Dead Kennedys - Chickenshit Conformist Lyrics

dk masterpiece!!!

Now for the most part, the NY thugs that were feared in Maximum Rock and Roll in the 80’s are now politically correct pussycats......chickenshit conformists like their parents! Seriously though, I was a fan of NYHC straight up.

What happened to every American punk scene everywhere. ....and no, getting a job is not equal to conforming. Getting a job that go's against all your principles and values for the money, that's conforming. Money is nice, so's having a soul.

The message in this song applies to more than just what happened to the punk scene and its initial intentions.

Truly, it's the same general corruption and narrow minded ideals of old that have & continue to despoil entire nations. The influences of good & evil continue to wage a ceaseless war through the hearts & minds of people. By no means whatsoever is it anything new under the sun.

You said it.

Youtube's not dead but it deserves to die

DEAD KENEDEYS ARE REDS FUCK OFF

punk rock became punk bitch

Yeah...

A pronoun's not a lifestyle

This song describes half my school.

Each generation has songs rebelling against thier parents ideals, rock, punk, pop and rap. Each had meaning which is not numbed out by over saturation and greed.

chickenshit conformist like your parents

2019 song is even more relevant now than ever

Make the same old mistakes again and again.

Punk was a state of mind, not a fashion statement or trend. 2019 & 2020 anyone?

Strength and caring are whats real

Self-righteous hardcore kids in gangs that like to punch people in pits piss me off

Currently listening to: Dead Kennedys - Chickenshit Conformist

The inevitable angst of having to prove that you are really you to the world - then some judgmental cunt writes a song that judges you as being phony - while they prance around in their own gimp suit... don't yah hate that? Im glad Im too old for that to be relevant anymore . . . cause it just doesn't matter - none of that insecure shit

Liberal capitalism came back a few years before. It is now approaching its logical conclusion. Total economic crisis and stratification not seen in decades

Can you imagine playing this for the fifth grade class on "bring your favorite record to school day"...

It sounds like they are trying to be the Dead Kennedys in this song.

Proper "thinking persons" punk / new wave if you don't know every word then fuckin shame on you

Free Form😢😢😢

"insert any music genre here".

Minha Família criava galinhas em casa, enquanto fundação está cidade (fotos nos quadros/parede). Mas hoje, se fizermos igual, vamos parar na Cadeia... (sempre gostei da Banda, e mantive coleções. Boa Sorte!)

Beto o rouke is the manifestation of this song

Real punk is real .hardcore punk is alive in my heart the days are gone , society at that time made it what it was. Punk now is like a bad laxative . very seldom moves me either . but if your band is calling itself punk ........Ive got the biggest open mind.

Listen to the words. It's the Democrats

I still get into the DKs at 50, this is what punk was supposed to be.

Sin duda el mejor álbum de Dead Kennedy's

>Johnny Rotten

No one comes close

Still the best punkrock by far

True more than ever jello

Somebody knows their shit.

Change the subject from your punk to hip hop and this songs lyrics tell you exactly what is killing that scene at this very moment!ironically hip hop took the mantle of shock value from punk.same formula some result I'm afraid to say=(

Esto es realidad ojo

N.y.H.c.😝

Punk never dies.

now all conformists are not just white conservative morons but also blacks, browns and all those mixed people along with white liberal or feminist scums.

very nicely said

Is this purposefuly meant to have a similarity to blitzkrieg boo

Punks net dead

ZUCC get Fucked

YEAH, i'm still here!!

Fuck the left & fuck the right! If your listening to this you've got the amazing ability to use your own mind...just concentrate on your inner dreams NEVER let them go because if you do...they've won DREAM ON & LIVE HARD & STRONG! 8-)

Punk isnt dead, just passed out on the floor

Love ya Jello..... I bought this the day it came out.
Keep on leaving room for Jello!
Parker

You think they listened? Pfft.

The more things change
The more they stay the same
We can't grow
When we won't criticize ourselves
...
Music scenes ain't real life
They won't get rid of the bomb
Won't eliminate rape
Or bring down the banks

Any kind of real change
Takes more time and work
Than changing channels on a TV set

I hope Jello thought to himself " fuck me, my music will be so relevant in 20+ yrs & unfortunately far far longer and maybe then the sheep will start waking up" Jello we are now AWAKE & on your level - maybe! Unlike your band mates your still true to the course of believing this world belongs to us not for they to control & make slaves of us while poisoning & experimenting on us!! STAY THE COURSE:-o

Describes every scene: Punk, Goth, Emo, Rockabilly, Metal etc.

DK predicted what metal and Punk was going to be in 30 years.

terrible "music"

Nobody asked you. If you don't like it move along, plenty of other things on YouTube.

@Iain Cowell
lmao
same goes for your response to my comment

I wonder if the sellouts still play this song without jello. That would be a riot.

