Dead KennedysFresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Label:

Cherry Red – B RED 10

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album, Mispress, Stereo

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Punk

Tracklist

A1 Kill The Poor
Music ByBiafra*
Words ByBiafra*
A2 Forward To Death
Words By, Music By6025
A3 When Ya Get Drafted
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
A4 Let's Lynch The Landlord
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
A5 Drug Me
KeyboardsPaul Roessler
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
A6 Your Emotions
Words By, Music ByEast Bay Ray
A7 Chemical Warfare
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
B1 California Über Alles
Music ByBiafra*
Words ByJohn Greenway
B2 I Kill Children
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
B3 Stealing Peoples' Mail
KeyboardsPaul Roessler
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
B4 Funland At The Beach
Words By, Music ByBiafra*
B5 Ill In The Head
Guitar [Other Guitar]6025
Music By6025
Words ByBiafra*
B6 Holiday In Cambodia
Music ByFlouride*
Words ByBiafra*
B7 Viva Las Vegas
Written-ByPomus And Schuman*

Companies, etc.

  • Record CompanyCherry Red Records Ltd.
  • Manufactured ByVineyard Productions
  • Distributed BySpartan
  • Exported ByCaroline Exports
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Cherry Red Records (2)
  • Copyright ©Cherry Red Records (2)
  • Published ByVirgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
  • Published BySound Diagrams
  • Published ByCarlin Music Corp.
  • Recorded AtMobius Music
  • Lacquer Cut AtUtopia Studios
  • Pressed ByLyntone Recordings Ltd. – LYN 8664
  • Pressed ByLyntone Recordings Ltd. – LYN 8665

Credits

  • ArtworkAnnie Horwood
  • Artwork [DK Logo]Fallout Productions
  • Bass, VocalsKlaus Flouride
  • Crew [Executive Babysitter]Craig Hammond
  • DrumsTed (2)
  • EngineerOliver Dicicco
  • GuitarEast Bay Ray
  • Mastered ByKevin Metcalfe
  • Photography By [Front Cover Photograph]J. Calson*
  • Plated ByMax*
  • ProducerNorm (2)
  • Producer [Production Assistance]R. Pepperell*
  • Sleeve [Sleeve Concept]Biafra*
  • VocalsJello Biafra

Notes

First pressing with pressing/manufacturing error:
-plays too fast
-lower frequencies are missing

Original LP on black vinyl with the following characteristics:

- this first pressing of the album is a mispressing: master tape was running too fast and the low frequencies are missing,
- back sleeve with yellow background,
- band photo on the back sleeve without the heads cut off,
- "Kill The Poor" is not listed under the 'Also Available' section on the back sleeve,
- red/black/white DK logo on B-side label,
- cut at Utopia (no mention of the cutting engineer), plated by Maxwell Anandappa (MAX),
- comes with a Cherry Red Records printed inner sleeve,
- includes a large black and white foldout poster printed on both sides.

Some copies came in with a golden sticker on back cover with price code AE 240

Front cover photo reproduced courtesy of the San Francisco Examiner
P & C 1980 Cherry Red Records
Manufactured in England

© 1980 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. except B1 © Sound Diagrams and B7 © Carlin Music Corp.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, hand-etched runout): BRED-10-A MAX IS LIFE AS BORING AS YOU ARE?? Ʊ LYN 8664-1UT
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, hand-etched runout): BRED-10-B MAX DO YOU DESERVE TO LIVE?? Ʊ LYN 8665-1UT

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (LP, Album, Stereo) Cherry Red B RED 10 UK 1980
Recently Edited
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (LP, Album, AP Price Code) Pool 6.24506, 6.24 506 1980
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Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (LP, Album) Poko International SPUTNIK 1 Finland 1980
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (LP, Album, Stereo, AO Price Code) Pool 6.24 506 AO, 6.24 506 1980
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (LP, Album) Planet Records (17) B RED 10 Scandinavia 1980

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Reviews

  • Donut_Duck's avatar
    Donut_Duck
    Edited 2 years ago
    There is an easy way to spot the difference: this mispress looks like a 12" EP groovewise. There's more dead space (outgroove) last song to center label. Also, California Uber Alles sounds like a pogo version.

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