There's nothing satirical in "I Kill Children" at all. It's just intended to shock the audience, not any different from stuff by the Mentors. (It's not a very good song either, probably the DKs' worst in my opinion, but that's beside the point.)
I was going to go off on a rant about how punk had degenerated into a venu for petty vapid moralizing, for which I specifically blame Crass, but I'm not going to. The punks turned into hippies. :)
I never got that MDC album, for which I blame the Russian postal system. But thanks for sending it!
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> D'oh, the DKs early song "I Kill Children" is not an
> advocacy of killing little kids. It was the usual
> acid-tongued, satirical DK stuff Jello and crew
> always
> did, just like their song "Kill the Poor" was not
> about them wanting to kill poor folks (quite the
> opposite, it was a mockery of how the gov't acted)
> or
> when Jello sings "I am Emperor Ronald Reagan, born
> again with fascist cravings," he does not really
> mean
> to say that he is actually Ronald Reagan singing.
>
> The DKs often assumed an ironic tone of this kind --
> Jello speaking on behalf of this or that ruler -- to
> expose how absurd many current policies are when
> spoken in terms like this.
>
> Anyway, let's say the Dead Kennedys REALLY dud
> advocate killing kids, which they never did in song
> or
> print. Now in 2007 mightn't we be on the side of
> perhaps more enlightened members now who would wish
> for one of their songs not be used in what seems
> like
> a pretty tasteless way?
>
> Regarding "Chemical Warfare and the lyrics: "Now I
> got
> my own mustard gas in my pocket / Climb on a tree on
> a
> branch and drop it
> On a country club full of Saturday golfers..." Well,
> that's done in the same spirit as Class War's "We
> Have
> Found New Homes for the Rich" graphic, (a group
> whose
> founder Doug interviewed quite well recently), which
> features a picture of a raveyard. Pure class
> resentment, obviously directed against the
> hoighty-toighty countryc club set.
>
> Don't forget I tried to send you an MDC CD at your
> request -- MDC = Millions of Dead Cops. Were you
> worried they advocated the slaguhter of millions of
> dead cops when I sent it? Well, maybe they do! It's
> part of the rage of punk rock, you know.
>
> So, "I KIll Childen" and "Kill the Poor" are not
> manifestoes of how the Dead Kennedys want to
> themselves kill children or the poor.
>
> Come on, dude....
>
> -B.
>
>
> Chriss Doss:
>
> "But how is filming a rape scene more tasteless than
> singing about how you like to kill children and use
> chemical weapons on golfers?"
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