Better Off Dead is such a killer song and was included on some of the KBD comps that I’m too lazy to check up on now. I guess haunting would be the best way to describe it. That simple guitar tone in the intro tells it all. The flip is ugly, ok.
Well, well, she started to grin
So I slid it right in and she said
“it feels so good”,
and she dragged me off the bed
You’ll be better off dead
Hey! Well, alright
Well then your mother came in
She was picking her chin she said
Keep your hands off my daughter
You’ll be better off dead
The girl’s only thirteen
She ain’t never given head
So you better keep your hands off her
Your hands will turn red
( From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/l/la-peste-lyrics/better-off-dead-lyrics.html )
You’ll be better off dead
Hey! Well, alright.
That’s where your father came in
He was picking his chin she said
Keep your hands off my daughter
You’ll be better off dead
The girl’s only thirteen
She ain’t never given head
So you better keep your hands off her
Your hands will turn red
Dead, dead, dead
(She’ll be better off dead)
Dead, dead, dead
(She’ll be better off dead)
Country: USA
Year: 1978
Label: Black
Format: 7″
Songs:
Better Off Dead.mp3
Black.mp3
Killer guitar + cardboard drums + thin production + stupid lyrics = a classic!
Too bad about the B-side.
I vote against the union, betray the global workers’ movement, in exchange for a pay cut and an extra week off, go on my first vacation in years (as is the American habit), and then Peter gets a meth habit and posts a hundred records while I’m away! I would have preferred a non-frog inspired record but “Vive La Commune,” or whatever! Bourgeois: “I never liked politics.” Proletarian: “That’s precisely why I am putting a bullet in your head!” Punk, thanks!
Maybe I’m weird, but I gotta say, I like the B Side.
for me on of the best punk singles alltime.thank you kbd.
I was a personal friend of these guys and their Drummer joined my band, The Transplants” so we could play shows.
I also did a bunch of Loft & Live At Clubs Audio Recordings of LaPeste.
I put together the Dionysus CD Album Release and I also put together the Rave Up Records Vinyl LP.
LaPeste was one of Boston, Mass earliest Punk Bands.Their sound would be called Art Rock I guess but to tell the truth it was all PUNK then in early 1977.
Check out these bands from around the same time who were part of the Boston Scene.
Nervous Eaters, Real Kids, Willie Loco Alexander, Unnatural Axe, Thrills, The Destroyed, Baby’s Arm (became Classic Ruins), The Girls, DMZ, Third Rail.
This is a good example of many of the Acts you saw at The Rat,The Club, The Space, and Cantones 1976-79.There were still more bands but I got to run.
And there was me thinking they.were stinking of gin all this time…
I always thought it was “drinking a gin”
Death from above 1979 put a really half assed cover of this song out on an extras cd of their full length.
Killer. I like the B side and in fact I put the album up on my site awhile back. Cheers!
Only 13 never given head? This is the case against single mothers!