Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980)

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Aug 27, 2025

Title: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Artist: Dead Kennedys
Genre: Punk Rock
Released: 1980

Tracks:
1 - Kill the Poor - 3:05
2 - Forward to Death - 1:24
3 - When Ya Get Drafted - 1:24
4 - Let's Lynch the Landlord - 2:12
5 - Drug Me - 1:56
6 - Your Emotions - 1:21
7 - Chemical Warfare - 2:56
8 - California Ãœber Alles - 3:02
9 - I Kill Children - 2:04
10 - Stealing People's Mail - 1:35
11 - Funland at the Beach - 1:49
12 - Ill in the Head - 2:45
13 - Holiday in Cambodia - 4:34 -

14 - Viva Las Vegas - 2:36

Overview:

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys. It was released on September 2, 1980 through Faulty Products in the United States (later by Jello Biafra's own Alternative Tentacles label) and through Cherry Red Records in the United Kingdom. It has been certified by BPI gold. The best selling and generally the most critically acclaimed album by the Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables has become a major staple of American punk.

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