Dead Kennedys - Riot Lyrics

0:53 it reminds me Bowser castle in mario bros, don't know why

#1 drinking your face off band

This sad story about humankind still goes on!
Dead Kennedy and Jello tell us the truth!

ET likes DK!!!!!

Great, GREAT fucking song.
Well constructed-
Fantastically written-
Great storytelling and visuals.
Wicked dynamics and energy.
And the musicianship...years ahead of its time.
I'm now 52 yrs old. Discovered Eric and the boys back in 1982. I grew up in Vancouver 🇨🇦🤘🏻. When DOA, The Subhumans and a slew of other notable local punk bands were blossoming on the West Coast of North America. What a time. What a great fucking time in my life to develop. To discover. To be exposed to & to learn about...life- not just a new music movement called North American Hardcore. The gigs....Honest and unforgiving fun. Small, sweaty, shady venues. But they were real. The crowd was real. I have a ton of history and stories about it all. Truthfully they all amount to a hill of nothing. Other than stories and fond memories of my vulnerable youth.
But looking back- there's NOT a chance that I'd change it for anything.

One of the best hardcore albums ever?

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But you get to the place
Where the real slavedrivers live

The cops know that they've won

Now you can smash all the windows that you want

When commies walk the streets we got a serous problem...stop Antifa..stop white nationalists...today...enlist to the American freedom army, now!!! Lol.

Ok, I see why you would want to stop the fucking racists. But Antifa, has D. Tramp burrowed into your brain? Antifa might have too many vegans or weird whatevers, but at least their acronym stands for "Anti-Fascist." You are not anti-fascist? Better quit listening to the DK's and other punk bands. Stick with the crappy right-wing bunch. WTF is American freedom army? Just another right-wing fascist militia sounds like to me. GFY.

Bricks for you boys and blue and the black robed jerkoff who gave an innocent man 25 years ta life!

They came and played Aberdeen, Scotland. Said my local band Toxik Ephex were the best punk band in Scotland. I agree. Check out Toxik Ephex songs: 1) Police Brutality 2) Secrets 3)Criminal Record.

Whoa blow

9 people listen to the radio

A Cowboys punk

Watching this at 66,666 views O:

Best Band ever

El banquete de vietnam

Patricia del Carmen Andrade Villarroel Que guey?

Jello sounds like Quagmire in this song

Jayden Boggs hahahah

why would you say something so controversial yet so brave,,

@Esme Gervais shaddap

@viciousspew :)

I don't know how you could have a better riot song.

0:22 cant stop dragging my pick across the corrosion sleeve on the 6th string like this its actually fun

There was a fine Man named Jeff Hanneman who loved these guys. He wrote songs that have become legendary in their own right. THIS SONG is as heavy as Slayer. Somehow its even HEAVIER! Only Black Sabbath and the Dead Kennedys own the right to contest who has written the heaviest song of all time.
It's almost prophetic isn't it? With what's happening all over the world right now?
"Jump away now don't get...CAUGHT!"

Like your post. Never heard of Jeff H. though. In any case, these guys are so fucking cool! Saw them in Wilmington, CA at the Longshoreman's Hall. Dude picked up a folding chair and belted dude #2 in the head. Police sealed the doors. Kennedys were in the middle of RIOT when it happened. What did they do? They put on gas masks and kept playing. Cops opened doors, shot in tear gas, hit us with clubs saying, "get the fuck out," and Kennedys kept playing. There were about 2,000 punks and 200 cops. Tried to see them again in San Luis Obispo Ca. What happened? DK's didn't play for whatever reason. Result: RIOT. People started plucking bricks off the Veterans hall to throw at cops and their cars. Ahhhh, my misspent youth....

He had such a great guitar sound.

Greatest song ever!

Bass is something else 😍💗

And their drummer was a monster. Great stuff.

A big hit at UC Berkeley.

perfect song for 2017....

Rioting-the unbeatable high
Adrenalin shoots your nerves to the sky
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow
And it's all gonna blow right now:.

