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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Manifesto Records
Salesrank: 33730
Released: September 11, 2001 |
| Our Price: $9.97 |
| Used Price: $5.75 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust Inc. Track Listing:
1. Advice From Christmas Past
2. Goverment Flu
3. Terminal Preppie
4. Trust Your Mechanic
5. Well Paid Scientist
6. Buzzbomb
7. Forest Fire
8. Halloween
9. Winnebago Warrior
10. Riot
11. Bleed For
12. I Am The Owl
13. Dead End
14. Moon Over Marin
15. Religious Vomit
16. Moral Majority
17. Hyperactive Child
18. Kepone Factory
19. Dog Bite
20. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
21. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
22. Rawhide
Editorial Review:
'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!
Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust Inc. Reviews:
Let's face it. The politics are dated today. But the music is still great. 
2008-08-18 - A lot has happened since the DK. Ronald Reagan and Pol Pot are dead and gone, and the band them selves has been in a embarrassing lawsuit about royalties. Needless to say a couple of topics from the album and ep has been out-dated over time. The music still possess a certain young spirit and energy, and the humorous but smart lyric still packs quite a punch in places. Songs like Government Flu, Buzzbombs, Riot and Dead End, and let's not forget their greatest hit of all time, Nazi Punks F#%@ Off. The music is raw but melodic and I presume many still can agree with their lyric today.
The Best of the Bunch, So I Think 
2008-05-17 - Plastic Surgery Disasters was the last DK album I heard, and my expectations weren't huge. Two songs--"I Am The Owl" and "Moon Over Marin"--established this for me as their best album. What comes through is the real musical talent of the band--so good that I could be transported through Biafra's Hepburn on speed lyrics and just enjoy the music.
Quintessential Kennedys
2008-04-19 - If you only buy one Dead Kennedys album, it's gotta be 'Plastic Surgery Disasters', which captured this legendary San Francisco punk band at the top of their game. It now includes 'In God We Trust, Inc.', a short collection of DK gems, making it nearly impossible to pack more energy onto a single CD. Right out of the gate, this album is raw, explosive, and relentlessly confrontational. The band's unmistakeable sound is as "in your face" as Jello Biafra's scathing lyrics, which damn American society in hilarious fashion. No one is spared, as each song takes aim and fires away at one type of fraud or another. The government, religion, materialism, violence, cops, doctors, the rich, elitists, racists, homophobes, posers, jocks, science, and politicians- all face the firing squad of Biafra's scorn.
Somewhere in the fray, there's a bullet or two aimed at every one of us, and when we're hit, it's just as easy to laugh at ourselves. The lyrics are cynical and often sarcastic, but extremely smart and at times, even prophetic. They're as relevant today as they were then- if not more so. Musically, Plastic Surgery Disasters is, in my opinion, DK's most adventurous and technically brilliant work. It's also their most "refined" album, production-wise, but it stops well short of commercial glossiness. It's a true punk classic... my all-time favorite.
We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
2007-12-16 - Can I have one of those tricky dicky specials? Two parts formaldahyde/one part gin...
At 35 years old I often wonder who else is listening to this at 7am on the way to work?
Classic Dead Kennedys
2007-07-04 - Ok first off I am not interested in all the controversy about the ex band member.
I heard all the BS about them and know full well about their "Rock and Coke" festival in Turkey (Dead Kennedys rock and Coke....please) Though in saying that not much of a fan of post DK Jello churning out LP after LP saying the same boring meaningless rant for the kids (yeh he may go on about the ex band members milking the DK's name for profit but can he realy say he is doing any different with his endless Jello Biafra and the blah blah band albums?)
Anyway, rant over. DK were/are one of my all time favorite band from way back before any tv ad or whatever and this is one of my all time favorite LPs. DK were great because they could mix politics with good music and humour as well. They didnt rant but just took the p*** out of the powers that be. Some of these tracks (such as bleed for me, I am the owl) need to be heard by kids today.
Great to hear, never mind the BS over the ex band members. Leave them to fight it out amongst themselves. Me, I will just keep the memories of a great band.
