Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc. [ORG+SHM-CD Remaster+DVD] RESTORED

Plastic Surgery Disasters is the second album released by the Dead Kennedys. It has been reissued on CD with the EP In God We Trust, Inc., which are the last eight tracks on the disc. The Lost Tapes is Dead Kennedys' first recording session of their EP, In God We Trust Inc. It was first released in July 2003. The session was filmed in June 1981 by Eric Goodfield for a part of a punk documentary he was making. The first part of this dvd is in the studio in 1981, and shows what it's like making a punk rock record back in the day. The 2nd part is live videos from 1979-86.

Having proved themselves masters of the quick, vicious smash and bash, on their second full-length album the Kennedys continued in that vein while finding other effective ways to express their all-encompassing message of resistance and satire. Absolutely nobody is safe, whether it's the more expected targets of conservative society, or those who claim to follow what the Kennedys and punk promised but only ended up acting like idiots. For the most part, though, it's a well-deserved smackdown of all the jerks the early '80s produced, set to some fantastic music. Bookended by random noise jams – the first one with a wonderfully dismissive spoken-word analysis on societal programming for The Good Life – Plastic Surgery Disasters shows East Bay Ray, Klaus Fluoride and D.H. Peligro turning into an even more awesome unit than before. Ray's sheet-metal intense guitar may once or twice get slammed into too much treble for its own good, but his spaghetti-western-cranked-to-ten playing is fantastic stuff at its best. The others have their moments, like Peligro's rolling drum breaks on "Trust Your Mechanic." When the band aims for subtlety, the results are grand – the sudden silences on "Trust Your Mechanic," the goofy hipswing start to "Forest Fire." Unsurprisingly, Biafra is still at the center of it all; once again, the song titles make it clear what's at play. "Terminal Preppie," rips into an example of the type with gusto, and the wonderfully sneering "Winnebago Warrior" is just the tip of the iceberg. The real highlight can be found at the end – "Moon Over Marin," with a soaring, anthemic surf-rock line from Ray offsetting Biafra's semi-apocalyptic vision of the Bay Area's snooty region.

~ Ned Raggett, all media guide

Tracklist

01. Government Flu
02. Terminal Preppie
03. Trust Your Mechanic
04. Well Paid Scientist
05. Buzzbomb
06. Forest Fire
07. Halloween
08. Winnebago Warrior
09. Riot
10. Bleed For Me
11. I Am The Owl
12. Dead End
13. Moon Over Marin
14. Religious Vomit
15. Moral Majority
16. Hyperactive Child
17. Kepone Factory
18. Dog Bite
19. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
20. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
21. Rawhide

tracks "1-13" - Plastic Surgery Disaster (LP'82)
tracks "14-21" - "In God We Trust, Inc" (EP'81)
On the remastered reissue of the album, the beginning of "Government Flu" is a separate track entitled "Advice from Christmas Past".




SHM-CD is: Digitally remastered by John Cuniberti (with East Bay Ray) at the Plant Mastering.

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• Jello Biafra - vocals
• East Bay Ray - guitar
• Klaus Flouride - bass
• D.H. Peligro - drums



The Lost Tapes is Dead Kennedys' first recording session of their EP, In God We Trust Inc. It was first released in July 2003. The session was filmed in June 1981 by Eric Goodfield for a part of a punk documentary he was making. The first part of this dvd is in the studio in 1981, and shows what it's like making a punk rock record back in the day. The 2nd part is live videos from 1979-86.

Dead Kennedys: In God We Trust, Inc. - The Lost Tapes captures the band in Subterranean Studios recording their masterpiece, and includes full-length versions of every song including some “making of” footage, and banter between bandmates. The master audio tapes have been "baked" (a process that restores aging or damaged analog tape), resulting in a magnificent audio visual documentation of Dead Kennedys recording a landmark album.

In addition to the studio recordings, each song from the album has an alternate live version. The live footage spans their career, from a 1979 performance of We've Got a Bigger Problem Now through a performance in 1986 of Moral Majority.

Complete Track Listing: Religious Vomit, Dog Bite, Moral Majority, Nazi Punks Fuck Off, Hyperactive Child, We’ve Got A Bigger Problem Now, Kepone Factory, Rawhide.



Original Release Date: November 1982/December 1981/July 2003
These versions Re-Released: Jan 1993/Aug 2008/July 2003
Format: Original Recording Reissued / 2x Remastered
Label: Alternative Tentacles/Imperial Records (Japan)/MVD
Catalog No.: VIRUS 5-27CD / TECI-26494 / DR-4351