Shocking Reaction To [ Punk Rock] Dead Kennedys - This could be anywhere

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[@SolamenteVees]

Jello, Ray and co. were truly playing on a different level. Prophetic lyrics and musical/artistic merit.

[@thehenchman9115]

Really appreciate the fact that you take the time to listen to punk rock music and analyze the lyrics. I feel like a lot of people have this image of punk rock artists being just a bunch of "debbie downers", outcasts who just enjoy spitting out negativity for the sake of it or as a provocation. And while there are some groups that indeed used punk rock as a way to convey blatant empty provocations, there are so many groups that have inspiring and thought provoking lyrics that stand the test of time. For example, in this case, the lyrics you just read were written in 1985 and are (sadly) still relevant to this day. I think that the goal in listening to punk rock music is to allow yourself to have an eye opening experience, and think of ways to be a better human being and try to challenge the dark sides of the reality we live in, rather than letting that darkness take over. I think you did a great job unwrapping the song on the first listen. In my opinion, this is a cry for help by someone who witnesses a worrying rise of discriminations and senseless violence ("stick to your old friends, they're not our kind" , "Come on, let's set someone's dog on fire") or the exaltation of shallow consumerism ("the town's an endless generic mall of video games and fast food chains"). It's the depiction of an environment that breeds "tense and bitter-eyed" human beings with no morals, no culture, except the one that privileges greed and animosity. They aren't given the instruments to create, so "they just destroy", it's all they know

[@ramdasbir5995]

This is exactly why I chose this DK song for T to check out. The lyrics are prophetic! Not one of the "bit hits" by DK, but has always been one of my favorites.

[@thehenchman9115]

@@ramdasbir5995 Same for me, I think it's one of their most relevant songs, great choice!

[@HidingFromFate]

Good post. I'm old enough to have been familiar with this band, but mostly only knew them by name. At least, I don't remember much about their music. But listening now, this is a killer tune. And I agree it's still very relevant, lyrically. It frustrates me that too many people seem to think community blight and violence happens in a vacuum. For one thing, the ever expanding suburban sprawl drains more resources to the detriment of the communities left behind. One degradation contributes to another and so on and so forth. But instead of recognition of our collective responsibility, we "other" citizens in those places being left behind, and go the simplistic route of hiring more police, opening or expanding more prisons while citizens arm themselves with more weapons. All of which create more even financial burdens to the taxpayer and worsening conditions for all except those who have the financial resources to move even further away to the next safer place, in gated communities, etc.

[@ramdasbir5995]

@@HidingFromFate100% this

[@TerraSapien]

Yes!! I came here to recommend this one too! Riot gives me chills, it’s so real.

[@ryancunningham6852]

PLEASE do “Riot” by the dead kennedys. it’s chilling, and topical for today

[@modernlife1321]

Tomorrow your homeless, tonight is a blast!

[@rodrigovalerosancho2234]

Perhaps my favourite song by them, together with Soup Is Good Food.

[@poppingjaz]

Tomorrow you’re homeless, tonight it’s a blast

[@RustinChole]

“You get to the place where the real slave drivers live, they’re walled off by the riot squad aiming guns right at your head.” Such an epic song from an epic album.

[@Sweep_The_Leg_Johnny]

or Forest Fire! that intro....LOL

[@EarlSmith2469]

Glad you are listening to the Dead Kennedys. Every single one of their albums are solid gold. Thank you X10000 for being open minded and giving true punk rock a chance.

[@frazeradamson5380]

Rap and Punk are brothers from different mothers

[@avestuart]

You should check out Fear, The Germs, Black Flag. All of these bands were from LA, late '70s well into the '80s. There is so much to explore. Thing I like about this period is that the bands had no hope of ever being mainstream on a big record label, so they just went for it in whichever way they wanted. Some very biting social commentary was the result.

[@robertcraane7910]

And X - Los Angeles! Great song!

[@ramdasbir5995]

Fear!!

[@robertcraane7910]

@@ramdasbir5995 Yeah! Another great one. Or The Gun Club, Cramps....

