Dead Kennedys nailed it (20 years ago)...

[CanuckAmok]

...replace "heroin" with "oil", and there ya go! Except, of course, the part of the prez being seen near repatriated body-bags.

"Potshot Heard 'Round the World"

Hey! Yo!
We're the United States Marines
We know you've all been killing each other
For at least two thousand years
But we're here now
To protect the family
Of Christian heroin warlords
Most friendly to the West
So you knock off this fighting
Or we'll tell Mom
Ever notice news
Is taged like TV wrestling shows
With Reagans and Khaddafis cast
As cartoon villains and heroes
Or those wildlife "documentaries"
Where a lion from a zoo
Kills a deer tied down ahead of time
At the perfect camera angle
When lemmings balk at dying for Disney
They're just hurled off the cliff...

We are gathered here today
To take photos of the President
Pretending to mourn these brave young men
Who came home from Beirut
Gift-wrapped in body bags-
A truck bomb blew them to bits
We knew they were sitting ducks
We sacrificed 'em, Aztec style
So we could use their dead meat
To cook up war fever back home
So make sure you take lots of pictures
And slant your news our way
Just like in Wild Kingdom
We first tied down the prey
We want people boiling for revenge
In their living rooms
So we can go play shoot-em-up
Anywhere we choose
And our backers can cash in
Without the public asking questions

[WCGreen]

1. Too drunk to fuck

That's the song that really hit the nail on the head..... And it was a little longer than twenty years now wasn't it.......

[Danmel]

6. Funny Too Drunk to Fuck story:

About 20 years ago, I was in graduate school in Boston. The DJ on the alternative radio station (it was a commercial station, it just played "new wave" music) I was listening to said he'd play ANY song requested, emphasis on the ANY. So, wise ass that I am, I called up and said I have one you won't play. He said no, no we'll play ANY song you request. So I requested "Too Drunk To Fuck". He paused for a second, laughed and said, "Well, you got me. I can't play that. But thanks for asking!"

[WCGreen]

7. I worked as an accountant at a radio station in the early

90's. We got this song in the bundles the record companies send out....

It was called Fuckin Shit Ass......

That was the sum total of all the words on the song....

We accidently played it on the air at about 3;00 in the morning......

Fort Wayne, Phlash Phelps Now on XM I think...

[JimmyJazz]

9. That's the one I thought he was going to talk about.

[mark414]

2. if biafra ran for president

i would work for him for 20 hours a day 7 days a week in a fucking second

[Squeech]

5. Remember his campaign for mayor of San Francisco?

Besides his campaign slogan being "There's Always Room for Jello," there were some remarkable elements in his platform.

He said he wanted to make all businessmen wear clown suits-- that if they were going to dress all alike, they should at least be entertaining.

More importantly, he said he wanted to hold a public auction for city patronage jobs-- to replace the private auction currently in place.

That's all I remember.

He came in fourth, out of ten candidates.

Unfortunately, I don't know if you'd really want to work for him. I'm told that he can be a humongous asshole.

[realisticphish]

3. hell

ALL their songs hit it on the head. Long live Biafro!

[chemp]

4. Thrn his band sued him

and won.
They own the royalties.
If you see a DK CD or Video without Alternative Tenticles on the label, the creative genius involved is getting RIPPED-OFF!

Boycott new DK's.
Support Jello!

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. Not to mention touring with the kid from Courtship of Eddie's Father!

Former child tv star singing for the Dead Kennedys??? That's a bigger joke than Sammy Hagar singing for Van Halen.

Though I have to admit, I bought the recently released "Live at the Deaf Club" CD without realizing Jello was getting screwed :(