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{{Infobox song
| name = Nazi Punks Fuck Off!
| name = Nazi Punks Fuck Off!
| cover = Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off cover.jpg
| cover = Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off cover.jpg
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| released = November 1981
| released = November 1981
| recorded = 1981
| recorded = 1981
| studio =
| studio = Möbius Music (San Francisco)
| venue =
| genre = [[Hardcore punk]]
| genre = [[Hardcore punk]]
| length = 1:03
| length = 1:03
| label = [[Alternative Tentacles]]
| label = [[Alternative Tentacles]]
| writer = [[Jello Biafra]]
| writer = [[Jello Biafra]]
| producer =
| producer = Oliver DiCicco
| prev_title = [[Too Drunk to Fuck]]
| prev_title = [[Too Drunk to Fuck]]
| prev_year = 1981
| prev_year = 1981
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| next_year = 1982
| next_year = 1982
}}
}}
{{Infobox album
| italic_title = no
| name = Nazi Punks Fuck Off
| type = EP
| artist = [[Napalm Death]]
| cover = ND Nazi Punks Fuck Off.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1993
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Death metal]]<br />[[Grindcore]]
| length = 10:43
| label = [[Earache Records|Earache]]
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Live Corruption]]
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = [[Fear, Emptiness, Despair]]
| next_year = 1994
}}


"'''Nazi Punks Fuck Off'''" is the fifth [[Single (music)|single]] by [[Dead Kennedys]]. It was released in 1981 on [[Alternative Tentacles]] with "Moral Majority" as the B-side. Both are from the ''[[In God We Trust, Inc.]]'' [[Extended play|EP]], although the EP version is a different recording from the single version. The single included a free armband with a crossed-out [[swastika]]. The design was later adopted as a symbol for the [[Anti-racism|anti-racist]] punk movement [[Anti-Racist Action]].
"'''Nazi Punks Fuck Off'''" is a song by American [[punk rock]] band [[Dead Kennedys]]. It was released in November 1981 through [[Alternative Tentacles]] as a [[7-inch single]] with "Moral Majority" as the B-side. Both are from the ''[[In God We Trust, Inc.]]'' [[Extended play|EP]], although the EP version is a different recording from the single version. The single included a free armband with a crossed-out [[swastika]]. The design was later adopted as a symbol for the [[Anti-racism|anti-racist]] punk movement [[Anti-Racist Action]].
==Composition==
The song is a blunt indictment of the rise of far-right punk subcultures such as [[Nazi punk]] or the [[white power skinhead]] movement, which had begun rioting at punk shows in the late 1970s. The appropriation of fascist iconography had been common in punk for some time, often ironically, but the irony was not always clear to the extent that it began attracting the organized far-right to punk concerts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-16 |title=How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Reclaimed Punk from White Supremacists |url=https://www.gq.com/story/punks-and-nazis-oral-history |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=GQ |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Jello Biafra]]'s lyrics condemn the infighting among punks for weakening the prospect of rebellion and hold of the far-right agitators that "in a real [[Fourth Reich]], [they'd] be the first to go."<ref>{{Citation |title=Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off! |url=https://genius.com/Dead-kennedys-nazi-punks-fuck-off-lyrics |access-date=2023-03-18}}</ref>


In the opening of the ''In God We Trust, Inc.'' version of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", lead singer [[Jello Biafra]] mentions English producer [[Martin Hannett]], who had worked with [[Joy Division]] and [[Buzzcocks]], accusing him, tongue-in-cheek, of having "overproduced" the recording.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.martinhannett.co.uk/bio.htm |title=Martin Hannett Biography |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140626203504/http://martinhannett.co.uk/bio.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |work=MartinHannett.co.uk |access-date=June 28, 2008}}</ref> Hannett, in fact, did not work with Dead Kennedys.
In the opening of the ''In God We Trust, Inc.'' version of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", lead singer [[Jello Biafra]] mentions English producer [[Martin Hannett]], who had worked with [[Joy Division]] and [[Buzzcocks]], accusing him, tongue-in-cheek, of having "overproduced" the recording.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.martinhannett.co.uk/bio.htm |title=Martin Hannett Biography |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140626203504/http://martinhannett.co.uk/bio.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |work=MartinHannett.co.uk |access-date=June 28, 2008}}</ref> Hannett, in fact, did not work with Dead Kennedys.


==Charts==
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
|-
! scope="col" | Chart (1982)
! Chart (1982)
! scope="col" | Peak<br />position
! Peak<br />position
|-
|-
| [[UK Indie Chart]]<ref>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Lazell |url= http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm |title=Indie Hits 1980-1989 |publisher=[[Cherry Red Books]] |date=1997 |access-date=5 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110605132747/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm |archive-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref>
! scope="row"| [[UK Indie Chart]]<ref>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Lazell |url= http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm |title=Indie Hits 1980–1989 |publisher=[[Cherry Red Books]] |date=1997 |access-date=5 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110605132747/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm |archive-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref>
| 11
| style="text-align:center;"|11
|}
|}


==Cover versions==
==Cover versions==
* The English [[grindcore]] band [[Napalm Death]] recorded a cover for their 1993 EP of the same name.<ref>Robbins, 504</ref>
* The English [[grindcore]] band [[Napalm Death]] recorded a cover for their 1993 EP of the same name.<ref>Robbins, 504</ref>
* The fictional band The Ain't Rights performed a cover of the song in a modern-day [[white supremacist]] club in the 2015 horror film ''[[Green Room (film)|Green Room]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miska |first1=Brad |title='Green Room' Clip Says Fuck the Nazi Punks! |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3388208/green-room-clip-says-fuck-nazi-punks/ |access-date=25 January 2023 |work=Bloody Disgusting |date=20 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529075850/https://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3388208/green-room-clip-says-fuck-nazi-punks/ |archive-date=29 May 2016}}</ref>
* American [[melodic death metal]] band [[Darkest Hour (band)|Darkest Hour]] covered the song for the 2007 album ''[[Kerrang!]] Higher Voltage''.
* Biafra himself rewrote the song as "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off" in 2017, performing it live with [[crossover thrash]] group [[Dead Cross]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-25 |title=Punk Legend Gives 'Nazi Punks F**k Off' An Update Just For Donald Trump |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nazi-trumps-jello-biafra_n_599f8056e4b06d67e336b7f6 |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref>
* The German black metal band Hyems released a song titled "Nazi Black Metal Fuck Off" on their 2018 EP ''1997''. The song also appeared on the 2022 antifascist compilation ''Black Metal Rainbows''.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Hyems |title=Nazi Black Metal Fuck Off |url=https://hyems.bandcamp.com/track/nazi-black-metal-fuck-off-bonus-track |website=Bandcamp |access-date=25 January 2023 |date=7 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hyems - Nazi Black Metal Fuck Off |url=https://blackmetalrainbows.bandcamp.com/track/hyems-nazi-black-metal-fuck-off |website=Bandcamp |publisher=Black Metal Rainbows |access-date=25 January 2023 |date=4 November 2022}}</ref>
* The song "Goodnight Alt-Right" by American hardcore punk band [[Stray from the Path]] references "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" in the song's breakdown, as lead singer Drew Dijorio sings "Nazi punks fuck off" multiple times and the line "Well now you've heard it from me, and the Dead Kennedys".<ref>{{Citation |title=STRAY FROM THE PATH - Goodnight Alt-right (Official Music Video) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-SiZSlmhI |access-date=2023-08-03 |language=en}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


;Bibliography
==Sources==
{{refbegin}}
*[[Steven Blush|Blush, Steven]]. "[[American Hardcore: A Tribal History]]". [[Feral House]], 2001. {{ISBN|0-9229-1571-7}}
*[[Steven Blush|Blush, Steven]]. "[[American Hardcore: A Tribal History]]". [[Feral House]], 2001. {{ISBN|0-9229-1571-7}}
*Robbins, Ira. "The Trouser Press guide to '90s rock". Simon & Schuster, 1997.
*Robbins, Ira. ''The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock''. [[Simon & Schuster]], 1997.
{{refend}}


