Millions of Dead Cops (album)

Millions of Dead Cops
Studio album by MDC
Released	February 1982 June 1988
Recorded	December 1981 in Houston, Texas
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	20:31
Language	English
Label	Alternative Tentacles, R Radical, Twisted Chords, Beer City
Producer	Geza X
MDC chronology
Millions of Dead Cops (1981) Smoke Signals (1986)

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.

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

Track listing

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

Side one
No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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 and Pathetic" (lyrics written by Dictor and Schvitz)	1:23
5.	"Church and 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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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

• Dave Dictor – lead vocals
• Ron Posner – guitar, backing vocals
• Franco Mares – bass
• Al Schvitz – drums

Additional performers

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

Production

• Geza X – producer
• Erik Wolf – engineer
• East Bay Ray – mixing
• Dan Yaney – mastering
• Carlos Lowry – front cover art
• Buxf Dicks – back cover art

References

1. "Top 50 by Nirvana [MIXTAPE]". Retrieved 8 May 2013.
2. Cross, Gaar, Gendron, Martens, Yarm (2013). Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7603-4521-4.