14.7.11

FRANKENCHRIST, DEAD KENNEDYS (October 1985)


The album was a subject of controversy because of a poster inserted in the original record sleeve. The poster, H. R. Giger's Landscape #XX, or Penis Landscape, was a painting depicting rows of penises and vulvas. The band was brought to trial for distributing harmful matter to minors, and though the case did not result in a conviction, Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles was driven almost to bankruptcy.
The album is an example of the progressive, psychedelic side of the Kennedys' musical personality. The spaghetti western soundtrack influence is also noticeable in the horn parts and in East Bay Ray's atmospheric guitar work. Frankenchrist is noted for its relative lack of traditionally 'hardcore' material. Most of the songs are slower and longer than the majority of other Dead Kennedys songs. "M.T.V. − Get off the Air" is notable for its pointed slam of the music establishment and "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" for its exegesis of Biafra's political philosophies.


  1. Soup is Good Food
  2. Hellnation
  3. This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere)
  4. A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
  5. Chicken Farm
  6. Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol)
  7. Goons of Hazzard
  8. M.T.V. - Get Off the Air
  9. At My Job
  10. Stars and Stripes of Corruption

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