Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegeta

Truth is, Jello Biafra is a very trapped and very psychotic individual who would never have blessed us with this brain freeze of an album if he had ever been sidetracked into an adolescence of pastoral medication-fueled happiness or a lifetime of Lithium perscriptions. Luckily, he bucked the system somehow and escaped long enough to record one of punk's best records and subsequently father generations of similarly deviant outcasts with guitars and frightening visions.

Truthfully, there are artists through time whose well-known psychological problems and psychotic states have made for some pretty damn fine art: "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" and "Pet Sounds" are two pretty decent albeit mainstream examples. You could also do well to consider the cataloged output of artists like Van Gogh, Munch , and Edward Hopper. No shame to the game, then, that the shadows of pure clinical schizophrenia visible on "Fresh Fruit" are all the more important to observe. A dark, perverted, and grossly important album.

After hearing "Chemical Warfare", "Holiday in Cambodia", and "California Uber Alles", I knew this was 1 album for constant listening. If you want to get into REAL punk rock, this is the best start, besides the sex pistols, ramones, or the casualties. But if you want to just get 1 DK cd, i actually have to recommend 2 other DK cd's; "Give me Conveniance or Give me Death" and "Plastic Surgery Disasters". "Give me Conveniance or Give me Death" is a greatest hits-type cd, which actually fulfillz alot of DK's best work. "Plastic Surgery" is just a mix of alot of great, and rare songs. Peace