Millions of Dead Cops (album)

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.

Millions of Dead Cops
Studio album by
MDC
ReleasedFebruary 1982
June 1988
RecordedDecember 1981 in Houston, Texas
GenreHardcore punk
Length20:31
LanguageEnglish
LabelAlternative Tentacles, R Radical, Twisted Chords, Beer City
ProducerGeza X
MDC chronology
Millions of Dead Cops
(1982)		 Smoke Signals
(1986)

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

Track listing

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

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Business on Parade" (music written by Posner and Dictor)1:26
2."Dead Cops"/"America's So Straight"1:59
3."Born to Die"1:57
4."Corporate Deathburger" (lyrics written by Dictor and Al Schvitz)1:16
5."Violent Rednecks"0:39
6."I Remember" (lyrics written by Dictor, Schvitz and David Alpert; music written by Schvitz and Alpert)1:59
7."John Wayne Was a Nazi" (lyrics written by Dictor and Schvitz)2:01
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Dick for Brains" (music written by Dictor)1:03
2."I Hate Work" (music written by Posner and Dictor)0:55
3."My Family is a Little Weird" (music written by Dictor)1:54
4."Greedy & Pathetic" (lyrics written by Dictor and Schvitz)1:23
5."Church & State" (lyrics written by Dictor and Schvitz)0:30
6."Kill the Light" (lyrics written by Dictor and Schvitz)1:14
7."American Achievements"2:13
Total length:20:31
CD reissue bonus tracks ("John Wayne Was a Nazi" single)
No.TitleLength
15."John Wayne Was a Nazi" (original version; lyrics written by Dictor and Schvitz)2:20
16."Born to Die" (original version)2:34
CD reissue bonus tracks (Multi-Death Corporations EP)
No.TitleLength
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.TitleLength
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.TitleLength
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" (written by William Bell and Booker T. Jones; originally performed by Albert King)3:02

Personnel

Additional performers

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

Production

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References
  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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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