 1 year ago
i used to think that pic with the sweaters was funny but it was only foreshadowing what east bay ray and klaus would become
markmaille 1 year ago
The last great punk song. What has happened now.
barrydeez 1 year ago
best troll ever is best
nohero4405 1 year ago 3
it's "we gotta prove we're adults now", not "a group for adults", that is beyond the point - which i guess was, to kiss the boot of big record company heads sitting in front of them in the audience
RisforRockit 1 year ago
Can i have one of those shirts? i want to wear it to school!! haha great song
DevilSchoolkid 1 year ago
legend
kissmyfatarse75 1 year ago
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Fuck you puddle of nickelcreed, fuck you bieber, fuck you gaga, fuck you lil whatever......mainstream music has no soul.
cirrusxl 1 year ago
solo=fukin epic
RARESONGTABS 1 year ago 4
Awesome!!! This is a straight up FUCK YOU to the music industry and i love it.
VicRattlehead1980 1 year ago 7
Genius. Pure Genius.
LetsDoIt4Johnny1 1 year ago
I love this stunt so much because DK were such a good band, they actually made New Wave music enjoyable, and East Bay Ray pulled out one sick guitar solo! That's not something you see too often in punk bands, I mean, the way it is now, punk guitarists usually just don't play solos because they CAN'T. Not so with Dead Kennedys, all very fine instrumentalists.
mussman717word 1 year ago 6
i want to go to wack tomorrow with that self made s =$ shirt and a dead kennedys on the back with a black pen or something like that imagine everyones wearing black and i pop out with a white shirt and the knowledge onl i have that band shirt this is rock and roll i miss
thomasmm1988 1 year ago
hahah east bay f-ing shredded that solo
joescout 1 year ago
i fear the bigwig dollar chasers may have won
p1nkAcid 1 year ago
"...Is my Cock big enough, is my brain small enough for you to make me a Star,..."
EltomeiroJackson 1 year ago
HAhahahahahaha!
Conkern65 1 year ago
hey, at the begginnig what jelo says is: "we've gotta prove we're adults now"
umunguia 1 year ago
Dedicated to the Jonas Brothers.
LesPaul2006 1 year ago 72
@LesPaul2006 and many more unfortunately
grasthube 9 months ago
@LesPaul2006 actually i heard there not famous anymore cause they wanted to do some harder stuff, but that could just be a roumer. so yea i also dedicate this to greenday's latest album
metalgrungefan123 9 months ago
@metalgrungefan123 ...roumer? jesus christ
Monkeyboy92037 9 months ago
@Monkeyboy92037 spelling was never my strong point
metalgrungefan123 9 months ago
is my cock big enough,is my brain small enough?????
dkitty8124 1 year ago
eat my shit..lol and thats how i feel so fuk it!!
rickface13 1 year ago
fuck. they are amazing. i wish there were bands as sarcastic and clever as this now, maybe there are... but this is just epic!!!! i officially love the dead kennedys totally standing up for what they believe in... real music! this song still fits in with today's music industry, which sucks a bit i guess cos it means a lot of people still have no taste :/ they only want a nice image
PureInsolence90HQ 1 year ago 4
@PureInsolence90HQ its not about image or taste, "ill make my music boring ,ill play my music slow, i aint no artist im a business man, no ideas of my own" thats what "music" has been and is and forever will be
fuer321 1 year ago 4
@fuer321 ah man. i really wish i could say you were wrong :(
PureInsolence90HQ 1 year ago 4
@PureInsolence90HQ me to. i really wish i could buddy, but, even back when these guys were making music there was shitty capitalists in music and the media, but the numbers are far greater now sadly.
fuer321 1 year ago 3
@fuer321 ah man. talking you's depressed me beyond belief :P i wish music could find it's way out of this slump where you have to be fit, talentless and thick to sell records... >:(
PureInsolence90HQ 1 year ago
@PureInsolence90HQ sorry man, ive heard people say i have kinda bleak realist view on the media, i find myself positive and hopeful and optimistic, but i guess thats just me
fuer321 1 year ago
@fuer321 well you're truthful :L i'll give you that but i guess the fact is not many people want to hear the truth, that music has just gone down the crapper
PureInsolence90HQ 1 year ago
/the solo kills in this song, East Bay Ray might be a sellout piece of shit, but fuck he could play the guitar
poona83 1 year ago
This song is more relevant today than it was in 1980.
SuperGogetem 1 year ago
Holiday in Cambodia
MTV Get Off the Air
Pull My Strings
The Dead Kennedys' greatest songs.
DJxLoomis 1 year ago
to you they are
piefaceheadman 1 year ago
Obviously.
DJxLoomis 1 year ago
@DJxLoomis obviously not the greatest just ur favorite
piefaceheadman 1 year ago
@piefaceheadman OBVIOUSLY.
DJxLoomis 1 year ago
@DJxLoomis then there not the greatest songs tugg lick ur obviously a retard OBVIOUSLY ye obviously
piefaceheadman 1 year ago
@piefaceheadman Obvious troll is obvious.
DJxLoomis 1 year ago
"Boz Scaggs was seen in the audience pulling his hair out" This guy, this fucking PATRIOT, Jello Biafra has neither flinched from responsibility nor EVER sold out, unlike his former band "mates". He's still there today, needling the government and giving a shit. America is fortunate to have this guy, but stupid enough to ignore him. Meanwhile the UK music scene consists of spineless corporate brain dead turds with no morals or ethics whatsoever. Gimme the early 80's anyday.
Whistlechops 2 years ago
Except without Ronald Reagen and Margret Thatcher.
