Mtv Get Off The Air

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                             MTV Get Off The Air - Dead Kennedys
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Note: The first version of this song I ever heard was the live version, where
the horns part is played on guitar. I'm tabbing the studio version, but I'm including
horns part on guitar, because that seems a lot more useful. Enjoy.

Start off with palm muted power chords, after the bass line is played twice
    F#5             B5      C#5
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|------------------4-4-4-4-6-6-6-6------------------------------------------| 
D|--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-6------------------------------------------| 
A|--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4------------------------------------------| 
E|--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------------------------------------------------| 


F#5                B5     C#5
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair

      F#5               B5       C#5
Flame up the herb. Woof down the beer

F#5                B5    C#5
Hi. I'm your video DJ

   F#5                 B5             C#5
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes

F#5               B5             C#5          F#5  B5  C5
  I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

   F#5        B5       C#5
My job is to help destroy

       F#5            B5  C#5
What's left of your imagination

   F#5          B5     C#5
By feeding you endless doses

    F#5                       B5  C#5
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

At this point the chords become full chords instead of power chords.
   F#        B   C#   F#  F#4 F# B   C#
E|---------2-2-2-4----2-2-2-2-2--2-2-4-------------------------------------| 
B|-----2---2-4-4-6----2-2-2-2-2--4-4-6-------------------------------------| 
G|---3---3-3-4-4-6----3-3-4-3-3--4-4-6-------------------------------------| 
D|-4-------4-4-4-6----4-4-4-4-4--4-4-6-------------------------------------| 
A|-4-------4-2-2-4----4-4-2-4-4--2-2-4-------------------------------------| 
E|-2-------2----------2-2-2-2-2--------------------------------------------| 


   F#            B      C#
So don't create. Be sedate

     F#        F#4 F#       B             C#
Be a vegetable at home and thwack on that dial

      F#  F#4  F#       B           C#
If we have our way even you will believe

F# (Let ring)
This is the future of rock and roll

MTV Get Off The Air!
Do this four times before the words start again:
   F#       B   A
E|-2-2-X-X--2-2-0------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-2-2-X-X--4-4-2------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|-3-3-X-X--4-4-2------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-4-4-X-X--4-4-2------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-4-4-X-X--2-2-0------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|-2-2-X-X-------------------------------------------------------------------| 

   B       A          D
E|-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0----5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----------------------------------------| 
B|-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2----7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------| 
G|-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2----7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------| 
D|-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2----7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------| 
A|-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0----5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----------------------------------------| 
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 

     F#          B  A
How far will you go

     F#            B  A
How low will you stoop

     B              A               B            A
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

               F#                     B  A
You've turned rock and roll rebellion

        F#            B  A
Into Pat Boone sedation

   B        A              B              D
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination
   C#    B
E|-4-4-4-2-2-2---2-----------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-6-6-6-4-4-4---2-----------------------------------------------------------| 
G|-6-6-6-4-4-4---3-----------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-6-6-6-4-4-4---4-----------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-4-4-4-2-2-2---4-----------------------------------------------------------| 
E|---------------2-----------------------------------------------------------| 

 C#     B
M.T.V. Get off the

 C#     B
M.T.V. Get off the

 C#     B           F#
M.T.V. Get off the air (X2)

 E           F#
Get off the air(X2)

 F#      B       A
See the latest rejects from the

F#        B   A
Muppet show

           B              A               B             A
Wag their tits and their dicks as they lip-synch on screen

         F#                    B   A
There's something I don't like

         F#                 B   A
About a band who always smiles

 B       A                        B                 D
Another tax write-off for some schmuck who doesn't care

 C#     B
M.T.V. Get off the

 C#     B
M.T.V. Get off the

 C#     B           F#
M.T.V. Get off the air (X2)

 E           F#
Get off the air(X2), then

E|--2-1-0-6-4---------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|--2-1-0-8-6---------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|--3-2-1-8-6---------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|--4-3-2-8-6---------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|--4-3-2-6-4---------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|--2-1-0-------------------------------------------------------------------| 

 E           F# F E D# C#
Get off the air

Bass line twice, then:
   C#    B     C#    B     F#    E     F#    E
E|-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-2-2-X-0-0-X-2-2-X-0-0-X--------------------------| 
B|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-0-0-X-2-2-X-0-0-X--------------------------| 
G|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-3-3-X-1-1-X-3-3-X-1-1-X--------------------------| 
D|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X--------------------------| 
A|-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X--------------------------| 
E|-------------------------2-2-X-0-0-X-2-2-X-0-0-X--------------------------| 

   C#    B     C#    B     F#    E     C#
E|-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-2-2-X-0-0-X-4------------------------------------| 
B|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-0-0-X-6------------------------------------| 
G|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-3-3-X-1-1-X-6------------------------------------| 
D|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-6------------------------------------| 
A|-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4------------------------------------| 
E|-------------------------2-2-X-0-0-X--------------------------------------| 

And then, of course:
   C#                   B                 A               G#
E|-9-9-12-12h14p12h14p9-7-7-9-9h11p9h11p7-5-5-7-7h9p7h9p5-4-4-4-7-12---------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 

C#        B
And so it was

       C#              B
Our beloved corporate gods

  F#            E           F#   E
Claimed they created rock video

    C#          B       C#          B
Allowing it to sink as low in one year

      F#          E      C#
As commercial TV has in 25

 C#                               B
"It's the new frontier," they say

 A                              G#
It's wide open, anything can happen

            C#                              B
But you've got a lot of nerve to call yourself a pioneer

                    A                          G#
When you're too god-damn conservative to take real chances.

B         A
Tin-eared

       B       A         F#        E                 F#  E
Graph-paper brained accountants instead of music fans

      B        A         B                    A
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

      F#              E         C#
The lowest common denominator rules

C#
Forget honesty

B
Forget creativity

      A
The dumbest buy the mostest

             G#
That's the name of the game

     C#
But sales are slumping

     B
And no one will say why

  A                                  G#
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
   C#    B     F#
E|-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-----------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-6-6-6-4-4-4-2-2-----------------------------------------------------------| 
G|-6-6-6-4-4-4-3-3-----------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-----------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-4-4-4-2-2-2-4-4-----------------------------------------------------------| 
E|-------------2-2-----------------------------------------------------------| 


C#         B          F#
M.T.V. - Get off the air!

F#
NOW!