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)
Track listing
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)
Track listing
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)
Track listing
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
Track listing
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.