AtticaJohn 1 year ago 3
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xXJacobBuckXx 2 years ago
This song is a response to the payola scandal of the 70's. Pretty much right up JB's alley to rail against.
lanianj 2 years ago
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xXJacobBuckXx 2 years ago
i thought it was about the bands who had turned their backs on their punk roots in order to go mainstream and get airplay
gotta love jello
brabon1 1 year ago
who me?
RockstarRacc00n 2 years ago
@xXJacobBuckXx
figure that out all on your own did ya?
NoxiousButtSpray 1 year ago
\the disney assholes should listen to this.
residentevlidead 2 years ago 6
give me a toot, ill sell you my soul..
fishguitar11 2 years ago 4
this is one of my favorite
apostoutehace 2 years ago
when i hear this song i think of american idol
catonswg 2 years ago 4
@catonswg when i hear this song i think of nickleback
DarealIdroo 2 years ago
wow was this really 30 years ago......
fishbaby73 2 years ago
these people Changed my life eversince so be nice, eh? watch my band with the tag MIZMO BULACAN BAND
vladimirh7 2 years ago
are these guys the only band to have stayed true to themselves or more to the point their followers? STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF!!!! YOULL BE A HAPPY FUCKER.FUKEMALL
grindlebrush 2 years ago 3
Dead Kennedys are the best fucking punk band ever! Period!
draybo1969 2 years ago 8
What about Minor Threat?
prettylilmermaid 2 years ago
minor threat rock, they were in the same group of skate punk bands in the early 80's, along with Jody Foster's army, the circle jerks and the misfits.
hydrophonik7 2 years ago
I was hoping that there would be some video footage of this song, but at least there's a signpost for this classic. There are a lot of bands who can pull out good live performances, but there aren't too many that can do an in-your-face improvisation like this, against the grain of the group hosting the show. Gold.
tintrojan 2 years ago 5
thats the intro to california uber alles?
MyNameIsAndrew1000 2 years ago
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no holiday in cambodia
devon544 2 years ago
@devon544 NO it Is California Uber allies
Spacemonkey742 2 years ago
@MyNameIsAndrew1000 yes andrew that is the intro to california uber alles, read the story they were supposed to perform california uber alles at the bay area music awards to give the show some "new wave credibility" so DEK wrote a song just for the show
DarealIdroo 2 years ago
Anyone have this video live at the Bay Area Music Festival?
stevoelmo 2 years ago 3
dang ska
MelvinWren 2 years ago
Dead Kennedys: showing how a music award show should be since 1980
T3HM3T4L 2 years ago 118
he does say we have to prove we are adults now
kamikrazycanadian 2 years ago
there saying when you sign for a record label, you sign your life away, because the labels "pull the strings" of the band to make them whatever they want
tk5800 2 years ago
The organizers of the award-show: I won't invite those guys again.
evanescent25 2 years ago
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this song is fucking awesome!!!
darkseeker13 2 years ago 5
At the beginning I'm pretty sure he says "We have to prove we're adults now"
antihostile 2 years ago 9
Yup. He sarcastically says, "We gotta prove we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band - we're a new wave band."
ps. DROOL, DROOL, DROOL, DROOL, DROOL, DROOL, MY PAYOLA!
waIIflower 2 years ago 7
I always thought he said "we've been approved for adults now"
jthmguitarist 2 years ago
No, it's we gotta prove :))
m7mteddy 2 years ago 2
fuck new wave, pop punk and emo
it's social expression Oi!
8knt666 2 years ago 53
@8knt666 new pop punk and emo def have their place, but this song is off tap
shasta723 1 year ago
God I love this song!
xinemommy 2 years ago 4
I love tedd with his glass
CoveTheMsiMaster 2 years ago 2
I'm gonna get the chorus of this song and the dk logo tattooed on me somewhere
Katamar13 2 years ago
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fucking poser, go shoot yourself in the dick, I mean pussyhole
8knt666 2 years ago
You sound like a poser
wardog431 2 years ago 2
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Well you will not get the chorus tatoo'd on your dick - It's too fooking small mua ha ha!!!
borrowaddy 2 years ago
Great song. Great band.
SamuraiYattaro 2 years ago 4
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what a bunch of bitches...
tetrahedonkey 2 years ago
This song still aplys to the music world now! there are to many business men in the world not enough artists.
SWDRM7 2 years ago 10
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Very true! They are also involved too much in sports and are ruining baseball.
acdcfanatic101 2 years ago
I know, right?
stuntman021 2 years ago
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Song is cool and all but Jello sold out bigtime after DK disbanded.
Bakerskater7890 2 years ago
you are wrong, kind sir. the rest of DK sold out.
rustyshackleford1993 2 years ago 13
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Nah, look at what Jello did. Didn't give the rest of the band their royalties, kept the righs to the band all for himself. He always says how he hates big corps and whatnot yet he allows his music to be on big company video games like Tony Hawk pro skater.
He's a hyprocrite.
Bakerskater7890 2 years ago
i hope you know he had nothing to do with teh OTHERS in the band selling rights to video games. he had no part in that. it was the new kennedys with their new childstar frontman. and as for the royalties thing, i have a feeling it was the other dk members who tried to milk him for all he has. they were the greedy ones.
rustyshackleford1993 2 years ago
Nah, I know the whole thing about the royalty thing and he wasn't giving them their stuff.
Bakerskater7890 2 years ago
Jello for President
wizewizard2000 2 years ago 8
Biafra 2012
VGnerd 2 years ago 6
JELLO 012
punkfan4living 2 years ago
AWESOME!
mcstaford 2 years ago
id have to say that jello and henry rollins are one of the few smarter people to come out of punk in my opinion
theslutbitch 2 years ago