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20 Protest Songs That Matter: No. 13

'California Uber Alles'
--Dead Kennedys (1980)

Rebelling Against: Lockstep liberalism!

These quintessential protest punks kicked off their confrontational career by imagining a California that has been taken over by a hippie generation turned fascist. Like the Nazis, the state sentences its undesirables to death. The difference: the poison gas is organic.


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thomas

jim#2 what about all the boys kenedy left on the beach at bay of pigs, and his isolationist ideas were also retarded.

February 26 2008 at 3:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
buddha

i gotta say i preferred the protest songs of the sixties, thats probably because i was born in 1951, but ya gotta give it to the dead kennedy's with the idea of the hippies turned fascists, their definately on the money. doesn't matter who flips you're switch, just stay angry people, not all of us rolled over!

December 20 2007 at 9:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Questioningly

Another good choice. Beter than your other lists ......so far......

December 12 2007 at 7:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

Dead Kennedy's? Write a protest song about the living Kennedy, who waterboarded a woman in his car in his home state. Who covered everything up. Write a song of his disgusting groping of women and his alcoholism while he thinks he is protecting the rights of terrorists and attacking our military. Write about him and Senator Dodd making a sandwich out of a waitress.

December 12 2007 at 7:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
russelldark

NOTICE: How the SPINNER STAFF calls the artists singing this song "PROTEST PUNKS" since it "REBELS AGAINST LIBERALISM", and the same staff notates the other artists, those rebelling against the "MORAL MAJORITY" and "AUTHORITY", as HEROES.
---------TYPICAL AOL LIBERAL PROPAGANDA--------

December 12 2007 at 4:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The Truth

10. Jim #1; You may like the name of the band, I find it offensive. Many of us in the 60s admired the Kennedys and their support of civil rights, and RFK turning against the Vietnam war.

Jim II at 7:10AM on Aug 30th 2007

...the Kennedys. A family of the most morally corrupt politicians in American history. Jack, Ted and Bobbie make Clinton the rapist and pervert look like Mr. Roberts.

December 12 2007 at 3:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Myshall

Hey This band and thier songs are nothing short of great! I did see them live a few years ago and the whole gig was amazing!

November 30 2007 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matt

Yo Jeremy Ross, i actually believe it's a play on the Nazi anthem " Deutschland Uber Alles" if that's what you meant.

October 20 2007 at 5:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
boyonherbikee

YESYESYES! this song is amazing. and deserves to be here.

October 12 2007 at 8:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nikki

Hell yes. California uber alles. I believe that's a touch upon what the Nazis were calling themselves in the decades prior.

September 24 2007 at 10:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply