Dicks Kill From The Heart Original 1983 SST LP + Insert Hardcore Punk Austin TX

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Dicks : Kill From The Heart
Full-Length 12" Vinyl Album
Matrix/Deadwax/Runout Side A: SST-017-A 17 CASES AND AHM SURE FEELING FINE! L-13418 K
Matrix/Deadwax/Runout Side B: SST-017-B …..EXCEPT FOR WHEN 6 TURNS OUT TO BE 9, HEY JIMi? L-13418-X
Description: This is the original 1983 SST Records vinyl release. Album cover features a bleeding heart wrapped in barbed wire adorned with cross rifles and a torch with hammer & sickle image. Original photo/lyrics insert included. The vinyl record is in glossy clean excellent condition. The cover is in very good condition, some ring wear, corner ding, no seam splits. Please see pictures. All records cleaned with Ultrasonic vinyl cleaner. Check out our store listings for a wide variety of vinyl and CDs including many albums from the early 80's punk/new wave era in our punk/new wave store category. We ship worldwide in secure packaging. Any questions, please contact us.
Tracklist:
1    Anti-Klan (Part 1)
2    Rich Daddy
3    No Nazi's Friend
4    Marilyn Buck
5    Kill From The Heart
6    Little Boys' Feet
7    Pigs Run Wild
8    Bourgeois Fascist Pig
9    Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix cover)
10  Anti-Klan (Part 2)
11  Right Wing/White Ring
12  Dicks Can't Swim
13  Cock Jam
14  Razor Blade Dance
Dicks were an American punk rock band from Austin, Texas formed in 1980 and initially disbanded in 1986. After the first breakup, singer Gary Floyd formed the band Sister Double Happiness, with drummer Lynn Perko, then later fronted a project called Black Kali Ma. In 2004, The Dicks reunited and were active until 2016. The Dicks went through two incarnations in the 1980s, changing its lineup when Floyd moved from Austin to San Francisco in 1983. As a political band with Marxist lyrics during the Reagan Era, they did not shy from controversy. Floyd was one of a handful of openly gay musicians in the 1980s punk scene. Dicks were formed in Austin in 1980 by Gary Floyd, Buxf Parrott, Pat Deason, and Glen Taylor. Their first single "Dicks Hate The Police", released in 1980, brought them much attention and is now regarded as a classic hardcore punk record. In the song Floyd sings from the perspective of a policeman who abuses his power by targeting minorities and abusing civilians. Dicks often played shows with fellow pioneering Texas hardcore bands MDC, The Offenders, and The Big Boys; Dicks' full-length debut was the split album with The Big Boys, Live at Raul's Club. Dicks were among the first punk bands to address issues of homophobia and sexual identity, as in such songs as "Saturday Night at the Bookstore" and "Off-Duty Sailor". In 1983, Floyd left Texas for San Francisco along with Debbie Gordon, the band's manager, who was considered a member of the band. Floyd and Gordon, along with new members Tim Carroll, Sebastian Fuchs, and Lynn Perko (formerly of all-women band The Wrecks), formed a second version of Dicks. The LP Kill From The Heart was released in 1983 on SST Records and These People followed in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles. The group disbanded in 1986, although occasional one-off reunion shows featuring the Austin lineup occurred through the 1980s and 1990s. The band remained influential in punk and underground circuits. San Antonio's Butthole Surfers had ended their 1984 album Psychic Powerless Another Man's Sac with the cowpunk anthem "Gary Floyd" in tribute to the Dicks' bandleader. Dicks saw a resurgence in popularity during the popularity of grunge when Seattle band Mudhoney released a cover of Dicks' "Hate The Police" on Sub Pop Records. Soon after, Chicago noise rockers The Jesus Lizard released their cover version of Dicks' "Wheelchair Epidemic". Gary Floyd later started Sister Double Happiness in San Francisco in 1986. After that band ended he formed and primarily played in Europe with The Gary Floyd Band; an overview of this material, "Backdoor Preacher Man", is available in the United States. Toward the late 1990s, Floyd played in Black Kali Ma, who released an album on Alternative Tentacles. Floyd later formed the band the Buddha Brothers, while Parrott and Deason went on to play in the Austin neo-bluegrass band Shootin' Pains and Trouser Trout, while Parrott and Taylor also played in Pretty Mouth. Perko went on to join Imperial Teen. In 2004, Dicks began playing regular reunion concerts in Austin and elsewhere. The lineup for the shows consists of the original Dicks, with the exception of Glen Taylor, who died in 1997. His role was filled by three other Austin guitarists: Mark Kenyon, Brian McGee, and Davy Jones. At the 2009 Austin Music Awards show, Jesus Lizard singer David Yow joined the band onstage for "Wheelchair Epidemic". At the same show, Dicks were inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame. A documentary film, The Dicks from Texas, was released in 2015 about the Dicks and Austin, Texas punk scene along with a tribute album, The Dicks From Texas and Friends, with 27 bands covering 28 Dicks songs. The Dicks announced that their final show would be October 30, 2016, at Grizzly Hall in Austin, Texas; however, due to popular demand, a second show was added the day afterward. On May 2, 2024, Gary Floyd died after a series of health-related issues. )i) 
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