[@scrmngshts]

I believe I'll have another beer

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

Enough of metal reactions. Let's get some Circle Jerks in this reaction culture bullshit.

[@chadleabo]

One of my fave DK songs. Glad you checked it out. Still relevant after all these years. Please do "Stars and Stripes of Corruption."

[@melthebell33]

ok you reminded me of the track so just been listening to it, certainly still one of their best

[@chetzar]

100%!!!!

[@garse70]

Frankenchrist is a masterpiece. This is my favorite DK song. What an album! Everytime I drove into the City (San Francisco) I would put DK on. They are the soundtrack to the environment.

[@thealternativevlog]

Punk rock from the 80's era was the soundtrack of my life growing up. And it's positive influences are still in me to this day.

[@heathcornbeef]

Kia ora hello in my teenage years 1980s i got a lot of my moral direction from Joe Strummer (The Clash)Jake Burn's (Stiff little fingers) and Charlie Harper (uk sub's) and Ian Mackaye ( Minor Threat FUGAZI)

[@thealternativevlog]

@@heathcornbeef Minor Threat made being straight edge cool.

[@heathcornbeef]

@@thealternativevlog I'm not straight edge i like Love to toke but i did stop drinking alcohol 27 years ago the day after my 25th birthday i woke up with a broken jaw nose and eyes swollen shut I'd gotten totally shitfaced and separated from my mate's and ran into some old foes (Skinheads) and got the shit beaten out of me i decided that's not going to happen again and haven't been drunk since and strangely enough i haven't been in a fight since then it's a mystery i still haven't figured out. Ps I've seen FUGAZI 🤘👏👏👏✌️👍

[@nickcrisp7252]

Not many reaction channels looking at this kind of stuff, nice one. Thoughtful reaction, and I guess that's the idea behind such songs, to provoke thought. Stiff Little Fingers were such a group whose lyrics often referenced The Troubles in Northern Ireland, back when that was all raging. Check out "Alternative Ulster" to sample this. A great piece of punk music too.

[@aggieprzywolska5992]

Love this reaction and that you are committed to getting to know and understand DK. In my opinion DK and Jello Biafra were visionaries and their stuff is still so relevant today

[@acompton8888]

Great reaction man. Awesome to see someone appreciate Jello Biafra's writing (singer). His brand of sarcastic intellect and satirical criticism is so unique and has proven to be timeless. More DK please! I'd love to see The Stars and Stripes of Corruption. The lyrics are powerful.

[@dave2870]

I think the drummer wrote this one

[@martindeviantxiii]

Great song star an stripes is, Well paid scientist is my choice, just love plastic surgery disasters lp

[@80sOGRE]

This song was my first taste of Kennedys back in 1991. It blew my mind at the time. The way they wove other musical genres into their sound yet it still comes out genuinely punk. Not a lot of punk bands managed that...Talent and Vision.

[@skidart9063]

me too. 1991 my buddy was a huge fan and gave me a mix tape of dk songs. loved it the first time i heard them

[@Chilipotamus]

I feel like a lot of that can be tied to the guitar playing of East Bay Ray. In a song like "Soup is Good Food," EBR channels so many different styles without sounding out of place. Really an underrated guitarist in the punk hemisphere

[@theamericanaromantic]

Please, please, please keep exploring punk rock and reacting! So much to discover.

[@pthor6265]

My cousin's band used to tour with them, Love Canal. They played with the Circle Jerks and TSOL, mostly.

[@alexisreclusive3777]

Hell yeah

[@0x0abb]

Great comments. Very articulate. Got stuff that I missed and grew up listening to rap, punk, ext. But recently, I find myself listening again to the DKs. Crass and I’m just blown away at how this is becoming more and more realistic- maybe is the age like you said. You get older and it’s clearer - I’m keeping my fingers crossed and just hope we can all make it through

[@rojerww]

Uniforms were often worn at parochial schools - so kids at the Catholic schools versus kids at the public schools. I remember hearing the phrase - welp, there goes the neighborhood.

[@JackXombi]

Great reaction, classic song. Anywhere's been everywhere for at least a decade.

