Plastic Surgery Disasters Songs Ranked

Plastic Surgery Disasters is the second full-length album released by punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Recorded in San Francisco during June 1982, it was produced by the band and punk record producer Thom Wilson, with Geza X getting a “special thanks” underneath the DK’s/Wilson credit for additional production. (DK’s guitarist East Bay Ray redundantly added his own name to the production credits on Manifesto reissues of the album.) The album is darker and more hardcore-influenced than their debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables as a result of the band trying to expand on the sound and mood they had achieved with their 1980 single “Holiday in Cambodia”. It was the first full-length album to feature drummer D.H. Peligro and is frontman Jello Biafra’s favorite Dead Kennedys album. Here are all of Plastic Surgery Disasters songs ranked.

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12. Well Paid Scientist

“Their creative peak right here. A buzzy, angry, oddball of an album with wonderfully inventive song writing, almost like prog-punk, if there was such a thing.”

11. Terminal Preppie

“Kennedys sound angrier here than on any of their other releases, the songs are more vicious in their assessment of American society and international interactions, and the stakes seem higher than on pretty much any other protest album I can think of offhand.”

10. Rawhide

“The lyrics are compelling. There’s humor. There’s anger. The DK’s have a sublime intelligence that can’t be ignored. They challenge; they assault. One can have meaningful conversations about many of their songs. In this respect, the DK’s were more socially/politically dangerous than CRASS.”

9. I Am the Owl

“Definitely the Dead Kennedy’s greatest achievement. A rip roaring, satirical swipe at Reagan era America filled with the usual mix of conspiracy theory paranoia and gallows humour that was by then Jello Biafra’s trademark.”

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8. Government Flu

“Superb driving energy. I liked this album so much that I may have to re-listen to, and possibly re-rate the Kennedys’ other work. Is this really so much better?”

7. We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now

“Let me start off by saying that this record just completely blew away its contemporaries when it came out. To this day I have yet to hear another band rock with the incredible intensity and scorching energy they capture on this”

6. Buzzbomb

“The musicians (Ray, Peligro, Flouride) interweave with basic punk rock elements of music that literally span centuries (surf, jazz, country, psychedelic, pop, avant-garde, heck even Ludwig von) in an intelligent, totally fresh way that is ultimately a total crack up and fun to listen/sing along to.”

5. Moon Over Marin

“A masterpiece of punk-prog with incredible musicianship. The songs are incredibly realized and there is not a punch to be pulled. Heavy, hardcore, punk as fuck. Just try to play along with it. Unless you are guitar magazine worthy, I doubt you will be able to manage.”

4. Forest Fire

“Forest Fire is worth hearing too just for lead singer Jello Biafra’s lyrics about eating weird berries in the woods and starting forest fires. In God We Trust Inc is DK at their fastest.”

3. Halloween

“Halloween” alone is worth the price — a catchy punk-rock song with a propulsive bass riff, which brags and laughs about dressing up for Halloween, only to change gears and chastise the listener for being too cowardly to express themselves the other 364 days of the year.”

2. Riot

“There’s the growing realization and desperation that marks the end of “Riot”, where the character is left homeless but pathetically grabs on to the fact that the riot at least “was a blast”, etc, etc. This is NOT a guy who shouts out the lyrics as best he can”

1. Nazi Punks F*** Off

“Definitely the Dead Kennedy’s greatest achievement. A rip roaring, satirical swipe at Reagan era America filled with the usual mix of conspiracy theory paranoia and gallows humour that was by then Jello Biafra’s trademark. And behind him is the sound of a band that really ‘ROCK’ and when I say that I don’t mean in any kind of crotch thrusting, testorone fuelled way either”