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  • Audio CD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • ASIN: B00000IHBE
  • In-Print Editions: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #247,837 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Limited edition pressing (2,000 copies) of counterculture guerilla Jello Biafra & co.'s 1980 debut album 'Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables' with a six track bonus CD featuring early classic singles, including 'Holiday In Cambodia', 'Police Truck', 'Kill The Poor', 'In-Sight', 'Too Drunk To Fuck' & 'The Prey'. A combined total of 20 hardcore punk anthems, with the album featuring 'California Uber Alles', 'Let's Lynch The Landlord' & their campy take on 'Viva Las Vegas'. Also includes a 9.5 inch x 14 inch fold-out replica of the original two-sided black & white poster that came with the LP. Triple gatefold double digipak. 1999 release.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ... You morons., July 27, 2004
This is probably the best punk album ever. It sounds like they're playing with drums and slightly broken chainsaws in a sheet metal shed in the middle of nowhere, and Biafra's vocal stylings are a gloriously-over-the-top mockery of people "who can actually sing." The songwriting is strong, too, although I doubt Jello Biafra ever said "Let's bring pen and paper into this."

Songs like "Kill the Poor," "Holiday in Cambodia," and "California Uber Alles" probably rank as high in the proverbial Punk Hall of Fame and resonate as loudly with punk fans as songs like "Stairway to Heaven" do for fans of old, crappy, overrated dinosaur rock that still gets played on The Idiot Box Sr..

"Fresh Fruit..." is all the right notes in all the right places, nothing more, nothing less, like any great punk album. (See also: Nirvana.)

By the way, for a group of people who listen to "thinking man's" old school punk like the Dead Kennedys, many of you seem to have trouble grasping the concept of "satire" when it isn't spelled out for you beforehand. (Cough, cough, Fred Durst's Numba One Fann, cough, cough...)

Just like the sheep who listen to Good Charlotte and think it's "punk" because someone told them so, you are missing the point. Whenever you manage to extricate your foot from its hibernation place in your throat, consider suicide.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best DK album, August 30, 2003
This was the first Dead Kennedys album I bought and it's the best. The others are good, namely Plastic Surgery Disasters, In God We Trust Inc., and Give me Convenience or Give me Death.

Every song on this album is good and I'm not just saying that. As I try to think of highlights I want to mention them all, but I'll just name a few. "Let's Lynch the Landlord" is an awesome song musically and lyrically and is later covered by Mr. Bungle. "California Uber Alles" is probably the most famous Dead Kennedy's Song other than "Holiday in Cambodia" which is also on this album. "Stealing People's Mail" is a feel good song about going through people's mail, and last but not least is an awesome version of Viva Las Vegas with a few lyrics changed. When I first heard this album I skipped to this song first and I knew that the DK's were something special.

To make a long story short, if you're interested in the DK's buy this album and buy it first. This album is a big part of punk history and many people have called the DK's the US answer to the Sex Pistols. These songs were originally recorded in '79 (the year I was born!) and it's really hard to believe that anything this cool could've existed that long ago! When I was a little kid I thought Metallica was the coolest thing around.
Why couldn't have someone told me about these guys sooner? Years ahead of it's time plain and simple.

It has also come to my attention that the ex-DK's have been suing Jello and releasing remastered versions of the albums, so if you can, try looking at the Alternative Tentacles website (Jello Biafra's label) for the album first (http://www.alternativetentacles.com). Alternative Tentacles is the DK's original label with the original recordings and is ran by the DK's vocalist Jello. Alternative Tentacles don't have all the DK albums available, so if they don't carry it just go ahead and buy one from anywhere like here.

One last comment, I see a lot of people giving this album one star because of the DK's lawsuit scandal. Well that's pretty stupid because it's a five star album no matter who puts it out. So go ahead and warn people, but don't give it one star.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars what would we do without the DKs?, March 2, 2004
By "societys_reject" (Boise, ID United States) - See all my reviews
First, I have to give my input on the GC fan's review--if you do not like this Dead Kennedys album, you do not like, as you put it "tru punk acts." The Dead Kennedys are a classic punk band, and this is by far their best album. When I first heard "Kill the Poor" and "Holiday in Cambodia," I knew this would end up being one of the best albums I've ever owned. There isn't a single song I didn't like, and the CD is constantly in my stereo. So if you REALLY want to listen to some great punk rock (other than that corporate emo junk) then definitely check out this album, it's one of the best.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dead Kennedys Classic
One of there very best albums and a dvd too. A must!!!!!
Published on January 5, 2007 by Mr. Anthony Magnoli

5.0 out of 5 stars Not London Calling, Not Never Mind the Bollocks, Not The Romones
For people who get sick of seeing Clash or Sex Pistols T-Shirts at Hot Topic, or for people who hear "Should I Stay or Should I Go" as the only Clash song of the radio, or for... Read more
Published on September 6, 2005 by Matthew Pinson

5.0 out of 5 stars phuhk...I phuhking love Dead Kennedys
after Velvet underground, Dead Kennedys is my favorite band.
no kidding. this is one of the best records of all time. no kidding.
Published on May 13, 2005 by Devony [Devo] Pheonix

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic!
The Dead Kennedys were so ahead of their time.

why they may offend some, their music is great for all.
Published on March 18, 2005 by Eric Kent

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best DK record in catalog
Sure their later stuff is good, but Fresh Fruit is the band at their primal best. Chemical Warfare is great stuff.






Published on March 1, 2005 by Jessica

5.0 out of 5 stars For those who can listen this is sublime
Sublime might not be the first words that come to mind when you think of DK, but I think these tracks rank among the best of the twentieth century. Read more
Published on February 17, 2005 by isala

5.0 out of 5 stars this is punk
ever since i began my punkhood, all i heard amongst the agonising
pain of pop-punk (mtv get off the air), was echoes of true punk from the 70's and 80's. Read more
Published on November 20, 2004 by brendon a

3.0 out of 5 stars probably best album....
dead kennnedys are pretty good and i like them, but they sound alot like a lot of other punk bands and akot of other punk band sound alot like them, a common problem in punk... Read more
Published on October 26, 2004 by C. Pope

5.0 out of 5 stars Viva Las Vegas



I got this album in 1988 along with an album by Peter and the Test Tube Babies. It is the best album ever to come out in hardcore punk. Read more
Published on August 6, 2004 by altrock16

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes! Someone else got it!
Congrads, "you morons", you win the grand prize. As I read comment after comment following the review, I was afraid no one else was going to figure out Fred Dursts... Read more
Published on August 3, 2004 by L. Skau

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