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730053850/http://www.deadkennedys.com/albums_igwt.html Dead Kennedys Official site with lyrics]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730053850/http://www.deadkennedys.com/albums_igwt.html Dead Kennedys official site with lyrics]


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"Nazi Punks Fuck Off!"
Single by Dead Kennedys
from the EP In God We Trust, Inc.
B-side"Moral Majority"
ReleasedNovember 1981
Recorded1981
StudioMöbius Music (San Francisco)
GenreHardcore punk
Length1:03
LabelAlternative Tentacles
Songwriter(s)Jello Biafra
Producer(s)Oliver DiCicco
Dead Kennedys singles chronology
"Too Drunk to Fuck"
(1981) 		"Nazi Punks Fuck Off!"
(1981) 		"Bleed for Me"
(1982)

"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" is a song by American punk rock band Dead Kennedys. It was released in November 1981 through Alternative Tentacles as a 7-inch single with "Moral Majority" as the B-side. Both are from the In God We Trust, Inc. EP, although the EP version is a different recording from the single version. The single included a free armband with a crossed-out swastika. The design was later adopted as a symbol for the anti-racist punk movement Anti-Racist Action.

Composition[edit]

The song is a blunt indictment of the rise of far-right punk subcultures such as Nazi punk or the white power skinhead movement, which had begun rioting at punk shows in the late 1970s. The appropriation of fascist iconography had been common in punk for some time, often ironically, but the irony was not always clear to the extent that it began attracting the organized far-right to punk concerts.[1] Jello Biafra's lyrics condemn the infighting among punks for weakening the prospect of rebellion and hold of the far-right agitators that "in a real Fourth Reich, [they'd] be the first to go."[2]

In the opening of the In God We Trust, Inc. version of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", lead singer Jello Biafra mentions English producer Martin Hannett, who had worked with Joy Division and Buzzcocks, accusing him, tongue-in-cheek, of having "overproduced" the recording.[3] Hannett, in fact, did not work with Dead Kennedys.

Charts[edit]

Chart (1982) Peak
position
UK Indie Chart[4] 11

Cover versions[edit]

  • The English grindcore band Napalm Death recorded a cover for their 1993 EP of the same name.[5]
  • The fictional band The Ain't Rights performed a cover of the song in a modern-day white supremacist club in the 2015 horror film Green Room.[6]
  • Biafra himself rewrote the song as "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off" in 2017, performing it live with crossover thrash group Dead Cross.[7]
  • The German black metal band Hyems released a song titled "Nazi Black Metal Fuck Off" on their 2018 EP 1997. The song also appeared on the 2022 antifascist compilation Black Metal Rainbows.[8][9]
  • The song "Goodnight Alt-Right" by American hardcore punk band Stray from the Path references "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" in the song's breakdown, as lead singer Drew Dijorio sings "Nazi punks fuck off" multiple times and the line "Well now you've heard it from me, and the Dead Kennedys".[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Reclaimed Punk from White Supremacists". GQ. January 16, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  2. ^ Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off!, retrieved March 18, 2023
  3. ^ "Martin Hannett Biography". MartinHannett.co.uk. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
  4. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  5. ^ Robbins, 504
  6. ^ Miska, Brad (April 20, 2016). "'Green Room' Clip Says Fuck the Nazi Punks!". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  7. ^ "Punk Legend Gives 'Nazi Punks F**k Off' An Update Just For Donald Trump". HuffPost. August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  8. ^ Hyems (September 7, 2018). "Nazi Black Metal Fuck Off". Bandcamp. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  9. ^ "Hyems - Nazi Black Metal Fuck Off". Bandcamp. Black Metal Rainbows. November 4, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  10. ^ STRAY FROM THE PATH - Goodnight Alt-right (Official Music Video), retrieved August 3, 2023
Bibliography

External links[edit]

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