Songs like this really made me think the world would change for the better by the time I was in my 30's. Now I'm almost 50 & Jello has turned into a fuckin S.J.W.! Guess he couldn't take his own advice, made the same old mistake again, chicken shit conformist like you parents! But I still love this song! & all the other old DK Rock! It's timeless, if only we could get young people to listen to this & know the lyrics to it! I always thought it could change peoples minds. Sure wish Jello hadn't changed for the worse, but Que Sirhan Sirhan what ever will bleed will bleed...

[Slow Verse 1]
Punk's not dead, it just deserves to die
When it becomes another stale cartoon
A closed minded, self-centered social club
Ideas don't matter, it's who you know

If the music's gotten boring, it's because of the people
Who want everyone to sound the same
Who drive the bright people out of our so-called scene
'Til all that's left is just a meaningless fad

[Fast Verse 1]
Hardcore formulas are dogshit
Change and caring are what's real
Is this a state of mind
Or is it just another label?

The joy and hope of an alternative
Has become its own cliche
A hairstyle's not a lifestyle
Imagine Sid Vicious at 35

Who needs a scene? Scared to love and to feel
Judging everything by loud fast rules appeal
Who played last night? I don't know, I forgot
But diving off the stage was a lot of fun!

[Chorus]
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes again and again
Chickenshit conformist like your parents

[Slow Verse 2]
What's ripped us apart even more than drugs
Are the thieves and the goddamn liars
Ripping people off when they share their stuff
When someone falls are there any friends?

Harder-core-than-thou for a year or two
Then it's time to get a real job
Others stay home, it's no fun to go out
When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs

When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals
From New York metal labels looking to scam
Who sign the most racist, queer-bashing bands they can find
To make a buck revving kids up for war

[Fast Verse 2]
Walk tall, act small
Only as tough as gang approval
Unity is bullshit
When it's under someone's fat boot

Where's the common cause?
Too many factions safely sulk in their shells
"Agree with us on everything or we won't help with anything"
That kind of attitude just makes a split grow wider

Guess who's laughing while the world explodes?
When we're all crybabies who fight best among ourselves

[Chorus]
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes again and again
Chickenshit conformist like your parents

[Slow Verse 3]
That farty old rock and roll attitude's back
It's competition, man, we wanna break big
Who needs friends when the money's good?
That's right, the '70s are back

Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative
It just don't move me, you know?
The music's okay when there's more ideas than solos
Do we really need the attitude too?

[Fast Verse 3]
Shedding thin skin too quickly
As a fan it disappoints me
Same old stupid sexist lyrics
Or is Satan all you can think of?

Crossover is just another word for lack of ideas
Maybe what we need are more trolls under the bridge
Will the metalheads finally learn something?
Will the punks throw away their education?

No one's ever the best once they believe their own press
Maturing don't mean rehashing mistakes of the past

[Chorus]
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes again and again
Chickenshit conformist like your parents

[Bridge]
The more things change, the more they stay the same
We can't grow if we won't criticize ourselves
The '60s weren't all failure, it's the '70s that stunk
As the clock ticks, we dig the same hole

Music scenes ain't real life, they won't get rid of the bomb
Won't eliminate rape or bring down the banks
Any kind of real change takes more time and work
Than changing channels on a TV set

So why are we

[Chorus]
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
So eager to please, peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes again and again
Chickenshit conformist like your parents

When I listen to the Dead Kennedy's, so do my neighbor's 😂

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In Colombia the punk was More real than a mutherfucker

As an individual whose musical interests include punk and goth... I really appreciate the line " A hairstyle is not a lifestyle".

of course the Sex Pistols got more recognition than the Kennedys, a band that actually put effort and didnt just look for an excuse to throw the word fag around

This explains alot not just about the punk scene but even other things out there.

https://youtu.be/OoJ-UZ-Lw_4

This group should support Mariah Carey in her live performances!

I didn't realise there was a new video and lyrics will probably get grief on FB lol

yall missed the point …….you wanna try again? ….. phuc pigs

Honestly, this might be one of the best songs ever written. I get how ridiculous that statement is, but I think it's true, nonetheless.

It's definitely one of the best punk rock songs

This was my first punk record. Changed everything. God bless Jello

Heh, weird to get into punk with a record critizing punk

Nothing more punk than that.

oh my god they're right... I'm just a chicken shit conformist like my parents. I don't have no kids, so there the curse is stopped
01:30 < just my mark to come back to that point.

2. - Another thing that gets the CREs goat is telling them about the time I saw
God on 4 hits of LSD & how my experience is described 5 or 6 times in the Bible.
They just can't handle the truth!

1. - I love to shock & outrage Conservative Republican Evangelicals by saying God
loves the DKs & will have 'em play in Heaven because they tell the truth. If the CREs
would read their Bibles they would find that Isaiah & some of the other prophets talk
exactly the same way as the DKs & me! Proverbs is full of that kind of rhetoric too!

absolutely haram

yall are all chickenshit conformists like your parents

Big influence on us!

