Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

Compilation album by Dead Kennedys
Released June 1987
Recorded 1979–87
Genre
Hardcore punk punk rock
Length 51:26
Label Alternative Tentacles
Dead Kennedys chronology
Bedtime for Democracy
(1986) Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
(1987) Mutiny on the Bay
(2001)
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Spin Alternative Record Guide 4/10[1]
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (stylized as Give me convenience OR give me death) is a compilation album by the American hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys. It was released in June 1987 through front man Jello Biafra’s record label Alternative Tentacles.
1. ”Police Truck” Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray ”Holiday in Cambodia” 2:27
2. ”Too Drunk to Fuck” Biafra ”Too Drunk to Fuck” 2:42
3. ”California über alles” (single version) Biafra, John Greenway ”California über alles” 3:28
4. ”The Man with the Dogs” Biafra ”California über alles” 3:04
5. ”Insight” Biafra ”Kill the Poor” 1:42
6. ”Life Sentence” Biafra ”Bleed for Me” 2:41
7. ”A Child and His Lawnmower” Biafra Not So Quiet on the Western Front 0:57
8. ”Holiday in Cambodia” (single version) Dead Kennedys ”Holiday in Cambodia” 3:46
9. ”I Fought the Law” Sonny Curtis, new lyrics: Biafra Play New Rose for Me – Rose 100 2:21
10. ”Saturday Night Holocaust” Dead Kennedys ”Halloween” 4:21
11. ”Pull My Strings” (live) Biafra, Ted March 25, 1980 – Bay Area Music Awards 5:47
12. ”Short Songs” (live) 6025 Can You Hear Me? Music from the Deaf Club 0:29
13. ”Straight A’s” (live) Biafra, 6025 Can You Hear Me? Music from the Deaf Club 2:15
14. ”Kinky Sex Makes the World Go ’Round” Dead Kennedys Wargasm 4:17
15. ”The Prey” Biafra, Ray ”Too Drunk to Fuck” 3:50
16. ”Night of the Living Rednecks” (live) Biafra, Flouride, Ted November 19, 1979 – Earth Tavern, Portland, OR 5:14
17. ”Buzzbomb from Pasadena” Biafra, Ray N/A 2:22

Dead Kennedys

1987

721616005721

United States

CD

VIRUS 57 CD

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