Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
by Dead Kennedys
Following the release of Holiday in Cambodia as a single in the UK and it's regular airing on John Peel's radio show, the FFfRV LP found a home in my collection and got played regularly. Ferociously performed and furious in its message, it stood heads and shoulders above anything else at the time. It holds up well. Fiercely intelligent lyrically, bleak, yet darkly witty and unrelenting, it's an album that takes no prisoners both musically and in its message. It doesn't ask or answer questions, it's angry but Jello Biafra was always one of the most articulate of his peers. A full house in terms of stars. There's been nothing like it since.