| The Dicks Hate The Police | |
| Cover: | Dicks_hatethepolice.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Dicks |
| Released: | 1980[1] |
| Genre: | Hardcore punk |
| Label: | Radical Records |
"The Dicks Hate the Police" (usually shortened to "Hate the Police") is the debut release and 7-inch single from the American hardcore punk band The Dicks, released in 1980.[2] [3] [4] The record was released on the band's own Radical Records imprint.[5] Mudhoney included a cover of the song on Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles.[6]
Pitchfork wrote that "the song contained few words and fewer chords, and yet, with an arch sneer, the singer—Gary Floyd, a genuine punk hero deserving of recognition beyond the underground—communicated the essence of state power deployed in its most wretched everyday form."[7] The A.V. Club called it a "classic," writing that "even removed from its historical and geographical contexts 'Hate The Police' remains a powerful song."[6] The Dallas Observer called it "perhaps the finest single ever released by a Texas punk band."[8]