[@alexisreclusive3777]

KEEP THE DK REACTIONS COMING

[@blauth]

It’s astounding that this was written back in 1986. Jello Biafra was highly prescient, and still is

[@ianbennett1491]

I thought I'd listen to this to cheer myself up before I go to bed. 😂😂😂😂

[@misspretty8969]

One of my faves im glad you did this one!! Skated to a bunch of Dead Kennedys growing up such a message and badass music!!!

[@DavidfromBA]

I got into punk as a teen in the 80s, but the DKs to me were (and still are, all these years later) something special. Definitely a far cry from the reductive and cartoonish clichés that tend to be associated with that genre, i.e. "OK, we get it, spiky hair, combat boots, limited musicianship". When I first heard the "Bedtime for Democracy" album (the first DKs album I ever bought), lyrics to songs like "Rambozo the Clown" and "Where Do Ya Draw the Line" blew me away, because they spoke to the alienation I felt. As impressive as all the bandmembers were individually, the DK's were still greater than the sum of their parts: Jello Biafra's lyrics, East Bay Ray's guitar playing, and of course the rhythm section of Klaus Flouride on bass and D.H. Peligro on drums. Thanks for your review; here's hoping you'll turn some people on to one of my all-time favorite bands.

[@RustinChole]

It’s tough to take in Jello’s lyrics on a first listen. Not as a reaction, but I highly recommend their second 1981 album, Plastic Surgery Disasters. In terms of musicianship and lyrics, it’s pretty unbelievable. Government Flu. Well Paid Scientist. Forest Fire. Riot. Almost all my favorite songs from them are on there - although all their songs are my favorite songs😂🤷🏻‍♂️. One of a kind, those Dead Kennedys, (Jello especially).

[@Richarddraper]

That was a great video with really good analysis of the lyrics and message behind the song. DK are, for me, probably the best American punk band. Lots of good British and Irish punk bands that are well worth checking out as well.

[@andrewkurtz737]

Never really listened to DK but Holy shit the bass and drums are amazing! Def gonna listen to more.

[@justinkline1294]

Maybe the third DK song that I ever heard (whatever order it appears on the album). Frankenchrist was my first DK cassette. Bought because I liked the Shriners on the cover. Life changer.

[@mattjohn4731]

This band was so good! I'm going to learn some and record acoustic covers. Will try to do well, but the words are so good I think I can't go wrong. THANK you!

[@wulfgold]

The age of Privacy is gone - facebook, youtube, mass surveillance... Gangs - drugs? Crime? Maga vigilantes? Racial divides? I'd guess that most of the lyrics are lifted from news stories - a couple of the albums I've got on vinyl have really good insert sheets that are cut up/collages of them. The DK song "A child and his lawnmower" - I can still recite that - directly inspired by such a crazy event. Jello's my favourite lyricist of the "punk" genre.

[@ketone303]

love your reactions and covering such groups!

[@Malo-Hombre71]

Pretty much every song on Frankenchrist is good. If you listen to any other song on that album, listen to Chicken Farm, musically it's great and lyrically it's about coming to America from a third world country. One of my all time favorites

[@80sOGRE]

I love that song too. Surf guitar meets some grandiose anthem with dark but subdued punk overtones. It's such a unique sounding song.

[@Draegonktyner]

I was at an A.A. meeting in Seoul, South Korea in 1994. The meeting was on the 8th or 9th floor. In the streets, people were protesting against the Patriot missiles being placed in S.K. There was a gang of government thugs, all dressed in the same blue denim outfits, that were sneaking behind the protesters and dragging them into alleys for a good beat down. The Dead Kennedys predicted this fact of the "blue denim secret police" in "California Uber Alles." Their predictions have come true many, many times. Cheers.

[@craig0weston20]

Hey TNT, got a huge amount of respect for you to open yourself up to the brilliant genius of punk. Lyrically and musically it's on another level

[@chestermarcol3831]

Klaus Flouride never gets enough props. Dude was the Diesel Engine behind that band.

