'Plastic Surgery Disasters' steps beyond alternative music
By Shewn McNutt Kennedys beat it to a pulp. One Fine Arts Editor of their more political songs on the album is a tune called The Dead Kennedys crel!ted "Bleed For Me." The lyrics go something unusual and monu like this: mental with their new album "America needs fuel Plude Surtery Disasters that To get it it needs puppets steps far beyond the quality of So what's 10 million dead alternative music. lf it's keeping out the Russians After last year's ID God We We're well trained by the C.I.A. Trust, IDe. I thought it would be With yankee tax money irr Fort bard for the Dead Kennedys to Bragg make a better album, but they The peace corp builds us labor did it with Plastic Surgery Disas camps ters. The album is bound to be When they think they're building come a bot seller in the punk schools market of music. The unique When cowboy Ronnie comes to ness of the album with it's cre town loween " "Buzz Bomb" and dys they are still a lot of fun . ative lyrics and the musical is " Psycho Therapy" which is Forks out his tongue at human " Riot" 'which are very creative The Ramones' music is a very the most energetic and hardest · talent of the band make it a very rights and totally insane. enjoyable album. light-toned version of punk but song on the album. The song is Sit down enjoy our ethnic meal Beneath all this, the Dead not quite new wave. They tried about a psychotic teenager and The Dead Kennedys is a band Dine on some charbroiled nuns" Kennedys have a word to say to hard to keep everybody enter starts out with an electronic that is definately not for every This cut is hard driven and ex the world, and that word is a tained with Subterranean Jungle police siren. Here are a sample body and I think that is where citing and is very true of the divine and intelligent one in and did a nice job at it. of the lyrics : most of their appeal from fans world today. Many of their songs deed. Plastic Surgery Disasters " I am a teenage schizoid comes from. In Plastic Surgery shows this, which makes it a Along with the Ramones own The one your parents despise are like this one. music they also did their own Disasters and their past albums Plastic Surgery Disasters is truly great album that is a must Psycho Therapy their lyrics contain some politi a unique remakes of other artists very fast-paced bard-core album for everybodys' record collec Now I got glowing eyes cal or social statement. When songs such as "Little bit 0 ' that uses all the musical tricks tion. I am a teenage schizoid they bit a subject they bit it very Soul," "I need your Love" and that they are famous for and The Ramones have always Pranks and muggings are fun bard with overwhelming force, "Time has come Today." My fa more. They include Klaus been one of my favorite bands Psycho Therapy which is the main reason I like vorite of these remakes is "Lit Flouride's eerie bass guitar, and their latest release Subterra Gonna kill someone" them so much. Their music is tle bit 0' Soul" which bas a very Jello Biafra's insane laughter nean Jungle doesn't chang~ that. Subterranean Jungle is a very far different than the music that Through the album the Ra upswept beat with crashing fun album which had me smiling is played on the radio which and even a clarinet in a few drums and melodic guitar play songs. mones keep an upswept beat and wanting to hear more after hardly ever makes a political that never gets boring. Although ing. The song is exactly what it it was over. It's too bad there statement and if they do they The best ·cuts on the album the lyrics are not as controver is called, a little bit of soul. aren't too many albums like this just tap at it while the Dead are "Terminal Preppie", "Hal- sial as those of the Dead Kenne- My favorite cut on the album today.
Winos and heroin addicts
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