Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned

by The Plastic People of the Universe

Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned cover art

Recorded illicitly in Czechoslovakia during a period of intense state repression, the album adapts the absurdist poetry of dissident Egon Bondy. The tapes were smuggled out of the country and released abroad, transforming the band into international symbols of countercultural resistance against the Soviet regime.

Genres

  • Avant-Prog
  • Experimental Rock

Tracklist

  1. 20
  2. Zácpa = Constipation
  3. Toxika = Toxica
  4. Magické Noci = Magic Nights
  5. Metro Goldwyn Mayer
  6. Okolo Okna = Past My Window
  7. Elegie = Elegy
  8. Podivuhodný Mandarin = The Wondrous Mandarin
  9. Nikdo = Nobody
  10. Jó, To Se Ti To Spí = Look At You, All Sound Asleep