DEAD KENNEDYS rare oop FRANKENCHRIST lp w/ GIGER POSTER

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One of the Holy Grails of Punk Records from

San Fransico Punk Rock legends

The Dead Kennedys

Frankenchrist

(1st Pressing - Virus 45 -  Alternative Tenticles Records - 1985)

Includes the extremely controversial poster insert by reknown artist H. R. Giger that set off the legendary lawsuit against the group and distributers of this LP.

*** Extremely Rare to find this original pressing of this classic record along with the poster in tact ****

Don't let this one slip by....

Songs Include:

• Soup is Good Food
• Hellnation
• This Could Be Anywhere
• A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
• Chicken Farm
• Jock-o-Rama
• Goons of Hazard
• MTV Get Off The Air
• At My Job
• Stars And Stripes of Corruption

A Timeless Classic!

Great Cover:    VG+ to NM -

• Vinyl:  NM -

Note:  I'll be listing quite a few classic LPs over the next couple of weeks.      These are all from my personal collection and are fantastic records that have been very well taken care of.   Just clearing out some of the stuff that I'm no longer listening to.

There are some real treasures of classic Punk, New Wave, Power Pop, Rock, Soul, etc are all on tap so keep watch for some real gems that you just won't want to miss....

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Dead Kennedys Bio

The Dead Kennedys merged revolutionary politics with hardcore punk music and, in the process, became one of the defining hardcore bands. Often, they were more notable for their politics than their music, but that was part of their impact. The Kennedys were more inspired by British punk and the fiery, revolutionary-implied politics of the Sex Pistols than the artier tendencies of New York punk rockers. Under the direction of lead vocalist Jello Biafra, the Dead Kennedys became the most political and — to the eyes of many observers, including Christians and right-wing politicians — the most dangerous band in hardcore. By the mid-'80s, the band had become notorious enough to open themselves up to a prosecution for obscenity (concerning a poster inserted into their 1985 Frankenchrist album), and the ensuing court battle sped the band toward a breakup, but they left behind a legacy that influenced countless punk bands that followed.

The Dead Kennedys formed in 1978 in San Francisco when Biafra (vocals; born Eric Boucher) and bassist Klaus Flouride responded to a magazine ad placed by guitarist East Bay Ray. Drummer Ted (born Bruce Slesinger) joined soon after and the band played locally for the first two years of their career, occasionally venturing outside the Bay Area. Within a year, the band released their first independent single, "California Ãœber Alles," an attack on the then-current governor, Jerry Brown. It was followed shortly afterward by their second single, "Holiday in Cambodia." In 1979, Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco; he finished fourth. By this time, the band had become quite popular in both the American and British underground. Finally, in 1980, the band released their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, on IRS Records. After its release, Ted left the band; he was replaced by drummer Darren H. Peligro.

Following the release of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, the Dead Kennedys formed their own independent record label, Alternative Tentacles, in 1981. The first release on the label was the Kennedys' EP, In God We Trust. That same year, the single "Too Drunk to F---" scraped the bottom of Britain's pop Top 40, despite being banned from airplay. In 1982, the Kennedys released their second full-length album, Plastic Surgery Disasters. After its release, the band took a hiatus, during which bandmembers — most notably Klaus Flouride — performed with various side projects. During that time, Alternative Tentacles began to establish itself as a major force in the American underground.

The Dead Kennedys returned in 1985 with Frankenchrist, which was the record that earned the band its greatest notoriety. Included with the album was a poster of the Swiss artist H.R. Giger's Landscape #XX, a garish illustration of penises and anuses. A year after the release of the album, the Kennedys and Alternative Tentacles were prosecuted under revised Californian anti-obscenity laws for distributing pornography to minors because of the poster. For the next two years, the band was embroiled in a bitter legal battle, during which Biafra emerged as one of the most articulate advocates for free speech and vocal opponents of the PMRC. In the summer of 1987, the case ended with a hung jury and was dismissed.

Although the Dead Kennedys emerged victorious from the court battle, they didn't remain a band for much longer. Just before the prosecution began in 1986, the band released Bedtime for Democracy, which turned out to be their last official album. After the case was settled, the Kennedys split, releasing the posthumous compilation Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death in 1987. Biafra embarked on a solo career, releasing musical and spoken-word recordings sporadically over the next couple decades. Flouride returned to his fledgling solo career, releasing two albums in the late '80s and early '90s. The DVD format of mpo's On Broadway, the Dead Kennedys' June 1984 performance marking the closing of San Francisco's avant-garde theater and nightclub, was released in May 2000.

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H.R. Giger Bio

Giger's Alien design, inspired by his painting "Necronom IV", earned him an Oscar in 1980. His fourth published book of paintings, titled Necronomicon (followed by Necronomicon II in 1985), continued his rise to international prominence, as did the frequent appearance of his art in the magazine Omni. Giger is also well known for artwork on a number of popular records, including Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery, Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist and Debbie Harry's Koo Koo. 

For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating strange monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish landscapes. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, described as "biomechanical". His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery and are considered disturbing by some. Some of his paintings also feature Satanic imagery, though Giger himself is not known to be a Satanist. He had many meetings with Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by Luis Buñuel. The Spanish painter let Giger see his own work under a new point of view. The Swiss artist then realized the surrealistic aspect of his art, and it was truly inspired by that in later development. He was also a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger is perhaps the best known sufferer of night terrors and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder. He was originally educated as an architect and made his first paintings as a way of art therapy.

Giger's artwork for the Dead Kennedys' album Frankenchrist, Landscape XX (nicknamed Penis Landscape), was at the center of an obscenity lawsuit against Jello Biafra.

Giger has also created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for an unproduced movie version of the novel Dune that was originally slated to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowski (many years later David Lynch directed the film, using none of Giger's designs). Giger has also applied his biomechanical style to interior design, and several "Giger Bars" sprung up in Tokyo, New York, and his native Switzerland, although most of the bars have since closed. His art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Ibanez guitars has released an H.R. Giger signature series. The Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features the work, "NY City VI", and the Ibanez RGTHRG1, has the work "NY City XIX" printed on it. Oakley borrowed heavily from Giger's bio-mechanical theme for their futuristic sunglass and watch designs.

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