Millions of Dead Cops (album)

Millions of Dead Cops
Millions of Dead Cops
Studio album by MDC
Released	February 1982; June 1988
Recorded	December 1981 in Houston, Texas
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	20:31
Language	English
Label	Alternative Tentacles, R Radical, Twisted Chords, Beer City
Producer	Geza X
MDC chronology

Millions of Dead Cops is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band MDC. It was originally self-released in February 1982, being reissued/remixed through their own label R Radical with help from Alternative Tentacles later that year. Today it is considered a hardcore punk classic. The album was re-released by Twisted Chords in June 1988 as Millions of Dead Cops/More Dead Cops with 13 bonus tracks including both tracks from the "John Wayne Was a Nazi" single, the Multi-Death Corporations EP, the Millions of Dead Children EP and four previously-unreleased songs. The original mix of the album was re-released for Record Store Day in 2014 through Beer City Records.

Kurt Cobain listed it in his top 50 albums of all time.^[1]^[2]

Track listing[edit]

All lyrics are written by Dave Dictor, except where noted; all music is composed by Ron Posner, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Business on Parade"	music: Posner, Dictor	1:26
2.	"Dead Cops"/"America's So Straight"		1:59
3.	"Born to Die"		1:57
4.	"Corporate Deathburger"	lyrics: Dictor, Al Schvitz	1:16
5.	"Violent Rednecks"		0:39
6.	"I Remember"	lyrics: Dictor, Schvitz, David Alpert; music: Schvitz, Alpert	1:59
7.	"John Wayne Was a Nazi"	lyrics: Dictor, Schvitz	2:01

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dick for Brains"	music: Dictor	1:03
2.	"I Hate Work"	music: Posner, Dictor	0:55
3.	"My Family is a Little Weird"	music: Dictor	1:54
4.	"Greedy & Pathetic"	lyrics: Dictor, Schvitz	1:23
5.	"Church & State"	lyrics: Dictor, Schvitz	0:30
6.	"Kill the Light"	lyrics: Dictor, Schvitz	1:14
7.	"American Achievements"		2:13
Total length:			20:31

CD reissue bonus tracks ("John Wayne Was a Nazi" single)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
15.	"John Wayne Was a Nazi" (original version)	lyrics: Dictor, Schvitz	2:20
16.	"Born to Die" (original version)		2:34

CD reissue bonus tracks (*Multi-Death Corporations* EP)
No.	Title	Length
17.	"Multi-Death Corporations"	1:51
18.	"Selfish Shit"	2:06
19.	"Radioactive Chocolate"	0:57
20.	"No Place to Piss"	1:00

CD reissue bonus tracks (*Millions of Dead Children* EP)
No.	Title	Length
21.	"Kleptomaniac"	1:56
22.	"Chicken Squawk"	2:37
23.	"Pecking Order" (re-recording of "Death of a Nun")	1:06

CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
24.	"Pay to Come Along"		1:04
25.	"Evolution in Rock"		1:01
26.	"Spanish Castle Magic"	written and originally performed by Jimi Hendrix	2:04
27.	"Born Under a Bad Sign"	William Bell, Booker T. Jones; originally performed by Albert King	3:02

Personnel[edit]

Dave Dictor – lead vocals
Ron Posner – guitar, backing vocals
Franco Mares – bass
Al Schvitz – drums

Additional performers

Buxf Dicks; Tammy Cleveland; J.J. – backing vocals

Production

Geza X – producer
Erik Wolf – engineer
East Bay Ray – mixing
Dan Yaney – mastering
Carlos Lowry – front cover art
Buxf Dicks – back cover art

References[edit]

^ "Top 50 by Nirvana [MIXTAPE]". Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
^ Cross, Gaar, Gendron, Martens, Yarm (2013). Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7603-4521-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[joyfulnoiserecordings.com-1] "Top 50 by Nirvana [MIXTAPE]". Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2013.

[2] Cross, Gaar, Gendron, Martens, Yarm (2013). Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7603-4521-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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