Frankenchrist

Frankenchrist
Shriners drive tiny cars in a parade
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1985
RecordedMay and July 1985
StudioHyde St. Studios, San Francisco
Genre
Length45:12
LabelAlternative Tentacles
ProducerJello Biafra
Dead Kennedys chronology
Plastic Surgery Disasters
(1982)
Frankenchrist
(1985)
Bedtime for Democracy
(1986)

Frankenchrist is the third album by the American hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys, released in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles.[1]

The album is an example of the progressive, psychedelic side of Dead Kennedys' musical personality. The spaghetti Western soundtrack influence is noticeable in the horn parts and in East Bay Ray's guitar work. Frankenchrist is also noted for its relative lack of traditionally "hardcore" material, with most of the tracks being 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 vocalist Jello Biafra's political philosophies.

  1. ^ "Dead Kennedys | Biography & History". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2021-04-02.