[@stellamaris9172]

Thanks for doing this-it's one of my favorite DK songs! I think because it really hit home growing up in the San Fernando Valley in SoCal, which I remember as being this sort of soulless sprawl of concrete and mini malls and chain businesses and this weird mix of single family homes and generic looking apartments and housing developments(that someone is making a profit from) where people are just stacked on top of each other, and you don't know your neighbors and there's no sense of community and no center or connection to the land or sense of place. Listening to this again years later, I notice more that he's really hitting on how the literal architecture and city planning/design-or lack thereof, like where it's just sort of a free-for-all for housing developers, fast food chains and the like-can create a sense of alienation. And it could be Anywhere, USA. I have some comparative perspective on this too, since I was lucky enough to leave that sort of suburban blight behind and live in a place that feels like town with a sense of community, that has been affordable to live in and is welcoming and not divided on color or uniform lines...but you know what can happen when word gets out about such a liveable place. Housing prices start to go up and then we have to figure out how to stop gentrification and keep our community affordable and inclusive without resorting to just putting up "Projects". We're trying for sustainable and balanced growth...in an atmosphere where greed and profit rules.(Wish us luck!)

[@angusmcwhorter9012]

While this song was written in the mid 1980's, it is still relevant in today's age.

[@MadScientistMikeOfficial]

my favorite DK song and album

[@kerkroberts8875]

I couldn’t stop laughing when you stopped reading the lyrics at “or the guy who shows off his sub machine gun…”🤣🤣 Bc I fully know the next part that you refused to say out loud🤣🤣

[@mentalferret2028]

Great job on analysing DKs on First listen. One of the gangs is also those who feel privileged in the area.

[@stevenschadt6834]

You blew my mind with this one. DK has its own cult like following. As due most grate punk bands. 👍

[@pathatfield2543]

I’m glad that,for a change,I’m hearing a Dead Kennedys song that I’ve never heard before musically though,parts of it sound a little like their version of I fought the Law(which you might want to give a listen to if you haven’t already because the lyrics are different and it tells a story).

[@Chilipotamus]

I liked the subversion of expectation tbh, I was expecting the full riff, but that drop into a minor chord really sells the pervasive spookiness and despair of the lyrics

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

“My war” by Black Flag is a punk classic. Great reaction

[@vinche114]

Riot by the Dead Kennedys! Might be their best song

[@trevorocallaghan6980]

You should check out the full album this is song is from.. Frankenchrist. Especially songs chicken farm and stars and stripes of corruption

[@snarkyhostile8371]

This is literally the song that made me a DK superfan!

[@blairenovick5300]

We've Got a Bigger Problem Now is insanely genius 🙌

[@jornschneider2723]

one of the greatest band s ever

[@bluefj-wc3vz]

My favorite song from Frankenchrist. East Bay and Klaus ripped it.

[@RonaldMerchant]

You got it right!

[@Sweep_The_Leg_Johnny]

Riot is my ultimate favorite by them. VERY 'relavent for today's times, also!

[@worldfamouslanglois4805]

DK spits truth .. no matter what year you live in .. also kick ass music

[@rauladdams5709]

Hey Boss, Love It. You hit it on the head.

[@fundament]

i had this vinyl!!! It came with a Giger poster inside. This is Rock.

[@LuckyBastardProd]

Bought the album the day it came out. It came with a poster of an HR Giger’s Penis Landscape. This album got them in a lot of trouble because some kids mom saw it and got a lawyer and sued them for distributing porn to minors. This court case got the attention of Tipper Gore, Al Gore’s bored wife, and she and other bored housewives all got together and formed a group called the PMRC and they’re the ones that came up with the warning labels on records. The FBI burst into Jello’s apartment and took whatever they wanted; files and such. Jello said that it didn’t take long for the court to stop talking about the poster but started talking about their lyrics and politic and if you know anything about the Dead Kennedys you know they only sing about politics. They eventually won the case but went broke in the process. They came out with one more album Bedtime For Democracy and that album is one angry pissed off record. Stars and Stripes of Corruption is my favorite on Frankenchrist.

