★★★★★
Sound: Give Me Convenience is a collection of Dead Kennedys Early Singles, B-Sides and other rarities. As a result some of the songs aren't the best quality, but that doesn't detract from the quality of the songs themselves. The riffs are hard and fast. In addition to popular early singles like "Police Truck" and "Too Drunk Too F--k", it contains rare live performances of songs only performed once, and never seen again on any album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Rockabilly, psychobilly, hardcore punk, and surf are all incorporated into the sound this record has. Overall the record has a revolutionary sound and it still sounds ahead of its time today. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are fiercely political and anti-establishment. Not for the conservative populace, except maybe to convert them. They are some of the finest in the history of punk and the entire repetoire of the Dead Kennedys. The music matches the lyrics perfectly...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: This was the DK's first album, released in 79-80. The album is regarded to be not their best, due to tight production and lack of promotion. But I don't think the DK's care. Despite criticism, FFFRV has become a classic punk album and gave birth to what would later be hardcore. The back cover features the humorous cocktail band photo (they were later sued by one of the members of that band who recognized the photo)...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: This CD is amazing. It's fast and loud like the first DK album. Although some songs are a little bit more poppy. Like "Moon Over Marin" (which is a great song). But obviously, the sound is still are no where near the crappy mainstream singers. Also some songs are even faster and harder than other DK albums. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are political like their other albums. They make great points are funny in a sarcastic way...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
There are certain parts of the punk rock canon that have been so reused, rehashed and recycled it's hard to reappraise them objectively. Similarly, the likes of pre-weathered tees on the racks at high street fashion stores, in a GISM jacket and the ugly memory of the maiming Nervous Breakdown have seen underground influence and iconography brought into popular parlance in a way many could never have imagined. The Dead Kennedys, to a large extent, have fallen foul of such erosion...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Though Black Flag and X could match their intensity, Dead Kennedys were surely the most influential proponents of late-'70s US punk. Theirs was a remorseless blitz, topped off by the hammy vibrato of the outraged and fabulously sarcastic Jello Biafra, Feargal Sharkey's evil twin. The vile croak of "God told me to skin you alive" before "I Kill Children" still shocks today...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Sound: A great document that captures the Dead Kennedys from their primal beginnings, Live at the Deaf Club is a vastly superior recording than Mutiny on the Bay and the earliest DK recording widely available. The album was recorded March 3, 1979 at the Deaf Club and was the last performance of 6025, their additional guitarist...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
The Dead Kennedys have always been on the fringe for me - not in the context of the music itself, or their politics, but on the fringe of my musical scope. I have probably listened to all of their albums; in fact, I own a few. I know quite a bit about them and their controversial front man, Jello Biafra. I even had a Lard album at one time. Aside from a handful of singles, they never seemed to stick - as if I was born 10 years too late and on the wrong coast to appreciate them...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
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