Kill the Poor

Kill the Poor

Infobox Single
Name = Kill the Poor


Artist = Dead Kennedys
from Album =
B-side = "Insight"
Released = October 1980
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1980
Genre = Hardcore punk
Length = 3:02
Label = Alternative Tentacles
Writer = Jello Biafra
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Holiday in Cambodia"
(1979)
This single = "Kill the Poor"
(1980)
Next single = "Too Drunk to Fuck"
(1980)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Back cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = Artwork by Winston Smith; a political take on Edvard Munch's expressionist painting, "The Scream".

"Kill the Poor" was the third single by the Dead Kennedys. The record was released in October 1980 on Alternative Tentacles with "Insight" as the b-side. The title track was re-recorded for the band's first album, "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" (1980), although the single and album versions are not very different. The b-side for this single is available on the rarities album "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" (1987).

"Kill the Poor" reached #49 in the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks on the chart.

In an interview with Biafra he stated that it was about the neutron bomb. He said that it could be used to get rid of the people in a poor neighborhood so the rich could develop their homes and such in the area that the bomb had been dropped on.

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