Rock on DK!
Screw the bourgeois liberal pigs and their pop punk bs!

Never heard this song in my life.It's fucking brilliant. I remember Dead Kennedys ( I'm 46 ) but I was into metal mostly in the 80s.I liked a few of their songs but thought they were mostly a punk/joke band.I was wrong.

As a hippie from the 70s, I love the DKs!!! And the Fugs, Zappa, Sturgill & anyone
with attitude! They tell the truth & God is truth!!! God loves the aforementioned!

Never have truer words been spoken in jest.

In 2018 this is for all the antifa or alt right or whatever the fuck side you picked. You're all the same, chicken-shit conformist like your parents.

Jello for president

"like your parents" lmao yeah

i am in love again

LGBTQP*

These are my favorite lyrics of all time

This one is for the "Punk Police" WHO HATE ALL FOR: Fashion/Hipster-likeness/difference & spread division & ignorance/conformity IN AN "OUTSIDER" SCENE DUH! DAMN!

fuck your unskippable ad. conformist asshat!

Fuckin normies!

Hilarious song and one of my all time favourites.We need more people like Jello.

Nobody noticed the fart at 4:40?

JUST ANOTHER FUCKIN' DAY!

Punk's not dead
It just deserves to die
When it becomes another stale cartoon
A close-minded, self-centered social club
Ideas don't matter, it's who you know
If the music's gotten boring
It's because of the people
Who want everyone to sound the same
Who drive bright people out
Of our so-called scene
'Til all that's left Is just a meaningless fad
Hardcore formulas are dogshit
Change and caring are what's real
Is this a state of mind
Or just another label
The joy and hope of an alternative
Have become its own cliche
A hairstyle's not a lifestyle
Imagine Sid Vicious at 35
Who needs a scene
Scared to love and to feel
Judging everything
By loud fast rules appeal
Who played last night?
"I don't know, I forgot.
But diving off the stage Was a lot of fun.
[Chorus:]
So eager to please
Peer pressure decrees
So eager to please
Peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes
Again and again,
Chickenshit conformist
Like your parents
What's ripped us apart even more than drugs
Are the thieves and the goddamn liars
Flipping people off when they share their stuff
When someone falls are there any friends?
Harder core than thou for a year or two
Then it's time to get a real job
Others stay home, it's no fun to go out
When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs
When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals
From New York metal labels looking to scam
Who sign the most racist queerbashing bands they can find
To make a buck revving kids up for war
Walk tall, act small
Only as tough as gang approval
Unity is bullshit
When it's under someone's fat boot
Where's the common cause
Too many factions
Safely sulk in their shells
Agree with us on everything
Or we won't help with anythng
That kind of attitude
Just makes a split grow wider
Guess who's laughing while the world explodes
When we're all crybabies
Who fight best among ouselves
That farty old rock and roll attitude's back
"It's competition, man, we want to break big."
Who needs friends when the money's good
That's right, the '70s are back.
Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative
It just don't move me, ya know?
The music's OK when there's more ideas than solos
Do we rally need the attitude too?
Shedding thin skin too quickly
As a fan it disappoints me
Same old stupid sexist lyrics
Or is Satan all you can think of?
Crossover is just another word
For lack of ideas
Maybe what we need
Are more trolls under the bridge
Will the metalheads finally learn something-
Or will the punks throw away their education?
No one's ever the best
Once they believe their own press
"Maturing" don't mean rehashing
Mistakes of the past
The more things change
The more they stay the same
We can't grow
When we won't criticize ourselves
The '60s weren't all failure
It's the '70s that stunk
As the clock ticks we dig the same hole
Music scenes ain't real life
They won't get rid of the bomb
Won't eliminate rape
Or bring down the banks
Any kind of real change
Takes more time and work
Than changing channels on a TV set
That farty old rock and roll attitude's back
"It's competition, man, we want to break big."
Who needs friends when the money's good
That's right, the '70s are back.
Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative
It just don't move me, ya know?
The music's OK when there's more ideas than solos
Do we rally need the attitude too?
Shedding thin skin too quickly
As a fan it disappoints me
Same old stupid sexist lyrics
Or is Satan all you can think of?
Crossover is just another word
For lack of ideas
Maybe what we need
Are more trolls under the bridge
Will the metalheads finally learn something-
Or will the punks throw away their education?
No one's ever the best
Once they believe their own press
"Maturing" don't mean rehashing
Mistakes of the past

For the last fucking time no DK fans are interested in Jolly Rancher Pop Tarts...

61 Chickenshit Conformists.

Now we have 112

This is the best DK song.

this songs especially sad...so maany people i know are raising thie kids on participation trophies and the sjw mentality.....millenals are silly...there a few who are good...but yes...its fucking scary.

I love. This song. And it's such a great summation of the shit that goes on in and about countercultural movements, just uncanny.