Millions of Dead Cops (album)
album by MDC
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.
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