Dead Kennedys -- Bedtime For Democracy

  The fourth and final Dead Kennedys release is their worst, but still stands as a Punk Rock classic from a notorious band.  I'm not a huge fan of the Kennedys's crossover to Hardcore, the music itself does not suit them, I always thought they should have stuck with what they were good at, the Surf Punk sound -- that was their musical innovation.  Biafra's ego on Bedtime is pumped up to the max, although that's his shtick, but it's hard to buy the social commentary coming from the dude who wrote Chickensh*t Conformist while conforming to Hardcore which is where the scene had shifted.  Anyway there was almost the makings of something great but it got drowned in profane idealism and shameless self-promotion.