Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables  by Dead Kennedys

The Dead Kennedys from San Francisco make their first dynamic record appearance with Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables in September 1980. It is a blistering 33-minute punk album, where its fourteen songs come one after the other with frenetic speed, leaving the unsuspecting listener faint.

Most of the songs are written by Jello Biafra, whose compositions not only have an aggressive sound but also feature equally aggressive and caustic lyrics about everyone and everything related to the extreme to fascist politics that dominated the political and social life of California and the USA at the time, while denouncing the callousness and hypocrisy of the ruling class. The album cover is a real photograph, showing patrol cars on fire. The photo was taken during the riots that broke out after the announcement of the sentence for Dan White - which people considered particularly light - who had murdered San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, both fervent supporters of the city's vulnerable groups.

Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables has sold 500,000 albums in the USA and another 100,000 copies in Britain.