"Chickenshit Conformist" is a song by the Dead Kennedys on their Bedtime for Democracy album. It accuses punk rock of becoming "a closed-minded, self-centred social club", and accuses the punks of becoming "Chickenshit conformists like your parents." The Dead Kennedys were a punk rock band from San Francisco, California. ... Bedtime for Democracy is the fourth and final album released by the Dead Kennedys. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Punk culture as it is seen today started in the mid 1970s as a movement or rebellion against some styles of music which existed at the time such as Prog Rock and Heavy Metal whose stars were seen as out of touch with their fans. ...

It also mentions the phoneomenon of people being "harder core than thou for a year or two, then it's time to find a real job," a topic Jello Biafra, much later, addressed on his spoken word albums, noting that the individuals who are the most hardcore tend to be the ones who end up becoming the most conservative and pro-establishment later in life. 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. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...