Edited sentence: And although Biafra's powerful lyrics get most of the attention, a closer analysis reveals that the band possessed one of the most unique and interesting styles in all of hardcore punk and perhaps the entire second wave of punk.DH Peligro's drums propulsively fueled the post-Fresh Fruit albums and singles, pushing the band to new, ridiculous speeds, while Guitarist East Bay Ray provided the band with his trademark guitar sound.Flouride's basslines were impossibly loud, catchy, and almost danceable, a cruel mockery, perhaps, of dancefloor-ready disco that was burning up the charts by the end of the 70s.It should be noted that Ray's interesting punk guitar style does not excuse blatant greed, moneygrubbing lawsuits, and half-assed attempts to hide crass commercial explotation of "the punk rock crowd.On the surface, the band's music was straightforward, hardcore thrash, distinguished by biafra's bizarre warble and sneering lyrics (which contain some of the best and most devilish uses of satire in rock).Ray claims to have been influenced by Elvis' Sun Sessions guitarist Scotty Moore, and by Syd Barret's early work with Pink Floyd (circa Piper At the Gates of Dawn).Ray has even recorded a rare 12" "Spaghetti Western Tribute" called "Trouble in Town"), and finally instrumental surf-rock.This may explain the eclectic elements that can be heard in many Dead Kennedys songs: rockabilly (enter the post-Ramones rocker "Kill the Poor," and the band's infamous cover of "Viva las Vegas"), psychedelic music (with eerie sounds and echoes produced by Ray's trademark Echoplex), gothic menace, traditional "scary-sounding music," recognizeable elements from film scores (most notably spaghetti western scores: Ray's humorously succinct solos that permeate Plastic Surgery Disasters, high, worldess backing vocals on "Winnebago Warrior," and the longer horn parts on Frankenchrist.Though Ray has stated that he was not consciously influenced by surf music, it is the element people most-often identify with.Various elements of other kinds of music can be heard on Dead Kennedys' albums, mostly because of ray's unique guitar style, but these elements are so well synthesized (or swallowed by the high-speed noise and intensity) that they are not immediately apparent