Frankenchrist
by Dead Kennedys
- Type: Album
- Released: October 1985
- Label: Alternative Tentacles
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:12
- Community rating: 3.73/5 from 8 ratings
Artists on this release: John Lieb, Tim Song Jones, East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride, D. H. Peligro
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Frankenchrist' finds the Dead Kennedys significantly slowing their hardcore tempos, incorporating synthesizers, acoustic guitars, and horns to craft a deeply sarcastic, highly musical punk record. Jello Biafra鈥檚 biting, satirical lyricism heavily critiques right-wing politics, the labor movement, and the moral majority. The album is a dark, fiercely intelligent, and highly controversial masterpiece of political punk rock.
Genres
Descriptors: satirical, political, confrontational, protest, parody, fast, jangly
Tracklist
- Soup is Good Food (4:18)
- Hellnation (2:21)
- This Could Be Anywhere (5:24)
- A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch (5:49)
- Chicken Farm (5:05)
- Jock-O-Rama (aka Macho-Rama) (4:06)
- Goons of Hazzard (4:24)
- M.T.V. Get Off the Air (3:37)
- At MY Job (3:40)
- Stars and Stripes of Corruption (6:23)
Credits
- Dead Kennedys - primary artist, music by
- Klaus Flouride - bass, vocals
- Jello Biafra - design concept [visual concept], producer, mixed by, vocals, words by, words by, music by
- D. H. Peligro - drums, vocals, words by, music by
- John Cuniberti - engineer, mixed by
- East Bay Ray - guitar, synthesizer, guitar [bellzouki 12-string electric], music by, words by, music by
- HR Giger - painting [fold out painting "penis landscape"]
- Lester Sloan - photography by [jacket photo]
- Winston Smith - sleeve [inner], artwork [dk & a.t. logos], design/illustration
- Tim Song Jones - keyboards
- John Lieb - trumpet