The Dicks Hate the Police

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"The Dicks Hate The Police"
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Single by The Dicks
Released1980 [1]
Genre Hardcore punk
Label Radical Records
Songwriter(s) Gary Floyd, Glen Taylor, Buxf Parrott, Pat Deason
The Dicks singles chronology
"Hate The Police 7"
(1980)		"Live at Raul's Club"
(1980)

"The Dicks Hate the Police" (usually shortened to "Hate the Police") is the debut release and 7-inch single from the American hardcore punk band The Dicks, released in 1980. [2] [3] [4] The record was released on the band's own Radical Records imprint. [5] Mudhoney included a cover of the song on Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles . [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Pitchfork wrote that "the song contained few words and fewer chords, and yet, with an arch sneer, the singer—Gary Floyd, a genuine punk hero deserving of recognition beyond the underground—communicated the essence of state power deployed in its most wretched everyday form." [7] The A.V. Club called it a "classic," writing that "even removed from its historical and geographical contexts 'Hate The Police' remains a powerful song." [6] The Dallas Observer called it "perhaps the finest single ever released by a Texas punk band." [8]

Track listing

  1. The Dicks Hate the Police
  2. Lifetime Problems
  3. All Night Fever

Line up

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References

  1. ↑ Jasinski, Laurie E. (February 22, 2012). Handbook of Texas Music. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN   9780876112977 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "The Dicks". www.austinchronicle.com.
  3. ↑ "Dicks". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher R. (March 19, 2009). "Punk Pioneers Circle Jerks and the Dicks Take Over SXSW". Rolling Stone .
  5. ↑ Gimarc, George (October 15, 1997). Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982. Macmillan. ISBN   9780312169688 – via Google Books.
  6. 1 2 "Cop Rock: 21 (Mostly Negative) Songs About Law Enforcement". Music. 22 October 2007.
  7. ↑ Skolnik, Jes (6 March 2017). "A History of Anti-Fascist Punk Around the World in 9 Songs". Pitchfork.
  8. ↑ Smyers, Darryl (May 9, 2013). "The Ten Greatest Texas Punk Bands". Dallas Observer.


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