As i was 11 in 1980 i was confused about a song advertising going on Holiday to Cambodia when on the news was Pol Pot torturing and murdering Cambodians in their hundreds of thousands, turns out i misunderstood.
With jangly guitars, a great hook and lyrics spat at you by Jello Biafra it was bit more tuneful than the punk era music around at the same time, it also has a great solo where that jangly guitar hook seems to break out from the background and takes on a life of it's own for 30 amazing seconds before chants of Pol Pot who i now understand wouldn't have made a particularly good holiday host.
The line 'Kiss ass while you bitch / So you can get rich / While your boss gets richer off you' is something which i have also used to justify my not doing overtime all these years.
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