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Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (LP, Comp, RP + Flexi, 7", RP)

Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (LP, Comp, RP + Flexi, 7", RP)

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Media Condition:  Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    US  
Released:  
1990
Genre:       Rock
Style:         Punk

Visually graded disc. still in OG shrink. stored in heavy duty plastic resealable cover. flexi disc included in VG+. Light shelf wear on front cover but very clean overall

30789156

Notes:

This version has a barcode printed in top right corner of back cover (unlike first press).
1987 is printed on center label and back cover, but this is a 1990 re-press.

Black centre labels with silver printing.
 Comes with a black and white newspaper style booklet.
Tracks numbered sequentially (including the flexi-disc tracks) on the back cover.

℗ + © 1987 Alternative Tentacles

A1: B-side of second single.Also inserted in the original American version of the 'Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables' LP. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI)
A2: A-side of fourth single. Released Spring, 1981 (Alternative Tentacles Virus 2). Recorded at Mobius Music and Hyde Street Studios. ©1981 Decay Music (BMI)
A3: A-side of first single. Released June, 1979 (Alternative Tentacles 95-41, Re-issued 1980 on Optional). Released the following October in the U.K. on Fast Products. Recorded at BSU Studio. Original inside sleeve art by Mark Pauline later asked that his name be removed because part of the art had been altered.  ©1979 Decay Music (BMI)
A4: B-side of first single. ©1979 Decay Music (BMI)
A5: B-side of third single. Released Fall, 1980 (A-side was a slight re-mix of 'Kill The Poor'). ©1980 Decay Music (BMI)
A6: B-side of 'Bleed For Me' single. Released Summer, 1982 (Alternative Tentacles Virus 23). Recorded at Hyde Street Studios and Mobius Music. ©1982 Decay Music (BMI)
A7: Originally appeared on double album compilation, Maximum Rock N' Roll presents: NOT SO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Alternative Tentacles Virus 14). Recorded at Tom Mallon Studio. ©1982 Decay Music (BMI)
A8: A-side of second single. An alternate version appeared later on the 'Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables' LP. Released Spring, 1980. First on Optional Records, then on I.R.S. with an upgraded sleeve. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI)
B1: Mixed at City Sound. Recorded at Hyde Street Studios. Originally intended for release as a flexi-disc in 1985 under the name 'Lily White Dan and the Hot Potatoes', to be given away at street protests marking Dan White's return to San Francisco. Later appeared on the Rose 100 - 'Play New Rose For Me' double LP compilation album released worldwide by New Rose Records, France, in 1986. Published by Acuff-Rose (BMI)/Decay Music (BMI)
B2: Recorded at Hyde Street Studios and Mobius Music. Mixed at Hyde Street Studios. B-side of 'Halloween' single. Released December, 1982 (Alternative Tentacles Virus 28). ©1982 Decay Music (BMI)
B3: Recorded live at BAM magazine's 3rd Annual Bay Area Music Awards at the Warfield Theater, San Francisco, March 25, 1980. Special thanks to Dennis Erokan and Miles Hurwitz for granting us use of this recording. Originally intended for release as part of a 4-song live 12" EP. The other three songs would have been the versions of 'Bleed For Me', 'Government Flu', and 'Chemical Warfare' recorded for the film, 'URGH! A Music War' and rebroadcast on MTV's, 'The Cutting Edge'. A & M Records had purged us from the URGH! soundtrack album because they didn't like our band name; thus the Winston Smith sleeve design. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI)
Flexi Side 1 is 45 RPM and Side 2 is 33 1/3 RPM.
B4 and B5: Originally appeared on 'Can You Hear Me? Music From The Deaf Club' live compilation LP. Recorded March 3, 1979. Last performance with the five-piece-line-up. An earlier version of 'Police Truck' was also featured. Released 1980 by Walking Dead Records first through Optional and later through Jem. ©1979 Decay Music (BMI) 
B6: Originally appeared on Wargasm benefit compilation LP, released spring, 1982 by Pax U.K. Later appeared on P.E.A.C.E. benefit double album compilation released by RRadical, late 1984. Mixed at Möbius Music. ©1980 Decay Music (BMI)
B7: B-side of fourth single. Recorded at Mobius Music, Hyde Street Studios and live in the Tenderloin (we ran a mic from the Hyde St. Studio A control Board out into the street to record the background noises). ©1981 Decay Music (BMI)
C: Produced at Mobius Music, Spring, 1982. ©1987 Decay Music (BMI)
D: Words and Music Improvised While Ray Was Changing Guitar Strings. Recorded Live by Persons Unknown at the Earth Tavern, Portland Oregon on November 19, 1979. ©1987 Decay Music (BMI)

All Songs Published by Decay Music (BMI)
except B1 (Acuff Rose Opryland Music Co Inc. BMI)
© & ℗ 1987 Alternative Tentacles Records

Track List:

A1. Police Truck 2:23
A2. Too Drunk To Fuck 2:38
A3. California Über Alles 3:26
A4. The Man With The Dogs 3:01
A5. In Sight 1:38
A6. Life Sentence 2:38
A7. A Child And His Lawnmower 0:54
A8. Holiday In Cambodia 3:43
B1. I Fought The Law 2:17
B2. Saturday Night Holocaust 4:22
B3. Pull My Strings 5:53
B4. Short Songs 0:20
B5. Straight A's 2:05
B6. Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'Round 4:17
B7. The Prey 3:44
C. Buzzbomb From Pasadena 2:20
D. Night Of The Living Rednecks 5:10

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 7 21616-0057-1 4
Matrix / Runout VIRUS 57 - A THE SKULL IS THE 'SMILING FACE' OF THE 80'S L 27588
Matrix / Runout VIRUS 57 - B DOLPHINS MAKE BETTER ANARCHISTS THAN PEOPLE DO L 27588 X
Matrix / Runout EVB102437-00-1AST
Matrix / Runout EVB102437-00-1BST
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