Bedtime for Democracy
Album by the Dead Kennedys
Released	November 1986
Recorded	City Sound Recording and Hyde St. Studios, 1986
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	48:40
Label	Alternative Tentacles
Producer(s)	Jello Biafra
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (2/5) link
the Dead Kennedys chronology
Frankenchrist (1985)	Bedtime for Democracy (1986)	Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1987)

Bedtime for Democracy is the fourth and final album released by the Dead Kennedys. It is played in the eclectic, individualist style of hardcore (in this case often anarchist) punk. Bearing closer resemblance musically to their own EP In God We Trust, Inc. than other albums, this album is disjointed and inconsistent, but always furious and creative. Displaying the greatest range of lyrical content of any Dead Kennedys work, songs on this album cover such common punk subjects as conformity, Ronald Reagan, the military, and even criticizing their own punk movement. The title of the album is a reference to the 1951 comedy film, Bedtime for Bonzo starring Ronald Reagan. There is a typing error on the Manifesto CDs so that the time length for Gone with My Wind is printed ":43" when it should read "1:43". On the original vinyl version, Side A was tracks 1-11 and Side B was tracks 12-21. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x793, 120 KB)dead kennedys album cover This image is the cover of an album or single. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... The Dead Kennedys were a punk rock band from San Francisco, California. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Genres of Cuban music and other popular music A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Alternative Tentacles is a record label based in Emeryville, California. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), better known by the stage name Jello Biafra, is an American punk rock musician and political activist best known as the former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... The Dead Kennedys were a punk rock band from San Francisco, California. ... Frankenchrist was the third album released by the Dead Kennedys in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles. ... This article is about the year. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1987) is an album by political punk band Dead Kennedys. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Dead Kennedys were a punk rock band from San Francisco, California. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... The anarchy symbol commonly used by anarcho-punks Anarcho-punk (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically anarchist ideas. ... In God We Trust, Inc. ... In psychology, conformity is the degree to which members of a group will change their behavior, views and attitudes to fit the views of the group. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Frederick De Cordova. ...

Track listing

1. "Take this Job and Shove It" (Coe) - 1:25
2. "Hop with the Jet Set" (Biafra) - 2:07
3. "Dear Abby" (Biafra) - 1:09
4. "Rambozo the Clown" (Biafra) - 2:25
5. "Fleshdunce" (Biafra) - 1:29
6. "The Great Wall" (Biafra) - 1:32
7. "Shrink" (Biafra) - 1:44
8. "Triumph of the Swill" (Biafra) - 2:17
9. "Macho Insecurity" (Biafra) - 1:30
10. "I Spy" (Peligro) - 2:30
11. "Cesspools in Eden" (Biafra) - 5:56
12. "One-Way Ticket to Pluto" (Biafra) - 1:38
13. "Do the Slag" (Ray) - 1:36
14. "A Commercial" (Biafra) - 1:33
15. "Gone with My Wind" (Biafra) - 1:43
16. "Anarchy for Sale" (Biafra) - 1:18
17. "Chickenshit Conformist" (Biafra) - 5:58
18. "Where Do Ya Draw the Line?" (Biafra) - 2:39
19. "Potshot Heard 'Round the World" (Biafra) - 2:10
20. "D.M.S.O." (Biafra) - 2:09
21. "Lie Detector" (Biafra) - 3:43

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Personnel

• Jello Biafra - lead vocals, producer, mixer
• East Bay Ray - guitar
• Klaus Fluoride - bass, backing vocals
• D.H. Peligro - drums, backing vocals
• Tim Jones - synthesizer
• Jayed Scotti - timbales
• Cal - backing vocals
• Andrew - backing vocals
• Blaze - backing vocals
• P. O'Pillage - backing vocals, artwork
• John Cuniberti - engineer, mixer
• Winston Smith - artwork