Now you can smash all the windows that you want
All you really need are some friends and a rock
Throwing a brick never felt so damn good
Smash more glass
Scream with a laugh
And wallow with the crowds
Watch them kicking peoples' ass

But you get to the place
Where the real slavedrivers live
It's walled off by the riot squad
Aiming guns right at your head
So you turn right around
And play right into their hands
And set your own neighbourhood
Burning to the ground instead

[Chorus]
Riot-the unbeatable high
Riot-shoots your nerves to the sky
Riot-playing into their hands
Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

Get your kicks in quick
They're callin' the national guard
Now could be your only chance
To torch a police car

Climb the roof, kick the siren in
And jump and yelp for joy
Quickly-dive back in the crowd
Slip away, now don't get caught

Let's loot the spiffy hi-fi store
Grab as much as you can hold
Pray your full arms don't fall off
Here comes the owner with a gun

[Chorus]

The barricades spring up from nowhere
Cops in helmets line the lines
Shotguns prod into your bellies
The trigger fingers want an excuse
Now

The raging mob has lost its nerve
There's more of us but who goes first
No one dares to cross the line
The cops know that they've won

It's all over but not quite
The pigs have just begun to fight
They club your heads, kick your teeth
Police can riot all that they please

[Chorus]

Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

Obrigado (thanks) for the lyrics !

still incredibly relevant 34 years later...the whole album is.....

Fucking AWESOME!!!

Wow, that makes me feel old, I listen to this album all the time and forgot it has bee out so long. For me, it is their best work and up with the truly greatest albums ever made.

Tomorrow your homeless.
Tonight it's a blast.

hillary stole the election from Bernie. she is corrupt and evil. she deserves to be punished for high treason! i hope she croaks! the diseased old bitch.

+Wut Gman that hurts really my feelings!

Look, I didn't meant to hurt your  feelings. We all need to man up sometimes and admit when we are wrong. I'll wait for your apology, so whenever you're ready ...

The DNC stole Bernie from us because he is against lobbying and corporate influence. The Democrats are there for the money and Bernie was a threat to incoming cash. The system is fucked and your blame is completely misguided.

Bernie ... is against lobbying and corporate influence bc he couldn't get any, as if it wasn't obvious enough by now. The DNC invested into Hil bc she makes that money, my dude. Whatever, enjoy your Antifa getting infiltrated by 4chan then wikileaks saying Bernie helped fund those 'terrorists in black and red'. Tell me I'm wrong come 2018.

Man I dont know who to side with because I like Bernie but I think antifa is gay

RIOT!I"D RATHER WATCH CORRIE WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY.BLISS

Great fucking song. So brutal

1.30 thats the most intense shit i have ever heard

That’s intense to you?

@Tori Tennant no shit huh. Wow that's huge bro. LMAO

Erich Fischer oof, thanks for bringing me back to this video, this is like the first song my boyfriend told me to listen to

so fuckin punk it drips. so dope.

Why isn't this stuff on Spotify.. -_-

+Kyle Shepherd haha right?

It is now at least

That ain't E.T's hand.

zac moore no it was the hand of a starving Biafra kid

Not funny man. Wow.

Baltimore tonight

I wonder if Jello will do this song live with the Guantanamo School of Medicine.

Had to come here after watching the news!

This is Ferguson tonight.

@A Giant Sloar Or Baltimore, MD right now.

11/24/2014

fucking masterpiece.

Goddamn right

Ferguson, Missouri August 2014

November, but close.

@BradTheProducer So quick to be a dick... The initial riot was in early August.

Shut up, you three

fuck blm and antifa

this pic always choc me

It choc you? Nice English.

Fucking good...!!!

More like, good fucking!

☆☆☆☆!
Power Beat♪!

Mother Fucking Kids.

Man this takes me back, great song

Florida are bracing for protests and possible riots as the trial of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman winds down.

how exactly?

Then you get crushed by the herd , or lynched by the mob .

Good, an upload that doesn't cut off the end.

Oh hey someone who doesn't cut off the ending

how novel

dead kennedys rule the best punk rock every drumer64