Kill from the Heart

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Kill from the Heart
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Released1983[ when? ]
Genre Hardcore punk
Label SST [1] (017)
Producer Spot
The Dicks chronology
Live at Raul's Club
(1980)
Kill from the Heart
(1983)
Peace ? 7"
(1984)
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Kill from the Heart is an album by the hardcore punk band The Dicks. Widely considered a classic of the genre,[ citation needed ] it was the band's first full-length album and the last to feature the group's original Texas-based line-up. The album finds the band mixing its hardcore punk style with blues aesthetics.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Tim Kerr of the Big Boys appears on the song "Anti-Klan (Part Two)". "Anti-Klan (Parts One and Two)", "Rich Daddy", "No Nazi's Friend", and "Kill From The Heart" appear on the 1980-1986 CD compilation. The album was reissued on CD & LP by Alternative Tentacles in 2012. [3] [4]

Track listing

  1. Anti-Klan (Part One)
  2. Rich Daddy
  3. No Nazi's Friend
  4. Marilyn Buck
  5. Kill From the Heart
  6. Little Boys' Feet
  7. Pigs Run Wild
  8. Bourgeois Fascist Pig
  9. Purple Haze
  10. Anti-Klan (Part Two)
  11. Right Wing/White Ring
  12. Dicks Can't Swim:
I. Cock Jam
II. Razor Blade Dance

2012 Reissue

13. Dicks Hate the Police
14. Lifetime Problems
15. All Night Fever

All songs written by The Dicks except "Purple Haze", written by Jimi Hendrix.

Personnel

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References

  1. "TrouserPress.com :: Dicks". www.trouserpress.com.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. "The Dicks - Kill from the Heart (Alternative Tentacles)". The Big Takeover.
  4. "Alternative Tentacles Records". September 26, 2018.