Plastic Surgery Disasters is the second album released by the Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk music scene....

. It has been reissued with the EP In God We Trust, Inc.

In God We Trust, Inc.

In God We Trust, Inc. is a hardcore punk EP by the Dead Kennedys; it is now reissued with the Plastic Surgery Disasters album. The thrashing, lightning-fast beats and shouted vocals, on the first six tracks, resembles Washington D.C.'s punk bands of the time; more than on any other Dead Kennedys...

, which are the last eight tracks on the CD. The cover photo is "Hands" by photographer Michael Wells. The same photo was used by other San Francisco based punk band Society Dog for their EP .....Off of the Leash, released in 1981. The inside cover art features Winston Smith

Winston Smith (artist)

Winston Smith is an artist who primarily uses the medium of collage. He is probably best known for the artwork he has produced for the American punk rock group Dead Kennedys...

's collage

Collage

A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....

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Musically, many different elements bubble to the surface on Plastic Surgery Disasters, including surf-rock, oddly psychedelic guitar textures, and traditional film music, including sections and guitar fills that resemble Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

 spaghetti western

Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...

 scores. These elements are not always immediately apparent under the high-speed thrash of music, but they are an indication of the Kennedys' musical uniqueness. The DKs would further these elements, to some extent, on their next release, 1985's Frankenchrist

Frankenchrist

Frankenchrist is the third album released by the American hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles.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...

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On the 2001 Manifesto release of the album, the beginning of "Government Flu" is a separate track entitled "Advice from Christmas Past". There is also a typing error on the Manifesto CDs so that "Bleed for Me" is entitled "Bleed for". On the original vinyl version, Side A was tracks 1-8 and Side B was tracks 9-14. Some vinyl versions have Side One as tracks 1-9 and Side Two as tracks 10-14.

A music video was made for "Forest Fire" http://youtube.com/watch?v=pwpJam_Dqkk.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...

, except where noted.
Side one

1. "Government Flu" – 3:01
2. "Terminal Preppie" – 1:30
3. "Trust Your Mechanic" – 2:55
4. "Well Paid Scientist" – 2:21
5. "Buzzbomb
   Buzzbomb (song)
   "Buzzbomb" is a song by the Dead Kennedys which appeared on their 1982 album Plastic Surgery Disasters. A second version of the song, titled "Buzzbomb From Pasadena", was released on the 1987 compilation Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death....
   
   " (East Bay Ray
   East Bay Ray
   Raymond John Pepperell , better known by his stage name East Bay Ray is a guitarist best-known for his membership in the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys...
   
   , Jello Biafra) – 2:21
6. "Forest Fire" – 2:22
7. "Halloween
   Halloween (Dead Kennedys song)
   "Halloween" is the seventh and final single by the Dead Kennedys. It was released in December 1982 on Alternative Tentacles...
   
   " (East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra) – 3:35
8. "Winnebago Warrior" – 2:09

Side two

1. "Riot" (Dead Kennedys) – 5:57
2. "Bleed for Me" (Dead Kennedys) – 3:24
3. "I Am the Owl" (Dead Kennedys) – 4:51
4. "Dead End" (East Bay Ray) – 3:56
5. "Moon Over Marin
   Moon Over Marin
   Moon Over Marin is the final track on the Dead Kennedys' album Plastic Surgery Disasters. The song is about pollution in the Marin area of California....
   
   " (East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra) – 4:29

Credits

• Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...
  
   – lead vocals, artwork
• East Bay Ray
  East Bay Ray
  Raymond John Pepperell , better known by his stage name East Bay Ray is a guitarist best-known for his membership in the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys...
  
   – guitar, producer
• Klaus Flouride
  Klaus Flouride
  Geoffrey Lyall , better known as Klaus Flouride, is best known as the bassist for the San Francisco, California, punk rock band Dead Kennedys from the group's inception in June 1978 until the band's break-up in December 1986, although he also produced four solo albums during the 1980s and...
  
   – bass, backing vocals, clarinet
• D.H. Peligro – drums
• Dave Barrett – saxophone
• Bruce Askley – saxophone
• Ninotchka – backing vocals
• Melissa Webber – backing vocals (credited as "The Voice of Christmas Past")
• Geza X – backing vocals
• Mark Wallner – backing vocals
• John Cuniberti – backing vocals
• Thom Wilson – producer
• Norm – mixer
• Oliver Dicicco – engineer
• Winston Smith
  Winston Smith (artist)
  Winston Smith is an artist who primarily uses the medium of collage. He is probably best known for the artwork he has produced for the American punk rock group Dead Kennedys...
  
  – artwork