[@trevorocallaghan6980]

Fantastic tune and as relevant today as when it was released first in the 80s

[@leijensen11]

Just subscribed! Love your break down. Just because you " got " DK!

[@leijensen11]

We on the same page!

[@skelley3278]

Great song! Thanks for the video and the reaction bud

[@xtldc]

Love this song - I think it goes really well thematically with Cesspools in Eden, Soup is Good Food, and A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch.

[@devenscience8894]

“Soup is Good Food” is my favorite DK song, 100%

[@Chilipotamus]

I totally glossed over "Soup is Good Food" when I was younger, I hadn't really been exposed to the reality of that song yet. When I revisited it in my late twenties it took on a whole new meaning and quickly became one of my top 5 DK songs

[@inlandempress4587]

one of my childhood anthems/bands. thanks for sharing for those who missed the movement🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️😝

[@jasonmarquis7586]

I’m joining this conversation nine months late, and you’re probably not going to see this, but I gotta recommend that you check out a song that Jello did while teamed up with D.O.A. - ‘Full Metal Jackoff’. And then check out Jello and Mojo Nixon - ‘Plastic Jesus’.

[@jessescales4982]

Love the DKs, absolute classic. One thing to think about is what things where actually like in the 80s and 90s. We look back on those decades with rose colored glasses, but crime was through the roof compared to now. Major cities were disaster zones. Now you can walk around NYC Chicago LA Boston and it's like an amusement park with noodle shops and whole foods.

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

Really?? It feels like is worse than it’s ever been now.

[@jack_rabbit]

check out Hellnation from the same album... one of my absolute fav DK tracks.

[@haraldtheyounger5504]

Jello Biafra's still writing brilliant lyrics, check out War Pimp Renaissance, The Brown Lipstick Parade, etc.

[@northernpunx1978]

Man! 40 years on and this song is a prophetic piece of scary art. Brilliant and sad

[@Lee69111]

D.H. Peligro......sadly passed away this month

[@germans3375]

Great reaction!! Please, React to Halloween by DK

[@teddydog6229]

Very cool I was going to request this one too. But pretty pretty please 'The Stars and Stripes of Corruption' It's the ultimate DKs anthem and manifesto. It's their Big A Little A.

[@hamishpriest]

Love the Kennedys. If you had hair T i could see you which a mohawk hairstyle. Try Price of Admission by Stiff Little Fingers. Punks not just fast and loud.

[@justinvermilyea9192]

Jellos lyrics as usual 100 percent on point

[@jefft7085]

As an adult listening to DK, I realize that Jello really wished the American dream were true. As a kid listening to this song, I really thought the Dad was a bad guy who made the world worse, but now I realize that he's just a guy doing what he thinks is best to protect his family and community, but he's put in an impossible situation and playing into the powers-that-be's hands. Fear is a powerful motivator.

[@chetzar]

So glad you did this one! More DK please.

[@justinvermilyea9192]

Yessss jello and dk

[@Gunderson105]

If you like Dead Kennedys, check out Black Flag, another pioneering American punk rock band. "Police Story" and "Gimme Gimme Gimme" are some good songs to start off with

[@Larsen1200XL]

Fucking great that this lives in you new generations, I have been around punk since it started, and yes its real rebellion, and the energy of punk still my hair on my body stand up and Craves me to head bang 😆 thanks for your channel

[@2scents434]

You should take a listen to “soup is good food” by DK it is another one of their songs that has meaning even today. Love that you enjoy DK they are still a band of my youth i can still listen to today.

[@humblehorace6392]

You got it.

[@RonaldMerchant]

the DK's are in my top 10 of best bands of ALL time!

[@RoRo-kc8zv]

This is my favorite Dead Kennedys song

[@ramdasbir5995]

You nailed the meaning!

[@billynair]

Check out the EPIC "Full Metal Jack*ff" by jello and DOA (after Dead Kennedys), 13+ minutes of late 80s rage, tells a story, basically a mini movie, not for the squeamish!

[@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472]

Check out Jello Biafra/DOA's Full Metal Jackoff song. It's like an extension of this song. But hits a lot harder for very specific reasons.

