- Kill the Poor
Infobox Single
Name = Kill the Poor
Artist =Dead Kennedys
from Album =
B-side = "Insight"
Released = October 1980
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1980
Genre =Hardcore punk
Length = 3:02
Label =Alternative Tentacles
Writer =Jello Biafra
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Holiday in Cambodia "
(1979)
This single = "Kill the Poor"
(1980)
Next single = "Too Drunk to Fuck "
(1980)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Back cover
Type = studio
Lower caption = Artwork by Winston Smith; a political take on Edvard Munch'sexpressionist painting, "The Scream "."Kill the Poor" was the third single by the
Dead Kennedys . The record was released in October 1980 on Alternative Tentacles with "Insight" as the b-side. The title track was re-recorded for the band's first album, "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables " (1980), although the single and album versions are not very different. The b-side for this single is available on the rarities album "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death " (1987)."Kill the Poor" reached #49 in the
UK Singles Chart , spending three weeks on the chart.In an interview with Biafra he stated that it was about the
neutron bomb . He said that it could be used to get rid of the people in a poor neighborhood so the rich could develop their homes and such in the area that the bomb had been dropped on.External links
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