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Title: Bedtime for the Kennedys...
Review: A slab of raging hardcore punk, the Dead Kennedy's final album, "Bedtime for Democracy", is probably in many ways a response to the disasterous affair conduceted during the investigation of "Frankenchrist". Whereas that album reached through different forms and really expanded the vocabulary of the band, musically, this one focuses on aggressive punk sounds, and doesn't really settle down until halfway through the record. But the pace and intensity picks back up and pretty much sustains for the rest of the album (the exception being Biafra's spoken "A Commercial", absolutely brilliant in its sarcasm).The net result is I'm always inclined to feel this is really the weakest album in the Dead Kennedys' catalog. Mind you, had it been a different band, I'd've rated it higher, but compared to the earlier material, it really pales.
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