[@kevinadams6036]

This references the community segregation and how it’s perceived that if you live in suburbia you must be better when in fact you are plastic Most housing projects have a stronger sense of community and support for each other than those contained behind the white picket fence I’ve always been a DK supporter Listen to Police Truck

[@fzoulcmbyl2134]

So the reality is that we would all be better off living in housing projects, we would have a stronger community and support each other more?

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

@@fzoulcmbyl2134 lol, no thanks

[@fzoulcmbyl2134]

@@TheAdventuresofTNT Well, I was just asking him for clarification, it did seem like that was his message. 🤷‍♂️

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Projects don't have to be bad. They become that way due to shit like underfunding. Look into the early history of Cabrini Green in Chicago. Its beginnings were promising.

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

@@MacGuffinExMachina i agree with everyone's points. I believe the intent behind low income housing communities was a great idea in concept but unfortunately factors such as drugs, crime and underfunding ruin the intended plan. As psychosis media has stated, as most punkers have grown into adulthood their priorates may have shifted. The same ideologies and thinking you believed in as a teen may not keep your family safe.

[@dwnwrdishvnwrd]

My three biggest musical influences: Public Enemy, Sweetheart of the Rodeo era The Byrds, and the Dead Kennedys. That's basically me in a nutshell.

[@dirtface8462]

Check out the band Subhumans!!

[@poppingjaz]

The dad in this song is a few dads I knew, always warning their kid about people who aren't the same; also paranoid, talking about crime, buying a guy, his friends are in their 40's and mostly made up of lone wolfs who also are paranoid, constantly watching the news and wanting to seclude themselves from people who are different. Love this song. One of my favorite DK songs of all.

[@mevtheangrymob5414]

Damn, I literally just listened to this album today for the first time in a long time. I think it's neat you went with what's definitely an obscure DK song instead of the easy hits like Holiday in Cambodia or Police Truck. Hell yeah.

[@billspivey6919]

Yes, band - Fear

[@tellmeimstupid1855]

Dude you gotta do Soup is Good Food by them.

[@StevenMichals0812]

Bad Brains are worth listening to, they were hard-core punk and they were all black. Another great band that was somewhat hardcore punk was X.

[@javiercarrillo8208]

Dead Kennedy’s- Stars and Stripes of corruption

[@martindeviantxiii]

Good analysis of the lyrics, Jello is a brilliant lyricist, try some LARD his other band project with uncle Al from Ministry.

[@AJRabies]

DK: Riot & I am the Owl. Very good & timely lyrics. (or ttmeless)

[@Like4Hurricane2]

This song is also specifically about issues of desegration in schools that continued into the 80's--specifically around the idea of bussing of kids from lower-income neighborhoods into better funded "whiter" districts. This exacerbated the era's "white flight" issues, in terms of suburban decay, starting with the reaganomic erosion of the lower- and middle-middle class. It's also important to remember George "segregation now, segregation forever" Wallace was still a big presence on the american right throughout the 80s, alongside the rest of the so-called Moral Majority. The Kennedys have an entire song dedicated to the Moral Majority, which is almost impossible to understand the words of without having the lyrics in front of you (Jello spits lyrics like mania incarnate--all speed, coherence varies by the day) but it's still pretty good.

[@trevorocallaghan6980]

First heard the dead kennedys way back in the 80s and still listening to them today. Jello is still going strong to day with his band the guantanamo school of medicine. Also his stuff with lard, nó means nó, the Melvins, mojo Nixon

[@davidbaron2644]

One of their lesser know songs where all DK goodness comes together, ripping echoing guitar riffs, utter cynical lyrics, hard fast drum riffs, alternating rhythms

[@skidart9063]

i bet if u contacted jello biafra for an interview he would do it. he loves to talk

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

That’s a great idea.

[@williampritchard8492]

Way to dig into a song dude, most people wouldn't give DK a second listen because of their style, but these meant something then and now

[@awotnot]

Prophetic .....

[@citygrrl6820]

🔥🔥🔥