Kill from the Heart explained

Kill from the Heart
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Dicks
Cover:	Dicks_killfromtheheart.jpg
Released:	1983
Genre:	Hardcore punk
Label:	SST^[1] (017)
Producer:	Spot
Prev Title:	Live at Raul's Club
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Peace ? 7"
Next Year:	1984

Kill from the Heart is an album by the hardcore punk band The Dicks. 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 Texas-based line-up. The album finds the band mixing its hardcore punk style with blues aesthetics.

Tim Kerr 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 Alternative Tentacles in 2012.^{[2] [3]}

Track listing

1. Anti-Klan (Part One)
2. Rich Daddy
3. No Nazi's Friend
4. Marilyn Buck
5. Kill From the Heart
6. Little Boys' Feet
7. Pigs Run Wild
8. Bourgeois Fascist Pig
9. Purple Haze
10. Anti-Klan (Part Two)
11. Right Wing/White Ring
12. 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 Jimi Hendrix.

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

1. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Dicks. www.trouserpress.com.
2. Web site: The Dicks - Kill from the Heart (Alternative Tentacles). The Big Takeover.
3. Web site: Alternative Tentacles Records. September 26, 2018.