Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust Inc. CD

'Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc' is the best selling DK's album. This Manifesto digitally remastered (by original sound engineer) reissue couples their 1982 'Plastic Surgery Disasters' LP with the highly controversial 1981 12 inch EP 'In God We Trust, Inc'. Finally available again and sounding better than ever!

2 LPs on 1 CD: PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERS (1982)/IN GOD WE TRUST, INC. (1981).
The Dead Kennedys: Jello Biafra (vocals); East Bay Ray (guitar); Klaus Flouride (bass); D.H. Pelligro (drums).
Digitally remastered by John Cuniberti and East Bay Ray (The Plant Mastering, Sausalito, California).
PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERS:
Additional personnel includes: Melissa Webber (spoken vocals); Dave Barrett, Geoffrey Lyall, Bruce Ackely (horns); Ninotchka (background vocals).
Producers: Thom Wilson, East Bay Ray, The Dead Kennedys, Geza X.
Engineers: Olivier DiCicco, John Cuniberti, Mark Wallner.
Recorded at Hyde Street Studios and Mobius Music, San Francisco, California.
IN GOD WE TRUST, INC.:
Additional personnel includes: Geoffrey Lyall, Ninotchka, Annette, HyJean, Darvon, Siobhan.
Producers: Norm, East Bay Ray.
Engineer: Oliver DiCicco.
This reissue compiles the Dead Kennedys' follow-ups to the hardcore classic Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: the eight-song EP In God We Trust, and the full-length Plastic Surgery Disasters. If neither record is quite on the same level as Fresh Fruit, they frequently come close; the Kennedys' hyperspeed aggression and Jello Biafra's righteously snotty rants haven't been toned down a bit. The two-fer reissue is an excellent way to dig deeper into the band's catalog. ~ Steve Huey
The epic sweep of PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERS, in both sonic texture and thematic depth, sets it apart as one of punk's most highly evolved musical and artistic statements. Vocalist Jello Biafra's rage had developed into a calmer but more strident kind of anger. Fortified by a wider variety of sounds, including horns, clarinets, and East Bay Ray's rich palette of aggressive guitar textures, this album attacked the usual DK targets.
Our bloated, mentally lazy consumer culture is lambasted in the thick, intimidating "Buzzbomb" and the stingingly sarcastic "Winnebago Warrior." Several of society's more insidious archetypes are taken on as well, as in the goofy "Terminal Preppie," and the furious, adrenaline-fueled "Well Paid Scientist." Firmly in place are Biafra's trademark paranoid anti-government diatribes; society's false sense of security is addressed in the breakneck-speed rant of "Government Flu," the far-reaching metaphor of "Trust Your Mechanic," and the angry theatrics of "I Am The Owl."

Q (6/01, p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Excellent....telling you how sh**ty things are, the better it makes you feel..."
NME (Magazine) (3/17/01, p.31) - 6 out of 10 - "...Still a riot....joined by the earlier, thrashier EP IN GOD WE TRUST whose high point is the fabulous 'Nazi Punks F*** Off'..."