| Frankenchrist | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dead Kennedys
Label: Manifesto Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $9.17
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New (34) Used (14) from $6.78
Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 31056
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 42902
UPC: 767004290225
EAN: 0766481621720
ASIN: B00005NT4I
Release Date: September 11, 2001
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Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed items direct from the Studios. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Quick International Airmail!
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| Tracks:
| • | Soup Is Good Food | | • | Hellnation - Dead Kennedys, Peligro, D.H. | | • | This Could Be Anywhere | | • | A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch | | • | Chicken Farm | | • | Jock-O-Rama | | • | Goons of Hazzard - Dead Kennedys, Biafra, Jello | | • | MTV-Get off the Air - Dead Kennedys, Biafra, Jello | | • | At My Job - Dead Kennedys, East Bay Ray | | • | Stars and Stripes of Corruption |
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Album Description
Finally available again! This digitally remastered (by the original sound engineer) reissue of their classic 1985 DK album! This 2001 Manifesto release features 10 tracks.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 Avoid ... October 18, 2001
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
A totally useless re-mastering of a classic album. The music gets FIVE STARS, but this horrible re-issue should get NONE. The sound is not better at ALL, but really considerably worse - now the record sounds like friggin' OFFSPRING or some such nonsense.
Used copies are still out there bearing the ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES label logo - find those and buy one. Don't put a SINGLE RED PENNY into the pockets of the ex-Kennedys.
 Rate the album, not the packaging itself everyone January 16, 2005
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a masterpeice, plain and simple. The second greatest punk album ever, next to the Kennedys' debut "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetalbes". It doesn't exactly click on the first listen, but subsequent listens prove it to be a flawless album. The accumulation of the trilogy that started with "Fresh Fruit", continued with "Plastic Surgery Disasters", and ended with this incredible document of protest rock that actually rocks (which is a rare thing). Like everyone else said, try to track down a used copy. But come on guys, review the actual album, not the packaging. "Soup Is Good Food" and "MTV Get Off the Air" are two of the greatest songs ever. However, the highlight of this album is definatly "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", the most well-written song I have ever laid my ears upon. Make sure to listen to all three albums mentioned in this review (you can skip over "Bedtime For Democracy").
Brilliant and still relevant. September 12, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
To many, this is the album where the Dead Kennedys ended and Jello Biafra's politically charged vision fully took focus. To me, that may be the case, but it's not a bad thing.
Largely a response to Reaganomics and malaise amongst Americans lyrically, musically "Frankenchrist" is something altogether different. In the time they've recorded, a number of trends have come and gone, and the Kennedys seem to absorb bits from new wave and other post-punk movements while somehow maintaining their edge and their sound.
The best pieces are when this push in music and the lyrics are both at their extremes-- morbid, bizarre new wave-ish masterpiece "Soup is Good Food" (about unemployment and the destruction of the middle class), spastic environmentalist punk "Hellnation", white trash lambasts "Jock-O-Rama" (about the culture of high school football) and "Goons of Hazzard" (fairly self-explanatory) all are noteworthy. But as far as sarcastic lyrics and oddball arrangements, very little can possibly compare to the stunning "MTV- Get Off the Air". Lambasting conservative music (meaning not risktaking) being marketed as innovative and force-fed to willing consumers, it somehow succeeds in being both amusing and serious at the same time. And certainly closer "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", a punk summary of Biafra's concerns about the country, is catchy, intelligent, sarcastic and all in all just a blast.
All in all, "Frankenchrist" a great album, and its really no surprise that the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) chose to attack this album. What's perhaps most frightening is how relevant so many songs written about a time seem today. Recommended for punk fans, political thinkers, and people who just like a good record.
5 star music, 1 star CD December 22, 2002
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Despite being possibly the most challenging and amazing punk album ever released, I would strongly recommend that no-one buy this CD. The mastermind behind (and very reason for) the Dead Kennedys' success, Jello Biafra, recieves no royalties on this album, and has not approved this remastered edition. If you can find a copy of the CD on Alternative Tentacles or an LP pressing, buy it instantly! This album is a piece of American history.
Do not buy this version of Frankenchrist July 28, 2004
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
Since this is not an original 'Alternative Tentacles' version of Frankenchrist, do not buy this album. The entire DK catalog (except Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables) was stolen from Jello Biafra in a sordid, money grubbing lawsuit, and re-released on something called 'Manifesto Records'. If you can find a used 'Alternative Tentacles' version of Frankenchrist, for god sakes, buy it! Five stars.
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