Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
A black-and-white photograph of a burning car outdoors at night. In the upper-left corner are the words "Dead Kennedys" in Gothic script.
Studio album by
Dead Kennedys
ReleasedSeptember 2, 1980 (1980-09-02)
RecordedMay–June 1980
StudioMöbius Music in San Francisco
Genre
Length33:03
LabelCherry Red, Alternative Tentacles, Faulty Products, Manifesto
ProducerNorm and East Bay Ray
Dead Kennedys chronology
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
(1980) 		In God We Trust, Inc.
(1981)
Singles from Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  1. "California Über Alles"
    Released: June 1979
  2. "Holiday in Cambodia"
    Released: May 1980
  3. "Kill the Poor"
    Released: October 1980

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys. It was first released on September 2, 1980, through Cherry Red Records in the United Kingdom, and I.R.S. Records in the United States. It was later issued by Jello Biafra's own Alternative Tentacles label in the United States. It is the only Dead Kennedys studio album to feature drummer Bruce Slesinger and (on one track) guitarist Carlo Cadona.

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