''Kill from the Heart'' is an album by the

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band

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. Widely considered a classic of the genre, it was the band's first full-length album and the last to feature the group's original

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-based line-up. The album finds the band mixing its hardcore punk style with

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

aesthetics.

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of the Big Boys appears on the song "Anti-Klan (Part Two)". "Anti-Klan (Parts One and Two)", "Rich Daddy", "No Nazi's Friend", and "Kill From The Heart" appear on the ''1980-1986'' CD compilation. The album was reissued on CD & LP by

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in 2012.

Track listing

# Anti-Klan (Part One) # Rich Daddy # No Nazi's Friend #

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# Kill From the Heart # Little Boys' Feet # Pigs Run Wild # Bourgeois Fascist Pig #

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# Anti-Klan (Part Two) # Right Wing/White Ring # Dicks Can't Swim: ::I. Cock Jam ::II. Razor Blade Dance

2012 Reissue

:13. Dicks Hate the Police :14. Lifetime Problems :15. All Night Fever All songs written by The Dicks except "Purple Haze", written by

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Personnel

* Gary Floyd - Vocals * Glen Taylor - Guitar, Bass on "No Nazi's Friend" and "Marilyn Buck" * Buxf Parrot - Bass/Backing Vocals, Guitar on "No Nazi's Friend" and "Marilyn Buck" * Pat Deason - Drums/Backing Vocals * Carlos Lowery - Artwork & Design * Spot - Engineer and Producer * Tim Kerr - Dobro on "Anti-Klan (Part Two)" * Backing Vocals on "Anti-Klan (Part Two)" - The Torn Panties (Roxann Flowers, Dolores Aguirre, & Byrd Willey), Phillip Gilbeau, Spot, & Tim Kerr

References

Albums produced by Spot (producer) 1983 debut albums The Dicks albums SST Records albums Alternative Tentacles albums {{1980s-punk-album-stub