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Punk & New Wave · 1980s
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables — 1980
Dead Kennedys
Released 1980Punk & New Wave
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A savage, satirical hardcore debut of surf-tinged speed and political venom. Fast and funny. A genre landmark. The record that established what Dead Kennedys was about.
On vinyl: Many '80s records have had strong reissue programmes — check for a recently mastered version.
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