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Dead Kennedys “Frankenchrist” LP
The third Dead Kennedys album, released in 1985, three years after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
Probably the peak era in terms of their international popularity, reflected perhaps in a musical shift which found them slowing down towards a less hardcore style of playing. But crucially, a change of pace that allowed Biafra’s vocal tirades to really take effect. Deeply satirical lyrical assaults that were finding their intended targets – social injustice, US foreign policy, corporate entertainment, rednecks bigots, high school jocks – and then smashing them with lethal precision. A very ferocious attack upon the the status quo of mid-80s America, one the greatest examples of fired-up social commentary to have come out of that country at any point in time… And then it ended-up in court on an obscenity trial.
