A-Side: Holiday In Cambodia
B-Side: Police Truck
Record label: Cherry Red CHERRY 13
Producer: Geza X
Released: 13/06/80
Purchased: re-issue 15/01/82
Dead Kennedys | Holiday In Cambodia | (Cherry Red) 1980 | More noise from the numb zone of U.S. sensibility. The Dead Kennedys rake over the ashes of ‘Nam for their latest single, ‘Holiday In Cambodia’.
These miserable ineffective musical insurgents have been brushed off like a fly on the backside of the beast they want to provoke, but their titles are still good for a quick (very quick) chuckle.
They could be the Country Joe and the Fish of their generation, but as far as penetrating the psyche of their despised America goes, these guys haven’t even reached Saigon. Regardless of which, I look forward to their comments on the despised Ayatollah. (NME, 29/06/80)
Re-released after an enforced vacation in the racks since 1980 and as hard, brittle and bitter as it was then. A macabre guitar and sinister vocals step up behind rich American kids and garotte them with a war fable. (Melody Maker, 19/09/81)
The splendidly named DK’s are, I’ s’pose, the Motorhead of latter-day punk: you may not care for their music, but it’s hard to dislike them. There’s none of the blistering spirit of the original punk about them, or the piggy-eyed evil of the Oi brigade – they’re a flan in the face rather than a knife in the guts.
This is a re-release of a single which has been deleted, and it no doubt stands a very good chance of following “Too Drunk” up the charts. (Record Mirror, 19/09/81)
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