Mtv Get Off The Air tab by Dead Kennedys

Tabs

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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#5F#5       B5B5   C#5C#5
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|------------------4-4-4-4-6-6-6-6------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-6------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------------------------------------------------|

F#5F#5        B5B5   C#5C#5
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair

   F#5F#5        B5B5    C#5C#5
Flame up the herb. Woof down the beer

F#5F#5        B5B5  C#5C#5
Hi. I'm your video DJ

  F#5F#5         B5B5       C#5C#5
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes

F#5F#5        B5B5       C#5C#5     F#5F#5 B5B5 C5C5
 I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

  F#5F#5    B5B5    C#5C#5
My job is to help destroy

    F#5F#5      B5B5 C#5C#5
What's left of your imagination

  F#5F#5     B5B5   C#5C#5
By feeding you endless doses

  F#5F#5            B5B5 C#5C#5
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

At this point the chords become full chords instead of power chords.

  F#F#    BB  C#C#  F#F# F#4 F#F# BB  C#C#
e|---------2-2-2-4----2-2-2-2-2--2-2-4-------------------------------------|
BB|-----2---2-4-4-6----2-2-2-2-2--4-4-6-------------------------------------|
G+G|---3---3-3-4-4-6----3-3-4-3-3--4-4-6-------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-4-------4-4-4-6----4-4-4-4-4--4-4-6-------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-4-------4-2-2-4----4-4-2-4-4--2-2-4-------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-2-------2----------2-2-2-2-2--------------------------------------------|

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

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

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

F#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#F#    BB  A augmentedA
e|-2-2-X-X--2-2-0------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-2-2-X-X--4-4-2------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-3-3-X-X--4-4-2------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-4-4-X-X--4-4-2------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-4-4-X-X--2-2-0------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-2-2-X-X-------------------------------------------------------------------|

  BB    A augmentedA     D MajorD
e|-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0----5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----------------------------------------|
BB|-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2----7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------|
G+G|-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2----7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2----7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0----5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

   F#F#     BB A augmentedA
How far will you go

   F#F#      BB A augmentedA
How low will you stoop

   BB       A augmentedA        BB      A augmentedA
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

        F#F#           BB A augmentedA
You've turned rock and roll rebellion

    F#F#      BB A augmentedA
Into Pat Boone sedation

  BB    A augmentedA       BB       D MajorD
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination

  C#C#  BB
e|-4-4-4-2-2-2---2-----------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-6-6-6-4-4-4---2-----------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-6-6-6-4-4-4---3-----------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-6-6-6-4-4-4---4-----------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-4-4-4-2-2-2---4-----------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------2-----------------------------------------------------------|

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

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

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

 E MajorE      F#F#
Get off the air(X2)

 F#F#   BB    A augmentedA
See the latest rejects from the

F#F#    BB  A augmentedA
Muppet show

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

     F#F#          BB  A augmentedA
There's something I don't like

     F#F#         BB  A augmentedA
About a band who always smiles

 BB    A augmentedA            BB         D MajorD
Another tax write-off for some schmuck who doesn't care

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

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

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

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


e|--2-1-0-6-4---------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|--2-1-0-8-6---------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|--3-2-1-8-6---------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|--4-3-2-8-6---------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--4-3-2-6-4---------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--2-1-0-------------------------------------------------------------------|

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

Bass line twice, then:

  C#C#  BB   C#C#  BB   F#F#  E MajorE   F#F#  E MajorE
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--------------------------|
BB|-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+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 MajorD|-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 augmentedA|-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 MajorE|-------------------------2-2-X-0-0-X-2-2-X-0-0-X--------------------------|


  C#C#  BB   C#C#  BB   F#F#  E MajorE   C#C#
e|-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-2-2-X-0-0-X-4------------------------------------|
BB|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-0-0-X-6------------------------------------|
G+G|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-3-3-X-1-1-X-6------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-6-6-X-4-4-X-6-6-X-4-4-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-6------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4-4-X-2-2-X-4------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------2-2-X-0-0-X--------------------------------------|

And then, of course:

  C#C#          BB         A augmentedA        G#G#
e|-9-9-12-12h14p12h14p9-7-7-9-9h11p9h11p7-5-5-7-7h9p7h9p5-4-4-4-7-12---------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

C#C#    BB
And so it was

    C#C#       BB
Our beloved corporate gods

 F#F#      E MajorE      F#F#  E MajorE
Claimed they created rock video

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

   F#F#     E MajorE   C#C#
As commercial TV has in 25

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

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

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

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

BB     A augmentedA
Tin-eared

    BB    A augmentedA     F#F#    E MajorE         F#F# E MajorE
Graph-paper brained accountants instead of music fans

   BB    A augmentedA     BB          A augmentedA
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

   F#F#       E MajorE     C#C#
The lowest common denominator rules

C#C#
Forget honesty

BB
Forget creativity

   A augmentedA
The dumbest buy the mostest

       G#G#
That's the name of the game

   C#C#
But sales are slumping

   BB
And no one will say why

 A augmentedA                 G#G#
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

  C#C#  BB   F#F#
e|-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-----------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-6-6-6-4-4-4-2-2-----------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-6-6-6-4-4-4-3-3-----------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-----------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-4-4-4-2-2-2-4-4-----------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------2-2-----------------------------------------------------------|


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

F#F#
NOW!


There you have it. This is my first tab, so if it somehow came out completely wrong, i
The major part that I wanted to contribute was that horns part. Noone ever tabbed it
it had horns, but honestly, how many self respecting punk bands have horn players? And
for the guitar version of that part, I'm positive it's right. I played it against the studio
live versions. Enjoy, and give me a high rating.